APUSH DATES

Columbus arrives in America + begins Columbian Exchange

1492

Jamestown established

1607

House of Burgesses

1619

Plymouth established; Mayflower Compact

1620

Massachusetts Bay Colony

1629

salutary neglect

1680s to 1750s

Bacon's Rebellion

1670s

Glorious Revolution

1688

Salem Witch Trials

1692

Age of Englightenment

1680 - 1820

Albany Plan

1754

7 Years War "French-Indian War"

1754-1763

Proclamation of 1763

1763

Sugar Act / Currency Act

1764

Stamp Act ("no taxation w/o representation")

1765

Townshend Act

1767

Boston Massacre

1770

Boston Tea Party

1773

Coercive/Intolerable Acts

early 1774

First Continental Congress

late 1774

Battle of Lexington and Concord

early 1774

Second Continental Congress

1775

Common Sense

January 1776

Declaration of Independence signed

July 4, 1776

Battle of Saratoga (led to France American alliance)

1777

Battle of Yorktown

1781

Treaty of Paris

1783

Articles of Confederation

1777

Constitutional Convention

1787

Great Compromise

1787

Bill of Rights added

1791

Election of Washington

1789

National Bank created + Hamilton

1789

Washington's Farewell Address (neutrality)

1797

John Adams

1797-1801

XYZ Affair

1797

Alien and Sedition Acts

1797

Jefferson's First term + Second Term

1801 - 1804

1804 - 1808

Jefferson's Election

1800 + 1804

Marbury v. Madison (established Judicial Review)

1803

Embargo Act

1807

Louisiana Purchase

1803

War of 1812

1812-1815

Battle of New Orleans

1815

Era of Good Feelings

1816 - 1824

Adams-Onis Treaty

1819

Missouri Compromise

1820

Corrupt Bargain

1824

Monroe Doctrine

1823

Andrew Jackson is elected ("Era of the Common Man")

1828

Indian Removal Act / Trail of Tears

1830 / 1830s

Nat Turner's Rebellion

1831

Whig party starts

1833

Manifest Destiny

1830-1850

Second great awakening

• temperance

• abolition

Second Great Awakening

1790s - 1840s

Battle of the Alamo

1836

Annexation of Texas

1845

Mexican-American War

1845-1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1848

Fugitive Slave Law

1850

Compromise of 1850

1850

Uncle Tom's Cabin is published

1852

Kansas Nebraska Act

1854

Bleeding Kansas

1854 - 1859

Dred Scott v. Sanford

1857

John Brown raid on Harper's Ferry

1859

Lincoln's Election

1860

South Carolina seceds

1860

Civil War

1861-1865

Homestead act

1862

Gettysburg

1863

Emancipation Proclamation

Jan 1, 1863

Freedman's Bureau

1865

Reconstruction Acts

1867

Purchase of Alaska

1867

Compromise of 1877

1877

Little Bighorn

1876

Haymarket Square Riot

1886

Dawes Act

1887

Battle of Wounded Knee

1890

Sherman Antitrust Act

1890

Pullman Strike

1894

"Cross of Gold" speech

1896

Plessy v. Fergusen

1896

Annexation of Hawaii

1898

Spanish American War

1898

Wright Brothers

1903

Panama Canal

1904 - 1914

Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine (Big Stick policy)

1904

US declares neutrality in WWI

1914

Lusitania sunk

1915

Zimmerman telegraph --> US enters WWI

1917

Espionage Act

1917

Sedition Act

1918

14 Points

1918

Nineteenth Amendment - women's suffrage

1920