APUSH Important Dates

1492

Columbus' first voyage

1607

Jamestown established

1619

First black slaves arrived in VA

1676

Bacon's Rebellion

1690s

Salem Witch Trials

1754-1763

Seven Years War (French and Indian War)

Mid 1760's-1775

Acts, Boston Massacre, Continental Congress, Lexington and Concord

1776

Declaration of Independence

1775-1783

Revolutionary War

1780s

Articles of Confederation and Constitution (1788)

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1812-1814

War of 1812

1820

Missouri Compromise

1820-1840

Age of Reform: Utopian Communities, Abolitionist Movement, Feminist Movement, Temperance, Asylums, Public Schools, etc.

1846-1848

Mexican-American War

1861-1865

Civil War

1867-1877

Radical Reconstruction

1870-1890

Gilded Age

1898

Spanish-American War

1890-1920

The Progressive Era

1914-1918

World War I

1929

stock market crash

1941-1945

World War II

1945-1991

Cold War

1950-1953

Korean War

1950s

McCarthyism and Consensus Culture

1954

Brown v. Board of Education

1960s

Activism, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK, Malcom X, MLK, RFK assassinated, Tet offensive

1955-1975

Vietnam War

1964

Civil Rights Act of 1964

1970s

Nixon, Watergate, Rise of Conservatism, Carter,Iran Hostage Crisis, Stagflation

1980s

Reaganomics, Neoconservatives, End of Cold war

1989

Fall of Berlin Wall