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APUSH Timeline
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Created by:
mconnor12