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APUSH Timeline
Question | Answer |
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1492 | Columbian Exchange begins with Columbus's discovery of the New World |
1512 | Encomienda system created |
1520 | Smallpox begins to decimate native population |
1552 | Bartolome de las Casas popularizes the idea of the “Black Legend” |
1607 | Jamestown est. (include John Smith & John Rolfe) |
1609 | 1613 |
1618 | Headright system created |
1619 | Virginia House of Burgesses created |
1620 | Plymouth Est. (include Mayflower Compact) |
1632 | colony of Maryland est. |
1635 | Roger Williams exiled |
1637 | Anne Hutchinson banished |
1639 | Fundamental Orders created |
1643 | New England Federation est. |
1651 | Navigation Laws/Mercantilism |
1676 | Bacon’s Rebellion |
1686 | Dominion of New England est. (include Sir Edmund Andros) |
1693 | Salem Witch Trials |
1733 | Zenger Trial |
1754 | 1763 |
1754 | Ben Franklin publishes “Join or Die” cartoon & Albany Congress |
1763 | Proclamation of 1763 |
1764 | Sugar Act |
1765 | The Stamp Act (and Stamp Act Congress) |
1766 | Declaratory Act |
1767 | Townshend Acts |
1770 | Boston Massacre |
1774 | Boston Tea Party and Intolerable Acts |
1774 | First Continental Congress |
1775 | Shot Heard Round the World |
1776 | Declaration of Independence |
1776 | Thomas Paine’s Common Sense |
1776 | 7 |
1777 | Articles of Confederation |
1777 | Battle of Saratoga |
1777 | 78 |
1781 | Battle of Yorktown |
1787 | Northwest Ordinance |
1787 | Shays’ Rebellion |
1787 | 8 |
1788 | Ratification of the Constitution (include compromises made) |
1790 | Hamilton’s Economic Plan |
1790 | Anglo |
1792 | 2 |
1794 | Whiskey Rebellion |
1795 | Jay’s Treaty |
1796 | Washington’s Farewell Address |
1797 | The Adams Presidency (include XYZ Affair & Alien and Sedition Acts) |
1800 | “Revolution of 1800” |
1803 | Louisiana Purchase & Lewis & Clark Expedition |
1803 | Marbury v. Madison [also include general information about the Marshall Court] |
1807 | Embargo Act |
1807 | Fulton invents the steamboat |
1811 | Construction of Cumberland Road Begins |
1812 | War of 1812 begins (discuss causes) |
1814 | Hartford Convention |
1815 | Henry Clay advocates for the “American System” |
1815 | War of 1812 Ends (explain effects |
1820 | Missouri Compromise |
1823 | Monroe Doctrine |
1823 | Stephen Austin granted land in Texas |
1824 | The Election of 1824 and the “Corrupt Bargain” |
1825 | Erie Canal completed |
1828 | 1833 |
1828 | Jackson becomes president & uses the “spoils system” |
1831 | William Lloyd Garrison founded Liberator Newspaper |
1836 | Election of 1836 & rise of mass democracy |
1836 | Lone Star Rebellion |
1837 | John C. Calhoun claimed slavery is a “positive good” |
1841 | 1845 |
1845 | 1849 |
1845 | Frederick Douglass writes The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave |
1845 | Manifest Destiny term coined by John O’Sullivan |
1846 | 1848 Mexican |
1846 | US acquired Oregon Territory (54’40 or fight!) |
1847 | Spot Resolutions |
1848 | Free Soil Party est. |
1848 | Seneca Falls Convention |
1848 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
1849 | “Know |
1850 | Compromise of 1850 & 7th of March Speech |
1851 | Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe |
1854 | 1861 |
1854 | Kansas |
1857 | Dred Scott vs. Sandford |
1859 | Harpers’ Ferry Raid by John Brown |
1860 | South Carolina Secedes from the Union |
1861 | Battle of Fort Sumter |
1861 | First Battle of Bull Run |
1861 | Outbreak of War |
1863 | Emancipation Proclamation |
1863 | Gettysburg Address |
1864 | Sherman’s March to the Sea |
1865 | End of Civil War & Assassination of Lincoln |
1865 | Est. of Freedman’s Bureau |
1865 | KKK Established & Black Codes created |
1868 | Impeachment of Andrew Johnson |
1868 | Standard Oil Trust consolidated/horizontal integration |
1869 | Knights of Labor founded |
1869 | Transcontinental Railroad completed (include government's role in railroad development) |
1871 | Boss Tweed’s corruption exposed |
1874 | Women’s Christian Temperance Union organized |
1876 | Battle of Little Bighorn |
1877 | Railroad Strikes |
1877 | Strengths & shortcomings of Reconstruction (include Compromise of 1877, Thaddeus Stevens & Radical Republicans) |
1881 | Booker T. Washington becomes head of Tuskegee Institute |
1882 | Chinese Exclusion Act |
1886 | American Federation of Labor founded |
1887 | American Protective Organization founded |
1887 | Dawes Severalty Act |
1889 | Carnegie’s “Gospel of Wealth” |
1889 | Hull House est. in Chicago |
1890 | McKinley Tariff |
1890 | National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) founded |
1890 | Sherman Antitrust Act |
1892 | Homestead Steel Strike |
1892 | Populist Party formed |
1894 | Pullman Strike |
1896 | Election of 1896 |
1896 | Emilio Aguinaldo leads rebellion against Spain (include US involvement during Spanish American War) |
1896 | Plessy v. Ferguson |
1898 | Spanish |
1898 | Teller Amendment |
1901 | Teddy Roosevelt introduces “Big Stick Diplomacy” |
1903 | Hay |
1903 | Platt Amendment |
1903 | W.E.B. DuBois publishes Talented Tenth |
1904 | Roosevelt Corollary |
1905 | Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle published |
1909 | 1913 |
1909 | 1913 |
1911 | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire |
1912 | Election of 1912 (include each party and platform they ran on) |
1914 | Outbreak of WWI ( American “neutrality” & how Americans benefited) |
1914 | Wilsonian “Moral Diplomacy” in Mexico |
1915 | Lusitania sunk (include unrestricted submarine warfare & Sussex Pledge) |
1917 | Committee on Public Information & The Home Front helps the war effort |
1917 | Zimmerman telegram & US declaration of War |
1918 | 18th Amendment (include efforts to get it passed and effects) |
1918 | American Expeditionary Force enters the War |
1918 | Wilson’s 14 Points |
1919 | Schenck v. United States |
1919 | Treaty of Versailles Negotiated (include its ultimate defeat and why it was defeated) |
1920 | 19th Amendment (include information on how women earned this before and during the war) |
1920 | Palmer Raids & the Red Scare |
1921 | Sacco |
1921 | Harding Presidency (focus on economic policies & Teapot Dome Scandal) |
1921 | Immigration Quota Act (also describe immigration act of 1924) |
1924 | Dawes Plan |
1925 | Scopes Trial |
1928 | Kellogg |
1929 | 1930 Hoover’s Response to the Depression (include Smoot |
1929 | Stock Market Crash (causes |
1933 | FDR’s “First Hundred Days” (Include Glass |
1933 | FDR’s “Good Neighbor” Policy |
1933 | London Economic Conference |
1934 | Huey Long & Share Our Wealth |
1935 | Neutrality Acts |
1937 | Court Packing Controversy |
1937 | FDR’s Quarantine Speech |
1941 | Atlantic Charter |
1941 | Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) established |
1941 | Lend |
1941 | Pearl Harbor |
1942 | Battle of Midway |
1942 | Executive Order 9066 |
1942 | War Production Board created |
1944 | D |
1945 | Atomic Bombing (include rationale & debates) |
1945 | UN created (how was it different from the League of Nations) |
1947 | Levittown & Suburbanization (include roles for women) |
1947 | National Security Act |
1948 | Berlin Blockade & Airlift |
1948 | Truman’s Fair Deal |
1950 | 1953 |
1953 | CIA sponsored coup in Iran |
1954 | Brown v. Board of Education (ruling & reaction) |
1955 | Montgomery Bus Boycott (causes & effects) |
1955 | Murder of Emmitt Till |
1956 | Federal Highway Act |
1957 | Little Rock Nine |
1957 | NASA established |
1960 | Election of 1960 (include JFK’s inauguration & New Frontier) |
1963 | Betty Friedan writes Feminine Mystique |
1963 | March on Washington |
1964 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
1965 | Johnson’s Great Society |
1968 | Tet Offensive |
1971 | Pentagon Papers leaked by Daniel Ellsberg/Credibility Gap |
1972 | Nixon visits China/Detente |
1973 | OPEC embargo |
1973 | Roe v. Wade |
1973 | US troops withdraw from Vietnam |
1974 | NIxon Resigns due to Watergate |
1978 | Jimmy Carter brokers Camp David Accords |
1979 | Moral Majority formed |
1979 | SALT II signed (should explain SALT I also) |
1983 | Star Wars (Strategic Defense Initiative) |
1987 | Iran |
1989 | Fall of Berlin Wall |
1991 | Persian Gulf War |
1992 | Watts Riots |
1994 | NAFTA created |
1999 | Clinton’s Impeachment |
2000 | Election of 2000/Bush v. Gore |
2001 | 9/11 & PATRIOT Acts & the War on Terror |
2003 | Operation Iraqi Freedom |
2005 | Hurricane Katrina |
1730s and 1740s | Great Awakening |
1820s | SECOND GREAT AWAKENING |
1830s | Indian Removal and the Trail of Tears |
1830s | Jackson Battles the US Bank |
1840s | Influx of Irish & German Immigrants |
1858 Lincoln | Douglas Debates (Freeport Doctrine) |
1868 & 1870 | 14th & 15th Amendments |
1870s | Corruption in Grant’s cabinet |
1870s | Railroads’ effects on the United States & on native americans |
1880s | Social Darwinism |
1890s | New Immigrants (who were they? What did they do once in the US? etc.) |
1890s | Yellow Journalism |
1900s (Early) | MARKET REVOLUTION |
1920s | Harlem Renaissance |
1920s | Lost Generation writers Hemingway & Fitzgerald |
1920s | Rise of consumerism |
1930s | Dust Bowl |
1930s | FDR’s New Deal (WPA, AAA, CCC, TVA & Social Security Act |
1940s & 1950s | HUAC & Red Scare (include Alger Hiss, McCarthy, the Hollywood 10, and the Rosenbergs) |
1947 & 1948 | Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan |
1960s | JFK & McNamara advocate a “flexible response” |
1960s | Protests against Vietnam War |
1960s | Radicalization of the Civil Rights Movement (include Malcolm X & Black Panthers) |
1961 & 1962 | Bay of Pigs & Cuban Missile Crisis |
1964, 1965 & 1968 | Civil Rights Acts (1964, 1965 & 1968) → include what led to the passage of each |
1980s | Reaganomics |