APUSH Chronological Info

1491-1607

Pre-Columbian Civilizations and English Settlers

1) Columbian Exchange

2) Christopher Columbus

3) Middle Passage

1607-1754

Jamestown and English settlers

1) Albany Plan of Congress

2) Regional differences

3) Labor Systems

1754-1763

French and Indian War

1) Changes relationship between colonists and GB

2) Salutary neglect abandoned

3) Jamestown

1775-1783

American Revolution

1) Declaration of Independence

2) Lexington and Concord

3) George Washington

1787-1788; 1791

Constitution and Bill of Rights

1) James Madison

2) Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

3) Articles of Confed replaced

1800-1808

Election of Thomas Jefferson

1) end of federalists

2) Louisiana Purchase

3) Embargo Act

1812-1814

War of 1812

1) causes: impressment

2) effects: nationalism

3) “Mr. Madison’s War”

1820

Missouri Compromise

1) slavery

2) 36 30’

3) Era of Good Feels

1828-1836

Age of Jackson

1) Andrew Jackson

2) Trail of Tears

3) Destroys 2nd Bank of US

1836-1848

Manifest Destiny

1) Texas independence

2) Mexican Cession

3) increases sectionalism = CW

1850, 1854, 1857

Final Compromises on Slavery

1) Compromise of 1850

2) Kansas-Nebraska Act

3) popular sovereignty

1861-1865

Civil War

1) causes: slavery

2) effects: abolished slavery

3) Abraham Lincoln

1619-1865

Institution of Slavery

1) 13 amendment

2) cotton gin

3) Peculiar Institution

1865-1877; 1896

Start of Reconstruction and Plessy vs. Ferguson

1) Compromise of 1877

2) 13th, 14th, and 15th amendements

3) Jim Crow

1865-1890s

Gilded Age

1) industrialization

2) labor unions

3) coined by Mark Twain

1890s

Populist Party

1) Omaha Platform

2) William Jennings Bryan

3) Panic/Depression of 1893

1898-1902

Spanish American War

1) 2nd Manifest Destiny

2) Treaty of Paris

3) Cuba, PR, and Philippines

1900-1920

Progressive Era

1) local, state, and national vs. laiseez faire

2) white, urban middle-class

3) origins in populist demands

1914-1918

World War I

1) Allies vs. Central Powers

2) Woodrow Wilson

3) Treaty of Versailles

1920-1929

Roaring 20s

1) flappers

2) growing consumerism

3) Harlem Renaissance

1929-1940

Great Depression

1) Stock Market Crash

2) FDR and New Deal

3) Herbert Hoover

1939-1945

World War II

1) Pearl Harbor

2) Atomic Bombs

3) Nazis

1945-1980

Decades

1) Cold War

2) Vietnam War

3) birth of suburbs

1980-2001

Reagan Administration

1) Bill Clinton

2) Persian Gulf War

3) “supply-side” economics

2001-present

War on Terror

1) 9/11

2) Biden/Trump election

3) Covid