entire apush timeline :D

1492 — Columbus lands; start of Columbian Exchange

1607 — Jamestown (start of ENG colonies in NA)

1754 — start of French + Indian War

1763 — end of French + Indian War (start of rising tensions b/t BR + colonies)

1776 — Declaration of Independence

1787 — Constitution written

1848 — end of Mexican-American War + start of major sectionalism

• Seneca Fall’s Convention

• treaty of guadalupe hidalgo

1860 — secession + start of Civil War

1865 — civil war ends end of reconstruction → Jim Crow laws

1877 — end of reconstruction → Jim Crow laws

• compromise of 1877

1898 — Spanish-American War + start of US imperialism

• annexation of Hawaii

1901 — Progressive Era starts (ish)

1917 — US enters WWI

1929 — start of Great Depression

1941 — Pearl Harbor + Entrance to WWII

1945 — end of WWII + start of Cold War

1991 — cold war ends (USSR dissolves)