APUSH Important Events

Marshall Plan (provided economic aid to Europe after WW2)

Unit 8 1947-1951

Proclamation of 1763 (prevented from moving west of Appalachian Mountains)

Unit 3 1763-1775

Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

Unit 6 1869

Succession of South Carolina

Unit 5 1860 (Civil war started year after)

Cuban Missile Crisis

Unit 8 1962

Compromise of 1850

Unit 5 1850 (addressed slavery issues after Mexican American War)

First slave sold in America

Unit 2 1619

New deal

Unit 7 1933 FDR initiated; economic reforms and recovery programs introduced to combat the Great Depression.

Missouri compromise

Unit 4 1820 (addressed slavery after Louisiana purchase)

Sherman antitrust act

Unit 6 1890 (US law designed to promote fair competition and prevent monopolies in the marketplace)

Spanish American war

Unit 7 1898 (conflict between the United States and Spain, resulting in the U.S. acquiring territories such as Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines)

Stamp act

Unit 3 1765 (British law imposing a tax on printed materials in the American colonies, leading to widespread protest and dissent.)

NAFTA

Unit 9 1993 (trade agreement signed by the United States, Canada, and Mexico in 1992)

Plessy v. Ferguson

Unit 6 1896 (a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality)

Battle of Lexington and Concord

Unit 3 1775 (the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War)

Encomienda begins

Unit 1 1512 (a system where Spanish adventurers and settlers were granted the legal right to extract forced labour from indigenous tribal chiefs)

Korean war

Unit 8 1950 (a conflict between North Korea and South Korea, with significant involvement from the United States and China, which ended in an armistice but not a formal peace treaty)

Constitutional convention

Unit 3 1787 (a meeting of delegates from the states to address weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation and draft a new Constitution for the United States)

Louisiana purchase

Unit 4 1803

US enters WW1

Unit 7 1917 (primarily due to Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare)

9/11

Unit 9 2001

Bacon’s Rebellion

Unit 2 1676 (uprising in Virginia led by Nathaniel Bacon against Governor Berkley)

War of 1812

Unit 4 1812 (a military conflict between the United States and Great Britain, primarily fought in North America, that lasted from 1812 to 1815)

Great Depression

Unit 7 1829 (a severe worldwide economic downturn that lasted from 1929 until the late 1930s, significantly affecting the global economy)

Civil rights act

Unit 9 1964 (outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin)