APUSH Important Dates

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1492

Columbus’ first voyage

1607

Jamestown

1649

Toleration Act

1688

Glorious Revolution

1692

Salem Witch Trials

1754 to 1763

Seven Years’ War

1763

Proclamation of 1763

1765

Stamp Act

1770

Boston Massacre

1773

Boston Tea Party

1775

Lexington & Concord

1776

Dec. of Independence

1777

Battle of Saratoga

1781

Battle of Yorktown

1783

Treaty of Paris

1787

Constitutional Convention

1788

Washington’s Election

1798

XYZ Affair

1798

Alien & Sedition Acts

1800

Jefferson’s Election

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1812 to 1815

War of 1812

1815

Battle of New Orleans

1816 to 1824

Era of Good Feelings

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1820s

Sectionalism

1828

Jackson’s Election

1830

Indian Removal Act

1832

Nat Turner’s Rebellion

1830 to 1850

Manifest Destiny

1836

Battle of the Alamo

1845

Annexation of Texas

1845 to 1848

Mexican-American War

1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1850

Fugitive Slave Law

1852

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

1854

Bleeding Kansas

1857

Dred Scott Case

1860

Lincoln’s Election

1861

1865

1862

Homestead Act

1863

Gettysburg

1867

Reconstruction Acts

1867

Purchase of Alaska

1877

Compromise of 1877

1876

Little Bighorn

1886

Haymarket Square Riot

1887

Dawes Act

1887

Interstate Commerce

1890

Wounded Knee

1890

Sherman Antitrust Act

1894

Pullman Strike

1896

“Cross of Gold” speech

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson

1898

Annexation of Hawaii

1898

Spanish American War

1903

Wright Brothers

1917

US enters WWI

1920

Women’s Suffrage

1920s

Red Scare

1920s

Prohibition

1929

Stock Market Crash

1932

Bonus Army

1935

Social Security Act

1939

WWII starts in Europe

1941

Attack on Pearl Harbor

1944

D-Day

1945

Atomic Bomb dropped

1945 to 1991

Cold War

1947

Truman Doctrine

1950 to 1953

Korean War

1950s

McCarthyism

1954

Brown v. Board of Ed.

1955

Montgomery Bus Boycott

1957

Sputnik

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

1963

March on Washington

1963

JFK assassinated

1964

Civil Rights Act

1968

MLK killed, RFK killed

1968

Tet Offensive

1968

Chicago Convention

1969

moon landing

1972

Watergate break-in

1973

Roe v. Wade

1979

Iranian hostage crisis

1980

Reagan elected

1989

Cold War ends

1991

Persian Gulf War

1994

Contract with America

1995

Oklahoma City Bombing

2000

Bush v. Gore

2001

9/11 Attacks

2008

Great Recession

2008

Obama elected

2011

Affordable Care Act