APUSH dates periods 1-9

1492

Columbus, Spanish, Columbian Exchange

1607

Jamestown, the first permanent English colony

1619

First slaves in Jamestown & House Of Burgesses

1620

Plymouth founded (Puritans) in New England

1676

Bacon's Rebellion

1680

Pueblo Revolt

1754

French and Indian War begins(7 years war)

1763

Treaty of Paris ends the Seven Years' War, Pontiac's Rebellion, & Proclamation Line

1765

Stamp Act, first direct tax, "no taxation without representation"

1775

American Revolution begins; Lexington and Concord, Second Continental Congress; Articles of Confederation

1776

Thomas Paine's Common Sense & the Declaration of Independence

1783

Treaty of Paris: end of American Revolution & beginning of U.S. under Articles of Confederation

1787

Northwest Ordinance & Constitution

1788

Constitution ratified by 9 states & takes effect

1791

Bill of Rights added to Constitution

1790s

First Two-Party System, Hamilton vs Jefferson

1800

Election of Thomas Jefferson

1803

Louisiana Purchase, Marbury v. Madison

1808

slave importation ends (Slavery Compromise 1789)

1812

War of 1812 begins

1815

Treaty of Ghent ends of War of 1812; Hartford Resolutions arrive in DC, end of Federalist Party, beginning of Era of Good Feelings

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1824

"Corrupt Bargain" election, beginning of Democratic Party (pro-Jackson movement)

1828

Andrew Jackson elected, Era of the Common Man

1820s-1830s

Second Two Party System, Jackson vs Clay

1844

Election of Polk; Manifest Destiny

1846

Mexican-American War begins

1848

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexican Cession, end of Mexican-American War; Seneca Falls Convention

1850

Compromise of 1850

1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act; Republican Party

1857

Dred Scott v. Sanford

1860

Election of Abraham Lincoln, secession begins

1861

Beginning of Civil War, Battle of Fort Sumter

1862

Homestead Act, Pacific Railway Act, Treasury System, Morrill Act; Antietam

1863

Battle of Gettysburg, Gettysburg Address, Battle of Vicksburg, Emancipation Proclamation

1865

Civil War ends; assassination of Lincoln; 13th Amendment

1877

End of Radical Reconstruction; Compromise of 1877; Jim Crow begins

1890

Wounded Knee; Closure of the West (frontier "closed"); Sherman-Antitrust Act

1892

People's Party (Populist Third Party) nationwide

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson

1898

Spanish American War/ beginning of imperialism

1917

US enters WWI; 14 points

1918

WWI ends

1919

First Red Scare; Red Summer

1920

19th amendment; treaty of Versailles not ratified

1920s

more urban than rural culture conflicts

1929

Stock Market Crash; beginning of Great Depression

1933

FDR’s new deal begins

1941

Pearl Harbor, US enters WWII; Depression ends

1945

end of WWII.; atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; beginning of Cold War (“iron curtain” descends)

1949

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 NATO; USSR atomic bomb; China=communist

1950

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 Korean War begins

1953

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Korean War ends; armistice and DMZ

1954

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*Brown v. Board of Education*

1957

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Sputnik; beginning of space race

1963

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March on Washington; JFK assassinated

1964

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 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution;  LBJ’s Great Society, Civil Rights Act of 1964

1965

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Voting Rights Act; Immigration Act

1968

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 MLK and RFK assassinated, Tet Offensive, Chicago riot, silent majority, race riots, anti-war escalates

1973

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Vietnam War ends with armistice

1974

Watergate scandal

1975

Fall of Saigon

1980

Election of Ronald Reagan; resurgence of conservatism

1989

Berlin Wall falls, end of the Cold War

2000

Bush v. Gore

2001

9/11, patriot acts

2008

Great Recession, Election of Barack Obama