Important APUSH Dates

Jamestown

1607

First African slaves arrive in Jamestown

1619

Pilgrims (Separatists) settle Plymouth

1620

Start of the Great Migration of Puritains

1629

Bacon's Rebellion- Switch from indentured servants to African slaves

1675

Start of the French and Indian War

1756

Treaty of Paris ends French and Indian War

1763

Stamp Act Passes- Prime Minister Grenville

1765

Stamp Act Congress- First colonial organization in protest of England Declaratory Act

1766

Townshend Duty passed

1768

Boston Massacre

1770

Tea Act passed and Tea Parties

1773

Coercive or Intolerable Acts Passed; Battle of Lexington and Concord

1775

Declaration of Independence

1776

Articles of Confederation adopted

1781

Treaty of Paris ends the Revolution

1783

Shay's Rebellion and Annapolis Convention

1786

Constitutional Convention

1787

Bill of Rights adopted

1791

Whiskey Rebellion

1794

Eli Whitney and Cotton Gin

1794

Washington's Farewell Address

1796

Quasi War with France

1798-1800

Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

1798

Election of Thomas Jefferson; Peace Revolution of ____.

1800

Louisiana Purchase

1803

War of ____

1812

Hartford Convention

1814

Treaty of Ghent ends war

1815

Second Bank of US and Tariff of ____.

1816

Missouri Compromise

1820

Corrupt Bargain Election

1824

Andrew Jackson Elected

1828

Indian Removal begins- Trail of Tears

1831

Bank War and start of pet banks

1836

Tippecanoe and Tyler too

1840

Polk Elected, Texas becomes a state

1844

Oregon Treaty; 49th Parallel

1846

Mexican-American War and Mexican Cession

1846-1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1848

Great Compromise

1850

Dred Scott v Sanford

1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act

1857

Harpers Ferry and John Brown

1859

Election of Lincoln

1860

South Carolina secedes and deep south secedes

1861

Fort Sumter and upper south secedes

April 1861

Homestead Act passed

1862

Emancipation Proclamation

1863

Lincoln Reelected

1864

Lincoln Killed

1865

15th Amendment Passed

1865

Radical Republicans gain power and impeach Andrew Johnson

1866

Military reconstruction

1866-1877

Hayes elected in Compromise of ____ and ends Reconstruction

1877

Great Railroad Strike

1877

Sherman Silver and Anti-Trust Act passed; Ocala Platform adopted

1890

Battle of Homestead

1892

Massive Depression

1893

Pullman Strike

1894

Election gold vs silver; McKinley vs Bryan

1896

Spanish-American War

1898

Philippine American War

1898-1901

Open Door Notes

1900

T. Roosevelt President

1901

Taft President

1908

T. Roosevelt runs for third term and Winson wins

1912

WWI begins

1914

US involved in WWI

1917

19th amendment passed

1919

Treaty of Versailles ends war (except in US- League of Nations debate)

1919

Hoover elected

1928

Stock Market crash

1929

Prohibition ends 21st amendment

1931

FDR elected and New Deal begins

1932

Social Security passed

1935

Hitler comes to power

1936

Munich Conference and WWII begins

1938-1939

Pearl Harbor, US in WWII

1941

FDR dies after 4 terms and Truman takes over

1945

Berlin Crisis, Israel created

1948

Korean War

1950-1953

Brown v Topeka Board of Education

1954

Montgomery Bus Boycott

1955

Little Rock Nine

1957

Kennedy Elected

1960

Bay ofPigs

1961

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962

JFK killed LBJ takes office

1963

Gulf of Tonkin

1964

Civil Rights act of ____

1964

Voting Rights Act

1965

Medicare and Medicaid- Great Society

1965

MLK and RFK killed, race riots, Democratic party splits, Tet Offensive, Nixon elected

1968

Nixon Reelected, Watergate investigation starts; ends, resignation in 1974

1972