APUSH Summer Homework Timeline

Jamestown Colony established (year)

1607

Seven Years’ War (years)

1754-1763

Declaration of Independence signing (year)

1776

Constitutional Convention (year)

1787

Louisiana Purchase (year)

1803

Missouri Compromise (year)

1820

Indian Removal Act (year)

1830

Mexican-American War (years)

1845-1848

Seneca Falls Convention (year)

1848

US Civil War (years)

1861-1865

Slavery abolished (13th Amendment) (year)

1865

Gilded Age: Rise of Industry (years)

1870-1890

Wounded Knee Massacre (year)

1890

Plessy v. Ferguson (year)

1896

Philipphine-American War (years)

1899-1902

The creation of the first English settlement in the US, located in what is now Virgina

Jamestown Colony established

A war between France and Spain, and England over dominance in colonies around the world

Seven Years’ War

A document signed on July 4 that gave the 13 Colonies independence from British rule

Declaration of Independance

A meeting of state delegates that took place in Philadelphia to establish an effective government in the newly freed US

Constitutional Convention

The US purchase of 827,000 sq. miles of land west of the Mississippi River from France for $15 million

Louisiana Purchase

A law that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and created Maine as a free state. Prohibited slavery in any new states north of the 36°30′ parallel

Missouri Compromise

A law forcing Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi River. Tens of thousands of Native Americans were relocated

Indian Removal Act

A war sparked by border disputes and westward expansion. Ended by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. US earned California, Nevada, Utah, and pieces of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming

Mexican-American War

A New York event where women's rights advocates gathered to discuss suffrage and equality. Caused Declaration of Sentiments- called for women’s rights

Seneca Falls Convention

The Union vs Confederate state conflict caused by disagreements over states' rights, slavery, and economic differences

US Civil War

A drawn-out event that began with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, and finished with a constitutional ammendment in 1865

Slavery abolished (13th Amendment)

A time of rapid economic and industrial development, benefiting the upper class, while the lower classes suffered greatly due to the lack of appropriate wage growth

Gilded Age: Rise of Industry

An event in which the US army murdered nearly 300 native Lakota people due to racist fearmongering

Wounded Knee Massacre

The court ruling that ruled Jim Crow laws to be constitutional as long as races were “separate but equal”

Plessy v. Ferguson

A war that broke out following the Spanish-American War because the US didn’t accept the Philippines’ declaration of independence and instead annexed the country

Philippine-American War