APUSH IMPORTANT DATES

Period 1

1491-1607

Columbus’s arrival in the Caribbean

1492

Period 2

1607-1754

Founding of Jamestown: The First British Settlement

1607

First Great Awakening Begins

1730’s

Period 3

1754-1800

The French and Indian War

1754-1763

Battles of Lexington and Concord: Revolutionary War Begins

1775

Declaration of Independence

1776

Constitution takes effect, Washington becomes president

1789

Period 4

1800-1848

The Election of Thomas Jefferson

1800

The Market Revolution

1820’s and 1830’s

Seneca Falls Convention

1848

Mexican American War

1846-1848

Mexican Cession (Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo)

1848

Period 5

1848-1877

The Election of Abraham Lincoln

1860

The Civil War

1861-1865

Reconstruction Era

1865-1877

Period 6

1877-1898

The Industrial Revolution

1870’s through 1900

Plessy v. Ferguson

1896

Period 7

1898-1945

Spanish American War

1898

American Philippine War

1899-1902

Progressive Era

1890’s through 1920’s

World War One

1914-1918

19th Amendment

1920

The Great Depression

1929-1941

Pearl Harbor

1941

World War Two

1939-1945

Period 8

1945-1980

Korean War

1950-1953

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas

1954

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962

U.S. Involvement in Vietnam War

1964-1973

Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

1968

Period 9

1980-2012

Election of Ronald Reagan

1980

Collapse of the Soviet Union (“End” of the Cold War)

1991

9/11 Attacks, War on Terror Begins

2001