APUSH Important Events Timeline Flashcards

Flashcards covering key events and dates in APUSH history, designed for vocabulary review.

1492

Columbus arrives; begins Columbian Exchange; Spain sends conquistadors & Armada; Spain sets up encomiendas

1587

Sir Walter Raleigh; Roanoke Island; disappeared by 1590 “Lost Colony”

1588

England defeats Spanish Armada; England becomes superpower; begins colonization soon after

1607

Jamestown; Joint Stock Company; Virginia Company; Captain John Smith

1619

House of Burgesses; first government in colonies; slavery begins in the English colonies

1620

Separatists arrive in Massachusetts in “Mayflower;” settlement called “Plymouth;” Mayflower Compact

1629

Mass. Bay Colony; Congregationalists; John Winthrop; “City on a hill;” Roger Williams banished

1635, 1649

Maryland; Lord Baltimore; haven for Christians & Catholics; Act of Toleration

1685

New York becomes a colony; Pennsylvania founded by William Penn; Carolina (proprietary)

1670’s Bacon’s Rebellion

Settlers v. Indian issue; Governor Berkeley; corrupt; Nathanial Bacon led frontier farmer in raids against Indians; led to Black Codes

1692 Salem Witch Trials

Unrest in religion, politics, and gender led to the witch hysteria; many executions

1730’s to 1740’s Great Awakening/Enlightenment

Jonathan Edwards: “sinners in hands of angry God;” George Whitefield: Methodist, evangelical movement; rationalism & science; John Lock: natural rights

1754

Albany Plan by Ben Franklin; inter-colonial government plans for defense; not accepted

1754-1763

7 Years War “French and Indian War;” Britain wins

1763 Proclamation

Proclamation forbids colonial settlement past Appalachian Mountains

1765-1766

Stamp Act; direct tax for revenue; Stamp Act Congress formed, boycotts; Act repealed; Declaratory Act passed

1767

Townshend Act taxed goods imported from Britain; Colonists protest

Mar 5, 1770

Boston Massacre

Dec 16, 1773

Boston Tea Party tea tax protest

early 1774

Coercive Acts (“Intolerable Acts”); First Continental Congress

April 1775

Battles of Lexington (first battle) and Concord

July 5, 1775

Olive Branch Petition; America wants reconciliation with Britain

January 1776

Common Sense; Thomas Paine

July 4, 1776

Declaration of Independence signed

1778

Franco-American Alliance; brings French into war on the colonists side

1777

Articles of Confederation; lacked ability to tax, declare war, form a military

Summer 1787 Constitutional Convention

Great Compromise; bicameral; 3/5ths Compromise

1789 Election of Washington

National Bank created; Farewell Address – neutrality championed

1797 John Adams

Alien & Sedition Acts; VA & KY resolutions; nullification

1801 Jefferson elected

Marbury v. Madison; established Judicial Review

1803

Louisiana Purchase; Lewis & Clark

1807 & 1809

Embargo Act & Non Intercourse Act hurt American economy

1809-1817 James Madison

Declared war on Britain in 1812; Treaty of Ghent; Hartford Convention; American system

1817 James Monroe

Era of Good Feelings; McCulloch v. Maryland; states can’t tax National Bank; Monroe Doctrine

1819

Missouri Compromise by Henry Clay; Missouri slave state; Maine free state

1824 Corrupt bargain

Dem. Party formed with Andrew Jackson supporters

1829 Jackson presidency

Indian Removal Act; Trail of Tears; Tariff of 1832 nullification issues; vetoed 2nd Bank of US charter

1844-1845

Texas annexed; Polk elected

1846

Oregon Treaty established northern border with Canada

1846-1848

Mexican-American War; the Wilmot Proviso defeated

1850

Taylor dies; Fillmore takes over

1850

Compromise of 1850 written by Stephen Douglas & Henry Clay

1854

Kansas Nebraska Act; repealed Missouri compromise; Republican party emerges

1855

Bleeding Kansas; Bleeding Sumner; Dred Scott decision

1858-1859

Lincoln-Douglass debates; John Brown raid on Harper’s Ferry

Dec 1860

SC secedes; 7 more join to form CSA with Jefferson Davis as President

Apr 12, 1861

Fort Sumter; Civil War begins; Emancipation Proclamation

1865

Reconstruction begins; Black Codes instituted in South; 14th Amendment

1867-1869

Military Reconstruction Act of 1867; 15th Amendment

1877

Compromise of 1877; Hayes = President; military reconstruction ends in South

Gilded Age People

Forgotten Presidents: Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison

1890

McKinley tariff; Sherman Anti-Trust Act

1898-1900

Spanish-American War

1901

Platt Amendment; Progressive Era

1904

Panama Canal

Aug 1914-1915

Neutrality declared; Lusitania sunk

early 1917

Zimmerman telegram; declared war on Germany; Espionage Act; Sedition Act

Jan 1918

Roaring 20’s, Depression People; Scopes Trial, Prohibition, 18th Amendment, Jazz, Harlem Renaissance

1921

Harding

1923

October 1929 Stock Market Crash

1932 FDR

New Deal implemented

1933

Banking Act of 1933, FDIC; AAA; PWA; SEC

1934

2nd New Deal; WPA; Social Security; Good Neighbor Policy

Dec 7, 1941

Pearl Harbor attacked

Feb 1945

Postdam; determine A-bomb

1947

Truman Doctrine; financial support of anti-Communist nations for containment of Communism; Marshall Plan

1950-1953

Korean War; Civil Rights Movement begins

1954

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

1961

JFK becomes President; Bay of Pigs; Vietnam Conflict begins

1964

Civil Rights Act of 1964

1969

moon landing

1972-1974

Watergate scandal

1981

Ronald Reagan elected President

1989-1991

George H. W. Bush elected President; Persian Gulf War

1993-1994

William “Bill” Clinton elected President; NAFTA established

Sept 11, 2001

Terrorist attacks; Patriot Act