APUSH condensed
Here are the 37 you need to learn:
1619 — House of Burgesses + first enslaved Africans in Virginia 1651 — First Navigation Acts 1676 — Bacon's Rebellion 1680 — Pueblo Revolt 1765 — Stamp Act 1770 — Boston Massacre 1773 — Boston Tea Party 1775 — Lexington and Concord 1781 — Articles of Confederation ratified 1786 — Shays' Rebellion 1787 — Constitutional Convention 1794 — Whiskey Rebellion 1803 — Louisiana Purchase + Marbury v. Madison 1820 — Missouri Compromise 1823 — Monroe Doctrine 1828 — Jackson elected 1830 — Indian Removal Act 1838 — Trail of Tears 1854 — Kansas-Nebraska Act + Republican Party founded 1857 — Dred Scott Decision 1861 — Civil War begins 1863 — Emancipation Proclamation 1869 — Transcontinental Railroad completed 1877 — Reconstruction ends 1887 — Dawes Act 1890 — Wounded Knee + Jim Crow + frontier closed 1896 — Plessy v. Ferguson 1898 — Spanish-American War 1901 — McKinley assassinated; TR becomes president 1917 — US enters WWI + Russian Revolution 1920 — 19th Amendment 1929 — Great Depression begins 1932 — FDR elected 1941 — Pearl Harbor 1950 — Korean War + McCarthyism 1954 — Brown v. Board of Education 1955 — Montgomery Bus Boycott 1962 — Cuban Missile Crisis 1963 — JFK assassinated + March on Washington 1964 — Civil Rights Act + Gulf of Tonkin 1965 — Voting Rights Act 1968 — MLK assassinated + Nixon elected 1973 — Roe v. Wade 1974 — Nixon resigns 1980 — Reagan elected 1991 — Cold War ends 2001 — 9/11 2008 — Financial Crisis