APUSH Key Dates

1620

Mayflower Compact

1675

King Philip’s War

1676

Bacon’s Rebellion

1680

Pueblo Revolt

1739-44

First Great Awakening

1763

Pontiac’s Rebellion

1765

Stamp Act

1770

Boston Massacre

1773

Boston Tea Party

1774

Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)

1775-1783

Revolutionary War

1776

Declaration of Independence

1781

Battle of Yorktown, end of Revolutionary fighting

1781-88

Articles of Confederation

1786-7

Shay’s Rebellion

1787

Constitutional Convention

1788

Ratification of the Constitution

1789

Judiciary Act

1791

Bill of Rights

1793

Cotton Gin

1794

Whiskey Rebellion

1796

George Washington’s Farewell Address

1798

Alien and Sedition Acts

1800s-40s

Second Great Awakening

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1804-1806

Lewis and Clark

1812-15

War of 1812

1814

Hartford Convention

1817-24

Era of Good Feelings

1820

Missouri Compromise

1820s-30s

Second Great Awakening

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1825

Corrupt Bargain

1831

Nat Turner Rebellion

1832

Nullification Crisis

1835-36

Texas War of Independence

1838-39

Trail of Tears

1830s-40s

Transcendentalism

1846-48

Mexican-American War

1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1850s

Transportation Revolution

1850

Compromise of 1850

1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act

1856

Dred Scott Decision

1859

Harper’s Ferry (John Brown’s Raid)

1861

Fort Sumter

1862

Emancipation Proclamation

1863

Vicksburg and Gettysburg

1865

Assassination of Lincoln

1865

13th Amendment

1868

14th Amendment

1870

15th Amendment

1876

Battle of Little Big Horn

1886

Haymarket Riot

1890

Sherman Antitrust Act

1890

Battle of Wounded Knee

1894

Pullman Strike

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson

1898

Spanish American War

1898

Annexation of Hawaii

1917

US enters WWI

1919

First Red Scare

1919

18th Amendment (Prohibition)

1920s-early 30s

Harlem Renaissance

1920

19th Amendment (Women’s Suffrage)

1929

Stock Market Crash

1933

21st Amendment (ends Prohibition)

1933

Hundred Days

1939-1945

WWII

1950-1953

Korean War

1954

Brown v. Board of Education

1955-56

Montgomery Bus Boycott

1959-1975

Vietnam War

1961

Bay of Pigs Invasion

1961

Berlin Wall is built

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

1963

March on Washington

1963

Assassination of JFK

1964

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

1964

Civil Rights Act of 1964

1968

Assassination of MLK Jr.

1968

My Lai Massacre

1969

Neil Armstrong on the moon

1972

Watergate Scandal

1972

Nixon to China

1973

War Powers Act

1973

Paris Accord

1973

Oil Embargo

1978-81

Iranian Hostage Crisis

1986-87

Hostage Contra Scandal

1989

Berlin Wall falls

1991

USSR dissolves

2001

September 11th Attacks