APUSH Important Dates to Remember

End of the Pre-Columbian Era in the U.S. - Start of European Contact

1492

Jamestown

1607

First enslaved Africans arrive in Virginia

1619

Pueblo Revolt

1680

First Great Awakening

1730s -1740s

Seven Years War, aka “French and Indian War”

1754

Declaration of Independence

1776

Treaty of Paris ending the American Revolution

1783

Constitution Written

1787

Cotton Gin invented reviving slavery

1793

Jefferson Elected, aka “The Revolution of 1800”

1800

Louisiana Purchase

1803

Second War of Independence, aka “War of 1812”

1812

Missouri Compromise

1820

Monroe Doctrine

1823

Mexican American War

1845 - 1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1848

Election of Lincoln

1860

Homestead Act

1862

End of the Civil War; Lincoln assassinated

1865

Transcontinental Railroad

1869

Hayes-Tilden Affair Ends Reconstruction

1877

Dawes Severalty Act

1887

Pullman Strike

1894

Plessy V. Ferguson

1896

Spanish American War; U.S. Annexation of Hawaii

1898

NAACP Founded

1909

U.S. Entry into WWI

1917

Drafting 19th Amendment Women’s Suffrage; Palmer Raids

1919

Scopes Monkey Trial

1925

FDR Bank Holiday

1933

Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7th)

1941

Atomic Bombs Dropped on Japan Ending WWII

1945

Korean War

1950

Brown v. Board of Education

1954

Cuban Missile Crisis; Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

1962

Civil Rights Act

1964

Tet Offensive; Assassination of MLK & RFK; Chicago Dem Convention

1968

Stonewall Riots

1969

Nixon Resigns

1975

Iran Hostage Crisis

1979

Reagan Elected President; Rise of Conservatism

1980

Fall of the USSR; First Gulf War

1991

NAFTA Signed by Bill Clinton

1994

9-11 Attacks

2001

Obama Elected President

2008