TIMELINE FOR APUSH EXAM + KEY DATES QUIZLET 1st SEMESTER

1775

Second Continental Congress; Olive branch petition

1491

Pre-European contact

1492

Columbus' first voyage

1500s

Growth of Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the Americas

1600-1800

Enlightenment

1607

British settlement of Jamestown

1619

House of Burgesses AND arrival of first enslaved Africans in Virginia

1620

Mayflower Compact

1630

Massachusetts Bay Colony

1651

first Navigation Acts

1675-1678

Metacom's War (King Philip's War)

1676-1677

Bacon's Rebellion

1680

Pueblo Revolt

1730s and 1740s

First Great Awakening

1754-1763

7 Years War (French and Indian War)

1763

period of Salutary Neglect ends

1763

Proclamation Line of 1763

1764

Sugar Act

1765

Stamp Act

1767

Townshend Acts

1770

Boston Massacre

1773

Tea Act, Boston Tea Party

1774

Intolerable Acts

1774

First Continental Congress

1775

Battle of Lexington and Concord

1775-1783

American Revolution

1776

Thomas Paine, Common Sense

1776

Declaration of Independence

1781-1789

Articles of Confederation

1785

Land Ordinance

1786-87

Shay's Rebellion

1787

Northwest Ordinance

1787

Constitutional Convention

1788

Constitution ratified (put into operation in 1789)

1789

French Revolution

1789

Washington became president

1790

Naturalization Act

1791-1811

First Bank of the US

1794

Whiskey Rebellion

1798

Invention of the Cotton Gin

1800

Jefferson won the presidential election

1800-early 1830s

Second Great Awakening

1800-1850

Expansion of universal white manhood suffrage

1800-1919

Temperance Movement

1803-1815

Napoleonic Wars in Europe

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1807

Embargo Act

1808

Prohibition of international slave trade

1816-1828

Congress enacted American System programs

1816-1836

Second Bank of the US

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1823

Opening of first mill in Lowell

1824

Founding of Democratic Party

1825

Erie Canal completed

1820s and 1830s

Market Revolution

1828

Andrew Jackson elected as president

1830

Indian Removal Act

1832

Founding of the Whig party

1835-1836

Texas Revolution

1844

James K. Polk won presidential election

1844

Brigham Young becomes leader of Latter-Day Saints

1846-1848

Mexican-American War

1840s-1900

Utopian communities

1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1850

Compromise of 1850

1850s

Know Nothing Party popular

1848-54

Free-soil party

1854

Republican Party founded

1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act

1857

Dred Scott Decision

1860

Lincoln elected President

1860

South Carolina first state to secede

1860

Confederate States of America formed

1861-1865

Civil War

1863

Emancipation Proclamation

1865-1877

Reconstruction

1869

Completion of first Transcontinental Railroad

1870s-1900

Gilded Age

1870s-1920s

Social Gospel Movement

1870

Founding Rockefeller Oil

1877

the New South

1877

Conviction of Boss Tweed

1879

Carlisle Indian Industrial School opened

1880s

first references of Social Darwinism

1889

Jane Addams founded Hull House

1889

Andrew Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth"

1890s-1920s

Progressive Era

1890

Wounded Knee Massacre

1890

Changes in immigration patterns

1890

Census Bureau declared the frontier closed

1891

Founding People's Party (Populist Party)

1892

Founding Carnegie Steel

1894-1945

Imperial Japan

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson

1898

Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico

1899-1902

Philippine-American War

1901

Mckinley assassinated; TR became president

1910-1970

Great Migration

1912

Woodrow Wilson won presidential election