Forever Dates - APUSH

1492

Columbus' first voyage

1492-1588

Spanish Domination of colonization

1550

Valladolid Debates (Bartolomé de Las Casas on subjugation of Indians)

1607

Jamestown founded

1619

First slave ship to North America

1620

Mayflower Compact, Pilgrims promising to consult each other about laws for the colony.

1622

Jamestown Massacre & Second Anglo Powhatan War

1630

Massachusetts Bay Colony Founded

1675

King Philip's War

1676

Bacon's Rebellion

1680

Pueblo Revolt

1692

Salem Witch Trials

1730-1744

First Great Awakening

1754-1763

French and Indian War

1763

Proclamation Line

1765

Stamp Act

1770

Boston Massacre

1773

Boston Tea Party

1774

Intolerable Acts

1775

Battles of Lexington and Concord

1775-1783

Revolutionary War

1776

Declaration of Independence

1777

Articles of Confederation & Battle of Saratoga

1781

Battle of Yorktown

1783

1st Treaty of Paris

1786

Shay's Rebellion & Annapolis Convention

1787

Constitutional Convention

1788

Election of Washington

1791

Bill of Rights

1794

Whiskey Rebellion & Jays Treaty

1798

XYZ Affair, Alien and Sedition Acts

1800

Jefferson Elected, first peaceful transfer of power

1800-1850

Market Revolution

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1807

Embargo Act

1812-1815

War of 1812

1815

Lowell Mills Opens, Battle of New Orleans

1816-1824

Era of Good Feelings

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1820

Missouri Compromise

1825-1855

Second Great Awakening

1828

Tariff of Abominations, Election of Jackson

1830

Indian Removal Act

1831

Nat Turner's Rebellion

1832-1833

Nullification Crisis

1830-1850

Manifest Destiny

1836

Battle of the Alamo

1838-1839

Trail of Tears

1845

Annexation of Texas

1845-1848

Mexican-American War

1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1850

Fugitive Slave Law, Compromise of 1850

1852

Uncle Tom's Cabin

1854

Kansas Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas

1857

Dred Scott Decision

1858

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

1859

John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry

1860

Election of Lincoln

1861-1865

Civil War

1862

Homestead Act

1863

Gettysburg Address

1865

End of Civil War & Lincoln Assassinated, 13th Amendment ratified

1867

Purchase of Alaska

1868

14th amendment

1869

15th ammendment

1877

Compromise of 1877, End of Reconstruction

1870-1900

Gilded Age

1871

Indian Appropriation Act

1876

Little Bighorn

1882

Chinese Exclusion Act

1886

Haymarket Square Riot

1887

Dawes Act, Interstate Commerce Act

1890

Sherman Anti Trust Act, Wounded Knee

1890s

Populism/Segregation/Imperialism

1894

Pullman strike

1895

Booker T. Washington's "Atlanta Compromise" speech

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson

1893

World's Columbian Exposition

1898

Spanish American War & Annexation of Hawaii

1898-1902

Philippine-American War

1900-1920

Progressive Era

1903

Wright Brothers

1904

Roosevelt Corollary & Panama Canal

1911

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

1915

Sinking of the Lusitania

1917

US entry into WWI

1918

WWI Armistice

1919

Treaty of Versailles, Red Summer, 18th ammendment, Red scare

1920

19th amendment

1921

Emergency Quota Act

1924

National Origins Act

1929

Start of the Great Depression, Stock Market crash

1932

Bonus Army March, Election of Roosevelt

1935-1937

Neutrality Acts

1933-1934

First New Deal

1935-1936

Second New Deal

1939

Beginning of WWII

1941

Lend Lease Act, Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII

1944

D-Day

1945

Atomic Bombs dropped, VE & VJ days