APUSH Timeline

Columbus’ First Voyage

1492

Roanoke

1587

English defeat Spanish Armada

1588

Jamestown

1607

Starving time

1609

Mayflower

1620

Toleration Act

1649

Glorious Revolution

1688

Salem Witch Trials

1692

Seven Years War

1754

Proclamation of 1763

1763

Sugar Act

1764

Stamp Act

1765

Townshend Acts

1767

Declaratory Act

1766

Boston Massacre

1770

Boston Tea Party

1773

Intolerable Act

1774

Lexington and Concord

1775

Declaration of Independence

1776

Battle of Saratoga

1777

Bunker Hill

1775

Siege of Boston

1775

Capture of Fort Ticonderoga

1775

Battle of Long Island

1776

Battle of Yorktown

1781

Articles of Confederation

1777

Franco-American Alliance

1778

Treaty of Paris

1783

Constitutional Convention

1787

Washington Elected

1788

Pinckney’s Treaty

1796

Bill of Rights

1791

XYZ Affair

1798

Alien and Sedition Acts

1798

Jefferson’s Election

1800

Marybury v Madison

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1803

War of 1812

1812

Hartford Convention

1814

Battle of New Orleans

1815

Era of Good Feelings

1815

McCulloch v. Maryland

1819

Panic of 1819

1819

Missouri Compromise

1820

Monroe Doctrine

1823

Sectionalism

1820s

Jackson Election

1828

Indian Removal Act

1830

Nat Turner’s Rebellion

1831

Manifest Destiny

1830-1850

Battle of the Alamo

1836

Annexation of Texas

1845

Mexican American War

1846-1848

Wilmot Proviso

1846

Seneca Falls Convention

1848

Fugitive Slave Law

1850

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

1852

Bleeding Kansas

1854

Dred Scott Descision

1857

Lincoln Election

1860

Civil War

1861-1865

Homestead Act

1862

Emancipation Proclamation

1863

Gettysburg

1863

Lincoln Assasination

1865

Military Reconstruction Act

1867

Purchase of Alaska

1867

Compromise of 1877

1877

Little Bighorn

1876

Haymarket Square Riot

1886

Dawes Act

1887

Interstate Commerce Act

1887

Wounded Knee

1890

McKinley Tariff

1890

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

1890

Pullman Strike

1894

Cross of Gold Speech

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson

1896

Annexation of Hawaii

1898

Spanish American War

1898

Platt Amendment

1902

Wright Brothers

1903

Roosevelt Corollary

1904

US enters WWI

1917

Fourteen Points

1918

Schenck v. US

1919

Womens Suffrage

1920

Red Scare

1920

Prohibition

1920

Stock Market Crash

1929

FDR

1932

Social Security Act

1935

WWII Starts in Europe

1939

Pearl Harbor

1941

D-Day

1944

Hiroshima + Nagasaki

1945

Truman Doctrine

1947

Korean War

1950-1953

McCarthyism

1950s