APUSH Anchor Dates: Time Periods 1-6

Columbus lands in Bahamas

1492

Santa Fe founded by Spanish

1605

Jamestown founded by English

1607

Quebec founded by French

1608

1st African slaves imported to Jamestown

Virginia House of Burgesses first meets

1619

Pilgrims land in Plymouth

1620

The Enlightenment

1620-1780

The Winthrop Fleet (Puritans) arrives in Massachusetts

1630

Pequot War ends (opening New England expansion west)

1638

Maryland Toleration Act

1649

Virginia’s Act Xll (creating perpetual racial slavery)

1662

Pueblo Revolt

1680

First Great Awakening (revitalizing religion in America)

1730-1740

Georgia’s founded (last of original 13 colonies)

1733

Stono Rebellion

1739

French and Indian War begins/Albany Congress

1754

Treaty of Paris (ends the French and Indian war)

1763

Britain passes Intolerable Acts

1774

Common Sense/Declaration of Independence

1776

Articles of Confederation in place

1781-1789

Treaty of Paris (Britain recognizes independence)

1783

Constitutional Convention

1787

U.S. Constitution went into effect/Washington elected

1789

Bill of Rights ratified

1791

First Party System (federalist/democratic-republicans)

1792-1824

Whitney invents cotton gin

1793

Jefferson Elected

1800

Marbury v Madison/Louisiana Purchase

1803

Slave importation made illegal

1808

Second war of independence

1812-1815

Market Revolution

1815-1846

Missouri Compromise

1820

Monroe Doctrine

1823

The “Corrupt Bargain”

1824

Erie Canal completed

1825

Jackson elected

1828

2nd party system (democrats/whigs)

1828-1854

Second great awakening

1830s

War with Mexico

1846

Seneca Falls convention

1848

California gold rush

1849

Compromise of _____

Fugitive slave law

1850

Kansas-Nebraska act

1854

3rd party system (democrats/republicans)

1854-1896

Lincoln elected

1860

Civil war begins/Fort Sumter

1861

Emancipation Proclamation

1862 (effective 1-1-1863)

Sand Creek Massacre

1864

civil war ends/Lincoln assassinated

1865

Age of the “Forgettable Presidents”

1865-1896

14th amendment passed

1868

Transcontinental railroad completed

1869

15th amendment passed

1870

Gilded age

1869-1889

End of reconstruction/the “great betrayal”

1877

Helen Hunt Jackson’s century of dishonor

1881

Chinese exclusion act

1882

Alfred Mahan’s influence of sea power on history

1890

Pullman strike

1894

Plessey v Ferguson

1896