APUSH Key Dates

Columbus sails to America

Jamestown settlement

First African slaves arrive at Jamestown

Plymouth plantation, creation of Mayflower Contract

Puritans found Massachusetts Bay Colony

Bacon's rebellion

1st Great Awakening

French and Indian War

Stamp Act

Boston Massacre

Boston Tea Party

American Revolution

Shays Rebellion

Constitutional Convention

Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin

Whiskey Rebellion

Louisiana Purchase

War of 1812

Missouri Compromise

Monroe Doctrine

Andrew Jackson Elected

Indian Removal Act

Trail of Tears

Second Great Awakening

Nat Turner Rebellion, "Liberator" published

Seneca Falls Convention; Declaration of Women's Rights

Mexican War begins

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Dred Scott

Fort Sumter--Start of Civil War

End of Civil War, Lincoln assassinated

13th Amendment- Free

14th Amendment- Citizens

15th Amendment- Vote

Transcontinental railroad complete

End of reconstruction

Plessy v. Ferguson, separate but equal

Spanish-American War

WWI

Zimmerman telegram intercepted, US enters WWI

19th Amendment (Women’s Right to Vote)

Stock market crashes

FDR Inaugurated, first 100 days of New Deal, 21st amendment ratified (undo prohibition)

Pearl Harbor

End of WWII, VE Day, VJ Day, Atomic bomb dropped on Japan

Brown V. Board of Education

Little Rock, Sputnik

March on Washington, Birmingham, Kennedy Assasination

Civil Rights Act

Voting Rights Act

Tet Offensive, MLK assassinated, Robert Kennedy Assassinated

Reagen elected

Election of Obama, first black president