APUSH Important Dates

Columbus’ First Voyage

1492

Establishment of Jamestown

1607

French and Indian War/Seven Years War

1754-1763

Proclamation of 1763

1763

Stamp Act

1765

Boston Massacre

1770

Boston Tea Party

1773

Battles of Lexington and Concord

1775

Declaration of Independence is Written

1776

Battle of Saratoga

1777

Battle of Yorktown

1781

Treaty of Paris is Signed

1783

First Constitutional Convention

1787

George Washington Elected

1788

XYZ Affair

1798

Alien and Sedition Acts

1793

Thomas Jefferson Elected

1800

Louisiana Purchase

1803

Battle of New Orleans

1814

Era of Good Feelings

1816-1824

Missouri Compromise

1820

Monroe Doctrine

1823

Sectionalism

1820s

Election of Andrew Jackson

1828

Indian Removal Act

1830

Nat Turner’s Rebellion

1832

Manifest Destiny

1830-1850

Battle of the Alamo

1836

Annexation of Texas

1845

Mexican-American War

1845-1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1848

Fugitive Slave Act

1850

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

1852

Kansas-Nebraska Act (Bleeding Kansas)

1854

Dred Scott v. Sandford

1857

Election of Abraham Lincoln

1860

Civil War

1861-1865

Homestead Act

1862

Battle of Gettysburg

1863

Reconstruction Acts

1867

Purchase of Alaska

1867

Compromise of 1877

1877

Battle of Little Bighorn

1876

Haymarket Square Riot

1886

Dawes Act

1887

Interstate Commerce Act

1887

Battle of Wounded Knee

1890

Sherman Antitrust Act

1890

Pullman Strike

1894

“Cross of Gold” Speech

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson

1896

Annexation of Hawaii

1898

Spanish-American War

1898

Wright Flyer

1903

US Enters WWI

1917

19th Amendment is Ratified

(Grants Women the Right to Vote)

1920

The First Red Scare

1920s

Prohibition

1920s

Stock Market Crash

1929

Bonus Army

1932

Social Security Act

1935

WWII Starts in Europe

1939

Attack On Pearl Harbor

1941

D-Day

1944

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

1945

Cold War

1945-1991

Truman Doctrine

1947

Korean War

1950-1953

McCarthyism

1950s

Brown v. Board of Education

1954

Montgomery Bus Boycott

1955

Sputnik 1 is Launched

1957

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962

March On Washington

1963

JFK Assassination

1963

Civil Rights Act

1964

MLK Assassination

1968

RFK Assassination

1968

Tet Offensive

1968

Chicago Convention

1968

Moon Landing

1969

Watergate

1972

Roe v. Wade

1973

Iranian Hostage Crisis

1979

Ronald Reagan Elected

1980

Cold War Ends

1989

Persian Gulf War

1991

Contract With America

1994

Oklahoma City Bombing

1995

Bush v. Gore

2000

9/11

2001

Great Recession

2008

Obama Elected

2008

Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)

2011

Salem Witch Trials

1692

Toleration Act

1649

Organization of National Grange Movement

1868

California Gold Rush

1848

“White Man’s Burden” Poem Published

1899

Turner’s Frontier Thesis

1893