APUSH important dates

Period 1

1491-1607

1492

Columbus arrived in America

1607

Jamestown settled

Period 2

1607-1754

1619

First enslaved Africans arrive in US

1754

The start of the French and Indian War.

Period 3

1754-1800

1763

Treaty of Paris signed = French and Indian War ends

1776

Declaration of Independence signed

1781

Battle of Yorktown = End of the Revolutionary War

1789

Constitution is ratified

1800

Jefferson becomes president = Peaceful transition of Power (Revolution of 1800)

Period 4

1800-1848

1803

Louisiana Purchase; Marbury v. Madison decision

1815

Battle of New Orleans

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine proclaimed

1828

Era of Common Man = A. Jackson becomes president

1848

Seneca Falls Convention

Period 5

1844-1877

1846

Mexican-American War begins

1850

Compromise of 1850 - Stricter Fugitive Slave Act

1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act, Republican Party created

1860

Lincoln becomes president

1865

South Surrenders at Appomattox Courthouse

1877

Compromise of 1877 = Reconstruction ends

Period 6

1865- 1898

1869

Transcontinental Railroad completed

1890

Wounded Knee Massacre

1896

Plessy v Ferguson

1898

U.S.S. Maine explodes = War w/ Spain; 3rd Treaty of Paris

Period 7

1890- 1945

1906

Jungle Published

1911

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

1919

19th Amendment ratified= Women’s right to vote; Red Summer

1929

Stock Market Crashes (Black Thursday/ Tuesday) = Great Depression Begins

1933

FDR takes office = New Deal Begins

1941

Japan bombs Pearl Harbor = U.S. enters WWII

1945

WWII ends = V-E Day; Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki = V-J Day

Period 8

1948-1980

1949

Chinese Communist Revolution; USSR has A-Bomb

1954

Brown v Topeka Board of Education

1964

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; Civil Rights Act

1968

Tet Offensive; MLK assassinated; riots at Chicago Convention; Nixon elected President

1974

Nixon resigns

1980

Reagan elected President

Period 9

1980- present

1980

Reagan elected President

1991

Operation Desert Storm; Cold War ends

2001

September 11th

2008

Obama elected President

2020

COVID-19 Pandemic