Y2K (Years to Know) APUSH

1588

Spanish Armada is defeated by the English

1607

Jamestown founded

1612

John Rolfe perfects tobacco for export

1618

Headright system established in Virginia

1619

House of Burgesses established
First Africans to the Chesapeake
Women arrive at Jamestown

1620

Plymouth founded

1630

Mass Bay colony founded ("City Upon a Hill" sermon given)

1651

Navigation Acts passed

1675

King Philip's War starts (on and off until 1678)

1676

Bacon's Rebellion

1692

Salem Witch Trials start (go from 2/1692-5/1693)

1705

Virginia Slave Codes passed (first colony to establish comprehensive limitations of slaves)

1730s/40s

First Great Awakening

1739

Stono Rebellion (first noteworthy slave rebellion)

1763

End of French & Indian War (Treaty of Paris)
Pontiac's Rebellion
Proclamation Line established
End of Salutary Neglect

1764

Sugar Act passed

1765

Stamp Act passed
Stamp Act Congress convened
Sons of Liberty become active

1766

Stamp Act repealed/Declaratory Act passed

1770

Boston Massacre

1773

Boston Tea Party

1774

Coercive/Intolerable Acts passed
First Continental Congress convened (militia created; Continental Association enacted)

1775

Battles of Lexington and Concord
Second Continental Congress convened (Olive Branch Petition issued ... and rejected;
military created with Washington as leader)

1776

Thomas Paine's Common Sense Published
Declaration of Independence issued
Start of American Revolution

1777

Battle of Saratoga

1778

Franco-American Alliance signed

1781

Battle of Yorktown

1783

End of American Revolution (Treaty of Paris)

1787

Constitution written

1788

Constitution ratified

1789

Constitution went into effect

1791

Bill of Rights ratified
BOTUS chartered

1793

Washington's Proclamation of Neutrality issued
Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin

1800-1840

Second Great Awakening

1800

Thomas Jefferson elected (first peaceful transition of political parties)

1803

Louisiana Purchase
Marbury v. Madison

1815

Hartford Convention ends
End of War of 1812 (Treaty of Ghent)
Beginning of Era of Good Feeling

1816

Second BOTUS chartered
First protective tariff passed by Congress

1817

Erie Canal construction begins

1819

McCulloch v. Maryland

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine issued

1824

"Corrupt Bargain" election
End of "Era of Good Feeling"

1825

Erie Canal completed

1828

Tariff of Abominations passed

1830

Indian Removal Act passed

1831

William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator published
Nat Turner's Rebellion

1833

Nullification Crisis resolved

1807

Chesapeake & Leopard Affair
Embargo Act

1845

Texas annexed (had been Lone Star Republic since gaining independence from Mexico in 1836)

1846

Mexican-American War starts (in disputed area between Nueces and Rio Grande Rivers)

1848

Seneca Falls Conference (Declaration of Sentiments issued)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (End of Mexican-American War) cool name

1850

Compromise of 1850

1852

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin published

1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act passed ("Bleeding Kansas" starts)
Establishment of Republican Party

1856

Sack of Lawrence, Kansas → John Brown's Pottawatomie Massacre
Preston Brooks canes Charles Sumner

1857

Dred Scott v. Sanford

1858

Lincoln-Douglas Debates (most famously the Freeport Debate → "Freeport Doctrine")

1859

John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of the Species published

1860

Abraham Lincoln elected
South Carolina Secedes

1861

Confederate States of America established
Fort Sumter fired on, leading to the beginning of the Civil War

1862

(Preliminary) Emancipation Proclamation issued

1865

Civil War ends (Union Army victorious)
Lincoln assassinated
13th Amendment ratified
Reconstruction begins

1864

Indian Wars Start - Sand Creek Massacre

1876

Indian Wars - Battle of Little Bighorn

1890

Indian Wars - Battle of Wounded Knee

1867

Military Reconstruction begins

1868

14th Amendment ratified

1869

Transcontinental Railroad completed

1870

15th Amendment ratified

1877

Compromise of 1877
Reconstruction ends
Munn v. Illinois

1882

Chinese Exclusion Act passed

1886

Haymarket Square Riot
American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded
Wabash v. Illinois

1887

Dawes Severalty Act
Interstate Commerce Commission passed

1890

Sherman Antitrust Act

1892

People's Party (Populists) Omaha Platform

1893

"Frontier Thesis" (aka "Turner Thesis by Frederick Jackson Turner) published

1894

Pullman Strike

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson
McKinley defeats Bryan

1898

Spanish-American War starts (and ends with another Treaty of Paris)
Hawaii annexed

1899

Philippine-American War starts (this unofficial war lasts 3 years)

1904

Panama Canal construction starts

1914

Panama Canal is completed

1906

The Jungle published

1907

Gentleman's Agreement

1908

First Ford Model T produced

1909

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) founded

1911

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

1914

Clayton Anti-Trust Act
WWI ("The Great War") Starts

1915

Lusitania sunk

1916

Great Migration begins

1917

U.S. declares war on Germany
Espionage Act passed

1918

Sedition Act passed

1919

18th Amendment (Prohibition) ratified
Schenck v. U.S. decided
Treaty of Versailles signed (but not by the U.S.!)
Chicago Race Riot

1920

19th Amendment (woman's suffrage) ratified

1921

Equal Rights Amendment proposed in Congress
Emergency Immigration Act

1924

Immigration Act of 1924

1925

Scopes Monkey Trial

1927

First transatlantic flight (Charles Lindbergh)

1929

Stock Market Crash

1932

(3 events)
Reconstruction Finance Corporation created;
Bonus Expeditionary Force "defeated";
FDR beats Hoover