APUSH Timeline

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Columbus arrives in the New World

1492 - Period 1

England’s first attempt to settle in North America

1587 - Period 1

English defeat Spanish Armada

1588 - Period 1

Jamestown founded

1607 - Period 2

Desperation of English settlers at Jamestown

1609-1610 - Period 2

Mayflower arrival in Plymouth

1620 - Period 2

Toleration Act passed

1649 - Period 2

Glorious Revolution

1688 - Period 2

Salem Witch Trials

1692 - Period 2

Seven Years’ War

1754-1763 - Period 3

Proclamation Line

1763 - Period 3

Stamp Act passed

1765 - Period 3

Boston Massacre

1770 - Period 3

Boston Tea Party

1773 - Period 3

Lexington & Concord

1775 - Period 3

Declaration of Independence

1776 - Period 3

Battle of Saratoga

1777 - Period 3

Articles of Confederation

1777 - Period 3

Franco-American Alliance

1778 - Period 3

Battle of Yorktown

1781 - Period 3

Treaty of Paris signed

1783 - Period 3

Constitutional Convention

1787 - Period 3

Washington’s Election

1788 - Period 3

Bill of Rights added

1791 - Period 3

XYZ Affair

1798 - Period 3

Alien and Sedition Acts

1798 - Period 3

Jefferson’s Election

1800 - Period 4

Louisiana Purchase

1803 - Period 4

War with Britain

1812-1815 - Period 4

Battle of New Orleans

1815 - Period 4

Era of Good Feelings

1816-1824 - Period 4

Missouri Compromise

1820 - Period 4

Monroe Doctrine issued

1823 - Period 4

Sectionalism grows

1820s - Period 4

Jackson’s Election

1828 - Period 4

Indian Removal Act

1830 - Period 4

Nat Turner’s Rebellion

1832 - Period 4

Manifest Destiny

1830-1850 - Period 4

Battle of the Alamo

1836 - Period 4

Annexation of Texas

1845 - Period 5

Mexican-American War

1845-1848 - Period 5

Seneca Falls Convention

1848 - Period 5

Fugitive Slave Law passed

1850 - Period 5

Uncle Tom’s Cabin published

1852 - Period 5

Bleeding Kansas

1854 - Period 5

Dred Scott Decision

1857 - Period 5

Lincoln’s Election

1860 - Period 5

Civil War

1861-1865 - Period 5

Homestead Act

1862 - Period 5

Emancipation Proclamation

1863 - Period 5

Battle of Gettysburg

1863 - Period 5

Lincoln Assassinated

1865 - Period 5

Military Reconstruction Act

1867 - Period 5

Purchase of Alaska

1867 - Period 5

Corrupt Bargain

1877 - Period 5

Battle of Little Bighorn

1876 - Period 6

Haymarket Square Riot

1886 - Period 6

Dawes Act

1887 - Period 6

Interstate Commerce Act

1887 - Period 6

Wounded Knee Massacre

1890 - Period 6

McKinley Tariff and Sherman Antitrust Act

1890 - Period 6

Pullman Strike

1894 - Period 6

“Cross of Gold” speech

1896 - Period 6

Plessy v. Ferguson

1896 - Period 6

Annexation of Hawaii

1898 - Period 7

Spanish American War

1898 - Period 7

Americans drive Spanish out of Cuba & Philippines

1898 - Period 7

Treaty of Paris ends war

1900 - Period 7

Platt Amendment

1902 - Period 7

Wright Brothers first flight

1903 - Period 7

Roosevelt Corollary announced

1904 - Period 7

US enters WWI

1917 - Period 7

Espionage Act passed

1917 - Period 7

Sedition Act passed

1918 - Period 7

Fourteen Points proposed

1918 - Period 7

Schenck v. United States

1919 - Period 7

Women’s Suffrage (19th Amendment)

1920 - Period 7

Red Scare begins

1920s - Period 7

Prohibition begins

1920s - Period 7

Stock Market Crash

1929 - Period 7

Great Depression begins

1929 - Period 7

FDR elected

1932 - Period 7

First 100 Days of New Deal

1933 - Period 7

Social Security Act passed

1935 - Period 7

WWII starts in Europe

1939 - Period 7

Attack on Pearl Harbor

1941 - Period 7

D-Day invasion

1944 - Period 7

Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombings

1945 - Period 8

Truman Doctrine announced

1947 - Period 8

Marshall Plan implemented

1947 - Period 8

Korean War begins

1950 - Period 8

Civil Rights Movement begins

1950 - Period 8

McCarthyism intensifies

1950s - Period 8

Brown v. Board of Education

1954 - Period 8

Montgomery Bus Boycott

1955 - Period 8

Sputnik launched

1957 - Period 8

JFK elected President

1961 - Period 8

Vietnam Conflict begins

1961 - Period 8

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962 - Period 8

March on Washington

1963 - Period 8