APUSH Timeline

1887

Interstate Commerce Act (required railroad rates to be reasonable and just)

1890

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

1945-1991

Cold War (proxy war between us and soviet union)

1492

Columbus' first voyage

1848

California Gold Rush

1917

US enters WWI (sinking of lusitania, Zimmerman telegraph interception, unrestricted submarine warfare)

1898

Annexation of Hawaii

1607

Jamestown (first permanent english settlement)

1754-1763

French and Indian War (Seven Years' War)

1763

Proclamation of 1763 (boundary marked at appalachian moutains)

1765

Stamp Act

1770

Boston Massacre

1773

Boston Tea Party

1776

Declaration of Independence

1783

Treaty of Paris (ended American Revolution)

1788

Washington Elected as first US president

1798

Alien and Sedition Acts

1800

Jefferson elected

1803

Louisiana Purchase (Napoleon needed money)

1812-1815

War of 1812 (America vs Britain because of westward expansion and impressment)

1820

The Missouri Compromise establishes a boundary between free states and slave states

1823

Monroe Doctrine (challenged Europeans for authority in the americas)

1828

Andrew Jackson elected

1830

Indian removal act, west of the Mississippi river into Oklahoma territory across trail of tears

1830-1850

Manifest destiny

1845

Annexation of Texas (john taylor pushed for annexation after Texas applied for statehood after revolting from Mexico)

1845-1848

Mexican American War (caused by annexation of Texas and stationed american troops at rio grande to establish border (Mexicans killed 11 americans))

1848

Seneca Falls Convention (called to address women's rights in society)

1850

Fugitive Slave Act (escaped slaves must be returned to their owners even in free states)

1852

Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet beecher stowe depicted dehumanization and brutality of slavery)

1854

Bleeding Kansas & Kansas-Nebraska Act (Stephen Douglas proposed the territory be divided into two parts that follow popular sovereignty, bleeding kansas was the harsh violence between anti slavery and pro slavery to gain control over the territory)

1857

Dred Scott Decision(constitution says slaves arent actually people)

1860

Lincoln elected

1861-1865

Civil War

1862

Homestead Act (provided federal land to anyone who could farm it)

1863

Gettysburg Address (unify nation, portray struggle against slavery as fulfillment of america's founding democratic ideals)

1877

Compromise of 1877 (democrats conceded election to hayes, republicans pulled federal troops from south)

1887

Dawes Act (government abandoned reservation system and divided lands into plots to be farmed by indians, allowed them to become citizens if they assimilated to american culture)

1890

Wounded Knee (slaughter of hundreds of natives performing ghost dance)

1894

Pullman Strike (pullman cut wages of workers and fired workers that went to bargain with him, remaining workers went on strike)

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson (deemed segregation constitutional if separate but equal)

1898

Spanish-American War

1920

19th Amendment (Women's Suffrage)

1920s

First Red Scare and Prohibition (red scare- fear of immigrants, prohibition- banning of alcohol)

1929

Stock Market Crash and Great Depression (buying on margin and farmers overproducing leading to debt and people taking out credit)

1935

Social Security Act (part of workers wages were withheld by the govt and paid back to them when they reach retirement age)

1939

Beginning of WWII (hitler invaded poland)

1941

Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII

1944

D-Day (invasion of normandy, 200,000 allied troops pushed the germans back and liberated france)

1945

Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

1947

Truman Doctrine (advocated containment of communism by lendint support to any country that was threatened by soviet communism)

1950-1953

Korean War (north korea invaded south with soviet munition, us backed south korea and sent american troops to push them back)

1954

Brown v. Board of Education (overturned plessy v fergyson and ruled seperate educational facilities unequal)

1955

Montgomery Bus Boycott

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis (us intelligence agent discovered soviet style nuclear launch weapons being stockpiled in cuba)

1963

March on Washington

1964

Civil Rights Act

1972

Watergate

1973

Roe v. Wade (legalized abortion)

1979

Iranian Hostage Crisis

1980

Reagan elected

1989

Cold War ends

1670s

Bacon’s rebellion (Gov. Berkely failed to protect farmers, led farmer raids against Indians and burned Jamestown)

1730s-1740s

Great Awakening and Enlightenment

1767

Townshend Act (taxed goods imported to colonies)

1825

Era of Good feelings (first political party in America)

1819

Panic of 1819 (people couldn’t pay loans)

1961

Bay of Pigs (failed attack on Cuba)

1918

Espionage & Sedition Acts (violated first amendment rights of free speech against the war effort)

1919

Shenck v United States (allowed for the censoring of press/speech)