APUSH important dates

1492

Columbus sails the ocean blue

1500

Rise of European powers, particularly Spain and Portugal, as they begin establishing colonies in the New World

1607

Founding of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America

1619

First Africans arrive in Virginia, marking the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade

1675

Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia→ increases reliance of enslaved labor

1730s

The First Great Awakening and The Enlightenment

1754

Albany Plan of Union proposed

1754-1763

French and Indian War→ Treaty of Paris 1763 where the Proclamation line is drawn

1765

Stamp Act passed by British parliament to recover costs from French and Indian War

1770

Boston Massacre

1773

Boston Tea Party→ intolerable acts

1775

battles of Lexington and Concord

1776

Declaration of Independence

1783

Treaty of Paris ends American Revolution

1787

Constitutional Convention, Constitution of US is drawn

1796

Washington’s Farewell address

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1812-1815

War of 1812

1819

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1830

Indian Removal Act

1846-1848

Mexican-American War ending with Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

1850

compromise of 1850→ CA admitted as a free state, Utah and New Mexico have popular sovereignty, fugitive slave act

1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act (repealed Missouri compromise by allowing popular sovereignty)

1861-1865

American Civil War

1865

slavery abolished with 13th Amendment

1896

Plessy V. Ferguson

1917

US enters WW1

1920

women’s suffrage, red scare, prohibition

1930s

Great Depression

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor→ US join war

1945

Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the war

1945-1991

Cold War

1947

Truman Doctrine

1950-1953

Korean War

1954

Brown V. Board of Education

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

1964

Civil Rights Act

1968

MLK killed, RFK killed, Tet Offensive, Chicago Convention

1972

Watergate scandal of the Nixon presidency

1973

Roe V. Wade

1980

Ronald Reagan and the rise of conservative America

2008

Great Recession, Obama elected