APUSH Dates and Amendments

1898

Spanish American War

1901

McKinley (Assassinated) / Theodore Roosevelt Presidency

1917

U.S. Enters World War I

1929

Stock Market Crash / Depression Begins

1898-1917

Progressive Era

1914-1918

World War I Era

1932

Franklin Roosevelt Elected

1933

New Deal Begins

1940-1945

World War II Era

1941

Pearl Harbor - U.S. enters WWII

1945

Yalta Conference, End of World War II & Atomic Bomb on Japan

1945-1989

The Cold War

1947

Truman Doctrine (Containment Policy Begins)

1950-1953

Korean War

1954

Brown v. Board of Education Topeka

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

1963

Martin Luther King's March on Washington / JFK (Assassinated) / Lyndon B. Johnson Presidency Begins

1964

Civil Rights Act / Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (Vietnam)

1968

Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated / Tet Offensive in Vietnam

1974

Watergate Nixon (Resigns) / Gerald R. Ford Presidency Begins

1975

U.S. Exit of Vietnam

1979-1981

Iranian Hostage Crisis

1980

Ronald Reagan Elected

1989

Fall of the Berlin Wall / End of Cold War

2001

9/11

Amendment XVI (Sixteenth)

Income Taxes

Amendment XVII (Seventeenth)

Direct Election of Senators

Amendment XVIII (Eighteenth)

Prohibition of Liquor

Amendment XIX (Nineteenth)

Women's Suffrage Gives women the power to vote

Amendment XX (Twentieth)

Terms of President and Congress

Amendment XXI (Twenty-first)

Repeal of Prohibition Repeals the 18th amendment

Amendment XXII (Twenty-second)

Limitation of Presidents to Two Terms No person can be elected president more than twice

Amendment XXIII (Twenty-third)

Suffrage in the District of Columbia

Amendment XXIV (Twenty-fourth)

Poll Taxes

Amendment XXV (Twenty-fifth)

Presidential Disability and Succession

Amendment XXVI (Twenty-sixth)

Suffrage for 18-Year-Olds Voting age moved to 18

Amendment XXVII (Twenty-seventh)

Congressional Pay Raises

1492

Columbus sailed the ocean blue

1607

Foundation of Jamestown

1619

VA House of Burgesses & First Slaves Arrive

1620

Plymouth settled

1754-1763

French and Indian War Era

1763

French and Indian War Ends / Pontiacs Rebellion & Proclamation of 1763

1775-1783

Revolutionary War Era

1776

Declaration of Independence

1781

Articles of Confederation

1787

Constitutional Convention

1789

Washington Presidency Begins

1791

Bill of Rights

Amendment I (First)

Freedom of Religion, Speech and the Press; Rights of Assembly and Petition

Amendment II (Second)

Right to bear arms

Amendment III (Third)

Housing of soldiers

Amendment IV (Fourth)

Search and Seizure

(must have a warrant)

Amendment V (Fifth)

Rights of the accused (Due Process, cant self incriminate)

Amendment VI (Sixth)

Rights to a Fair Trial (Speedy and Public Trial by Jury, Witnesses, Right to a lawyer)

Amendment VII (Seventh)

Rights in Civil Cases (Trial by jury in civil cases over $20)

Amendment VIII (Eighth)

Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Amendment IX (Ninth)

Rights retained by the people (rights that are not listed)

Amendment X (Tenth)

Powers retained by the states and the people

1800

Jefferson elected

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1812-1814

War of 1812

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1825

Erie Canal opens

1828

Jackson Elected

1838

Trail of Tears

Amendment 11

Lawsuits Against States

impossible for the citizen of one state to sue another state.

Amendment 12

Election of President and Vice President - Provides that members of the electoral college vote for one person as president and one person as vice president.

Amendment 13

abolition of slavery

amendment 14

civil rights, slaves receive citizenship and protection of due process

amendment 15

african american suffrage

1846-1848

Mexican War

1848

Gold in California and Seneca Falls convention

1850

Compromise 1850 and Fugitive slave law

1852

Uncle Toms Cabin

1854

kansas nebraska act. and bleeding kansas

1857

Dread Scott case

1860

Lincoln elected and south secession

1861-1865

civil war era

1862

emancipation proclamation

1863-1877

reconstruction era

1877

Compromise of 1877 - end of reconstruction

1869

transcontinental RR completed

1887

dawes Sevralty act

1865-1900

gilded age

1890

frontier closed - us census bureau

1892

homestead strike

1893

columbian exposition / chicago world fair

1896

McKinley elected defeats Bryan and populist movement

1896

plessy v. ferguson