APUSH DATES

1492

• New World Discovered
• Beginning of the Columbian Exchange (Global Interconnectedness)

1607

• Founding of Jamestown
• First Successful English Colony
• Introduction of Slavery to North America
• Huge Tobacco Farms

1492

• New World Discovered
• Beginning of the Columbian Exchange (Global Interconnectedness)

1607

• Founding of Jamestown
• First Successful English Colony
• Introduction of Slavery to North America
• Huge Tobacco Farms

1620

• Pilgrims Arrive
• Mayflower Compact: First Democratic Document in North America
• Religious Colonies

1730s-1740s

• The First Great Awakening
• First Widespread Unifying Movement
• Religious Revival
• Salvation Through Good Deeds

1754-1763

• French and Indian War
• Demoralized Against the British
• France kicked off of North America

1763

• Proclamation of 1763
• End of Salutary Neglect

1773

• The Boston Tea Party
• First Organized Rebellion Against British

1775

• Battle of Lexington and Concord
• First Official Battle of the Revolution

July 4th, 1776

• The Declaration of Independence
• Defined "Inalienable Rights" that the British had denied

1777

• Battle of Saratoga
• Causes France to join the Revolutionary War

1781

• Battle of Yorktown
• Surrender of British General Cornwallis
• "End" of the Revolutionary War

1783

• Treaty of Paris
• Official Independence from British
• U.S. Recognized as Sovereign

1786

• Shay's Rebellion
• Emphasized the Need for a Stronger Central Government

1789

• Constitutional Convention
• Founding of a New Government

1791

• Bill of Rights Created
• Antifederalists Appeased
• Protect the Rights of the People

1798

• Alien and Sedition Acts
• Expansion and Abuse of Federal Powers

1800

• Revolution of 1800
• Jefferson Elected as President
• Peaceful Transfer of Power from One Party to Another

1803

• Louisiana Purchase
• Doubles the Size of the U.S.

1803

• Marbury Vs. Madison
• Established the Principle of Judicial Review
• Gave the Supreme Court the Right to Declare Legislative and Executive Acts Unconstitutional

1812-1815

• The War of 1812
• Stalemate Peace
• The "Second War for Independence"
• Established a Northern Boundary with Canada

1820

• Missouri Compromise
• Missouri Admitted as a Slave State
• Maine Added as a Free State
• Mason Dixion Line Divides the North and South

1820s-1830s

• The Second Great Awakening
• New American Religion (Mormonism)
• Inspired Social Reforms that Shaped American Culture

1823

• Monroe's Doctrine
• Separates America from Europe's Conflicts
• Defined American Power Internationally

1830

• Indian Removal Act
• Jackson Breaks Promise Towards the Natives
• Major Overstep of Executive Power

1830s-1850s

• Manifest Destiny
• Massive Westward Expansion

1848

• Seneca Falls Convention
• Women's Rights Convention for Suffrage
• 'We hold these truths to be self evident that all men and women are created equal"
• Societal Changes

1848

• Gold Rush Begins
• Single largest westward expansion
  -Allows California to have enough population to become a state

1832

• Nat Turner's Rebellion
• Major violent slave uprising

1836

-Battle of the Alamo
-America support of Texas Annexation, despite it being a failure

1848

-Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
-Ended Mexican-American War
-Mexican cession

1850

-Compromise of 1850
-Fugitive Slave Act
-Blew up North and South tensions

1854

-Bleeding Kansas
-Precursor to Civil War
-First violence between the North and South

1857

-Scott V. Sandford
-First time government takes a stance on slavery

1861-1865

Civil War

• Bloodiest American war
• Broken and Reunified
• Emancipation Proclamation

1862

Battle of Antietam

• Allows the Emancipation Proclamation to be released
• Made it an abolitionist war

1863

Battle of Gettysburg

• Turning point in the Civil War
• South is now on the defensive
• Turning point of sectionalism to nationalism

April 15, 1865

Lincoln’s Assassination

• 1st presidential assassination
• Johnson becomes president

1865

13th Amendment

• Abolishes slavery - except as punishment for a crime

1868

14th Amendment

• Defines citizenship and protects citizens’ civil rights

1870

15th Amendment

• Universal male suffrage

1877

Compromise of 1877

• Ends Reconstruction

1886

Haymarket Square Riot

• Major workers’ rights riot
• Led to violence and was considered a setback for the organized labor movement

1887

Dawes Act

• Authorized president to break of reservation land
• Further destroyed Native Americans’ way of life

1890

Sherman Antitrust Act

• Banned businesses from colluding or merging to form monopolies
• Some of the first legislation passed to limit big business

1890

Massacre at Wounded Knee

• Lakota men, women, and children slaughtered

• Marked the end of Native resistance to the encroachment of white settlers

1894

Pullman Strike

• Resistance against big business
• Ended by the federal government because it interfered with mail delivery

1896

Plessy V. Ferguson

• Upheld “separate but equal” ideology between whites and people of color

1898

Spanish-American War

• America asserts itself as an imperialist world power
• Annexation of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines

1906

Meat Inspection Act/Pure Food & Drug Act

• Made food more reliably safe
• Progressive movement (for the people, not the businesses)

1909

NAACP Founded (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

• Actively worked to end segregation and Jim Crow laws
• Gave a voice to colored people

1917

United States Enters World War I

• U.S becomes the global power by the end of the war
• Rise in innovation and technology

1919

18th Amendment (Prohibition)

• Success of progressive movement
• Women had influence over the government

Summer of 1919

Red Summer

• Steep rise in racial violence and tensions
• Whites push back against Black rights

1919-1920

First Red Scare

• Fear of socialism, anarchy, foreign immigration, etc.

1920

19th Amendment

• Gave women the right to vote across the nation

1920s

Harlem Renaissance

• Cultural Revolution for African Americans
• First culture not based in slavery
• Jazz

1925

Scopes Trial

• Major trial over evolution being taught in schools
• Challenged fundamentalism
• Emphasized the clash between fundamentalists and modernists

1929

Black Tuesday

• Huge stock market collapse
• One of the first steps leading to the Great Depression

1929-1939

Great Depression

• Worst economic downturn in history
• Weakens global economy
• Starts New Deal legislation
• 25% unemployment in the United States

1932

Bonus Army

• Veterans from WWI gather to demand compensation before the depression drains the treasury
• Decreases Hoover’s popularity, increases FDR’s

1934

Start of the Dust Bowl

• Caused a mass migration out of the Great Plains to California
• Increased unemployment
• Spawned the Farm Security Administration as part of the New Deal

1939-1945

World War II

• Changed American society and manufacturing
• Post-war baby boom changes demographics
• Start of Cold War tensions

June 6, 1944

D-Day

• Largest amphibious front in history
• Start of the push-back and defeat of the Axis powers

1945

Drop atomic bombs

• Nuclear weapons race started
• First use of nuclear weaponry on humans
• Contributed to the end of WWII in the Pacific

1947

Truman Doctrine

• Established that the U.S. would protect democratic nations from soviet/authoritarian forces through economic, political, and military assistance
• Part of “containment” theory of communism

1948

Marshall Plan

• Major example of U.S. acting on Truman Doctrine
• Provided markets and stable trading partners for American goods
• Extension of bipartisanship

1950

McCarthyism

• Political suppression of left-wing ideologies in the United States
• Part of the “Second Red Scare”
• Spread fear of communism gained support for Cold War in America

1950-1953

Korean War

• Containment policy
• Major proxy war during Cold War

1954

Brown vs. Board of Education

• End of legalized segregation in public schools
• Overruled “separate but equal” Plessy v. Ferguson
• Unanimous court decision

1955

Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Helped establish goal of integration
• Non-violent protest (civil disobedience)

1955-1975

 Vietnam War

• Ultimately a loss for the United States
• Major example of U.S. involvement in foreign governments
• Caused distrust of government within U.S.

1957

Sputnik launched - Start of the Space Race

• New era of the Cold War focused on technological advancement
• Realization for America that the USSR was more advanced than previously assumed
• First man-made object in space

1961

Gideon vs. Wainwright

• Requires that criminal defendents be given legal counsel regardless of wealth
• Civil rights for impoverished population

1962

 Engel vs. Vitale

• Reaffirmed separation of church and state by banning mandatory prayer in public schools

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Peak point in Cold War when USSR and US came closest to nuclear conflict

1963

March on Washington

• 250k protested racial discrimination and demanded civil rights legislation
• Massive peaceful protest, “I Have a Dream” speech

1963

John F. Kennedy is assassinated

• Largely televised, which was unique from past assassinations
• End of optimism for the nation’s future
• Lyndon B. Johnson takes office

1964

Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Massive piece of civil rights legislation
• Prohibited discrimination in public accommodations
• Hastened end of Jim Crow

1965

Voting Rights Act (Selma)

• Outlawed discriminatory voting practices
• Enforced 15th amendment

1965

Assassination of Malcolm X

• Assassination of major civil rights figure
• Not treated as importantly as the assassintation of MLK JR.

1968

Democratic National Convention in Chicago

• Youth and minorities became largely involved in voting
• 68% of citizens voted

1968

Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated

• Prompted outbreaks of racial violence
• Fasttracked equal housing bill
• Angered black Americans

1968

Bobby Kennedy assassinated

• Prompted start of protection of presidential candidates from Secret Service agents
• Assassination of presidential nominee
• Second Democratic candidate ultimately lost election

1968

Tet offensive

• Weakening of public support of Vietnam
• U.S. suffers heavy losses to advancing Viet Cong

1969

 Woodstock

• Major counterculture art fair
• Escape for Americans, encouragement of peace and anti-war messages

1969

Moon landing

• America ends the space race
• First humans to step foot on the moon

1970

Kent State massacre

• First student killed in anti-war gathering (Jeffery Miller)
• Deepend distrust of government as the National Guard killed the students

1972

Watergate Scandal

• Led to Nixon’s resignation
• Deepened distrust of government
• Many cabinet members also convicted of crimes

1973

Roe v. Wade

• Decriminalized abortion
• Right to privacy
• Major victory for women’s rights

1979

Iranian Hostage Crisis

• Decreased support of Jimmy Carter
• Unsuccessful rescue mission

1981

Outbreak of the AIDS pandemic

• Major health crisis in the United States
• Accelerated fear of homosexuality

1981

Sandra Day O’Connor becomes 1st female Justice

• Became the deciding vote in many important civil rights and environmental protection Supreme Court cases
• Victory for women

1989

Berlin Wall comes down

• First step towards German reunification
• Weakened East Germany and eastern Europe, led to dissolution of USSR

1991

Soviet Union disbands

• End of the Cold War
• Democracy somewhat restored to eastern Europe

1991

Operation Desert Storm

• Kuwait liberated
• Massively successful U.S. military move
• First use of modern technology in warfare (cell phones, space equipment, etc.)

1995

Oklahoma City Bombing

• Largest domestic terrorist attack in United States

1998

President Clinton impeached

• 2nd impeached president
• Weakened Democratic party for upcoming election
• Lying under oath and obstruction of justice

1999

Columbine High School massacre

• First major school shooting
• Started a chain reaction and rise of school shooters for the name of fame
• Spawned new security measures in school

2001

September 11th terrorist attacks in the U.S.

• Changed relations with Islam and severely worsened them
• Took away many rights we never get back w/ Patriot Act
• Start of military invasion of middle east and search for Osama bin Laden

2008

Election of President Obama

• First African American president
• Was a far left swing so it caused the likelihood of a far right swing to counter that