all apush dates

1492 - Columbus’ first voyage to the “New World,” Spanish colonization commences; Columbian Exchange begins

1607 - First permanent English colony - Jamestown on the Chesapeake Bay

1619 - First enslaved Africans arrive in Jamestown; House of Burgesses est’d in VA

1620 - Plymouth founded (Puritans) in New England

1676 - Bacon’s Rebellion

1754 - French and Indian War begins (aka Seven Years’ War globally)

1763 - Treaty of Paris - French and Indian War ends, Pontiac’s Rebellion, and Proclamation Line

1765 - Stamp Act, first direct tax, “no taxation without representation”

1775 - American Revolution begins: Lexington and Concord, Second Continental Congress

1776 - Thomas Paine’s Common Sense & The Declaration of Independence published

1783 - Treaty of Paris ending the American Revolution and beginning of the USA under the Articles of Confederation

1787 - Northwest Ordinance, Constitutional Convention

1789 - Constitution ratified, Federalists v. Anti-Federalists

1791 - Bill of Rights added to the Constitution

1790s - First Two-Party System: Hamilton v. Jefferson

1800 - “Revolution of 1800”- election of Jefferson

1803 - Louisiana Purchase. Marbury v. Madison (judicial review)

1808 - slave importation prohibited (per the Constitution, Art. IV, 1789)

1812 - War of 1812 begins

1815 - Treaty of Ghent--ending War, Hartford Convention occurred-> end of Federalist Party, beginning of the Era of Good Feelings

1820 - Missouri Compromise

1823 - Monroe Doctrine

1824 - Corrupt Bargain, election, beginning of Democratic Party (led by Jackson)

1828 - Andrew Jackson elected, emphasis on populism, common man (universal suffrage)

1820s-1830s -- Second Two-Party System, Jackson v. Clay

1844 - Election of Polk; Manifest destiny

1846 - Mexican-American War begins

1848 - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexican Cession, end of Mexican-American War

1854 - Kansas Nebraska Act (pop sov in territories, Bleeding Kansas), Republican Party replaces Whig Party which split over slavery

1857 - Dred Scott v. Sandford

1860 - Election of Abraham Lincoln, secession begins

1861 - beginning of Civil War, Battle of Ft. Sumter

1863 - Battle of Gettysburg, Gettysburg Address, Battle of Vicksburg, Emancipation Proclamation

1865 - end of Civil War, assassination of Lincoln, 13th Amendment

1877 - end of Radical Reconstruction b/c of Compromise of 1877, all states back in the Union and have ratified Amendments 13, 14, 15. Beginning of the Jim Crow era.