APUSH - ALL important dates

1492

columbus lands in the americas

1565

st. augustine, florida is founded by the spanish

1585

the failed british colony of roanoke

1607

the founding of jamestown

1619

the virginia house of burgesses & the first african enslaved people arrived in north america

1675

metacom’s war

1676

bacon’s rebellion

1680

pueblo rebellion

1730-1740

the 1st great awakening

1739

stono rebellion

1763

the end of the french & indian war

1765

stamp act congress

1773

the tea act

1775

the start of the revolutionary war @ lexington and concord

1776

the declaration of independence

1781

british surrender & articles of confederation government

1787

the constitutional convention

1803

the lousiana purchase & marbury v. madison

1815

the end of the war of 1812 & the beginning of the “era of good feelings”

1820

the missouri compromise

1823

monroe doctrine

1825

the election of john q. adams

1828

the election of andrew jackson

1830

the indian removal act is passed

1846

the start of the mexican-American war

1850

the compromise of 1850

1852

uncle tom’s cabin is published

1854

the kansas-nebraska act

1857

the dred scott case

1859

john brown & harper’s ferry

1860

election of abraham lincoln

1863

the emancipation proclamation is passed

1865

the end of the civil war

1877

the end of reconstruction & the election of rutherford b. hayes

1862

the homestead act & the morrill land grant act are both passed

1869

the completion of the transcontinental railroad

1876

the battle of little bighorn & the united states centennial

1886

the haymarket riot

1890

the sherman antitrust act is passed & the battle of wounded knee & the census says frontier is “closed”

1893

economic depression bringing an end to the “gilded age” & the world’s fair in chicago & frederick jackson turner’s “frontier thesis”

1896

plessy v. ferguson & mckinley elected president

1898

the start of the spanish-american war & american imperialism

1911

standard oil is broken up under the shermen antitrust act

1917

us enters WWI

1919

the worst year: chicago race riots, failure of the versailles treaty, 18th amendment passed, palmer raids

1920

19th amendment passed & sacco + venzetti trial

1921

tulsa race massacre & emergency quota act

1929

new york stock exchange “crashes” — beginning the great depression

1933

president FDR declares a bank holiday

1941

the attack on pearl habor

1942

exectutive order 9066 — japanese internment

1945

atomic bombs dropped on hiroshima + nagasaki, japan

1947

the truman doctrine & CIA + national security council is created

1949

NATO is formed & russia acquired nuclear weapons

1954

brown v. board of education & mccarthy trials (red scare pt. 2)

1955

montgomery bus boycotts & warsaw pact formed & murder of emmet till

1964

civil rights act passed & 24th amendment & “freedom summer”

1965

voting rights act passed & march on selma

1968

martin luther king jr. assassinated & RFK assassinated, tet offensive & nixon elected & democratic national convention riots in chicago

1974

watergate scandal

1979

iran hostage crisis & russia invades afghanistan & 3 mile island accident

1980

election of ronald reagan