APUSH Dates

1607–1754

– Colonization & Colonial Americanization

1607: Jamestown founded (first permanent English colony)
1620: Mayflower Compact (Pilgrims)
1754: Start of French and Indian War

1754–1763

– French and Indian War

Ends with Treaty of Paris (1763)
Britain gains territory, but war debt leads to taxing colonies → American Revolution begins to brew

1763–1783

Road to Revolution & Revolutionary War

1763: Proclamation Line & end of French and Indian War
1770: Boston Massacre
1773: Boston Tea Party
1774: Intolerable Acts
1775–1783: American Revolutionary War
1776: Declaration of Independence
1781: Battle of Yorktown
1783: Treaty of Paris (America officially independent)

1781–1789

– Articles of Confederation

Weak central government, no power to tax or raise army
1786–87: Shays' Rebellion shows need for stronger government
1787: Constitutional Convention
1789: U.S. Constitution ratified

1789–1800 –

Early Republic & Federalists

1791: Bill of Rights
1794: Whiskey Rebellion
1798: Alien and Sedition Acts

1800–1848

– Jeffersonian & Jacksonian Democracy, Reform

1800: Revolution of 1800 (Jefferson elected)
1803: Louisiana Purchase
1812–1815: War of 1812
1820: Missouri Compromise
1830: Indian Removal Act
1848: Seneca Falls Convention

1844–1877 –

Sectionalism, Civil War, & Reconstruction

1846–48: Mexican-American War
1850: Compromise of 1850
1854: Kansas-Nebraska Act
1861–1865: Civil War
1863: Emancipation Proclamation
1865: 13th Amendment
1870: 15th Amendment
1877: Compromise of 1877 (ends Reconstruction)

1865–1898 –

Gilded Age & Industrialization

Rise of monopolies, labor unions, immigration
1890: Sherman Antitrust Act, Wounded Knee
1896: Plessy v. Ferguson

1890–1945 –

Imperialism, Progressivism, WWI & WWII

1898: Spanish-American War
1914–1918: World War I
1920: 19th Amendment (women’s suffrage)
1929: Stock Market Crash
1933–1939: New Deal
1939–1945: World War II