Apush - Dates & Amendments

1898

Spanish American War

1901

McKinley (Assassinated) / Theodore Roosevelt Presidency

1917

U.S. Enters World War I

1929

Stock Market Crash / Depression Begins

1932

Franklin D. Roosevelt Elected

1933

New Deal Begins

1941

Pearl Harbor - U.S. enters WW II

1945

Yalta Conference, End of World War II & Atomic Bomb on

Japan

Amendment XVI (Sixteenth)

Income Taxes - Congress has the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes

Amendment XVII (Seventeenth)

Direct Election of Senators - The states have the power to directly elect senators to represent them. (before this, the state legislature decided who the senators were)

Amendment XVIII (Eighteenth)

Prohibition of Liquor - (1919) Forbade people to make, sell, or transport liquor.

Amendment XIX (Nineteenth)

Women’s Suffrage - Gives women the power to vote

Amendment XX (Twentieth)

Terms of President and Congress - Moves the date that newly elected presidents and members of Congress take office close to election time. President: January 20th, Congress: January 3rd

Amendment XXI (Twenty-first)

Repeal of Prohibition Repeals the 18th amendment.

1945

Yalta Conference, End of World War II & Atomic Bomb on

Japan

1947

Truman Doctrine

1950-1953

Korean War

1954

Brown v. Board of Education Topeka

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

1963

Martin Luther King’s March on Washington / JFK

(Assassinated) / Lyndon B. Johnson Presidency Begins

1964

Civil Rights Act / Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (Vietnam)

1968

Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated / Tet

Offensive in Vietnam

1974

Watergate Nixon (Resigns) / Gerald R. Ford Presidency Begins

1975

U.S. Exit of Vietnam

1979-1981

Iranian Hostage Crisis

1980

Ronald Reagan Elected

1989

Fall of the Berlin War / End of Cold War

2001

September 11th Terrorist Attacks

(1898-1917)

Progressive Era

(1914-1918)

World War 1 Era

(1940-1945)

World War 2 Era

(1945-1989)

The Cold War Era

Amendment XXII

Limitation of Presidents to Two Terms No person can be elected

president more than twice.

Amendment XXIII

Suffrage in the District of Columbia

Allows citizens of Washington D.C. to vote in the presidential elections. However, they cannot

vote for members of Congress.

Amendment XXIV

Poll Taxes

Forbids making voters pay a poll tax before they can vote in a national election.

Amendment XXV

Presidential Disability and Succession

If president is removed, dies, or resigns, the vice president becomes president. The president

fulfills a vice president vacancy, by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.

Amendment XXVI (Twenty-sixth)

Suffrage for 18-Year-Olds Voting age moved to 18

Amendment XXVII (Twenty-seventh)

Congressional Pay Raises

Any increase in congressional pay does not go into effect until after the next regular election of

the House of Representatives.

1492

Christopher Columbus Arrives

1607

Jamestown settled

1619

VA House of Burgesses & First Slaves Arrive

1620

Plymouth Settled

1763

French and Indian War Ends / Pontiacs Rebellion &

Proclamation of ____

1776

Declaration of Independence

1781

Articles of Confederation

1787

Constitutional Convention

1789

Washington Presidency Begins

1791

Bill of Rights

Amendment I (1st)

Freedom of Religion, Speech and the Press; Rights of Assembly and Petition.

Amendment II (2nd)

Right to Bear Arms

The amendment was adopted so that Congress could not disarm a state militia.

Amendment III (3rd)

Housing of Soldiers

Grew directly out of an old complaint against the British, who had forced people to take soldiers

into their homes.

Amendment IV (4th)

Search and Seizure

You may not be searched or have property seized without probable cause and/or a search

warrant.

Amendment V (5th)

Rights of the accused (Self-incrimination, Double Jeopardy, Due Process, Just

Compensation)

Amendment VI (6th)

Rights to a Fair Trial (Speedy and Public Trial by Jury, Tried in state where crime was

committed, Informed of charges against accused, Witnesses, Right to a lawyer)

Amendment VII (7th)

Rights in Civil Cases (Trial by jury in civil cases over $20)

Amendment VIII (8th)

Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Bails, fines and punishments must be humane and fit the crime committed

Amendment IX (9th)

Rights Retained by the People

Any rights not listed in the Constitution are still protected

Amendment X (10th)

Powers Retained by the States and the People

States or people have all powers not given to national government. (ie: marriage)

1800

Thomas Jefferson Elected

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1812-1814

War of 1812

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1825

Erie Canal Opens

1828

Andrew Jackson Elected

1838

Trail of Tears

1816-1824

Era of Good Feelings

1816-1860

Market Revolution

Amendment XI (11)

Lawsuits Against States

It is impossible for the citizen of one state to sue another state

Amendment XII (12)

Election of President and Vice President

(1804) Provides that members of the electoral college (called electors), vote for one person as

president and one person as vice president.

1846-1848

Mexican War

1848

Gold in California & Seneca Falls Convention

1850

Compromise of 1850 & Fugitive Slave Act

1852

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

1854

Kansas Nebraska Act & Bleeding Kansas

1857

Dred Scott Case

1860

Abraham Lincoln Elected & Southern Secession

1862

Emancipation Proclamation

1877

Compromise of ____ - End of Reconstruction

(1861-1865)

Civil War Era

(1863-1877)

Reconstruction Era

Amendment XIII (13)

Abolition of Slavery

1st CIVIL WAR AMENDMENT - Slavery is illegal

Amendment XIV (14)

Civil Rights

2nd CIVIL WAR AMENDMENT - Slaves receive Citizenship and protection of due process

Amendment XV (15)

African American Suffrage

3rd CIVIL WAR AMENDMENT - African Americans receive the right to vote.

1869

Transcontinental Railroad completed

1887

Dawes Severalty Act

1890

Frontier Declared Closed - U.S. Census Bureau

1892

Homestead Strike

1893

Columbian Exposition / Chicago Worlds Fair

1896

William McKinley Elected defeats Wm. Jennings Bryan & the

Populist Movement

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson