APUSH Dates and Amendments

22nd Amendment

Limits president to two terms: no person can be elected more than twice.

23rd Amendment

Suffrage in the District of Columbia: Citizens of D.C. can vote in the presidential elections but cannot vote for members of Congress.

24th Amendment

Poll Taxes: Forbids making voters pay a poll tax before they can vote in a national election.

25th Amendment

Presidential Succession: If president is removed, dies, or resigns, VP becomes president and nominates VP to be voted by both Houses of Congress

26th Amendment

18yr olds can vote!

27th Amendment

Congress cannot increase their salaries until the next regular election for the House of Representatives.

1945

Yalta Conference, End of WWII, Atomic Bomb on Japan

1947

Truman Doctrine (Containment Policy Begins)

1945

1989

1950

1953

1954

Brown v. Board of Education Topeka

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

1963

Martin Luther King's March on Washington/ JFK Assassinated/ LBJ Presidency Begins

1964

Civil Rights Act/ Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (Vietnam)

1968

MLK and RFK assassinated/ Tet Offensive in Vietnam

1974

Watergate Nixon (resigns) / Gerald R. Ford Presidency Begins

1975

US Exit of Vietnam

1979

1981

1980

Ronald Reagan elected

1989

Fall of Berlin Wall / End of Cold War

2001

September 11th Terrorist Attacks

1492

Christopher Columbus Arrives

1607

Jamestown Settled

1619

VA House of Burgesses & First Slaves Arrive

1620

Plymouth Settled

1961

Bay of Pigs

1763

French and Indian War Ends/Pontiac Rebellion/Proclamation of 1763

1754

1763

1776

Declaration of Independence

1775

1783

1781

Articles of Confederation

1787

Constitutional Convention

1789

Washington Presidency Begins

1791

Bill of Rights

1st Amendment

Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition

2nd Amendment

Right to bear arms

3rd Amendment

No quartering of soldiers

4th Amendment

Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures

5th Amendment

The Right to Remain Silent/Double Jeopardy, right to due process

6th Amendment

The right to a Speedy Trial by jury, representation by an attorney for an accused person

7th Amendment

Right to a trial by jury in civil cases

8th Amendment

No cruel or unusual punishment

9th Amendment

Citizens entitled to rights not listed in the Constitution

10th Amendment

Powers not given to gov in Constitution are given to States + people

11th Amendment

Citizens of one state cant sue another state

12th Amendment

Electors vote separately for President and Vice President

1800

Jefferson elected

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1812

1814

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1825

Erie Canal opens

1828

Andrew Jackson Elected

1838

Trail of Tears

1846

1848

1848

Gold in California & Seneca Falls Convention

1850

Compromise of 1850 & Fugitive Slave Act

1852

Uncle Tom's Cabin

1854

Kansas

1857

Dred Scott Case

1860

Abraham Lincoln Elected & Southern Secession

1861

1865

1862

Emancipation Proclamation

1863

1877

1877

Compromise of 1877

1869

Transcontinental Railroad Completed

1887

Dawes Severalty Act

1865

1900

1890

Frontier declared closed

1892

Homestead Strike

1893

Columbian Exposition/Chicago Worlds Fair

1896

McKinley elected, defeats Wm. Jennings Bryan and the Populist Movement

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson

1898

Spanish

1901

McKinley Assassination/Theodore Roosevelt Presidency

1898

1917

1914

1918

1917

US enters WWI/(Russian Rev.)

1929

Stock Market Crash/Depression Begins

1932

FDR elected

1933

New Deal begins

1940

1945

1941

Pearl Harbor/entry of US into WWII

13th Amendment

Abolition of Slavery (1st Civil War Amend.)

14th Amendment

Civil Rights (2nd Civil War Amend.

15th Amendment

African American Suffrage (3rd Civil War Amend.

16th Amendment

Income Taxes

17th Amendment

Direct Election of Senators

18th Amendment

Prohibition of Liquor (1919)

19th Amendment

Women's Suffrage!

20th Amendment

President and Congress take office closer to election time (Prez: Jan. 20, Cong: Jan. 3)

21st Amendment

Repeal of Prohibition