TIME LINES APUSH

Columbus’ arrives in the New World

Spain became the colonial power in the Americas

1492

England’s first attempt to settle in North America

1587

English defeat Spanish Armada

1588

Jamestown

1607

Desperation of English Settlers

Powhatan Confederacy aides Jamestown

tobacco as a cash crop

1609 - 1610

• Mayflower Arrival in Plymouth

• 1620

Toleration Act

1649

Glorious Revolution

1688

Salem Witch Trials

1692

Seven Years’ War

1754–1763

Proclamation of 1763

1763

Stamp Act

Declaratory Act passed

1765

Boston Massacre

1770

Boston Tea Party

1773

Lexington & Concord

1775

Declaration of Independence

1776

Battle of Saratoga

Articles of Confederation

1777

Franco American Alliance

1778

Battle of Yorktown

1781

Treaty of Paris

1783

Constitutional Convention

Great Compromise

3/5th Compromise

1787

Washington’s election

• National Bank created

• Hamilton’s financial plan to reduce debt

• Neutrality Proclamation

1788

Bill of Rights added

1791

XYZ Affair

Alien & Sedition Acts

1798

Jefferson’s election

Marbury vs Madison

1800

Lousiana Purchase

Louis and Clark

1803

War of 1812

Hartford Convention

American System

1812–1815

Pinckney’s treaty

1796

Battle of New Orleans

1815

Era of Good Feelings

McCulloch v. Maryland

1816–1824

Missouri Compromise

Sectionalism

1820

Monroe Doctrine

1823

Jackson’s Election

“Era of Common Man”

universal white male suffrage

1828

Indian Removal Act

1830

Nat Turner’s Rebellion

1832

Manifest Destiny

1830–1850

Battle of Alamo

1836

Annexation of Texas

1845

Mexican-American War

1845–1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1848

Fugitive Slave laws

1850

Uncle Tom’s Cabin published

1852

Bleeding Kansas

1854

Dred Scott Decision

1857

Lincoln’s Election

1860

Civil War

1861–1865

Homestead Act

1862

Emancipation Proclamation

1863

Gettysburg

1863

Lincoln Assassinated

1865

Military Reconstruction Act of 1867

1867

Purchase of Alaska

1867

Compromise of 1877

1877

Little Bighorn

1876

Haymarket Square Riot

1886

Dawes Act

Interstate Commerce

1887

Wounded Knee

McKinley Tariff ; Sherman Antitrust Act

1890

Pullman Strike

1894

“Cross of Gold” speech

Plessy v. Ferguson

1896

Annexation of Hawaii

Spanish American War

1898

Platt Amendment

1902

Wright Brothers

1903

Roosevelt Corollary

1904

US enters WWI

1917

Fourteen Points

1918

Schenck v. United States

1919

Women’s Suffrage

Red Scare

Prohibition

1920

Stock Market Crash

1929

FDR

New Deal

100 days

1932

Social Security Act

1935

WWII starts in Europe

1939

Attack on Pearl Harbor

1941

D-Day

1944

Hiroshima & Nagasaki

1945

Truman Doctrine

1947

Korean War ; Civil Rights Movement begins

1950–1953

McCarthyism

1950s

Brown v. Board of Ed.

1954

Montgomery Bus Boycott

1955

Sputnik

1957

JFK becomes President

Vietnam Conflict Begins

1961

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962

March on Washington

JFK assassinated; LBJ becomes President

1963

Civil Rights Act

1964

“Great Society” legislation

1965

MLK killed, RFK killed

Tet Offensive

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

NAFTA = North American Free Trade Agreement established

1994

Oklahoma City Bombing

1995

Bush v. Gore

2000

9/11 Attacks

2001

Great Recession

Obama elected

2008

Affordable Care Act

2011