APUSH IMPORTANT DATES

1607

Jamestown founded

1620

Mayflower Compact, the first form of self-government, was signed by the Pilgrims promising to consult each other about laws for the colony. Written because of distance between Great Britain and the colonies.

1676

Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia

1689-1763

French and Indian Wars

1730s-1740s

First Great Awakening

1765

Stamp Act

1770

Boston Massacre. British kill protesting colonists.

1773

Boston Tea Party. Colonists protesting British taxes dump tea into Boston Harbor.

1775

Lexington and Concord

1776

Declaration of Independence

1777

Battle of Saratoga

1781

Battle of Yorktown

1783

Treaty of Paris ends the American Revolution

1787

Constitution of the United States was written.

1789

George Washington inaguiration/became president

1791

Bill of Rights ratified/added to the constitution

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1803 supreme court

Marbury v Madison

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1830

Indian Removal Act

1845

Annexation of Texas

1846-1848

Mexican-American War

1850

Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act

1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act

1854-1861

Bleeding Kansas

1857

Dred Scott v. Sanford

1860

Election of Lincoln

1861-1865

Civil War

1862

Homestead Act

1863

Emancipation Proclamation

1865

13th amendment and Lincoln assassinated

1868

14th amendment

1870

15th amendment

1877

Compromise of 1877

1882

Chinese Exclusion Act

1890

Wounded Knee Massacre

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson

1898

Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico

1901

Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

1906

"The Jungle" published

1913

16th amendment

1914-1918

WWI

1919

Treaty of Versailles

1920

19th amendment

1929

stock market crash

1933

New Deal

1941

Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII

1942

Executive Order 9066

1944

D-Day

1944

Korematsu v. US

1945

Atomic bomb dropped on Japan, WWII ends.

1947

Cold War begins

1950-1953

Korean War

1954

Brown v. Board of Education

1957

Sputnik launched; starts the Space Race

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

1963

March on Washington

1964

Civil Rights Act

1965

Voting Rights Act

1968

Tet Offensive

1969

Moon landing

1973

Roe v. Wade

1974

Watergate Scandal

1980

Ronald Reagan elected

1989

Fall of Berlin Wall

1991

The year of the collapse of the Soviet Union. End of the Cold War

1994

NAFTA formed

2001

9/11 Attacks

2003

US invades Iraq

2008

Obama elected

2015

Obergefell v. Hodges

2020

COVID-19