APUSH DATES PERIODS 3-7 (1754-1945)

300-800

Mayan civilization developed in the Yucatan Peninsula

1492

Columbus runs into the Americas hunting for India

1607

Jamestown founded as first successful English settlement in North America

1608

First French settlement at Quebec

1619

First enslaved Africans brought to Jamestown

1675-76

King Philip's War brought New England close to collapse

1676

Bacon's Rebellion

1754

Beginning of the French and Indian War

1763

Treaty of Paris ending the French and Indian War, end of salutary neglect.

775

Battle of Lexington and Concord begins the Revolution

1776

Common Sense is published; Declaration of Independence signed.

1777

Battle of Saratoga - French began openly supporting the U.S.

1781

Surrender at Yorktown

1783

Treaty of Paris ended the Revolution

1787

Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia

1791

Bill of Rights approved

1803

The Louisiana Purchase is completed

1808

International Slave Trade banned in America

1814

Treaty of Ghent

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine issued

1830

Indian Removal Act is passed

1832

Andrew Jackson vetoed the re-charter of the Bank

1846

Mexican War began.

1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1852

Uncle Tom's Cabin published

1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act

1857

Dred Scott decision

859

John Brown's failed raid on Harpers Ferry

1860

Abraham Lincoln elected president

1861

Civil War began with the bombing of Fort Sumter

1863

Emancipation Proclamation issued; Battle of Gettysburg

1865

Civil War ended; Lincoln assassinated; 13th Amendment ratified

1868

Johnson impeached; 14th Amendment ratified

1870

15th Amendment ratified; Historians believe that the 3rd wave of immigration began this year.

1873

Panic during this year led to depression; Slaughterhouse Cases guts 14th Amendment; Boss Tweed convicted in NYC court.

1877

The Compromise of 1877 betrayed Black Americans; President Hayes shut down the Great Rail Strike.

1882

Chinese Exclusion Act was passed.

1886

The bomb at the Haymarket Square rally ruined the Knights of Labor and sympathy towards unions.

1887

The Interstate Commerce Act was passed; Dawes Act attempted to assimilate Indigenous peoples.

1890

Sherman Antitrust Act was passed.

1892

Homestead Strike against Carnegie Steel; Ellis Island opened as an immigrant processing center.

1894

The Pullman Strike ended in violence.

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson allowed 'separate but equal' facilities for Black and white folks.

1898

Wong Kim Ark v. U.S. affirmed 14th Amendment birthright citizenship.

1917

U.S. enters WW1

1918

Wilson reveals 14 Points, armistice signed ending the war.

1919

18th Amendment passed, banning alcohol.

1920

19th Amendment passed, women get the right to vote.

1924

Congress passed The National Origins Act effectively ending widespread immigration.

1925

Scopes Monkey Trial on evolution

1929

Stock Market crash triggered the Great Depression.

1933

FDR became president, New Deal began.

1935

1st Neutrality Act was passed, Social Security Act also passed.

1938

Fair Labor Standards Act passed ensuring a minimum wage.

1941

Lend-Lease Act passed, Pearl Harbor attacked

1944

D-Day invasion began, liberating Europe from Nazi control.

1945

Yalta Conference, Atomic bombs dropped, Germany and Japan surrendered, war is over.