APUSH Timeline

Enlightenment

First Half 1600’s

Jamestown

First Half 1600’s

House of Burgesses AND arrival of first enslaved Africans in Virginia

First Half 1600’s

Mayflower Compact

First Half 1600’s

Massachusetts Bay Colony

First Half 1600’s

first Navigation Acts

Second Half 1600’s

Metacom’s War (King Philip’s War)

Second Half 1600’s

Bacon’s Rebellion

Second Half 1600’s

Pueblo Revolt

Second Half 1600’s

First Great Awakening

First half 1700s

7 Years War (French and Indian War)

Second half 1700s

period of Salutary Neglect ends

1760-1769

Proclamation Line of 1763

1760-1769

Sugar Act

1760-1769

Stamp Act

1760-1769

Townshend Acts

1760-1769

Boston Massacre

1770-1779

Tea Act; Boston Tea Party

1770-1779

Intolerable Acts

1770-1779

First Continental Congress

1770-1779

Lexington and Concord

1770-1779

Second Continental Congress; Olive Branch Petition

1770-1779

American Revolution

1770-1779

Thomas Paine, Common Sense

1770-1779

Declaration of Independence

1770-1779

Articles of Confederation

1780-1789

Land Ordinance of 1785

1780-1789

Shay’s Rebellion

1780-1789

Northwest Ordinance

1780-1789

Constitutional Convention

1780-1789

Constitution ratified

1780-1789

French Revolution

1780-1789

Washington became president

1780-1789

Naturalization Act of 1790

1790-1799

First Bank of the US

1790-1799

Whiskey Rebellion

1790-1799

Invention of cotton gin

1790-1799

Jefferson won presidential election

1800-1809

Second Great Awakening

1800-1809

Expansion of universal white manhood suffrage

1800-1809

Temperance Movement

1800-1809

Napoleonic Wars in Europe

1800-1809

Louisiana Purchase

1800-1809

Embargo Act

1800-1809

Prohibition of international slave trade

1800-1809

Congress enacted American System programs

1810-1819

Second Bank of the US

1810-1819

Missouri Compromise

1820-1829

Monroe Doctrine

1820-1829

Opening of first mill in Lowell

1820-1829

Founding of Democratic Party

1820-1829

Erie Canal completed

1820-1829

Market Revolution

1820-1829

Andrew Jackson elected as president

1820-1829

Indian Removal Act

1830-1839

Founding of Whig Party

1830-1839

Texas Revolution

1830-1839

Panic of 1837

1830-1839

James K. Polk won presidential election

1840-1849

Brigham Young becomes leader of Latter-day Saints

1840-1849

Mexican-American War

1840-1849

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

1840-1849

Utopian Communities

1840-1849

Seneca Falls Convention

1840-1849

Compromise of 1850

1850-1859

Know Nothing Party popular

1850-1859

Free Soil Party

1850-1859

Republican Party founded

1850-1859

Kansas Nebraska Act

1850-1859

Dred Scott Decision

1850-1859

Lincoln won presidential election

1860-1869

South Carolina first state to secede

1860-1869

Confederate States of America formed

1860-1869

Civil War

1860-1869

Emancipation Proclamation

1860-1869

Reconstruction

1860-1869

Completion of first Transcontinental Railroad

1860-1869

Gilded Age

1870-1879

Social Gospel movement

1870-1879

Founding Rockefeller Oil

1870-1879

the New South

1870-1879

Conviction of Boss Tweed

1870-1879

Carlisle Indian Industrial School opened

1870-1879

first references to Social Darwinism

1880-1889

Jane Addams founded Hull House

1880-1889

Andrew Carnegie’s “The Gospel of Wealth”

1880-1889

Progressive Era

1890-1899

Wounded Knee Massacre

1890-1899

Changes in immigration patterns

1890-1899

Census Bureau declared the frontier closed

1890-1899

Founding People’s Party (Populist Party)

1890-1899

Founding Carnegie Steel

1890-1899

Imperial Japan

1890-1899

Plessy v. Ferguson

1890-1899

Spanish American War

1890-1899

Philippine-American War

1890-1899

McKinley assassinated; TR became president

1900-1909

Great Migration (start)

1910-1919

Woodrow Wilson won presidential election

1910-1919

Panama Canal completed

1910-1919