APUSH Forever Dates

1607

1st permanent English settlement – Jamestown

1619

House of Burgess founded; first enslaved Africans are sold in British colonies

1676

Bacon’s Rebellion

1754

Start of French + Indian War – Salutary Neglect Ends

1781

Articles of Confederation adopted

1789

Constitution ratified

1796

Washington’s farewell address; isolationist foreign policy + no parties

1800

First peaceful transfer of power; TJ wins

1812

Second War of Independence (War of 1812)

1820

Missouri Compromise – Henry Clay sets precedent for balancing states

1823

Monroe Doctrine; US foreign policy of isolationism from Europe

1832

Jackson re elected – kills the bank. nullification crisis. Common Man

1844

Polk elected – Manifest Destiny president

1848

Mexican American War ends. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Seneca Falls

1850

Compromise of ____; Fugitive Slave Law

1854

Kansas Nebraska Act. birth of Republican Party

1860

Election of Lincoln

1863

Emancipation Proclamation + Gettysburg Address

1865

End of Civil War

1877

Comp of _____ -Reconstruction ends. Dems regain power in south

1887

Dawes Act

1892

Homestead Strike; labor unrest in the Gilded age

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson

1898

Spanish American War

1912

Wilson Elected. Taft and TR lose

1917

US enters WWI (not *just* because of Lusitania)

1920

Census reveals more people urban areas than rural areas

1929

Stock Market Crashes

1932

FDR elected; New Deal

1941

Pearl Harbor. US joins the second world war

1945

WWII over; atomic bombs used

1950

Korean War starts. Cold War in full swing

1954

Brown v Board of Education

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

1968

Tet Offensive. LBJ won’t run again. Nixon is elected

1973

Roe v Wade. Watergate. Oil Crisis Begins

1980

Reagan Elected; represents conservative resurgence

1989

Berlin Wall comes down (Reagan is NOT president- Bush Sr. is)

1991

USSR collapse Persian Gulf War

1994

NAFTA signed

2001

9/11

2008

Obama elected