APUSH Important Dates

1491

The year before Columbus

1607

Jamestown founded

1619

First enslaved people brought over

1620

Pilgrims land

1649

Maryland Toleration Act

1680

Pueblo Revolt

1620-1780

Enlightenment

1730-1740

First Great Awakening

1754

French and Indian War

1763

Treaty of Paris (end of French and Indian War)

1774

Intolerable Acts

1776

Declaration of Independence

1781-1789

Articles of Confederation

1783

Treaty of Paris (American Independence)

1787

Constitution written

1789

Bill of Rights added to Constitution

1793

Cotton Gin

1800

Jefferson elected

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1808

Slave Importation illegal

1812

Second War of Independence

1815-1846

Market Revolution

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1825

Erie Canal

1830s

Second Great Awakening

1850

Compromise of 1850

1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act

1860

Lincoln elected

1861

Civil War

1862

Emancipation Proclamation

1865

Civil War ends (Lincoln assassination)

1868

14th Amendment ratified

1877

End of Reconstruction

1854-1898

3rd Party System (Republican/Democrat)

1869

Transcontinental Railroad

1865-1890

Gilded Age

1882

Chinese Exclusion Act

1894

Pullman Strike

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson

1898

Spanish-American War

1901

Teddy Roosevelt

1909

NAACP founded

1915

Lusitania

1925

Scopes Trial

1929

Great Depression

1941

Pearl Harbor

1942

Executive Order 9066

1945

End of WWII

1947

Truman Doctrine

1950

Korean War

1954

Brown v. Board of Education

1962

Silent Spring

1964

Civil Rights Act

1965

Voting Rights Act

1968

MLK Assassinated; Democratic Convention

1969

Stonewall Riots

1974

Nixon resigns

1980

Reagan elected

1991

Fall of the Soviet Union

1994

NAFTA signed by Bill Clinton

2001

Terrorist Attack

2008

Obama elected

2016

Trump elected