APUSH Dates & Amendments (units 1,2,7,8,9)

16th Amendment

Income Tax

17th Amendment

Direct voting for senators

18th Amendment

Prohibition of alcohol

19th Amendment

women’s suffrage (voting rights)

20th Amendment

Set the dates for presidential terms

21st Amendment

Repeal of Prohibition (18th cancelled out)

1898

SPAM War

1901

Mckinley Assasination / Teddy Roos Presidency

1917

Us Enters ww1

1929

Stock Market Crash / Great Depression Begins

1932

Franklin Roosevelt elected

1933

New Deal Begins

1941

Pearl Harbor - U.S enters ww2

1945

Yalta conference, end of ww2, atomic bomb in japan

1898 - 1917

Progressive Era

1914-1918

ww1 era

1940-1945

ww2 era

The cold war era

1945 - 1989

1947

Truman Doctorine (containment Policy begins)

1950 - 1953

Korean War

1954

Brown v Board of Education Topeka

1962

Cuban Missle Crisis

1963

/ Martin Luther King’s March on WashingtonJFK

(Assassinated) / Lyndon B. Johnson Presidency Begins

1964

Civil Rights Act / Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (Vietnam)

1968

Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated / Tet

Offensive in Vietnam

1974

Watergate Nixon (Resigns) / Gerald R. Ford Presidency Begins

1975

US Exit of Vietnam

1979-1981

Iranian Hostage Crisis

1980

Ronald Reagan Elected

1989

Fall of berlin wall / end of cold war

2001

9/11

22nd amendment

Limitation of presidents terms (2 terms only)

23rd amendment

Allows citizens of Washington D.C. to vote in the presidential elections. However, they cannot vote for members of Congress.

24th amendment

Forbids making voters pay a poll tax before they can vote in a national election.

25th amendment

If president is removed, dies, or resigns, the vice president becomes president. The president

fulfills a vice president vacancy, by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress

26th amendment

Suffrage for 18-Year-Olds Voting age moved to 18

27th amendment

Any increase in congressional pay does not go into effect until after the next regular election of the House of Representatives.

1492

Christopher Columbus arrives

1607

Foundation o jamestown

1619

VA house of burgesses and first slave arrives

1620

Plymouth settled