APUSH Dates and Years

Jamestown Founded

1607

First African Americans Arrive

1619

First Great Awakening

1730-1740s

French and Indian War Ends (Seven Years War)

1763

American Revolution

1775-1783

Declaration of Independence

1776

Treaty of Paris (ends revolutionary war)

1783

Constitutional Convention

1787

Federal Government Begins

1789

Revolution of 1800 (Thomas Jefferson Elected)

1800

Marbury vs Madison

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1803

Importation of Enslaved Illegal

1808

Era of Good Feelings

1816

Erie Canal Began

1817

Missouri Compromise

1820

Monroe Doctrine

1823

Second Great Awakening

1830

Indian Removal Act

1830

Not Turner Insurrection

1832

War With Mexico

1846-48

Seneca Falls Convention

1848

California Gold Rush

1849

Compromise of 1850

1850

Kansas Nebraska Act

1854

Dred Scott Case

1857

Election of Lincoln (Republican)

1860

Civil War

1861-1865

Emancipation Proclamation

1863

End of Reconstruction

1877

Wounded Knee Massacre

1890

Plessy vs Ferguson

1896

DeLaSalle High School Established

1900

NAACP Founded

1909

World War I

1914-1918

Treaty of Versailles

1919

19th Amendment

1920

Stock Market Crash

1929

Great Depression

1929-1941

Bonus Army

1932

World War 2

1939-1945

Korean War

1950-1953

Brown vs Board of Education

1954

Montgomery Bus Boycott

1955

Vietnam War

1961-1975

March on Washington

1963

Civil Rights Act

1964

Tet Offense and Turmoil

1968

Apollo 11 on the Moon

1969

Roe vs Wade

1973

Resignation of Nixon

1974

Persian Gulf War

1991

Oklahoma City Domestic Terror Attack

1995

Hurricane Katrina

2005

Great recession

2008

Affordable Health Care Act

2011