APUSH Important Dates

Period 1

1491-1607, Columbian Exchange

Columbus discovers the New World

1492

The Formation of Jamestown

1607

Period 2

1607-1754, Colonization and Salutary Neglect

The Great Awakening

1730

Period 3

1754-1800, 7 years war and Independence

The French & Indian War, a.k.a the Seven Years War

1756-1763

The Declaration of Independence

1776

The Articles of Confederation

1781-1787

The U.S. Constitution

1789

Period 4

1800-1848, Manifest Destiny and the Industrial Revolution

Marbury v. Madison and the Louisiana Purchase

1803

War of 1812

1812-1815

Missouri Compromise

1820

Monroe Doctrine

1823

Period 5

1844-1877, Civil War and Reconstruction

Annexation of Texas

1845

Seneca Falls Convention

1848

Kansas-Nebraska Act

1854

Lincoln’s Election

1860

The Civil War

1861-1865

Period 6

1865-1898, the Gilded Age

Reconstruction

1864-1877

Haymarket Riot

1886

Period 7

1890-1945, WWI and WWII

the Spanish-American War

1898

the Progressive Era

1898-1917

WWI, and the year that the U.S. joins it

1914-1918, 1917

the Zimmerman Telegram

1917

The Stock Market Crash/Black Monday, Beginning of the Great Depression

1929

FDR’s Election, the New Deal

1932

WWII

1939-1945

Pearl Harbor/U.S. enters WWII

1941

Yalta Conference

1945

Period 8

1945-1980, the Cold War and Civil Rights

The Truman Doctrine

1947

The Cold War

1947-1991

Brown v. Board of Education

1954

The Vietnam War

1955-1975

Launch of Sputnik, the Space Race

1957

Civil Rights Act

1964

Period 9

1980-Present, War on Terrorism

U.S. Hostages in Iran

1979-1981

End of Cold War/Berlin Wall Collapses

1989

Gulf War

1991

Bush v. Gore SCOTUS Case

2000