APUSH Cram Timeline

1492

Columbus “discovers” the Americas, Spanish colonization begins, & Columbus Exchange

1607

first permanent English colony-Jamestown founded in Chesapeake

1619

first slaves arrive at Jamestown & House of Burgesses

1620

Plymouth founded(Puritans) in New England

1676

Bacon’s Rebellion

1754

French and Indian War begins

1763

French and Indian War ends, Pontiac’s Rebellion, and Proclamation Line

1765

Stamp Act, first direct tax, “no taxation without representation”

1775

start of the American Revolution, Lexington, and Concord, Second Constitutional Convention

1776

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense & Declaration of Independence

1783

Treaty of Paris ended the American Revolution, US begins with Article of Confederation

1787

Northwest Ordinance

1789

Constitution ratified, Constitutional Convention, 1787

1791

Bill of Rights added to Constituion

1790s

First Two Party System, Hamilton vs. Jefferson

1800

Revolution of “1800”, Jefferson elected

1803

Louisiana Purchase, Marbury v. Madison (judicial review)

1808

slave importation ended (Slavery Compromise 1789)

1812

War of 1812 begins

1815

Treaty of Ghent-War of 1812 ends, Hartford Resolutions, end of Federalist Party, beginning of Era of Good Feelings

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1824

Corrupt Bargain, beginning of Democratic Party (pro-Jackson movement)

1828

Andrew Jackson elected, Era of Common Man

1820s-1830s

Second Two Party System, Jackson v. Clay

1844

Polk elected, Manifest Destiny

1846

Mexican-American War begins

1848

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, Mexican Cession, end of Mexican-American War

1850

Compromise of 1850(CA free, end of slave trade in DC, pop-sovereignty the in cessions lands, fugitive slave law)

1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act(pop-sovereignty in territories, bleeding Kansas), Republican Party replaces Whig Party, which split over slavery

1857

Dred Scott v. Sanford

1860

Election of Abraham Lincoln, secession begins

1861

beginning of Civil War, the Battle of Fort Sumter

1862

Homestead Act, Pacific Railway Act, Morrill Act, Treasury System

1863

Battle of Gettysburg, Gettysburg Address, Battle of Vicksburg, Emancipation Proclamation

1865

end of the Civil War, the assassination of Lincoln, the 13th Amendment, the end of Radical Reconstruction, Jim Crow begins

1890

Wounded Knee; Closure of the West(frontier closed) Sherman Anti-trust Act

1892

People’s Party(Populist Third Party) nationwide and run Weaver for President

1896

Plessy v Ferguson

1898

Spanish-American War, beginning of imperialism, Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico acquired, Imperialists v Anti-Imperialists

1903

Panama Canal construction begins

1912

election of 1912; Bull Moose Progressives split the Republican vote

1917

US enters WWI - 14 Points

1918

WWI ends

1919

First Red Scare

1920

19th Amendment(4th of 4 Progressive Amendments), Prohibition, Treaty of Versailles, not ratified, US does NOT join League of Nations

1920s

more urban than rural, cultural conflicts

1929

Stock Market Crash and beginning of Great Depression

1933

FDR’s New Deal begins

1941

Pearl Harbor, US enters WWII; Depression ends

1945

end of WWII; atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; beginning of Cold War(“iron curtain descends”)

1950-1953

Korean War begins; armistice and DMZ

1954

Brown v. Board of Education; 2nd Red Scare peaks

1957

Sputnik; beginning of Space Race

1963

“I Have a Dream”; MLK Jr.; March on Washington, JFK assassinated

1964

Gulf of Tonkin Resolutions, troops fighting in the Vietnam War, the beginning of LBJ’s Great Society, Civil Rights Act of 1964

1965

questioned Act revers quotas, Civil Rights Movement splinters as some question non-violent tactics of MLK Jr. Immigration

1968

MLK Jr. and RFK assassinated, Tet Offensive, Chicago Riot, silent majority elects Nixon, race riots, anti-war escalates

1973

Vietnam War ends with armistice

1974

watergate scandal leads to Nixon resigning before impeached

1975

Fall of Saigon (South Vietnam falls to North Vietnam)

1980

Election of Ronald Reagan; conservative resurgence

1989

Berlin Wall falls, end of Cold War with USSR, world wide web(internet)

1991

Operation Desert Storm

2000

election of George W. Bush, Bush v Gore

2001

9/11 attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center; Osama Bin Laden; USA PATRIOT Act, Department of Homeland Security, NSA, War on Terror, Operation Enduring Freedom(Afghanistan)

2003

Invasion of Iraq(Operation Iraqui Freedom)

2008

election of Barack Obama, the Great Recession of 2008