APUSH Dates To Know

1588 Sinking of the Spanish Armada 1607 Founding of Jamestown 1636 Founding of Harvard University 1676 Bacons Rebellion 1734-1760 Great Awakening (1st) 1739 Stono Rebellion in SC 1754 Albany Plan 1754-1763 French and Indian War 1765 Stamp Act 1767 Townshend Acts 1770 Boston Massacre 1773 Boston Tea Party 1774 Intolerable Acts 1775 Shots heard Round the World 1776 Wealth of Nations published 1781-1787 Articles of Confederation in effect 1783 Treaty of Paris 1785 Land Ordinance 1786-7 Shays Rebellion 1787 Northwest Ordinance 1788 Constitution Ratified 1791 Bill of rights ratified 1793 Cotton Gin invented 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts 1803 Louisiana Purchase 1803 Marbury vs. Madison 1807 Embargo Act 1808 International Slave Trade Outlawed 1814 Treaty of Ghent 1815 Battle of New Orleans 1817 American Colonization Society Est. 1820 Missouri Compromise 1823 Monroe Doctrine 1824 Corrupt Bargain 1824 Hudson River School of Painting 1831 Garrisons The Liberator 1831 Nat Turners Rebellion 1832-3 South Carolina Nullification crisis 1834 Lowell Mill Girls Protest 1840 Margaret Fuller edits The Dial 1846-8 Mexican War 1848 Seneca Falls Convention 1849 California Gold Rush 1850 Compromise/California admitted 1851 Sojourner Truths speech Aint I A Woman 1852 Uncle Toms Cabin published 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act 1857 Dred Scott Decision 1859 John Browns raid on Harpers Ferry 1860 Election of Lincoln 1861-5 Civil War 1863 Emancipation Proclamation issued 1865 13th Amendment 1870 15th Amendment 1870 Rockefeller forms Standard Oil 1874 WCTU founded 1877 Hayes Elected 1881 A Century of Dishonor published 1881 Tuskegee Institute founded 1886 American Federation of Labor 1886 Haymarket Square 1887 Dawes Severalty Act 1889 Hull House Founded 1890 Influence of Sea Power upon History 1892 Homestead Strike 1894 Pullman Strike 1895 Washingtons Atlanta Compromise 1896 Plessy v Ferguson 1898 Spanish-American War 1899, 1900 Open Door Notes 1904 Roosevelt Corollary 1904-1914 Panama Canal Constructed 1906 The Jungle published 1910 NAACP founded 1913 Federal Reserve Act 1914-1918 World War I 1916 Sanger est. NY Birth Control League 1917 Zimmerman Note 1917 U.S. entered WWI 1919 Treaty of Versailles 1919 18th Amendment 1920 19th Amendment 1923 Teapot Dome scandal 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial 1929 Stock Market Crash 1930 Hawley Smoot Tariff 1932 Bonus Army dispersed from D.C. 1933 FDRs hundred days Congress 1935 CIO founded 1935-7 Neutrality Acts 1939 WWII began in Europe 1941 Lend-Lease Act 1941 Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor 1944 D-Day

1945 Yalta Conference 1945 Atomic bombs dropped on Japan 1947 Marshall Plan 1947 Truman Doctrine 1947 Jackie Robinson Integrates Major League Baseball 1948-9 Berlin Airlift 1949 NATO established 1950 McCarthy red-hunt began 1950-3 Korean War 1954 Brown v. Board of Education 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott 1956 Elvis Presley Hits #1 with Heartbreak Hotel 1957 U.S.S.R. launched Sputnik 1959 Castro leads Cuban Revolution 1960 Greensboro Sit-Ins 1960 Birth Control Pill made available 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion

1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 1963 March on Washington 1963 JFK assassinated 1964 Tonkin Gulf Resolution 1964 Civil Rights Act 1965 Malcolm X assassinated 1965 Voting Rights Act 1966 Black Power; NOW founded 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam 1968 MLK assassinated 1969 Astronauts landed on the moon 1969 Woodstock Music Festival 1971 Pentagon Papers published 1972-1982 ERA ratification considered 1973 Roe v. Wade 1973-4 Watergate Crisis 1978 Camp David Accords 1979-81 Iranian Hostage Crisis