APUSH timeline by decades (1760+)
1760 period of Salutary Neglect ends
1760 Sugar Act
1760 Stamp Act
1760 Townshend Acts
1770 Boston Massacre
1770 Tea Act
1770 Boston Tea Party
1770 Intolerable Acts
1770 First Continental Congress
1770 Lexington and Concord
1770 Second Continental Congress
1770 Olive Branch Petition
1770 American Revolution
1770 Thomas Paine, Common Sense
1770 Declaration of Independence
1780 Articles of Confederation
1780 Shay’s Rebellion
1780 Northwest Ordinance
1780 Constitutional Convention
1780 Constitution ratified
1780 French Revolution
1780 Washington became president
1790 First Bank of the US
1790 Whiskey Rebellion
1790 Invention of cotton gin
1800 Jefferson won presidential election
1800 Second Great Awakening
1800 Expansion of universal white manhood suffrage
1800 Temperance Movement
1800 Napoleonic Wars in Europe
1800 Louisiana Purchase
1800 Embargo Act
1800 Prohibition of international slave trade
1810 Congress enacted American System programs
1810 Second Bank of the US
1820 Missouri Compromise
1820 Monroe Doctrine
1820 Opening of first mill in Lowell
1820 Founding of Democratic Party
1820 Erie Canal completed
1820 Market Revolution
1820 Andrew Jackson elected as president
1830 Indian Removal Act
1830 Founding of Whig Party
1830 Texas Revolution
1840 James K. Polk won presidential election
1840 Brigham Young becomes leader of Latter-day Saints
1840 Mexican-American War
1840 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
1840 Utopian Communities
1840 Seneca Falls Convention
1840 Free Soil Party
1850 Know Nothing Party popular
1850 Republican Party founded
1850 Kansas Nebraska Act
1850 Dred Scott Decision
1860 Lincoln won presidential election
1860 South Carolina first state to secede
1860 Confederate States of America formed
1860 Civil War
1860 Emancipation Proclamation
1860 Reconstruction
1860 Completion of first Transcontinental Railroad
1870Gilded Age
1870 Social Gospel movement
1870 Founding Rockefeller Oil
1870 the New South
1870 Conviction of Boss Tweed
1870 Carlisle Indian Industrial School opened
1880 first references to Social Darwinism
1880 Jane Addams founded Hull House
1880 Andrew Carnegie’s “The Gospel of Wealth”
1890 Progressive Era
1890 Wounded Knee Massacre
1890 Changes in immigration patterns
1890 Census Bureau declared the frontier closed
1890 Founding People’s Party (Populist Party)
1890 Founding Carnegie Steel
1890 Imperial Japan
1890 Plessy v. Ferguson
1890 Spanish American War
1890 Philippine-American War
1900 McKinley assassinated; TR became president
1910 Great Migration
1910 Woodrow Wilson won presidential election
1910 Panama Canal completed
1910 World War I
1910 US enters WWI; Russian Revolution
1910 Red Scare
1910 Red Summer
1920 19th Amendment
1920 Roaring Twenties/Jazz Age
1920 Founding of USSR
1920 Johnson-Reed Act
1920 Great Depression begins
1930 FDR won presidential election
1930 Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
1930 World War II
1940 Pearl Harbor
1940 Internment of Japanese Americans
1940 Final Solution
1940 D-Day
1940 Death of FDR; Truman became president
1940 VE Day
1940 Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1940 Decolonization of Asian and African countries
1940 Baby Boom
1940 Cold War
1940 House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
1940 Desegregation of Armed Forces
1940 Dixiecrats
1940 Founding of NATO
1940 People’s Republic of China created; USSR tested A-bomb
1950 Korean War
1950 Joseph McCarthy makes first accusations
1950 Growth of the suburbs
1950 Immigration and Nationality Act
1950 Brown v Board of Education
1950 Civil Rights Movement
1950 Murder of Emmett Till; Rosa Parks arrested; beginning of Montgomery Bus Boycott
1950 Vietnam War
1960 JFK won presidential election
1960 Formation of SNCC
1960 Freedom Rides
1960 Cuban Missile Crisis
1960 JFK assassinated; LBJ became president
1960 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
1960 Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique
1960 Freedom Summer
1960 Civil Rights Act; beginning of Republican Party’s Southern Strategy
1960 Tonkin Gulf Resolution
1960 LB Johnson starts Great Society program
1960 Voting Rights Act
1960 Malcolm X assassinated
1960 Griswold v Connecticut
1960 Riots in American cities over police brutality
1960 Chicano Movement
1960 Formation Black Panthers
1960 Loving v Virginia
1960 Women’s Liberation Movement
1960 Asian American Movement
1960 MLK assassinated; Bobby Kennedy assassinated
1960 Nixon won presidential election
1960 American Indian Movement began
1960 Stonewall Uprising
1960s: countercultures, youth culture, antiwar protests
1970 First Earth Day
1970 oil crisis; stagflation
1970 manufacturing in the US begins to decline
1970 rise of Christian fundamentalism (1979 Moral Majority)
1970 Pentagon Papers
1970 Nixon travelled to China
1970 Watergate break-in
1970 Title IX; ERA went to the states for ratification
1970 Roe v Wade
1970 Nixon resigned
1970 Iran hostage crisis
1980 Reagan won presidential election
1980 AIDS epidemic
1990 end of Cold War (fall of Soviet Union)
1990 Clinton impeachment
2000 attacks; beginning of War on Terror
2000 Financial Crisis