APUSH Important dates

1607

Jamestown

1619

First Enslaved Africans to Jamestown

1620

Pilgrims Arrive

1629

Great Migration

1649

Toleration Act

1676

Bacon's Rebellion

1688

Glorious Revolution

1692

Salem Witch Trials

1754-1763

French and Indian War

1763

Proclamation Act

1765

Stamp Act

1770

Boston Massacre

1773

Tea Act / Tea Party

1775

Lexington and Concord

1776

Declaration of Independence

1777

Saratoga

1781

Yorktown

1783

Treaty of Paris

1786

Shays Rebellion

1787

Constitutional Convention

1788

Washington's Election

1791

Bill of Rights Added

1798

XYZ Affair

1798

Alien and Sedition Acts

1800

Election of Jefferson

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1812-1815

War of 1812

1815

Battle of New Orleans

1816-1824

Era of Good Feelings

1820s

Sectionalism

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1828

Jackson's Election

1828-1830

Tariff Crisis

1830

Indian Removal Act

1831

Nat Turner Rebellion

1830-1850

Manifest Destiny

1836

Battle of the Alamo

1844

Polk's Election

1845

Texas Annexation

1846-1848

Mexican-American War

1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1850

Compromise of 1850 and Fugitive Slave Act

1852

"Uncle Tom's Cabin"

1854

Kansas Nebraska Act (Bleeding Kansas)

1857

Dred Scott Case

1858

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

1860

Lincoln Elected

1861-1865

Civil War

1862

Homestead Act

1863

Battle of Gettysburg

1867

Reconstruction Acts

1867

Alaska Purchased

1876

Battle of the Little Big Horn

1877

Hayes Elected / End of the Reconstruction

1886

Haymarket Square Riot

1887

Dawes Act

1887

Interstate Commerce Act

1890

Wounded Knee

1890

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

1894

Pullman Strike

1896

McKinley Elected

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson

1898

Hawaii Acquisition

1898

Spanish-American War

1901

T. Roosevelt Becomes President

1903

Wright Brothers

1912

Wilson Elected

1915

Lusitania

1916

Wilsonian Neutrality

1917

US Enters WWI

1919

Treaty of Versailles

1920

19th Amendment

1920

Harding Elected

1920s

Red Scare

1920s

Prohibition

1928

Hoover Elected

1929

Stock Market Crash

1930s

Great Depression

1932

Bonus Army

1932

FDR Elected

1935

Social Security Act

1939

WWII Begins in Europe

1941

Pearl Harbor / US Enters WWII

1944

D-Day

1945

Atomic Bombs Dropped / End of WWII

1945-1989

Cold War

1947

Truman Doctrine

1950-1953

Korean War

1952

Ike Elected

1950s

McCarthyism

1954

Brown v. Board of Education

1955

Montgomery Bus Boycott

1957

Sputnik

1957

Little Rock Crisis

1960

U2 Shot Down

1960

Kennedy Elected

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

1963

March on Washington

1963

JFK Assassinated