APUSH Timeline

By ACE918
  • 1492

    Columbus lands in Bahamas

  • 1508

    Spanish establish Puerto Rico

    First permanent European colony
  • Oct 31, 1517

    Martin Luther's 95 Theses

  • 1521

    Cortes defeats Aztec Empire

  • 1533

    Fall of the Incas - Francisco Pizzaro

  • Roanoke established

  • Spanish Armada

  • Jamestown Colony founded

  • First enslaved Africans in Virginia

    Already had Native American slaves, but first African slaves in USA was in Virginia

  • Mayflower Compact signed

    Plymouth founded earlier that year

  • 2nd Anglo-Powhatan Wars

    Suprise attack in Virginia

  • Massachusetts Bay Colony developed

  • Puritan-Pequot War

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    English Civil War

  • Rhode Island founded

    Only allowed to form b/c Parliament was so tolerant during English Civil War

  • Maryland Toleration Act

  • Navigation Act

  • Half-Way Covenant

  • Bacon's Rebellion

  • Pueblo Revolt

  • Salem Witch Trials

  • Stono Rebellion

  • Start of French & Indian War

  • Period: to

    French & Indian War

  • End of French & Indian War + Proclamation Line

  • Sugar and Currency Act

  • Stamp Act & Quartering Act

  • Townsend Duties

  • Troops in Boston

  • Boston Massacre

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Intolerable / Coercive Acts

    Closed Boston harbors as punishment for BTP

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

  • Period: to

    American Revolution

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Ratification of Articles of Confederation

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Treaty of Paris

  • Period: to

    Shay's Rebellion

  • Constitution ratified

    (and Philadelphia Constitutional Convention)

  • NW Ordinance of 1787

    during Articles of Confederation

  • Judiciary Act of 1789

  • Period: to

    Washington's Presidency

  • Whiskey Rebellion

  • Invention of the cotton gin

    Eli Whitney

  • Haitian Rev

  • Jay's Treaty

    or 1795 her slides aren't consistent but the difference dont really matter

  • Treaty of Greenville

    followed warfare with natives
  • Period: to

    XYZ Affair

  • Alien & Sedition Acts

    followed by KY and VA resolutions!!

  • Marbury v. Madison

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Embargo Act

  • Fletcher v. Peck

    GA contract; first time the Sup. Ct declares state law unconstitutional
  • Period: to

    War of 1812

    ended with Treaty of Ghent

  • Hartford Convention

    New England Federalists meet up to complain about being in the War of 1812; called War Hawks hypocrites war is bad for biz; some wanted to secede highlighted regional tensions

  • McCullough v. Maryland

  • Dartmouth College v. Woodward

    NH wanted to make it a public university; Sup. Ct. said no; Had to honor contract with private corp

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Monroe Doctrine

  • Gibbons v. Ogden

    NY state had given a monopoly to a steamboat company, but this conflicted with a charter from Congress. Sup. Court said NY monopoly was unconstitutional; Federal govt controls interstate commerce

  • Tariff of Abominations

    VP John C. Calhoun fought for SC to nullify this tariff, important states' right act

  • Nat Turner Rebellion

  • Worcester v. Georgia

    Marshall defended the Cherokee; Jackson did not enforce

  • Force Bill

    Authorized President Andrew Jackson to use military force to enforce federal tariff laws in South Carolina
  • Period: to

    Mexican-American War

  • Seneca Falls Convention

    Resulted in Declaration of Sentiments, demands equal rights for women

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

  • Gadsden Purchase

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Anthony Burns and Fugitive Slave Act

  • Bleeding Kansas

  • Caning of Charles Sumner

  • Dred Scott Case

  • John Brown and Harper's Ferry

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    Civil War

  • Emancipation Proclemation

  • Gettysburg Address

  • Battle of Gettysburg

  • Battle of Vicksburg

  • Sherman's March

  • 13th Amendment

  • Juneteenth

  • 14th Amendment

  • Reconstruction Acts

  • 15th Amendment

  • Civil Rights Act

  • Compromise of 1877

  • Munn v. Illinois

    States could regulate businesses that serve the public, but couldn’t block national marketplace