APUSH Dates

Constitution Written

1787

US enters WW1

1917

Secession leading to Civil War starting

1860

Civil War ends

1865

End of Mexican American War

1848

Progressive Era starts

1865

Start of French and Indian war

1754

Declaration of Independence

1776

Jamestown

1607

Pearl Harbor and US entrance into WW2

1941

Start of Great Depression

1929

End of Reconstruction/Era of Jim Crow Laws

1877

End of the 7 years war

1763

End of WW2 & start of Cold War

1945

Spanish American War/Start of US imperialism

1898

Columbus lands/start of Colombian Exchange

1492

Cold War Ends

1989/1991

First ship of enslaved Africans arrive in Jamestown

1619

Pueblo Revolt

1680

First Great Awakening

1730s

Battle of Yorktown

1781

Revolution of 1800

1800

Missouri Compromise

1820

Andrew Jackson Elected

1828

Second Great Awakening

1830s

Seneca Falls Convention

1848

Election of James Polk

1844

Election of Abraham Lincoln; South Carolina secedes

1860

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox

1865

First Transcontinental Railroad completed

1869

Chinese Exclusion Act

1882

Closing of the western frontier

1890

Homestead Strike

1892

Plessy v Ferguson

1896

FDR becomes President; New Deal begins

1933

US drops 2 atomic bombs on Japan

1945

Brown v Board

1954

Civil Rights Act passed

1964

Vietnam War

1950s-1970s

Iran hostage crisis

1979

Reagan becomes President

1981

9/11 terrorist attacks

2001

Election of Barack Obama

2008