APUSH Dates

1492

Columbian Exchange Begins

1607

Jamestown Established

1619 and 1620

Virginia House of Burgesses created & Plymouth Established (Mayflower Compact)

1651

Navigation laws/Mercantilism

1676

Bacon’s Rebellion

1730s and 1740s

Great Awakening

1754-1763

Seven Years War (French and Indian War)

1765

The Stamp Act (and Stamp Act Congress)

1774

Boston Tea Party and Intolerable Acts

1776

The Declaration of Independence

1777

The Articles of Confederation

1787

Shays’ Rebellion

1788

Ratification of the Constitution

1775

Shot Heard Round the World (Lexington and Concord)

1803

Judicial review (Marbury v. Madison) and Louisiana Purchase

1815

War of 1812 Ends ——> Enters Era of Good Feelings

1807

Steamboat invented

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1828

Jackson Presidency Begins

1830s

Indian Removal and the Trail of Tears

1846-1848

Mexican-American War (US gets California and Texas)

1860

Lincoln is elected and South Carolina Secedes

1861

Battle of Fort Sumter: Civil War truly begins

1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1863

Gettysburg Address and the Emancipation Proclamation

1865

End of Civil War and Assassination of Lincoln

1868

Johnson is Impeached

1869

Knights of Labor Founded

1876

Battle of Little Bighorn (Custer’s Last Stand)

1877

Railroad Strikes

1886

American Federation of Labor founded (AFL)

1892

Homestead Steel Strike

1894

Pullman Strike

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson

1904

Roosevelt Corollary

1911

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

1917

Zimmerman Telegram and US Declaration of War (WW1)

1918

18th Amendment (Prohibition)

1919

Treaty of Versailles

1920

19th Amendment (Women can vote)

1929

Stock Market Crash (beginning of great depression)

1930s

New Deal

1941

Pearl Harbor and Entrance into WW2

1942

Executive Order 9066 (Japanese internment camps)

1945

Atomic Bombing

1944

D-Day