APUSH Timeline

By ACE918
  • 1492

    Columbus lands in Bahamas

  • 1492

    Spanish Reconquista completed

    Isabella Ferdinand captured Granada, the last Muslim stronghold
  • 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

  • Period: to

    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

  • Start of French & Indian War

  • Period: to

    French & Indian War

  • End of French + Indian War, Proclamation Line also

  • 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 A of Confederation

  • Judiciary Act of 1789

  • Period: to

    Some French Rev craziness, war w/ England

  • 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

  • Alien & Sedition Acts

    followed by KY and VA resolutions!!

  • Marbury v. Madison

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Embargo Act

  • Fletcher v. Peck

  • Period: to

    War of 1812

    ended with Treaty of Ghent

  • McCullough vs Maryland

  • Dartmouth College v. Woodward

  • Gibbons v. Ogden