APUSH Turing Point Dates

1492

Columbus sailed the ocean blue (discovery of the New World)

1607

Jamestown founded by the English

1619

First Africans arrive in Jamestown; House of Burgesses created in Jamestown

1630

Massachusetts founded by English Puritans

1676

Bacon’s Rebellion: Shift to Slavery in Virginia

1763

Treaty of Paris ends French and Indian War; End of Salutary Neglect

July 4, 1776

Declaration of Independence Signed

1788

Constitution Ratified

1800

Revolution of 1800: Thomas Jefferson elected, peaceful shift of power from the Federalists to the Democratic-Republicans

1816

American System Created; government sponsorship of economic growth

1823

Monroe Doctrine created

1828

Election of Jackson, new style of campaigns appeal to common voters, Era of the “Common Man”

1848

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the Mexican-American War; Seneca Falls Convention formalizes women’s movement for voting rigths

1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act; Republican Party Created

1860

Election of 1860: Lincoln elected, Civil War inevitable

1863

Emancipation Proclamation created, shifting focus of Civil War

1877

End of Reconstruction; Beginning of Jim Crow Era

1890

How the Other Half Lives published by Jacob Riis, kicking off the Progressive Movement; 

Wounded Knee Masscare ends era of American indian resistance in the West;

Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Sherman Silver Purchase Act; Reforms created to benefit farmers and small businesses (even if not effective/long term)

1892

Omaha Platform-Populist Party!!!

1896

Election of 1896, Democrats adopt Populist party ideals; *Plessy v. Ferguson* establishes “Separate but equal”, legalizes segregation

1898

Treaty of Paris to end Spanish-American War; US gains an empire

1901

Teddy Roosevelt becomes President; Progressive reforms take shape at the national level

1917

United States enters World War 1

1920

Warren Harding elected with “Return to Normalcy” promise; end of Progressive reform era

1929

Stock Market Crash; Great Depression “begins”

1933

Franklin D. Roosevelt implements “The New Deal” to combat the depression, expanding the power of the federal government and changing the relationship between the government and the people

1936

Majority of African-American voters vote for the Democratic party

December 7, 1941

Pearl Harbor attacked; US enters World War 2

1945

World War 2 ends; United Nations created; end of isolationism for the United States; beginning of Cold War 

1954

*Brown v. the Board of Education* overturns “separate but equal” doctrine from *Plessy v. Ferguson*

1964

*Civil Rights Act passed making discrimination in public places and work illegal; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gives unlimited war powers to the President in Vietnam*

1968

Tet Offensive shifts moral in Vietnam War

1973

Paris Peace Accords: end of US involvement in Vietnam

1980

Rise of New Conservativism and the Republican Party with the election of Ronald Reagan

September 11, 2001

Attacks on the World Trade Center in NYC

2008

Barack Obama elected: first Black president