APUSH key dates and descriptions

Some key dates from APUSH beginning in period 3 and ending partway through period 9

1754

start of seven year’s war (lasted till ‘63)

1763

Proclamation Line of 1763 (direct result of F&I war)

1765

stamp act —> first direct tax on colonists

1770

boston massacre

1773

boston tea party

1775

Lexington & Concord battles (beginning of revolution)

1776

Declaration of Independence

1777

battle of saratoga (convinced French to help colonies)

1777

articles of confederation

1781

battle of yorktown

1783

treaty of paris

1788

washington elected

• national bank created

• Hamilton's financial plan for reduced debt

• neutrality proclamation

1791

bill of rights

1798

alien and sedition acts

1800

jefferson

• marbury v madison

1803

louisiana purchase

1812

beginning of war of 1812 (ended 1815)

• end of federalist party w Hartford convention

• American system and Henry clay

1820

missouri compromise

1823

monroe doctrine

1828

jackson election

• universal white male suffrage

1830

indian removal act

1845 (period 5)

annexation of texas

mexican-american war

1845-1848

1848

seneca falls

1850

fugitive slave law

1854

bleeding kansas

1857

dred scott

1860

abe lincoln

civil war

1861-1865

1862

homestead act

1867

military reconstruction act

1867

purchase of alaska

1877

compromise of 1877 ends reconstruction

1886 (now period 6)

haymarket riot

1887

dawes act

1890

sherman antitrust act

1896

plessy v ferguson

spanish-american war (now period 7)

1898-1900

1904

roosevelt corollary

1917

us enters wwl (started in 1914)

1920

19th amendment

1920s (two things)

• red scare

• prohibition

1929

stock market crash, beginning of GD

1932

FDR elected

• 100 days

• new deal

wwll start date, us join date, ending date

• 1939

• 1941

• 1945

1947

truman doctrine

korean war (beginning of CRM)

1950-1953

1954

brown v board

1955

montgomery bus boycott

1957

sputnik

1961

JFK

1961

vietnam begins

1962

cuban missile crisis

1963

march on washington

1963

LBJ

1964

civil rights act of 1964

1965

great society legislation

1968 (everything that happened)

• MLK killed

• RFK killed

• tet offensive

1969

moon landing

1972

watergate

1973

roe v wade

1980

reagan

1989

cold war end