Units 1-3 Apush Dates

1492

Columbus’s First Voyage to the New World

1608

Samuel de Champlain successfully establishes the first permanent colony in North America by building Quebec

1614

The Dutch establish the colony of New Netherlands on the Hudson River, originally as a trading post for native peoples with fur

1680

Pueblo Revolt

1607

Jamestown founded (first permanent English settlement)

1620

Pilgrims landed at Plymouth; Mayflower compact signed

1630

Puritans establish Massachusetts Bay Colony

1675-1676

King Phillips War (Metacoms War)

1692

New Salem Witch Trials

1754-1763

French and Indian War (Seven Years War)

1763

Treaty of Paris ends seven year war

1763

Proclamation Line limits westward expansion

1765

Stamp act imposed

1770

Boston Massacre

1773

Boston Tea Party

1774

First Continental Congress

1775

Battle of Lexington Concord (Start of Revolutionary War)

1776

Declaration of Independence adopted on July 4th

1781

Battle of Yorktown (British surrender)

1783

Treaty of Paris (1783) officially ends revolutionary war

1787

Constitutional convention drafts the US Constitution

1788

Constitution ratified

1789

George Washington becomes president

1793

Cotton Gin (Eli Whitney) Causes reliance on slavery

1796

Washington’s fairwell address

1798

Alien Sedition Act