APUSH midterm years in decades

1490s

1492: Columbus reaches the Americas

1600s

1607: Jamestown founded

1620s

1620: Mayflower Compact

1630s

1630: Massachusetts Bay Colony founded

1670s

1676: Bacon’s Rebellion

1680s

1680: Pueblo Revolt

1730s–1740s

First Great Awakening (religious revival)

1750s

1754–1763: French and Indian War

1760s

1763: Treaty of Paris (ends French and Indian War)

1763: Proclamation of 1763

1765: Stamp Act

1770s

1770: Boston Massacre

1774: Intolerable Acts

1775: Lexington and Concord

1776: Declaration of Independence

1780s

1781: Battle of Yorktown

1783: Treaty of Paris (ends American Revolution)

1787: Constitutional Convention

1788: Constitution ratified

1790s

1791: Bill of Rights ratified

1800s

1800: Election of 1800

1803: Marbury v. Madison

1803: Louisiana Purchase

1807: Embargo Act

1810s

1812–1815: War of 1812

1820s

1820: Missouri Compromise

1828: Andrew Jackson elected

1830s

1830: Indian Removal Act

1832–1833: Nullification Crisis

1836: Specie Circular

1840s

1845: Texas annexed

1846–1848: Mexican–American War

1848: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

1850s

1854: Kansas–Nebraska Act

1854–1856: Bleeding Kansas

1857: Dred Scott v. Sandford

1859: John Brown’s Raid

1860s

1860: Election of Abraham Lincoln

1861: Southern secession begins