Oops! All Dates Flashcards
All The Dates From APUSH
1492
Columbus’s first voyage to America
1587
Establishment of Roanoke
1590
Disappearance of Roanoke
1607
Jamestown Established
1619
The House of Burgesses Established
1620
Establishment of Plymouth Colony, Mayflower Compact Established
1630
Puritans arrive in America
1651, 1660
Navigation Acts
1675-1678
King Philip’s/Metacom’s War
1676
Bacon’s Rebellion
1685-1815
Enlightenment Period
1689
Two Treatises of Government published by John Locke
1689-1763
Salutary Neglect
1692-1693
Salem Witch Trials
1720s-1740s
The First Great Awakening
1754
Albany Plan of Union
1754-1763
The French & Indian War/Seven Year’s War
1763
Treaty of Paris (Fr. & In.), Proclamation Line established
1764
Sugar Act
1765
- Stamp Act
- Quartering Act
- Stamp Act Congress
- Declaration of Rights and Grievances
- Establishment of the Sons of Liberty
1766
Declaratory Act
1767
Townshend Acts
1770
Boston Massacre
1770-1773
Quiet Period
1772
The Committee of Correspondence established
1773
Tea Act, Boston Tea Party
1774
Coercive/Intolerable Acts, First Continental Congress
1775
- Second Continental Congress
- Olive Branch Petition
- Battles of Lexington & Concord
- American Revolution begins
1776
- Common Sense published
- Declaration of Independence
- Sons of Liberty dissolved
1781
- End of the American Revolution
- Articles of Confederation established
1783
Treaty of Paris (Am. Revolution)
1786-1787
Shay’s Rebellion
1787
- The Philadelphia Convention
- Northwest Ordinance passed
1789
- Articles of Confederation ended
- Three-Fifths Compromise established
- French Revolution began
- Bill of Rights introduced
- Judiciary Act established
1790s-1840s
The Second Great Awakening
1791
Hamilton’s Plan Introduced
1794
- Jay’s Treaty
- Whiskey Rebellion
1796
- Election of John Adams
- George Washington’s Farewell Address
1797
XYZ Affair
1798
- Quasi-War
- Alien & Sedition Act signed
- Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions released
1800
Election of Thomas Jefferson
1800s-1850s
The American Romantic Period
1801
Barbary Wars
1803
Marbury vs. Madison, Louisiana Purchase
1804
Beginning of Lewis & Clark’s Journey
1807
The Chesapeake Incident, Embargo Act signed
1808
Election of James Madison, Non-Aligned Act signed
1810
Macon’s Bill No. 2
1811-1813
Tecumseh’s War
1812-1815
War of 1812
1813-1814
The Creek War
1815-1825
The Era of Good Feelings
1816-1858
The Seminole Wars
1819
McCulloch vs. Maryland, Panic of 1819
1820
The Missouri Compromise
1820s-1830s
The Market Revolution
1824
- Henry Clay’s American System
- First Corrupt Bargain
1828
Election of Andrew Jackson, Tariff of 1828/Abominations
1830
- Indian Removal Act
- Birth of Mormonism
1830s-1840s
The Trail of Tears
1830s-1850s
Life span of the Whig Party
1832
Tariff of 1832
1832-1836
The Bank War
1833
Nullification Crisis & Force Bill
1835-1836
The Texas Revolution
1837
Panic of 1837
1844
Election of James K. Polk
1846
The Wilmot Proviso
1846-1848
Mexican-American War
1848
Seneca Falls Convention
1849
California Gold Rush
1850
Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act
1852
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Published
1853
The Gadsen Purchase
1854
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Collapse of the Whig Party
- Publishing of “The Angel in the House”
1855-1858
Bleeding Kansas
1856
Caning in the Senate, election of James Buchanan
1872
“American Progress” released
1857
- Scott v. Sanford
- Panic of 1857
1858
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
1859
John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry
1860
- Election of Abraham Lincoln
- South Carolina secedes from the Union
1861
- Beginning of the Civil War
- Lincoln suspends the Writ of Habeas Corpus
1862
- The Emancipation Proclamation
- The Homestead Act
1863
- The transcontinental railroad began construction
- The Gettysburg Address
- The 10% plan
1864
- Wade-Davis bill
- Sand Creek massacre
1865
- Freedman’s Bureau was Established
- The end of the Civil War
- Lincoln was assassinated
- The 13th Amendment was ratified
- KKK established
1866
14th amendment ratified
1867
- Beginning of radical reconstruction
- Alaska was purchased
- Granger Movement began
1868
- Impeachment of Johnson
- Election of Ulysses S. Grant
1870
The 15th Amendment
1870s-1880s
- Rise of Social Darwinism
- The Farmer’s Alliance
1870-1914
Second Industrial Revolution
1870s-1920s
- The Gilded Age
- Social Gospel Movement
1871
William “Boss” Tweed exposed by Thomas Nast
1873
Panic of 1873
1876
- The invention of the telephone
- Custer’s last stand
- 2nd corrupt bargain
- The election of Rutherford B. Hayes
- The end of radical reconstruction
1876-1877
The Great Sioux War
1882
Chinese Exclusion Act passed
1883
Pendleton Civil Service Act passed
1886
Samuel Gompers formed the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
1887
Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) established
1889
“The Gospel of Wealth” was published
1890
- The Pan-American Union was formed
- The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was passed
- The Sherman Silver Purchase Act passed
- The McKinley Tariff was established
- “The Influence of Sea Power Upon History” was published
- “How the Other Half Lived” was published
- The peak of the Ghost Dance movement
1890s-1920s
The Progressive Era
1893
Panic of 1893
1895-1898
The Cuban Revolution
1896
“Cross of Gold” speech given, William McKinley elected
1898
The Teller Amendment, The Spanish-American War, Treaty of Paris (Sp-Am)
1899
The Hull House was built, “The White Man’s Burden” was written, James Dole arrived in Hawaii
1899-1901
The Boxer Rebellion
1901
Theodore Roosevelt assumes office after William Mckinley’s assassination
1903
The Platt Amendment
1904
The National Child Labor Committee was founded, The Roosevelt Corollary was articulated
1904-1914
The Panama Canal was built
1905
The Bureau of Forestry was expanded by Roosevelt
1906
“The Jungle” was published
1907
The Great White Fleet sailed
1909
The NAACP was founded, declaration of London
1910
Mann Act passed
1912
Woodrow Wilson was elected
1913
The 16th Amendment was ratified, the 17th Amendment was established, Underwood Simmons Tariff/Revenue Act signed into law
1914
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated
- July crisis
- UNIA founded
- Guns of August
- FTC was established
1915
Lusitania sinks
1916
Sussex sinks, Sussex pledge, Margaret Sanger opened the first US birth control clinic
1917
- Zimmerman Telegram intercepted
- Espionage Act
- Selective Service/Draft Act
- Americans enter Europe
- The Russian Revolution
1918
Woodrow Wilson’s 14 points, Sedition Act
1919
18th Amendment ratified, Treaty of Versailles
1920
League of Nations, 19th Amendment ratified, the Short Recession, Harlem Renaissance
1921
Committee of Public Information
1924
Dawes/Young Plan
1925
Scopes Monkey Trial
1928
Kellogg-Briand Pact
1929
Black Tuesday & Black Thursday, the Beginning of the Great Depression
1930-1936
Dust Bowl
1932
FDR elected
1933
Emergency Banking Act, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, 21st Amendment ratified
1933-1944
Fireside Chats
1934
Securities & Exchange Commission
1935
Social Security Act, 1st Neutrality Act
1937
Court-Packing Plan, 2nd Neutrality Act
1938
House of Un-American Activities (HUAC) formed
1939
Cash & Carry Policy
1940
National Defense Research Committee
1941
Lend-Lease Act, Atlantic Charter, Pearl Harbor, Office of Price Administration, Office of Science Research and Development
1942
Manhattan Project, Executive Order 9066
1944
G.I. Bill passed
1946
The Long Telegram, Iron Curtain speech, Employment Act
1946-1964
The Baby Boom
1947
- Truman Doctrine
- Taft-Hartley Act
- National Security Act
- Joint Chief of Staff
- First Levittown built
1947-1948
Marshall Plan
1947-1991
The Cold War
1948
US allies with Israel, Executive Order 9981, “Beat Generation” coined
1948-1949
Berlin Blockade, Berlin Airlift
1949
- Truman proposes the “Fair Deal”
- NATO formed
- West Germany formed
- Alger Hiss trials begin
- Chinese Communist Revolution
- Russia develops an atomic bomb
- East Germany formed
1950
- Beginning of McCarthyism
- Beginning of the Lavender Scares
- Internal Report 68
- McCarran International Security Act passed
- Beginning of the Rosenburg trials
- Rise of teenage culture
1950-1953
The Korean War
1951
22nd Amendment ratified
1952
Dwight D. Eisenhower elected
1953
“The Crucilble” was released, Executive Order 10450 was signed, Operation Ajax begins
1954
Brown v. Board of Education, Operation PBSUCCESS
1955
Warsaw Pact, Brown II, Montgomery Bus Boycotts
1955-1975
Vietnam War
1956
National Highway System began construction, Suez Crisis, Hungarian Revolution
1957
Eisenhower Doctrine, Little Rock 9, Sputnik launched
1958
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was formed, National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) was formed
1959
Cuban Revolution
1960
- Greensboro sit-ins
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commission (SNCC)
- Kennedy-Nixon debates
- Ruby Bridges begins school
1960s-1970s
Period of detente
1961
- JFK inaugurated
- Eisenhower’s Farewell Address
- Bay of Pigs Invasion
- Freedom Riders began traveling
- Berlin Wall built
1962
James Meredith enrolls at the University of Mississippi, Cuban Missile Crisis
1963
- The Feminine Mystique” published
- Birmingham Campaign
- Letter from Birmingham Jail
- “Ich Bin Ein Berliner” Speech
- March on Washington DC
- “I Have a Dream” Speech
- JFK assassinated
1964
- Freedom Summer
- Freedom Summer Murders
- Great Society Plan
- Civil Rights Act
- Gulf of Tonkin Incident
- The Midnight Address
- Economic Opportunity Act
1965
March from Selma, Immigration Act, Voting Rights Act
1968
- Tet Offensive
- My Lai Massacre
- MLK’s assassination
- RFK’s assassination
- Richard Nixon elected
1969
- US Moon Landing
- Woodstock Festival
- Vietnam Draft Lottery
- Chicago 7 Trial
1970
Kent State Shooting, Jackson State Shooting
1971
The Pentagon Papers
1972
SALT I, Watergate Scandal
1973
Roe v. Wade, 1973 Oil Crisis
1974
Nixon resigned, Gerald Ford inaugurated, 3rd corrupt bargain
1978
Camp David Accords
1978-1979
Iranian Revolution
1979
SALT II, Malaise Speech/Crisis of Confidence Speech, Iranian Hostage Crisis
1980
Election of Ronald Reagan, the beginning of new conservatism
1981
Beginning or Reaganomics, beginning of the AIDS epidemic
1982
Nancy Reagan introduces “Just Say No”
1983
Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)
1985
Iron Contra Affair
1986
Glasnost introduced in Russia
1987
Reagan’s “Tear down this wall!” speech, Perestroika introduced in Russia, Black Monday
1988
Dukakis’s “tank” speech, Goerge H. W. Bush elected
1989
Invasion of Panama
1991
The Gulf War, Soviet Collapse
1992
Election of Bill Clinton
1993
Whitewatergate
1998
Monicagate
2000
Florida recount, the election of Goerge W. Bush
2001
9/11