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APUSH dates
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1492 | Columbus' first voyage |
| 1607 | Jamestown was discovered |
| 1649 | Toleration Act |
| 1688 | Glorious Revolution |
| 1692 | Salem Witch Trials |
| 1754-1763 | Seven Years' War |
| 1763 | Proclamation of 1763 |
| 1765 | Stamp Act |
| 1770 | Boston Massacre |
| 1773 | Boston Tea Party |
| 1775 | Lexington and Concord |
| 1776 | Declaration of Independence |
| 1777 | Battle of Saratoga |
| 1781 | Battle of Yorktown |
| 1783 | Treaty of Paris |
| 1787 | Constitutional Convention |
| 1788 | Washington's Election |
| 1798 | XYZ Affair |
| 1798 | Alien and Sedition Acts |
| 1800 | Jefferson's Election |
| 1803 | Louisiana Purchase |
| 1812-1815 | War of 1812 |
| 1815 | Battle of New Orleans |
| 1816-1824 | Era of Good Feelings |
| 1820 | Missouri Compromise |
| 1823 | Monroe Doctrine |
| 1820s | Sectionalism |
| 1828 | Jackson's election |
| 1830 | Indian Removal Act |
| 1832 | Nat Turner's Rebellion |
| 1830-1850 | Manifest Destiny |
| 1836 | Battle of the Alamo |
| 1845 | Annexation of Texas |
| 1845-1848 | Mexican-American War |
| 1848 | Seneca Falls Convention |
| 1850 | Fugitive Slave Law |
| 1852 | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| 1854 | Bleeding Kansas |
| 1857 | Dred Scott Case |
| 1860 | Lincoln's Election |
| 1861-1865 | Civil War |
| 1862 | Homestead Act |
| 1863 | Gettysburg Address |
| 1867 | Purchase of Alaska |
| 1876 | Little Bighorn |
| 1886 | Haymarket Square |
| 1887 | Dawes Act |
| 1887 | Interstate Commerce |
| 1890 | Wounded Knee |
| 1890 | Sherman Antitrust Act |
| 1894 | Pullman Strike |
| 1896 | "Cross of Gold" speech |
| 1896 | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| 1898 | Annexation of Hawaii |
| 1898 | Spanish American War |
| 1903 | Wright Brothers |
| 1917 | US enters WWI |
| 1920 | Women's suffrage |
| 1920s | Red Scare |
| 1920s | Prohibition |
| 1929 | Stock Market Crash |
| 1935 | Social Security Act |
| 1939 | WWII starts in Europe |
| 1941 | Attack on Pearl Harbor |
| 1944 | D-Day |
| 1945 | Nagasaki and Hiroshima droppings |
| 1945-1991 | Cold War |
| 1947 | Truman Doctrine |
| 1950-1953 | Korean War |
| 1950s | McCarthyism |
| 1954 | Brown v. Board of Ed |
| 1955 | Montgomery Bus Boycott |
| 1957 | Sputnik |
| 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| 1963 | March on Washington |
| 1963 | JFK assassinated |
| 1964 | Civil Rights Act |
| 1968 | MLK killed |
| 1968 | Tet Offensive |
| 1968 | Chicago Convention |
| 1969 | moon landing |
| 1972 | Watergate break-in |
| 1973 | Roe v. Wade |
| 1979 | Iranian hostage crisis |
| 1980 | Reagan elected |
| 1989 | Cold War ends |
| 1991 | Persian Gulf War |
| 1994 | Contract with America |
| 1995 | Oklahoma City Bombing |
| 2000 | Bush v. Gore |
| 2001 | 9/11 Attacks |
| 2008 | Great Recession |
| 2011 | Affordable Care Act |