APUSH Dates

1607

Jamestown founded

1619

First Africans arrive

1730s-1740s

First Great Awakening

1763

French and Indian War ends

1775-1783

American Rev.

1776

Declaration of Independence

1783

Treaty of Paris (ends Rev. War)

1787

Constitutional Convention

1789

Federal government begins

1800

Revolution of 1800 (TJ elected)

1803

Marbury vs Madison

1803

LA Purchase

1808

Importation of enslaved illegal

1816

Era of Good Feelings

1817

Erie Canal begun (1825)

1820

MO Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1830

Second Great Awakening

1830

Indian Removal Act

1832

Nat Turner’s Insurrection

1846-1848

War with Mexico

1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1849

Gold Rush

1850

Compromise of 1850

Kansas Nebraska Act

1854

Dred Scott case

1857

1860

Lincoln elected

1861-1865

Civil War

1863

Emancipation Proclamation

1877

Reconstruction ends

1890

Wounded Knee

1896

Please vs Ferguson

1900

DeLaSalle High School established

1909

NAACP founded

1914-1918

WWI

1919

Treaty of Versailles

1920

19th Amendment

1929

Stock Market Crash

1932

Bonus Army/FDR elected

1939-1945

WWII

1950-1953

Korean War

1954

Brown vs Board of Education

1955

Montgomery Bus Boycott

1961-1975

Vietnam War

1963

March on Washington

1964

Civil Rights Act

1968

Tet Offensive and “Turmoil”

1969

Apollo 11

1973

Roe vs Wade

1974

Nixon resigns

1981

Persian Gulf War

1995

OK City Attack

2005

Hurricane Katrina

2008

Great Recession

2011

Affordable Healthcare Act

2020

George Floyd/COVID