APUSH Dates/Years study guide

Voyage of Columbus

1492

Treaty of Tordesillas

1494

Start of Encomienda System

1512

Founding of Jamestown

1607

Start of Slave sales in Virgnia

1619

Founding of Plymouth Colony

1620

French & Iroquois Wars

1640 - 1701

Founding of New Amsterdam

1653

New Amsterdam Changed to New York

1664

Metacom’s War

1675

Bacon’s Rebellion

1676

Pueblo revolts

1680

First Great awakening

1730s

Seven Years War/French and Indian War

1754

Pontiac’s Rebellion

1763

Proclamation of 1763

1763

Stamp Act

1765

Declaratory Acts

1766

Townshend Acts

1767

Boston tea Party

1773

Battles of Lexington and Concord

1775

Declaration of Independence

1776

Alliance between France and US

1778

Battle of Yorktown

1781

Treaty of Paris

1783

Shays Rebellion

1786

Constitutional Convention

1787

Washington’s First presidential term

1789

Ratification of the Bill of Rights

1791

Whiskey Rebellion

1794

Washington’s Farewell Address

1796

Alien & Sedition Acts

1798

Thomas Jefferson elected as president

1800

Lousiana Purchase

1803

Embargo Act

1807

End of International slave trade

1808

War of 1812

1812

Treaty of Ghent/Battle of New Orleans

1815

Missouri Compromise

1820

Monroe Doctrine

1823

Election of Andrew Jackson

1828

Nat Turner’s Rebellion

1831

Indian Removal Act

1832

Peak of the Second Great Awakening

1830s

Texas Independence

1836

Annexation of Texas

1845

Seneca Falls Convention

1848

War with Mexico

1846

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

1848

Compromise of 1850

1850

Bleeding Kansas

1855

Dred Scott Decision

1857

John Brown’s Uprising

1859

Election of Abraham Lincoln

1860

Secession of South Carolina

1860

Emancipation Proclamation

1863

General Lee’s Surrender (Civil War)

1865

Lincoln’s Assassination

1865

Reconstruction Acts

1867

Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

1868

Ratification of the 14th Amendment

1868

Completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad

1869

Knights of labor founded

1869

Enforcement Act (Ku Klux Klan Act)

1871

Panic of 1873

1873

Compromise of 1877

1877

Great Sioux Wars/Little Big Horn

1876

Great Railroad strike

1877

Haymarket Square Riot

1886

American Federation of Labor founded

1886

Dawes Act

1887

Interstate Commerce Act

1887

Hull House opened

1889

Sherman Antitrust Act

1890

Panic of 1893

1893

Pullman Strike

1894

Plessy v. Ferguson

1896

Bryan’s “Cross of Gold” speech

1896

Spanish American War

1898

McKinley Assassinated / Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

1901

Philippine War Ends

1903

US Forest Service created

1905

Panama Canal Construction begins

1906

Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire

1911

WWI

1914-1918

US Enters WWI

1917

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Prohibition begins

1919

First Red Scare

1920

19th Amendment

1920

Great Migration Peak

1920s

National Origins Act

1924

Stock Market Crash

1929

FDR’s New Deal

1933

FDR’s court packing scheme

1937

WWII

1939-1945

US enters WWII

1941

D-Day

1944

FDR Dies/Victory in Europe/Victory over Japan Day

1945

First Levittown

1946