APUSH Important Dates in American History

Columbus' first voyage

1492

Jamestown is established

1607

Toleration Act

1649 (A policy very equitable)

Glorious Revolution

1688 A change disrupts kingdoms

Salem Witch Trials

1692 (a lawyer convicted on)

Seven Years’ War

1754-1763 A dispute ninth year, ending bad

Proclamation of --- (line dictating where Americans couldn't settle)

1763: A confine defied now

Stamp Act

1765 A statute stamps goods

Boston Massacre

1770 (A soldier attacks spontaneously)

Boston Tea Party

1773 (a protest regards tea)

Lexington and Concord

1775 ( a militia battled Brits)

Declaration of Independence

1776

Battle of Saratoga

1777 (A victory changed opinion)

Battle of Yorktown

1781 ( A victory resulted W)

Treaty of Paris

1783 (A compact settling war)

Constitutional Convention

1787 (A meeting rewrites decrees)

Washington's Election

1788 (A general election pioneers)

XYZ Affair

1798 (A corrupt, dishonest diplomat)

Alien and Sedition Acts

1798 (A measure silencing sedition)

Jefferson's Election

1800 (A selected Democratic Republican)

Louisiana Purchase

1803 (A purchase significantly big)

The War of 1812 (range of years)

1812-1815 (A conflict exemplifying dissatisfaction)

Battle of New Orleans

1815 (A conflict, a pride)

Era of Good Feelings

1816-1824

Missouri Compromise

1820

Monroe Doctrine

1823

Sectionalism

1820s

Jackson's Election

1828

Indian Removal Act

1830

Nat Turner's Rebellion

1832

Manifest Destiny

1830-1850

Battle of the Alamo

1836

Annexation of Texas

1845

Mexican-American War

1845-1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1848

Fugitive Slave Law

1850

Uncle Tom's Cabin

1852

Bleeding Kansas

1854

Dred Scott case

1857

Lincoln's Election

1860

Civil War

1861-1865

Homestead Act

1862

Gettysburg

1863

Reconstruction Acts

1867

Purchase of Alaska

1867

Compromise of -— (Add explanation here)

1877

Little Bighorn

1876

Haymarket Square Riot

1866

Dawes Act

1877

Interstate Commerce

1887

Wounded Knee

1890

Sherman Antitrust Act

1890

Pullman Strike

1894

“Cross of Gold" speech

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson

1896

Annexation of Hawaii

1898

Spanish American War

1898

Wright Brothers

1903

US enters WWI

1917

Women's Suffrage

1920

Red Scare

1920s

Prohibition

1920s

Stock Market Crash

1929

Bonus Army

1932

Social Security Act

1935

WWII starts in Europe

1939

Attack on Pearl Harbor

1941

D-Day

1944

Atomic bomb dropped

1945

Cold War

1945-1991

Truman Doctrine

1947

Korean War

1950-1953

McCarthyism

1950s

Brown v. Board of Education

1954

Montgomery Bus Boycott

1955

Sputnik

1957

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962

March on Washington

1963

JFK assassinated

1963

Civil Rights Act

1954

Martin Luther King Jr. killed

1968

RFK killed

1968

Tet Offensive

1968

Chicago Convention

1968

Moon Landing

1969

Watergate break-in

1972

Roe v. Wade

1973

Iranian Hostage Crisis

1979

Reagan elected

1980

Cold War ends

1989

Persian Gulf War

1991

Contract with America

1994

Oklahoma City bombing

1995

Bush v. Gore

2000

9/11 Attacks

2001

Great Recession

2008

Obama elected

2008

Affordable Care Act

2011