APUSH all dates & amendments

1492

Christopher Columbus arrives

1607

Jamestown settled

1619

VA House of Burgesses and first slaves arrive

1620

Plymouth settled

1754-1763

French and Indian war

1763

French and Indian war ends, Pontiacs rebellion, proclamation line of 1763

1775

Lexington & concord, american revolution begins

1775-1783

American Revolution

1776

Declaration of Independence

1781

Articles of confederation

1783

Treaty of Paris, American revolution ends

1787

Constitutional convention

1789

Washington presidency begins

1791

Bill of rights

1796

John Adams elected

1800

Jefferson elected

1803

Louisiana purchase, Marbury v Madison

1808

James Madison elected

1812-1814

War of 1812

1816

Monroe elected

1820

Missouri compromise

1823

Monroe doctrine

1824

JQ adams elected

1825

Erie Canal opens

1828

Andrew Jackson elected

1836

Martin van buren elected

1838

Trail of tears

1840

William Henry Harrison then John Tyler

1844

Polk elected

1846-1848

Mexican war

1848

California gold rush, Seneca falls convention

1850

Compromise of 1850, fugitive slave law

1852

Uncle Tom’s cabin

1852

Franklin pierce elected

1854

Kansas Nebraska act, bleeding Kansas

1856

Buchanan elected

1857

Dred scott case

1860

Abraham Lincoln elected, Southern secession

1861-1865

Civil war

1862

Emancipation proclamation

1877

Compromise of 1877, end of reconstruction

1869

Transcontinental railroad done

1887

Dawes Severalty act

1890

Frontier declared closed, US census bureau

1868

Grant elected

1876

Hayes elected

1880

Garfield elected, then Arthur

1884

Cleveland elected

1892

Homestead Strike

1893

Columbian exposition, Chicago worlds fair

1896

Mckinley beats Wm jennings bryan and the populists

1896

Plessy v Ferguson

1898

Spanish American war

1901

Mckinley assassinated, TR takes over

1908

Taft elected

1912

Wilson elected

1914-1918

World War 1

1917

US enters WW1

1928

Hoover elected

1920

Harding elected, Coolidge takes over

1929

Stock market Crash, Great Depression begins

1932

FDR elected

1933

New deal begins

1939

Invasion of Poland, WW2 starts in Europe

1941

Pearl Harbor, us enters WW2

1945

Yalta conference, end of WW2, atomic bomb on Japan

1947

Truman doctrine, containment

1952

Eisenhower elected

1950-1953

Korean War

1954

Brown v Board edu Topeka

1960

Kennedy elected

1962

Cuban missile crisis

1963

MLK’s march on Washington, JFK assassinated, LBJ starts

1964

Civil rights act, gulf of Tonkin resolution

1968

MLK and RFK assassinated, tet offensive

1974

Watergate, nixon resigns, Ford takes over

1975

US exit of Vietnam

1976

Jimmy Carter elected

1979-1981

Iranian hostage crisis

1980

Ronald Reagan elected

1989

Fall of Berlin Wall, end of Cold War

1988

George hw bush elected

2001

9/11 terrorist attacks

1939-1945

WW2

1754-1763

French and indian war

1914-1918

WW1

1775-1783

American revolution

1st Amendment

Freedom of religion, speech, press, rights of assembly & petition

2nd amendment

Right to bear arms

3rd Amendment

Housing of soldiers, opp of quartering act

4th Amendment

Search & seizure, must have warrant or cause

5th Amendment

Rights of the accused, (self incrimination, double jeopardy, due process, just compensation)

6th Amendment

Rights to a fair trial (speedy public jury, in state, informed of charges, witnesses, lawyer)

7th amendment

Rights in Civil Cases, trial by jury in cases over 20 dollars

8th Amendment

Cruel and unusual punishment, crime must match punishment

9th amendment

Rights retained by the people

10th amendment

rights retained by states and the people

11th amendment

lawsuits against states, cant sue someone from another state

12th amendment

electors pick one president and one vice president

13th amendment

abolition of slavery