Important APUSH Dates

1492

Columbus arrives in America

1607

Jamestown founded

1620

Plymouth

Mayflower Compact

1676

Bacon's Rebellion

1754-63

French and Indian War

1775-83

Revolutionary War

1776

Declaration of Independence

1789

Washington becomes president

Judiciary Act

Constitution ratified

1812-14

War of 1812

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1831

Liberator

Cherokee v GA

Nat Turner

1845

TX annexed

JK Polk president

FL + TX become states

1846-48

Mexican-Am. War

1850

Compromise of 1850

CA becomes a states

1861-65

Civil War

1877

Compromise of 1877

End of Reconstruction

1890

Wounded Knee

Sherman Anti-Trust

NAWSA

1898

Spanish American War

1917

Zimmerman Telegram

US enters WWI

Red Scare

1929

Wall Street Crash

Immigration Act

1941

Lend Lease

Pearl Harbor

Atlantic Charter

1945

End of WWII

Yalta/Potsdam

Nuremberg Trials

1957

Sputnik

Eisenhower Doctrine

Little Rock 9

Voting Rights Act

1963

March on Washington

Feminine Mystique

JFK assassinated

1964

Gulf of Tonkin

24th amendment

Civil Rights Act

War on Poverty

1968

Tet Offensive

MLK and RFK killed

1969

Vietnamization

Stonewall

Woodstock

1975

End of Vietnam War

1989

Berlin Wall

Gulf War

Tiananmen Square