apsuh dates

1492

Columbus reaches the Americas

1607

Founding of Jamestown, Virginia (first permanent English colony)

1620

Pilgrims establish Plymouth Colony

1754-1763

French and Indian War (Seven Years' War)

1763

Treaty of Paris ends the French and Indian War

1765

Stamp Act passed

1770

Boston Massacre

1773

Boston Tea Party

1774

Intolerable Acts passed

1775-1783

American Revolution (Lexington and Concord, Declaration of Independence, Saratoga, Yorktown)

1776

Declaration of Independence adopted

1781

British surrender at Yorktown, ending the Revolutionary War

1783

Treaty of Paris ends the American Revolution

1787

Constitutional Convention, U.S. Constitution signed

1789

George Washington becomes the first President, Bill of Rights ratified

1791

Bill of Rights added to the Constitution

1793

Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin

1796

Washington’s Farewell Address

1800

Election of Thomas Jefferson (Revolution of 1800)

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1804-1806

Lewis and Clark Expedition

1812-1815

War of 1812

1815

End of the War of 1812 (Treaty of Ghent)

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1830

Indian Removal Act

1836

Battle of the Alamo

1845

Texas annexation

1846-1848

Mexican-American War

1848

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (ends Mexican-American War)

1849

California Gold rush

1860

Election of Abraham Lincoln

1861-1865

Civil War

1863

Emancipation Proclamation

1865

End of the Civil War, Lincoln assassinated

1865-1877

Reconstruction

1870

15th Amendment ratified (granting voting rights to African American men)

1877

End of Reconstruction (Compromise of 1877)

1890

Sherman Antitrust Act

1898

Spanish-American War

1901-1909

Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency (Square Deal)

1914-1918

World War I

1919

Treaty of Versailles (ending World War I)

1920

19th Amendment ratified (women's suffrage)

1929

Stock Market Crash (beginning of the Great Depression)

1933

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs begin

1941

Attack on Pearl Harbor, U.S. enters World War II

1945

End of World War II, dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

1947

Truman Doctrine announced, beginning of Cold War

1948-1949

Berlin Airlift

1950-1953

Korean War

1954

Brown v. Board of Education (Supreme Court ruling on desegregation)

1963

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, JFK assassination

1964-1975

Vietnam War

1964

Civil Rights Act passed

1965

Voting Rights Act passed

1969

Moon landing (Apollo 11)

1974

Watergate Scandal, President Nixon resigns

1975

Fall of Saigon (end of the Vietnam War)

1980

Election of Ronald Reagan

1991

End of the Cold War, Soviet Union collapses

2001

September 11 terrorist attacks

2008

Great Recession begins

2008

Election of Barack Obama (first African-American president)