APush summer homework timeline

Jamestown Colony established - the first permanent English settlement in North America

1607

Seven Years’ War - a global conflict involving most of the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas.

1754-1763

Declaration of Independence - was signed on July 4th…

1776

Constitutional Convention - At this meeting it was decided that the best solution to the young country's problems was to set aside the Articles of Confederation and write a new constitution.

1787

Louisiana Purchase - the purchase of imperial rights to the western half of the Mississippi River basin from France by the United States

1803

Missouri Compromise - federal legislation of the United States that balanced desires of northern states to prevent the expansion of slavery in the country with those of southern states to expand it

1820

Indian Removal Act - marked the completion of ethnically cleansing Indigenous peoples from east of the Mississippi River

1830

Mexican-American War - The immediate cause of the Mexican-American War was a disputed boundary between the United States and Texas on the Nueces Strip

1845-1848

Seneca Falls Convention - drafted The Declaration of Sentiments, which called for women's equality and suffrage

1848

US Civil War - The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed by states that had seceded from the Union.

1861-1865

Slavery Abolished (13th Amendment) - It forbids chattel slavery across the United States and in every territory under its control, except as a criminal punishment.

1865

Gilded Age: Rise of Industry - the value of manufactured goods exceeded that of agricultural products, and in just another ten years was double the value of farm products. The number of people engaged in industry now outnumbered those in agriculture, and America became the largest producer of industrial products in the world.

1870-1890

Wounded Knee Massacre - was a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army.

1890

Plessy v. Ferguson - was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal"

1896

Philippine-American War - emerged following the conclusion of the Spanish–American War in December 1898 when the United States annexed the Philippine Islands under the Treaty of Paris.

1899-1902