APUSH key terms study guide

1492

Columbian Exchange

1607

Jamestown

1650s

Navigation Acts

1676

Bacon’s Rebellion

1730s

First Great Awakening

1754-1763

French and Indian War

1776

Declaration of Independence

1781

Articles of Confederation ratified

1789

Constitution ratified

1790

Hamilton’s Financial Plan

1796

Washington’s Farewell address

1797

Adams Presidency

1800

Jefferson Elected

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1815

Era of Good Feelings

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1829-1837

Andrew Jackson’s Presidency

1845

Manifest Destiny

1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1848

Mexican American War

1850

Compromise of 1850

1861-1865

Civil War

1877

Reconstruction ends

1890

Sherman Antitrust Act

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson

1898

Spanish-American War

1906

The Jungle

1909

Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy

1914

WW1

1917

US at war

1919

Treaty of Versailles vs. 14 Points

1920

19th Amendment

1920s

Harlem Renaissance and Great Migration

1929

stock market crash

1930s

FDR’s New Deal

1941-1945

US fights WW2

1950s

Eisenhower’s Interstate Highway System

1947

Marshall Plan

1950s

McCarthyism and Second Red Scare

1953

Korean War

1954

Brown v Board

1960s

Civil Rights Movement

1960

John F Kennedy Elected

1960s

Second Wave Feminism

1960s

Vietnam War

1964

Johnson’s Great Society

1968

Nixon Elected

1970s

Environmentalism

1973

OPEC Embargo

1969-1974

Nixon - detente

1990

HW Bush - Operation Desert Storm

1992

Clinton - NAFTA signed

2001

World Trade Center attack