APUSH HUB DATES

1492

Columbian Exchange - Exchange of goods, cultures, diseases, and animals between the Old and New World

1680

Pueblo Revolt - First native revolt against the Spanish

1607

Jamestown, Virginia established

1620

Mayflower Compact - Pilgrims declaration of government + self worship

1692

Salem Witch Trials - mass hysteria of the killing of multiple women over the accusation of witchcraft

1676

Bacon’s Rebellion - Nathan Bacon led a revolt alongside poor farmers and indentured servants against the elite planters and native americans

1675

King Phillips War/Metacoms War - Wampanoag Indians v. British colonies

1651, 1660

Navigation Acts - taxes imposed by Britain that mandated trade/exports strictly to British ports/ships. (loosely enforced at first)

1739

Stono Rebellion - Organized by slaves, ended quickly

1730s-1740s

First Great Awakening - Widespread effort to expand religious zeal

1700s-1800s

Enlightenment - Movement in Europe which spread to the US as a result of print culture, inspired many of the beliefs of the Constitution and other leaders of the US

1754-1763

French and Indian War - Conflict over territory between the Natives, British, and French. Huge consequences after Britain won and expanded their land

1763

Peace of Paris - Treaty after the FI war, France gave up the NA territory and British occupation doubled in size

1763 (line)

Proclamation of 1763 - Set a boundary at the Ohio River Valley, mandated no colonists pass in order to keep relations well with the Natives

1765

Quartering Acts - British troops were stationed in the American colonies to enforce taxes and rules + colonists had the duty of feeding and housing them

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Stamp Act - Raising revenue through taxing paper products

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these taxes greatly angered the colonists

1764

Sugar Act - tax on molasses

1767-1768

Townshend Acts - taxes on paper, tea, glass

1770

Boston Massacre - British soldiers fired at American citizens and sparked a huge debate

1773

Boston Tea Party - Angry colonists dumped 50 tons of tea into the Boston port

1774

Coercive Act - Punishing Boston, dubbed the Intolerable Acts

1776

Common Sense - Thomas Paine’s novel on independence from Britain

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Declaration of Independence - Accused the King of tyranny and declared American independence

1775-1781

American Revolution - Conflict between US and Britain over American independence

1777

Battle of Saratoga - Decisive American victory that convinced France to support the Americans

1783

Treaty of Paris

1781-1789

Articles of Confederation - New “constitution” or rules for America

1787

Northwest Ordinance - excluded slavery north of the Ohio River, planned how territories could apply for statehood

1786

Shay’s Rebellion - Angry farmers revolted against taxes, showed weakness of the Articles of Confederation

1789

Constitution of United States - Separation of Powers + 3/5 compromise, Bicameral legislation

1791

Bill of Rights - guaranteed freedoms

1794

Whiskey Rebellion - Hamilton’s policy of taxing whiskey angered farmers, started an revolt. Washington sent 4 state militias to shut it down

1797

XYZ Affair - Dispute between France and US along with Quasi French war

1798

Alien and Sedition Acts - No publicly criticizing the government + deporting non-citizens

1803

Louisiana Purchase - Jefferson’s purchase of Louisiana from Napoleon, which technically went against his beliefs of strict constructionism

1804

Louis and Clark expedition - Corps of Discovery

1803, 1819

Marbury v Madison and McCulloch v Maryland - Both cases ruled by Judge John Marshall, both strengthened the Supreme Court and federal government

1812-1815

War of 1812 - War between Britain, US, and Natives over disputed Ohio River Valley territory and British impressment

1819

Panic of 1819 - Economic turmoil from irresponsible banking practices, led to an increase of wanting more suffrage to punish politicians

1820

Missouri Compromise of 1820 - Brought in Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state. Dictated the rules of slave states and free states, any line above the 36 30 line would be free, any below would be slave.

1823

Monroe Doctrine - James Monroe peeing on the land of America, marking it as the territory of the US and claiming no European power should intervene

1820s - 1840s

Market Revolution - Through transportation, new technology, communication, and agricultural advancements, the North, West, and South became intertwined in their economies.

* Cotton Gin, Erie Canal, Railroads

1824

Election of 1824 - Henry Clay and J. Q. Adams (National Republican), Andrew Jackson (Democrat), all fought for the presidential seat. No majority, so the House picked J. Q. Adams (Corrupt Bargain).

1829-1837

Jacksonian Democracy - Belief in the common man, expanding suffrage and democracy

1828

Tariff of Abominations - Angered Southerners, pleased Northerners: tariff on imports

1837

Panic of 1837 - Caused by Jackson’s demolish of the bank

1831

Trail of Tears - Cherokee relocation to Oklahoma, terrible

1836

Texas Independence Fight - Texas declared independence but did not enter as a state

1800s

Transcendentalism - Beauty of nature and simple life

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Second Great Awakening - Frontier revivals + religious enthusiasm + personal conversion, huge sessions of preaching

1848 (women)

Seneca Falls - Organized by Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott, advocated for women’s rights

1831

Nat Turner’s Rebellion - slave revolt that heightened tensions

1848

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - Ended the Mexican-American War, US gained **California** and **New Mexico**, recognition of the Rio Grande as the border

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California Gold Rush - Settlers migrated to California to get rich quick

1845

Texas accepted into the Union - Polk

1846-1848

Mexican-American War - War started by Mexican attacks on “US” soil, resulted in a US victory

1846

Prohibited slavery in any land acquired from Mexico, passed in the House, rejected in the Senate + core cause for tension and debate over slavery

1850

Compromise of 1850 - Divided Utah and New Mexico territories to practice popular sovereignty + California = free + Slave trade = **banned in Washington DC +** Stricter Fugitive Slave Law

1854

Kansas and Nebraska Act + Bloody Kansas - Territory of Nebraska gets split into two territories - Kansas and Nebraska + their status of free/slave states would be based on the residents.

Repealed the Missouri Compromise + Permitted expansion of slavery beyond the Southern states

1859

John Brown’s Raid on Harper Ferry - John Brown seized a federal arsenal to try and start a slave revolt, it failed but Southerners became frightful

1857

Dred Scott Decision - Supreme Court decision that repealed the Missouri Compromise and said that slavery could be brought into any state

1860

Election of 1860 - Lincoln won the election, led to Southern secession

1861-1865

Civil War - Battle against Confederate South and Union North, core cause was over slavery

1862

Battle of Antietam - Bloodiest battle, caused France and Britain to stay neutral

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Emancipation Proclamation - Lincoln “frees” the slaves in the confederacy, not the border states. More of a military tactic

1863

Battle of Gettysburg - Lee’s hopes of invading the North were crushed, led to the Gettysburg Address to unify the nation

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Battle of Vicksburg - Grant takes the Mississippi and severs the South. Leads to Sherman’s March to the Sea

1865

End of the Civil War - combination of northern blockade, march to the sea, and Mississippi capture made Lee surrender to Grant at the Appomattox Court House

1863-1877

Reconstruction - Post-Civil war reforms for the South that mostly proved to be ineffective

1867

Radical Reconstruction - Began during Johnson’s presidency, radical reforms

* military intervention in the South
* limited power for Johnson
* freedman’s bureau

1877

Compromise of 1877 - Tilden let Hayes win, and in return federal troops were taken out of the South, effectively ending Reconstruction

1868

The Grange - Movement created by farmers to fight against economic hardships

1867

Seward’s Folly - Purchase of Alaska

1898

Spanish American War - War heightened by imperialistic motives, yellow journalism, and the sinking of the Maine, led to a swift US victory

1903

Platt Amendment - Allowed the US to protect economic interests in Cuba

1890s - 1920s

Progressive Era - social and political reform, wanted governmental intervention

1906

Pure Food and Drug Act - Passed with the help from Upton Sinclair, mandated that the food we eat was clean

1920

19th Amendment - Women’s suffrage

1890

Sherman Anti-Trust Act - Teddy Roosevelt’s attempt at crippling big businesses and corporations, eliminating trusts and monopolies

1909

NAACP - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded with the help of W E B Dubois

1914-1918

World War I - American intervention began with the Sinking of the Lusitania, Zimmermann Telegram, and unrestricted submarine warfare. Turned the tide of the war in favor of the Triple Entente

1918

Treaty of Versailles - Post-war conference, France and Britain wanted harsh penalties on Germany

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Wilson - wanted light punishment for Germany because it would lessen the economic impact and keep them happy, advocated for a League of Nations

1917, 1918

Espionage and Sedition Acts - No talking bad about US intervention in WWI

1910s - 1970s

Great Migration - migration of Blacks to the North from the South to escape segregation from Jim Crow and to find better employment opportunities

1919

Palmer Raids - As a result of the 1st Red Scare, General Palmer unfairly searched and jailed multiple people he deemed as communists or anarchists

1915

D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation - glorified the KKK

1920s - 1930s

Harlem Renaissance - Outpour of black artistic and literary creativity in the Harlem district, expressing pride in their culture and advocating for political and social rights

1928

Kellogg - Briand Pact - Many countries swore they would never use war again to solve things that could be fixed with diplomacy

1920s

Dawes Plan - US funds money to Germany, Germany pays Britain and France, France and Britain pay the US

1925

Scopes Monkey Trial - trial pitting fundamentalists and modernists, modernists ended up “winning”

1929

Stock Market Crash - Loss of confidence in the Stock Market led to a crash, creating inflation and unemployment

1929 - 1939

The Great Depression - Time of economic turmoil, caused by overproduction and reckless loaning and speculation buying.

1932

Bonus Expeditionary Force - bunch of WWI veterans protested at the White House against Hoover not paying them

1930s - 1940s

The New Deal - FDR using executive/federal power to turn the US into a limited welfare state, creating economic reform programs and limitations to revive the economy

* WPA, CCC, AAA, Wagner Act, Social Security Act

1941

Lend-Lease Programs, Cash Carry Act - Acts that allowed the US to help Britain in WWII without being technically involved

December 7th, 1941

Pearl Harbor Attack - Japanese bombing of the Pearl Harbor military base, caused the US to unify and intervene in WWII

1945

Yalta Conference - Big Three (Churchill, FDR, Stalin) met to discuss war

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Two atomic bombs dropped on Japan by US, ended the war

1944

Korematsu v The US - Japanese Americans anger at the internment camps, Supreme Court ruled that the internment camps were constitutional because it was a wartime necessity

1948

Marshall Plan - Containment policy of building up European economies in order to oppose communism

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Berlin Airlift - Soviets tried to cut off Western access to West Berlin, Truman sent a huge airlift with goods and supplies which effectively made the Soviets back off

1947

Truman Doctrine - The beginnings of containment policy and stopping communism

1949

Creation of NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization, created to oppose communism and other outside war influences. US broke from isolationism (Washington’s Address)

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China - Mao Zedong overthrew the Chinese government and established a communist regime

1947-1991

The Cold War - Heightening tensions between Soviets and US that took forms in many proxy wars

1950-1953

Korean War - North Korea v South Korea (Backed by Soviets and US respectively), ended in a draw where nothing changed

1945-1950s

2nd Red Scare - McCarthyism, fear of communism in the US government, Rosenberg Trials

1954

Brown v Board - segregation in public schools was a denial of protections of the 14th Amendment, overturned Plessy

1955

Montgomery Bus Boycott - Rosa Parks arrested, started a boycotting of buses, ended with no more segregation on buses