Important APUSH Dates

1492

Columbus arrives in America

1607

Jamestown founded

1620

Plymouth
Mayflower Compact

1676

Bacon's Rebellion

1754-63

French and Indian War

1775-83

Revolutionary War

1776

Declaration of Independence

1789

Washington becomes president
Judiciary Act
Constitution ratified

1812-14

War of 1812

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1831

Liberator
Cherokee v GA
Nat Turner

1845

TX annexed
JK Polk president
FL + TX become states

1846-48

Mexican-Am. War

1850

Compromise of 1850
CA becomes a states

1861-65

Civil War

1877

Compromise of 1877
End of Reconstruction

1890

Wounded Knee
Sherman Anti-Trust
NAWSA

1898

Spanish American War

1917

Zimmerman Telegram
US enters WWI
Red Scare

1929

Wall Street Crash
Immigration Act

1941

Lend Lease
Pearl Harbor
Atlantic Charter

1945

End of WWII
Yalta/Potsdam
Nuremberg Trials

1957

Sputnik
Eisenhower Doctrine
Little Rock 9
Voting Rights Act

1963

March on Washington
Feminine Mystique
JFK assassinated

1964

Gulf of Tonkin
24th amendment
Civil Rights Act
War on Poverty

1968

Tet Offensive
MLK and RFK killed

1969

Vietnamization
Stonewall
Woodstock

1975

End of Vietnam War

1989

Berlin Wall
Gulf War
Tiananmen Square