APUSH DATES To Know

Columbus lands in Bahamas/Columbian Exchange begins

1492

Jamestown established as first permanent settlement in Virginia

1607

First African slaves brought to Jamestown, VA

1619

Pilgrims land at Massachusetts & create Mayflower Compact

1620

King Philip's War (Metacom's War) in New England

1675

Salem Witch Trials

1692

First Great Awakening to renew Puritan enthusiasm

1730s-1740s

French & Indian War

1754-1763

British establish Proclamation Line at Appalachia & prevent colonists from westward movement

1763

Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia (slavery increased)

1676

American Revolutionary War

1775-1783

Shay's Rebellion in Massachusetts (AoC too weak)

1786

Great Compromise (NJ & VA Plans) & Constitution ratified (approved by all states)

1787

Second Great Awakening to renew Christianity from of anti-religious Enlightenment era

1800s-1840s

Louisiana Purchase from France

1803

War of 1812 (vs. Britain)

1812-1814

Missouri Compromise (MO slave & ME free)

1820

Monroe Doctrine ("don't interfere with the western hemisphere")

1823+

Tariff of Abominations & SC Nullification Crisis

1828

Indian Removal Act/Trail of Tears

1830+

Enlightenment ideas inspire Revolutions

1700s-1780s

Transcendentalism, Utopian Societies (Brook Farm & Oneida) & reform movements (abolition, education, temperance)

1830s-50s

Manifest Destiny (westward expansion) & Texas Annexation

1845

Mexican-American War

1846-1848

First Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, NY

1848

1st Party System: Federalists (pro-federal govt.) vs. Democratic-Republicans (pro-state govt.)

1790s-1820s

2nd Party System: Whigs (pro-federal govt.) & Democrats (pro-state govt.)

1820s-1850s

3rd Party System: Republicans (abolitionists) vs. Democrats (pro-slavery, Populists)

1850s-1930s

4th Party System: Republicans (big business, conservative) vs. Democrats (reformers, liberal)

1930s-today

Compromise of ____: included Fugitive Slave Law & CA free state

1850

Kansas-Nebraska Act & Bleeding Kansas

1854-1859

Dred Scott Decision (slaves can't sue b/c not citizens)

1857

Marbury v. Madison (judicial review)

1803

American Civil War

1861-1865

Emancipation Proclamation (freed slaves in Union states)

1863

Reconstruction: Johnson's & Radical Republicans' Plans, rise of KKK

1866-1877

13th, 14th, 15th Amendments (Reconstruction amendments)

1865-1870

Gilded Age (robber barons, monopolies, spoils system, political machines)

1870-1900s

Chinese Exclusion Act

1882+

Plessy v. Ferguson (races separate but "equal")

1896

Homestead Act (160 acres of free land out west if settlers farm it)

1862

Homestead (steel) & Pullman (sleeper cars) labor strikes

1892-1894

The Grange, Populist Party & bimetalism

1890s-1900s

US govt. declares the West as "closed", imperialism overseas begins

1890

Sioux Wars, Battle of Little Bighorn, Ghost Dance, Wounded Knee Massacre, Carlisle Schools

1876-1890

Spanish-American War

1898

Progressive Era (women, temperance, protective laws, settlement houses, muckrakers)

1890s-1920s

First Red Scare, Palmer Raids, Quota Laws, Execution of Sacco & Vanzetti

1910s-1920s

World War I

1914-1918

19th amendment: women's suffrage

1920

Prohibition: 18th & 21st amendments

1920-1933

Stock market crash, Great Depression, Dust Bowl

1929-1930s

World War II

1939-1945

Cold War (US vs. Russia)

1945-1991

Korean War (Proxy War with US vs. USSR)

1950-1953

Civil Rights Movement (Rosa Parks, MLK, Malcolm X)

1954-1968

Brown v. Board of Education (segregation is illegal)

1954

John Scopes Trial (evolution/modernism vs. creationism/fundamentalism)

1925

Roaring 20's: Jazz Age, Harlem Renaissance, flappers, speakeasies, Al Capone, cars)

1920-1929

Second Red Scare & McCarthyism

1947-1957

Suburbia (Levittowns), conformity, sunbelt migration, highway system

1950s-1960s

Vietnam War

1963-1975

Counterculture: Jack Kerouac/Beatnicks, hippies, Haight-Ashbury district, Woodstock,women, sexuality, Chicanos, Native Americans, gay rights

1960s-1970s

Rise of Conservatism (Reagan, Reaganomics, evangelism, anti-counterculture)

1970s-1990

Cold War ends: USSR falls, Berlin Wall down, perestroika & glasnost

1989-1991

Persian Gulf War/Operation Desert Storm: US & Kuwait vs. Iraq

1991

World Trade Center & Pentagon attacked by Al-Qaeda

2001

War on Terror: Afghanistan & Iraq

2001-2021

Pueblo Revolt: Natives in New Mexico vs. Spanish

1680

Boston Massacre & Boston Tea Party

1770-1773

Whiskey Rebellion in Pennsylvania (new Constitution is powerful & successful)

1794

Industrial Revolution (steam, factories, machines) & Market Revolution (consumerism)

1820s-1860s

Second Industrial Revolution (steel, electricity, cars, leads to imperialism)

1870s-1910s

California gold rush

1849

Teddy's Square Deal (corporations, consumerism, conservatism)

1901-1909

LBJ's Great Society

1965+