APUSH Forever Dates

1607

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