APUSH Timeline Flashcards

Flashcards of historical events and dates.

1492

Christopher Columbus's voyage

1587

Roanoke Colony

1588

Defeat of the Spanish Armada

1607

Jamestown founded

1620

Mayflower Compact and arrival

1649

Toleration Act

1692

Salem Witch Trials

1754

French and Indian War (Seven Years’ War)

1763

Proclamation of 1763 + Treaty of Paris; Britain gained Canada

1765

Stamp Act

1770

Boston Massacre

1773

Boston Tea Party

1775

Lexington and Concord; Start of American Revolution

1776

Declaration of Independence

1777

Articles of Confederation + Battle of Saratoga

1778

Franco American Alliance

1781

Battle of Yorktown; The end of the American Revolution

1783

Treaty of Paris; Gave the colonies independence and land

1787

Constitutional Convention (Great Compromise + 3/5ths Compromise)

1788

Washington’s Election (National bank, Pinckney’s Treaty, Neutrality Proclamation)

1791

Bill of Rights

1798

XYZ Affair + Alien and Sedition Acts

1800

Jefferson’s Election (Marbury v Madison)

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1812-1815

War of 1812

1815

Battle of New Orleans

1816-1824

Era of Good Feelings

1820

Missouri Compromise (Banned slavery above 36°30 parallel)

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1828

Jackson’s Election

1830

Indian Removal Act

1830-1850

Great Awakening

1836

Battle of the Alamo

1845

Annexation of Texas

1845-1848

Mexican-American War

1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1850

Fugitive Slave Act

1854

Bleeding Kansas

1857

Dred Scott Decision

1860

Lincoln’s Election

1861-1865

Civil War

1862

Homestead Act

1863

Emancipation Proclamation / Battle of Gettysburg

1865

Lincoln’s Assassination

1867

Military Construction Act

1877

Compromise of 1877 (Ended Military Reconstruction in the South)

1886

Haymarket Square Riot

1887

Dawes Act / Interstate Commerce

1890

McKinley Tariff / Sherman Antitrust Act

1894

Pullman Strike

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson

1898

Annexation of Hawaii / Spanish American War

1904

Roosevelt Corollary (U.S. prevents any Latin American nation affairs)

1917

U.S. enters WWII / Espionage Act

1918

Sedition Act / U.S. League of Nations

1919

Schenck v. United States

1920

Women’s Suffrage

1920s

Red Scare / Prohibition

1929

Stock Market Crash (Great Depression)

1932

Franklin D. Roosevelt (New Deal)

1935

Social Security Act

1939

WWII starts in Europe

1941

Attack on Pearl Harbor

1944

D-Day

1945

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

1947

Truman Doctrine

1950-1953

Korean War / Civil Rights Movement

1950s

McCarthyism

1954

Brown v. Board of Education

1955

Montgomery Bus Boycott

1961

John F. Kennedy becomes President

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

1963

JFK Assassinated / Lyndon B. Johnson takes charge

1964

Civil Rights Act (Prohibited discrimination)

1965

“Great Society” Legislation (Programs combating poverty, racism, and economic hardship in the U.S.)

1968

MLK assassinated / Robert F. Kennedy assassinated / Tet Offensive (Series of surprise attacks by the Vietnamese on U.S soldiers)

1972

Watergate Break-in

1973

Roe v. Wade

1980

Reagan Election

1989

Cold War ends

1991

Persian Gulf War

2000

Bush v. Gore

2001

9/11 attacks