APUSH Need to Know Dates

Important stuff for APUSH

Jamestown founded; First permanent English colony in North America

1607

Mayflower Compact; First self-government agreement in the colonies

1620

Start of French and Indian War; British vs. French for control of North America

1754

Treaty of Paris + Proclamation Line; Ends war: limits colonial expansion past Appalachians

1763

Declaration of Independence

1776

Constitutional Convention; creates the US Constitution

1787

Louisiana Purchase; Doubles US size; Thomas Jefferson

1803

Missouri Compromise; Balance free/slave states; 36°30′ line

1820

Mexican-American War ends + Seneca Falls; Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; start of women’s rights movement

1848

Civil War; Union vs. Confederacy over slavery and secession

1861-1865

Emancipation Proclamation; Lincoln frees slaves in the Confederate States

1863

13th Amendments + Lincoln assassinated; Ends Slavery officially

1865

Compromise of …. ; Ends Reconstruction; troops pulled from the South

1877

Sherman Antitrust Act + Wounded Knee Massacre; first anti-monopoly law; end of Indian resistance

1890

Plessy v. Ferguson; “Separate but equal” legalized segregation

1896

Spanish-American War; U.S. becomes imperial power (gains Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico)

1898

WWI; US enters in 1917

1914-1918

Stock Market Crash; Starts Great Depression

1929

New Deal begins; FDR’s plan to fight the Great Depression

1933

Pearl Harbor; US enters WWII

1941

WWII ends + United Nation formed; US and USSR emerge as superpowers

1945

Truman Doctrine; US begins containment of communism

1947

Brown v. Board of Education; ends “separate but equal”

1954

Civil Rights Act of …. ; Outlaws segregation + discrimination

1964

MLK and RFK assassinated, Tet Offensive; Turning point in Civil Rights and Vietnam War

1968

Roe v. Wade + US exits Vietnam; ;legalizes abortion; ends direct military involvement in Vietnam

1973

Ronald Reagan elected; Conservative shift in US politics

1980

9/11 attacks; leads to War on Terror; Patriot Act

2001