APUSH EVENTS IN ORDER BY UNITS
APUSH Dates Study Guide
Part 1 of the Test
You will complete the unit tables by providing start/end dates and give reasons for those dates.
You will place key events from a word bank into their proper period.
Part 2 of the Test
You will be given two events within each period. You must decide which event happened first.
Unit 1
Start Date: 1491
Why? Last year before European contact
End Date: 1607
Why? Founding of Jamestown
Key Chronological Dates:
1492: Voyage of Columbus
1494: Treaty of Tordesillas
1512: Encomienda Begins
1525: Transatlantic Slave Trade
Unit 2
Start Date: 1607
Why? Founding of Jamestown
End Date: 1754
Why? Beginning of Seven Years War
Key Chronological Dates:
1607: Founding of Jamestown
1608: Founding of Quebec
1619: First Slave Sold in Virginia
1620: Founding of Plymouth Colony
1640s: Beaver Wars
1664: New Amsterdam Captured (Now New York)
1675: Metacom’s War
1676: Bacon’s Rebellion
1680: Pueblo Revolt
1730s: First Great Awakening
Unit 3
Start Date: 1754
Why? Beginning of Seven Years War
End Date: 1800
Why? Jefferson “Revolution” of 1800
Key Chronological Dates:
1754: Seven Years War
1763: Pontiac’s Rebellion
1763: Proclamation of 1763
1765: Stamp Act
1773: Boston Tea Party
1775: Battles of Lexington & Concord
1776: Declaration of Independence
1778: Alliance Between France & US
1781: Battle of Yorktown
1783: Treaty of Paris
1786: Shays Rebellion
1787: Constitutional Convention
1789: Washington’s First Term Begins
1791: Bill of Rights Ratified
1794: Whiskey Rebellion
1796: Washington’s Farewell Address
1798: Alien and Sedition Acts
1800: Jefferson is Elected President
Unit 4
Start Date: 1800
Why? Jefferson “Revolution” of 1800
End Date: 1848
Why? Seneca Falls Convention
Key Chronological Dates:
1803: Louisiana Purchase
1807: Embargo Act
1808: International Slave Trade Ends
1812: War of 1812
1815: Treaty of Ghent / Battle of New Orleans
1820: Missouri Compromise
1823: Monroe Doctrine
1828: Election of Andrew Jackson
1831: Nat Turner’s Rebellion
1832: Nullification Crisis
1832: Indian Removal Act
1830s: Second Great Awakening Peaks
1836: Texas wins Independence
1848: Seneca Falls Convention
Unit 5
Start Date: 1844
Why? Election of James Polk (Expansionist)
End Date: 1877
Why? Compromise of 1877
Key Chronological Dates:
1845: Annexation of Texas
1846: War with Mexico Begins
1848: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
1850: Compromise of 1850
1854: Bleeding Kansas
1857: Dred Scott Decision
1859: John Brown’s Failed Uprising
1860: Election of Abraham Lincoln
1860: South Carolina Secedes
1863: Emancipation Proclamation
1865: Lee’s Surrender at Appomattox
1865: Assassination of Lincoln
1867: Reconstruction Acts Passed
1868: Impeachment of Johnson
1868: 14th Amendment Ratified
1871: Enforcement Act (Ku Klux Klan Act)
1873: Panic of 1873
1877: Compromise of 1877
Start Date: 1865
Why? End of the Civil War
End Date: 1898
Why? Spanish American War Begins
Key Chronological Dates:
1869: First Transcontinental RR Completed
1869: Knights of Labor Founded
1873: Panic of 1873
1876: Sioux Wars / Little Bighorn
1877: Great Railroad Strike
1886: Haymarket Square Riot
1886: American Federation of Labor Founded
1887: Dawes Act
1887: Interstate Commerce Act Passed
1889: Hull House Opened
1890: Sherman Antitrust Act Passed
1892: Homestead Strike
1893: Panic of 1893
1894: Pullman Strike
1896: Plessy v. Ferguson
1896: Bryan’s “Cross of Gold” Speech
1946: First Levittown - 1950: Internal Security Act (Red Scare) - 1957: Soviets Launch Sputnik - 1963: March on Washington - 1924: National Origins Act Passed - Anti-Immigration
Unit 7
Start Date: 1890
Why? Census of 1890 / Closing of Frontier
End Date: 1945
Why? End of World War 2
Key Chronological Dates:
1898: Spanish American War
1901: McKinley Assassinated / TR President
1903: Philippine War Ends
1905: US Forest Service Created
1906: Work on Panama Canal Begins
1906: Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
1911: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
1917: US Enters World War 1
1919: Treaty of Versailles Signed
1919: Prohibition Begins
1920: First Red Scare Peaks
1920: 19th Amendment Ratified
1920s: Great Migration Peaks
1924: National Origins Act Passed
1929: Stock Market Crash
1933: FDR’s New Deal Begins
1937: FDR’s Court Packing Scheme
1941: US Enters World War 2
1944: D-Day
1945: FDR Dies / VE Day / VJ Day
Unit 8
Start Date: 1945
Why? Start of Cold War
End Date: 1980
Why? Election of Reagan (End of Detente)
Key Chronological Dates:
1946: First Levittown
1946: Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” Speech
1947: Marshall Plan
1947: Taft-Hartley Act
1949: Chinese Revolution
1950: Internal Security Act (Red Scare)
1952: First Hydrogen Bomb Tested
1953: Korean War Ends
1954: Brown v. Board of Education
1955: Montgomery Bus Boycott Ends
1956: Interstate Highway Act
1957: Soviets Launch Sputnik
1962: Cuban Missile Crisis
1963: March on Washington
1964: Civil Rights Act of 1964
1964: Launch of Great Society Programs
1964: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1965: Voting Rights Act of 1965
1965: Immigration Act of 1965
1968: Violence/Protests at DNC Convention
1969: Moon Landing
1969: Woodstock
1970: EPA signed into law by Nixon
1972: Nixon’s China Visit
1973: Roe v. Wade
1973: Oil Embargo
1974: Resignation of Nixon
1979: SALT 2 Treaty
Unit 9
Start Date: 1980
Why? Election of Reagan (New Politics Era)
End Date: Present
Why? The future hasn’t happened yet
Key Chronological Dates:
1981: First Personal Computer
1982: SDI (Star Wars)
1991: Collapse of the Soviet Union
1993: NAFTA Signed into Law
2001: September 11th Terrorist Attacks
2003: Iraq War