APUSH Key Dates

1492

Columbus sails to America

1607

Jamestown settlement

1619

First African slaves arrive at Jamestown

1620

Plymouth plantation, creation of Mayflower Contract

1630

Puritans found Massachusetts Bay Colony

1676

Bacon's rebellion

1730s-1740s

1st Great Awakening

1754-1763

French and Indian War

1765

Stamp Act

1770

Boston Massacre

1773

Boston Tea Party

1775-1783

American Revolution

1786

Shays Rebellion

1787

Constitutional Convention

1793

Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin

1794

Whiskey Rebellion

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1812-1815

War of 1812

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1828

Andrew Jackson Elected

1830

Indian Removal Act

1838-1839

Trail of Tears

1790s-1840s

Second Great Awakening

1831

Nat Turner Rebellion, "Liberator" published

1848

Seneca Falls Convention; Declaration of Women's Rights

1846-1848

Mexican War begins

1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act

1857

Dred Scott

1861

Fort Sumter--Start of Civil War

1865

End of Civil War, Lincoln assassinated

1865

13th Amendment- Free

1868

14th Amendment- Citizens

1870

15th Amendment- Vote

1869

Transcontinental railroad complete

1877

End of reconstruction

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson, separate but equal

1898

Spanish-American War

1914-1918

WWI

1917

Zimmerman telegram intercepted, US enters WWI

1920

19th Amendment (Women’s Right to Vote)

1929

Stock market crashes

1933

FDR Inaugurated, first 100 days of New Deal, 21st amendment ratified (undo prohibition)

1941

Pearl Harbor

1945

End of WWII, VE Day, VJ Day, Atomic bomb dropped on Japan

1954

Brown V. Board of Education

1957

Little Rock, Sputnik

1963

March on Washington, Birmingham, Kennedy Assasination

1964

Civil Rights Act

1965

Voting Rights Act

1968

Tet Offensive, MLK assassinated, Robert Kennedy Assassinated

1980

Reagen elected

2008

Election of Obama, first black president