Timeline for APUSH Exam

Englightenment

1600-1800

British Settlement of Jamestown

1607

House of Burgesses and arrival of first enslaved Africans in Virginia

1619

Mayflower Compact

1620

Massachusetts Bay Colony

1630

First Navigation Acts

1651

Metacom’s War (King Philips’s War)

1675-1678

Bacon’s Rebellions

1676-1677

Pueblo Revolt

1680

First Great Awakening

1730s and 1740s

7 Years War (French and Indian War)

1754-1763

Period of Salutary neglect Ends

1763

Proclamation Line of 1763

1763

Sugar Act

1764

Stamp Act

1765

Townshend Acts

1767

Boston Massacre

1770

Tea Act; Boston Tea Party

1773

Intolerable Acts

1774

First Continental Congress

1774

Lexington and Concord

1775

Second Continental Congress;Olive Branch Petition

1775

American Revolution

1775-1783

Thomas Paine, Common sense

1776

Declaration of Independence

1776

Articles of Confederation

1781-1789

Land ordinance of 1785

1785

Shay’s Rebellion

1786-87

Northwest Ordinance

1787

Constitutional Convention

1787

Constitution Ratified

1788 (put into operation in 1789)

French Revolution

1789

Washington became president

1789

Naturalization Act of 1790

1790

First Bank of the US

1791-1811

Whiskey Rebellion

1794

Invention of cotton gin

1798

Jefferson won presidential election

1800

Second Great Awakening

1800-early 1830s

Expansion of universal white manhood suffrage

1800-1850

Temperance Movement

1800-1819

Napoleonic Wars in Europe

1803-1815

Louisiana Purchase

1803

Embargo Act

1807

Prohibition of international slave trade

1808

Congress enacted American System programs

1816-1828

Second Bank of the US

1816-1836

Missouri Compromise

1820

Monroe Doctrine

1823

Opening of first mill in Lowell

1823

Founding of Democratic Party

1824

Erie Canal Completed

1825

Market Revolution

1820s and 1830s

Andrew Jackson elected as President

1828

Indian Removal Act

1830

Founding of Whig Party

1832

Texas Revolution

1835-1836

Panic of 1837

1837

James K. Polk won presidential election

1844

Brigham young becomes leader of Latter-day Saints

1844

Mexican-American War

1846-1848

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

1848

Utopian Communities

1840s-1900

Seneca Falls Convention

1848

Compromise of 1850

1850

Know Nothing Party Popular

1850s

Free Soil Party

1848-1854

Republican Party Founded

1854

Kansas Nebraska Act

1854

Dred Scott Decision

1857

Lincoln Won Presidential Election

1860

South Carolina first state to secede

1860

Confederate states of America Formed

1860

Civil War

1861-1865

Emancipation Proclamation

1863

Reconstruction

1865-1877

Completion of first Transcontinental Railroad

1869

Gilded Age

1870s-1900

Social Gospel movement

1870s-1920s

Founding of Rockefeller Oil

1870

The New South

1877

Conviction of Boss Tweed

1877

Carlisle Indian Industrial School opened

1879

First references to Social Darwinism

1880s

Jane Addams founded Hull House

1889

Andrew Cargegie’s “The Gospel of Wealth”

1889