APUSH dates

1607

Jamestown colony founded in Virginia

1688

Glorious Revolution in England

1757-1763

7 years or French and Indian War

1765

Stamp Act

1775-1783

The American Revolution

1776

Declaration of Independence, Common Sense, Battle of Trenton

1787

Constitutional Convention

1800

Peaceful Revolution- Thomas Jefferson elected president

1803

Louisiana Purchase; Marbury v. Madison

1814

Hartford Convention- Death of the federalist party

1820

Missouri Compromise / Established 36 30 Dividing Line for Free/Slave States

1824

John Quincy Adams elected president

1828

Andrew Jackson Elected President

1846-1848

Mexican-American War / Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1850

Compromise of 1850 / CA = free state / fugitive slave law passed

1860

Lincoln Elected President / South Carolina Secedes from the Union

1861-1865

The Civil War

1865-1877

Reconstruction

1898

Spanish American War / Hawaii Annexed / Beginning of American Imperialism

1906

Upton Sinclair writes "The Jungle" / Pure Food and Drug Act Passed

1912

Woodrow Wilson Elected President

1917

US involvement in WWI

1919

Treaty of Versailles / Wilson's 14 Points

1920

Prohibition Begins/ 19th Amendment Secures Voting Rights for Women

1929

Stock Market Crash

1932

Franklin D. Roosevelt Elected President

1933

New Deal / Repeal of Prohibition

1929-1941

Great Depression

1941-1945

U.S. fights in WWII

1947

Marshall Plan / Beginning of the Cold War

1950-1953

The Korean War

1954

Brown v. Board of Education, Supreme Court strikes down "separate but equal."

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis / World Avoids Nuclear War

1963

March on Washington and JFK assassinated

1954-1975

Vietnam War

1968

Tet Offensive in Vietnam / MLK and RFK Assassinated / Nixon Elected President

1972

Watergate Scandal

1989

Berlin Wall Falls

1991

Soviet Union Collapses / End of the Cold War

1998

Bill Clinton impeached by the House of Representatives / Senate Acquits

2000

Contested Presidential Election - George W. Bush Becomes President

2001

World Trade Center Attacked / War on Terror Begins

2008

1st African American Elected President - Barack Obama