APUSH IMPORTANT DATES

Period 1:

1491-1607

1492:

Columbus arrived in America

1607:

Jamestown settled

Period 2:

1607-1754

1619:

1st African slaves arrive in US

1754:

French and Indian war begins

Period 3:

1754-1800

1763:

Treaty of Paris signed = French and Indian War ends

1776:

Declaration of Independence signed

1781:

Battle of Yorktown = End of the Revolutionary War

1789:

Constitution is ratified

1800:

Jefferson becomes president = Peaceful transition of Power (Revolution of 1800)

Period 4:

1800-1848

1803:

Louisiana Purchase; Marbury v. Madison decision

1815:

Battle of New Orleans

1820:

Missouri Compromise

1823:

Monroe Doctrine proclaimed

1828:

Era of Common Man = A. Jackson becomes president

1848:

Seneca Falls Convention

Period 5:

1844-1877

1846:

Mexican-American War begins

1850:

Compromise of 1850 - Stricter Fugitive Slave Act

1854:

Kansas-Nebraska Act, Republican Party created

1860:

Lincoln becomes president

1865:

South Surrenders at Appomattox Courthouse

1877:

Compromise of 1877 = Reconstruction ends

Period 6:

1865- 1898

1869:

Transcontinental Railroad completed

1890:

Wounded Knee Massacre

1896:

Plessy v Ferguson

1898:

U.S.S. Maine explodes = War w/ Spain; 3rd Treaty of Paris

Period 7:

1890- 1945

1906:

Jungle Published

1911:

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

1919:

19th Amendment passes = Women’s right to vote; Red Summer

1929:

Stock Market Crashes (Black Thursday/ Tuesday) = Great Depression Begins

1933:

FDR takes office = New Deal Begins

1941:

Japan bombs Pearl Harbor = U.S. enters WWII

1945:

WWII ends = V-E Day; Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki = V-J Day

Period 8:

1948-1980

1949:

Chinese Communist Revolution; USSR has A-Bomb

1954:

Brown v Topeka Board of Education

1964:

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; Civil Rights Act

1968:

Tet Offensive; MLK assassinated; riots at Chicago Convention; Nixon elected President

1974:

Nixon resigns

1980:

Reagan elected President

Period 9:

1980- present

1980:

Reagan elected President

1991:

Operation Desert Storm; Cold War ends

2001:

September 11th

2008:

Obama elected President

2020:

COVID-19 Pandemic