AP US HISTORY TIMELINE

1492

1492

Columbus crosses the ocean

1607

Jamestown

1620s

pilgrims and puritans

1676

Bacosn's rebellion

1754

7 years war

1775

Boston Massacre, and the Batte of Lexington and Concord

1776

Declaration of Independence issued.

1781

Battle of Yorktown [Articles of Confederation]

1786

Shay's Rebellion

1787

Constitutional Convention

1789

1st US president George Washington

1791

Bill of Rights

1800

Jefferson elected

1812

War of 1812

1816

Monroe is elected, Era of good feeings

1820

Missouri Compromise -American System is created

1821

Monroe doctrine issue

1824

Corrupt Bargain

1828-36

Andrew Jackson Presidency

1846-48

Mexican-American War

1850

Compromise of 1850

1860

Lincoln elected, Civil War begins

1865

Civil War ends; Lincoln assassinated

1877

Compromise of 1877 - End of Reconstruction

1898

Plessy v. Ferguson

1901

Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

1914

WWI begins, Woodrow elected

1919

women get the right to vote, WW1 ends, Prohibition begins

1929

stock market crash, bank run = Great Depression

1932

Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president

1939

WWII STARTS

1941

US enters WW2

1945

WWII ends, USA bombs Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, Paris Peace Accors, UN and the cold war begins.

1950s-60s

civil rights movement

1960

John F. Kennedy

1969

Vietnam

1974

Watergate

1978

Iranian Hostage

1981

Ronald Reagan is elected

1989

End of Cold War

1900s

Progressivism

19teens

progressivism, WW1

1920's

Roaring 20s

1930s

Great Depression

1940's

End of WWII and Red Scare

1950's

Civil rights movements

1960's

civil rights, feminist movement

1970's

Hippies, Drug Revolution, Sexual Revolution

1980's

Era of Reagan