APUSH

TIMELINE

Time Period: Pre 1400'sand1400's

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B. C .
+First humans cross into the Americas from Asia
5000 B.C.
+Corn is developed as staple crop in highlandMexic
o
4000 B.C.
+First civilized societies developed in Middle East
1200 B.C.
+Corn planting reaches present-day AmericanSouth
west
1100 A.D.
+Height of Mississippian settlement at C ahokia
+Christian crusades arouse European
1295
+Marco Polo returns to Europe
1300
+Interest grew in Europe over the East
1400's
+Spain Becomes united
1488
+Diaz rounds the Southern tip of Africa
1492
+Columbus lands in the Bahamas
1494
+Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal
1498
+Da Gama reaches India
+C abot explores Northeastern Coast of North Ame
rica for
England
Time Period: 1500's
1513

+Ponce d e Leon explores Florida

1517
+Martin Luther begins Protestant Reformation
1521
+Cortes conquers Mexico for Spain
1522
+Magellan circumnavigates the world
1524
+Verrazano explores eastern seaboard of NA for Fr
ance
1532
+Pizarro conquers the Incas
1534
+C artier journeys up the St. Lawrence River
1536
+John C alvin of Geneva publishes the Institutes of
C hristian Religion
1539
+De Soto explores the Southeast and discovers the
Mississippi River
1540
+Coronado explores present-day Southwest
1542
+C abrillo explores C alifornia Coast for Spain
1558
+Elizabeth I becomes the Queen of England
1565
+Spanish build fortress in St. Augustine
1577
+Drake circumnavigates the globe
1585
+Raleigh found Roanoke
1588
+England defeats the Spanish Armada
1590
+English crush Irish uprising
1598
+Edict of Nantes
Time Period: 1600's
1603
+James I becomes king of England
1604
+Spain and England sign peace treaty
1607
+Virginia colony founded at Jamestown
1608
+C hamplain colonizes Quebec for France

1609
+Spanish found New Mexico
1612
+Rolfe perfects tobacco culture in Virginia
1614
+First Anglo-Powhatan War ends
1619
+First Africans arrive in Jamestown
+Virginia House of Burgesses established
1620
+Pilgrims sail on the Mayflower to Plymouth Bay
1624
+Dutch found New Netherland
+Virginia becomes royal colony
1625
+Population of English colonies in America about 2
000
1629
+C harles I dismisses Parliament and persecutes Pu
ritans
1630
+Puritans found Massachusetts Bay Colony
1634
+Maryland colony founded
1635
+Connecticut and New Haven colonies
+Roger Williams convicted of heresy
1636
+Harvard College founded
+Roger Williams found Rhode Island colony
1637
+Pequot War
1638
+Anne Hutchinson banished from MA colony
1639
+Connecticut's Fundamental Order
1640's
+Large scale slave-labor system in English West In
dies
1643
+New England C onfederation formed
+Lou is XIV becom es k ing of France
1644
+Second Anglo-Powhatan War
16 4 8
+English C ivil War
16 4 9
+Act of Toleration in Maryland

+C romwell rules England after C harles I beheaded

1650
+William Bradford completes Of Plymouth Plantati
on
1655
+First Navigation Laws control colonial commerce
+New Netherland conquers New Sweden
1660
+Charles II restores to English throne
1661
+Barbados slave code adopted
1662
+Half-Way Covenant for Congregation Church memb
ership
1664
+England seized New Netherland from Dutch
+East and West Jersey founded
1670
+Virginia assembly disfranchise landless freeman
1675
+King Philip's War (last until 1676)
1676
+Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia
1680
+Mass expansion of slavery in colonies (1680's)
+Pope's Rebellion in New Mexico
1681
+William Penn founded Pennsylvania colony
1682
+La Salle explores Mississippi River
1686
+Dom inion of New England
1688
+Glorious Revolution
1689
+King William's War
1691
+Leisler's Rebellion in New York
1692
+Salem witch trials in Massachusetts
1693
+College of William and Mary founded
1696
+Board of Trade assumed governance of colonies
1698
+Royal African Company slave trade monopoly ende
d

Time Period: 1700's

1700
+Population of English colonies in America about 2
50k
1701
+Yale College found
1702
+Queen Anne's War
1711
+Tuscarora War in North C arolina
1712
+North C arolina formally separate from South C ar
olina
+New York slave revolt
1715
+Yamasee War in South Carolina
1718
+French found New Orleans
1725
+Smallpox inoculation introduced
1732
+First edition of Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac
1733
+Georgia colony founded
1734
+Zenger Press Trial in New York
1738
+Jonathan Edwards begins the Great Awakening
1739
+George Whitefield spreads Great Awakening
+War of Jenkins's Ear
+South C arolina slave revolt
1744
+King George's War
1746
+Princeton College founded
1750
+Industrial Revolution in Britain
1754
+Washington battles French on frontier
+Albany Congress
+Seven Years'War (French and Indian War)
1755
+Braddock's defeat
1757
+Pitt emerges as leader of British government
1759
+Battle of Quebec

1760
+Britain vetoes South C arolina anti-slave trade m
easure
1763
+Seven Years'War ends
+Treaty of Paris
+Pontiac's uprising
+Proclamation of 1763
1764
+Sugar Act
+Paxton Boys march on Philadelphia Brown Colleg
e
1765
+Quartering Act
+Stamp Act
+Stamp Act Congress
1766
+Declaratory Act
1767
+Townshend Acts
+New York legislature suspended by Parliament
1768
+British troops occupy Boston
1769
+Dartmouth College founded
+Serra founded first C alifornia mission in San Dieg
o
1770
+Boston Massacre
+All Townshend Acts except tea tax repealed
1771
+Regulator protests
1772
+Committees of Correspondence formed
1773
+British East India C ompany granted tea monopoly
+Governor Hutchinson's actions provoke Boston Te
a Party
1774
+Intolerable Acts
+Quebec Act
+First Continental Congress
+The Association boycotted British goods
+First Continental Congress calls for abolition of sl
avetrade
1775
+Battle of Lexington and Concord

+Second Continental Congress

+Americans captured British garrisons at Ticondero
ga and
C rown Point
+Battle of Bunker Hill
+King George III declared colonies in rebellion
+Failed invasion of C anada
+Philadelphia Quakers found world's first antislave
rysociety
1776
+Paine's Common Sense
+Declaration of Independence
+Battle of Trenton
+New Jersey's constitution give women temporary v
otingrights
1777
+Articles of Confederation adopted by Second Conti
nental
Congress
+Battle of Brandywine
+Battle of Germantown
+Battle of Saratoga
1780
+Massachusetts adopted first constitution drafted i
nconvention
and ratified by popular vote
1781
+Battle of King's Mountain
+Battle of Cowpens
+Greene leads C arolina campaign
+Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown
+Articles of Confederation enacted
1782
+North's ministry collapsed in Britain
1783
+Military officers form Society of the C incinnati
+Treaty of Paris
1784
+Treaty of Fort Stanwix
1785
+Land Ordinance of 1785
1786
+Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
+Shay's Rebellion
+Meeting of five states to discuss revision of the A
rticlesof Confederation
1787
+Northwest Ordinance

+Constitution Convention in Philadelphia

1788
+Ratification of nine states guarantee Constitution
1789
+Constitution formally adopted
+Judiciary Act of 1789
+Washington elected President
+French Revolution begins
1790
+First official census
1791
+Bill of Rights adopted
+Vermont became the 14th state
+Bank of the United States created
+Excise taxes passed
+Samuel Slater builds first U.S textile factory
1792
+Federalists and Democratic-Republic formed
+Washington reelected as President
1793
+Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin
+Eli Whitney's transforms Southern economy
1794
+Whiskey Rebellion
+Battle of Fallen Timbers
+Jay's Treaty with Britain
+ Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason
1795
+Treaty of Greenville (Indians ceded Ohio)
+Pinckney's Treaty with Spain
1796
+Washington's farewell address
1797
+John Adam s becom es President
+XYZ Affair
1798
+Whitney design interchangeable parts for muskets
+Alien and Sedition Acts
+Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
1799
+Undeclared war with France
Time Period: 1800's
1800
+Convention of 1800
+Jefferson defeats Adams for President
+Second Great Awakening
+Gabriel slave rebellion in Virginia

1801
+Naval War with Tripoli
+ Judiciary Act of 1801
1802
+Revise naturalization law
+Judiciary Act of 1801 repealed
1803
+Marbury v. Madison
+Louisiana Purchase
1805
+Peace Treaty with Tripoli
1806
+Burr treason trial
1807
+Chesapeake affair
+Embargo Act
+Robert Fulton's first steamboat
+Embargo affect American economy
1808
+Madison elected as President
+Congress outlaws slave trading
1809
+Non-Intercourse Act replaces EmbargoAct
1810
+Fletcher v. Peck of Supreme Court invalidate state
laws
deemed unconstitutional
+Macon's Bill #2
+Napoleon announces repeal of blockade decrees
+Madison reestablished non-importation against B
ritain
1811
+Battle of Tippecanoe
+Cumberland Road construction begins
1812
+American invasions of Canada fail
+US declares war on Britain
+Madison reelected as President
1813
+Battle of the Thames
+Battle of Lak e Erie
1814
+Hartford Convention
+Battle of Plattsburgh
+British burns Washington
+Battle of Horseshoe Bend
+Treaty of Ghent signed ending War of 1812

1815
+Battle of New Orleans
1816
+Second Band of the United States founded
+Protective Tariff of 1816
+Monroe elected President
1817
+Madison vetoes C alhoun's Bonus Bill
+Rush-Bagot agreement limits naval armament
Lakes
+Erie C anal construction began
+American C olonization Society formed
on GreatLakes
1818
+Treaty of 1818 with Britain
+Jackson invades Florida
1819
+Panic of 1819
+Ad am -Onis Treaty
+Spain cedes Florida to United States
+McC ulloch v. Maryland
+Dartmouth College v. Woodward
1820
+Missouri Compromise
+Missouri and Main admitted to Union
+Land Act of 1820
+Monroe reelected as President
1821
+Conhens v. Virginia
+Cooper's The Spy
+Emma Willard and the Troy Female Seminary
1822
+Vesey slave conspiracy in C harleston, SouthC arol
ina
1823
+Mexico opens Texas to American settlers
1824
+Russo-American Treaty of 1824
+Gibbons v. Ogden
+Election decided by the House of Representative
1825
+John Quincy Adams elected as President
+New Harmony Commune
+Erie Canal
1826
+American Temperance Society
1828
+Tariff of Abominations

+Jackson elected as President

+The South Carolina Exposition
+Noah Webster published his dictionary
+American Peace Society
1829
+Walker's Appeal to the Colored C itizens of the Wo
rld
1830
+Indian Removal Act
+Joseph Smith and Mormon Church
+Finney conducts revivals in Eastern cities
+Cyrus McCormick invented the mechanical mower-r
eaper
1831
+Nat Turner's rebellion in Virginia
+Garrison and The Liberator
+Virginia legislature debates slavery and emancipa
tion
1832
+Bank War
+Tariff of 1832
+Black Hawk War
+Jackson reelected as President against Clay
+South C arolina nullification crisis
1833
+Compromise of 1833
+Jackson removes federal deposits from Bank of
the United
States
+England abolish slavery in West Indies
+American Anti-Slavery Society founded
1834
+Anti-C atholic Riot in Boston
+Abolitionist students expelled from Lane Theologi
cal
Seminary
1835
+Lyceum m ovem en t
+U.S. Post Office orders the destruction of abolitio
nistmail
+"Broadcloth Mob" attacks Garrison
1836
+Bank of the United States expire
+Specie C ircular
+Bureau of Indian Affairs
+Battle of the Alamo
+Battle of San Jacinto
+Texas wins independence from Mexico

+Van Buren elected as President

+Gag Resolution
1837
+Seminole Indians defeated and removed from Flori
da
+US recognizes Texas but refused annexation
+Panic of 1837
+Mob k ills Lovejoy in Alton, Illinois
+C anadian rebellion and C aroline incident
1838
+John Deere developed steel plow
+Oberlin College admits females
+Mary Lyon and Mount Holyoke Seminary
+Emerson and "The American Scholar" address
1839
+ W e l d ' s A m e r i c a n S l a v e r y A s I t Is
1840
+Buren established 10-hour day for federal
+Independent treasury
+Harrison elected as President
+Antislavery Liberty party formation employee
1841
+Brook Farm commune established
+Tyler became President after the death of Harris
on
1842
+Commonwealth v. Hunt
+Aroostook War over Maine boundary
+Wester-Asheburton treaty
1843
+Dorothea Dix and the mentally ill
+Clipper ships
1844
+Samuel Morse and the telegraph
+Anti-C atholic Riot in Philadelphia
+Polk elected as President against Clay
+Treaty of Wanghia
1845
+Irish Potato Famine
+Frederick Douglass publishes Narrative of
fe of
Frederick Douglass
+United States annexed Texas
1846
+Mormon migration to Utah
+Elias Howe invents sewing machine
+Walker Tariff

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+Independent treasury restored

+Oregon dispute with Britain
+United States and Mexico fought over Texas bound
ary
+Kearny takes Santa Fe
+Fremont takes C alifornia in Bear Flag Revolt
+Wilmot Proviso passes in the House of Represent
atives
1847
+Scott takes control of Mexico C ity
1848
+First general incorporation laws in New York
+Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention
+Oneida Community
+Free-Soil Party
+Mexican War ended with the Treaty of Guadalup
e Hidalgo
+Taylor elected President against C ass and Van B
uren
1849
+Know-Nothing Party
+C alifornia Gold Rush
1850
+Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
+Fillmore became President in place of Taylor (he d
ied)
+Compromise of 1850 (includes the Fugitive Slave L
aw)
+Clayton-Bulwer Treaty with Britain
1851
+Melville's Moby Dick
+Maine passes law prohibiting liquor
1852
+Cumberland Road completion
+Pierce elected President against Scott
+Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin
1853
+Gadsden Purchase from Mexico
1854
+Commodore Perry opens Japan
+Ostend Manifesto proposes seizure of Cuba
+Kansas-Nebraska Act
+Republican Party formation
1855
+Whitman's Leaves of Grass
1856
+Buchanan elected president against Fremont and
Fillmore

+Sumner beats Brooks in Senate

+Brown's Pottawatomie Massacre
+Bleeding Kansas (ends in 1860)
1857
+Dred Scott decision
+Lecompton Constitution rejected
+Panic of 1857
+Tariff of 1857
+Hinton R. Helper and The Impending C risis of the
South
1858
+Cyrus Field and the transatlantic cable
1859
+Brown raids Harpers Ferry
+ Charles Darwin and his book
1860
+Pony Express established
+Lincoln elected President
+South C arolina secedes from
+C rittenden Compromise fails
1861
+First transcontinental telegraph
+Seven seceding states form the C onfederate State
s of
America
+Lincoln takes office (March 4)
+Fort Sumter attacked (April 12)
+Four upper South states secede
+Trent affair
+Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus
+First Battle of Bull Run
1862
+Confederacy enacts conscription
+Homestead Act
+Grant takes Fort Henry and Fort
+Battle of Shiloh
+McClellan's Peninsula Campaign
+Seven Days'Battles
+Second Battle of Bull Run
+Naval battle of the Merrimack and the Monitor
+Battle of Antietam
+Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
+Battle of Fredericksburg
+Northern army seizes New Orleans
+ Tr a n s c o n t i n e n t a l R a i l r o a d a u t h o r i z e d
+Morrill Act
1863
+Union enacts conscription

+New York C ity draft riots

+National Banking System established
+Napoleon III installs Archduke Maximilian as empe
ror of
Mexico
+Final Emancipation Proclamation
+Battle of Chancellorsville
+Battle of Gettysburg
+Fall of Vicksburg
+Fall of Port Hudson
+Lincoln announces "10percent" Reconstruction plan
1864
+The Alabam a sunk by Union warship
+Sherman's march through Georgia
+Grant's Wilderness Campaign
+Battle of Cold Harbor
+Lincoln reelected President over McC lellan
+LincolnvetoesWade-DavisBill
1865
+Hampton Roads C onference
+Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox
+Lincoln assassinated
+Thirteenth Amendment ratified
+Lincolnassassinated
+JohnsonissuesReconstructionproclamation
+Freedmen'sBureau
+Black CodesinSouth
1866
+Permanent transatlantic cable established
+Civil Rights Bill
+14thAmendment
+ExParteMilligancase
+KKK Forms
+ Nation Labor Union
+ASPCA created
1867
+ Re c o n s t r u c t i o n A c t
+ Te n u r e o f O ffi c e A c t
+ U S p u rc h a s e s A l a s ka f ro m Ru s s i a
1868
+Johnson impeached
+Johnson pardons Confederate leaders
+Grant defeats Seymour for presidency
1869
+15th Amendment
+ Fi s k a n d G o u l d c o r n e r g o l d m a r k e t
+ Tr a n s c o n t i n e n t a l R a i l r o a d j o i n e d a t O g d e n , U t a h

+Knight of Labor formed

+Wyoming gives women rights to vote
1870
+15th Amendment
+ Fo rc e Ac t s
+Standa rd Oil Company
1871
+ Tw e e d R i n g
1872
+ Fr e e d m e n ' s B u r e a u E n d e d
+Credit Mobilier scandal
+ L i b e r a l Re p u b l i c a n s s t o p s u p p o r t i n g G r a n t
+Grant defeats Greeley for Presidency
1873
+ Pa n i c o f 1 8 7 3
+Comstock Law
1874
+ W o m e n ' s C h r i s t i a n Te m p e r a n c e U n i o n ( W C T U )
1875
+ W h is ke y Rin g
+Civil Rights Act of 1875
+ Re s u m p t i o n A c t
1876
+ Ha ye s vs . Ti lde n f or Pre s ide ncy
+Bell invents telephone
+John Hopkins University created
1877
+ Re c o n s t r u c t i o n e n d s
+Compromise of 1877
+ Ra il roa d S t rike
1878
1879
+Edison invents electric light
+ He n ry Ge o rge pu bl is h es Prog re ss a n d Pov e rty
+ D u m b b e l l Te n e m e n t
+Salvation Army
1880
+ G a r fi e l d v s . H a n c o c k f o r P r e s i d e n c y
1881
+ G a r fi e l d w a s a s s a s s i n a t e d - > A r t h u r b e c o m e s p r e s i d e n t
+ B o o k e r T. Wa s h i n g t o n b e c o m e s h e a d o f Tu s k e g e e I n s t i t u t e
+ A m e r i c a n Re d C r o s s
1882
+Chinese Exclusion Act
1883
+Civil Rights Cases
+ Pe n d l e t o n Ac t
1884

+Cleveland vs. Blaine for Presidency

+ H u c k l e b e r r y Fi n n p u b l i s h e d
1885
+ Fi r s t s k y s c r a p e r b u i l t b y S u l l i v a n
+Linotype invented
1886
+ H a y ma rke t S q u a re b om b in g
+ Wa b a s h c a s e
+ A m e r i c a n Fe d e r a t i o n o f L a b o r
+Statue of Liberty
1887
+Interstate Commerce Act
+ A PA f o r m e d
+Hatch Act
1888
+Harrison vs. Cleveland for Presidency
+Edward Bellamy and Looking Backwa rd
1889
+ Re e d b e c o m e s S p e a ke r o f t h e H o u s e
+Jane Addams founded Hull House in Chicago
1890
+Billion-Dollar Congress
+ M c K i n l e y Ta r i ff A c t
+Sherman Silver Purchase Act
+ S h e r m a n A n t i -Tr u s t A c t
+ N a t i o n a l A m e r i c a n W o m a n S u ff r a g e A s s o c i a t i o n f o r m e d
1891
+ Bas ke t b a ll in v e n t e d
1892
+ S t rike s
+Cleveland wins Presidency
1893
+Depression of 1893
+Anti-Saloon League formed
+ L i l l y Wa l d o p e n s H e n r y S t r e e t S e t t l e m e n t i n N Y
+Columbian Exposition
1894
+ W i l s o n G o r m a n Ta r i ff
1895
+JP Morgan loans $65 million to government
1896
+ P l e s s y v. Fe r g u s o n
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
+United States Steel Corporation formed

1910
+National Association for the Advancement of the Colored
Pe op le ( N A AC P) fou n de d