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Time Line1650-2001APUSH Study :http://www.apstudynotes.org/us-history/timelines/1650-and-earlier/
1650 and earlier1430 Portuguese start voyages down the west coast of Africa1492 Columbus arrives in Western
hemisphere1509-1547 Henry VII rules England
Protestant reformation begins1558-1603 Reign of Queen Elizabeth I...Ireland conquered
by England1607 Jamestown Founded1612 Tobacco made a profitable crop by John Rolfe
1650 and Earlier (continued)1619 First group of blacks brought to Virginia
First legislative assembly meets in Virginia1620 First pilgrims in Plymouth1622 Indian attacks in Virginia end hopes of becoming a bi-racial society1629 Great Puritan migration to Massachusetts bay1636 Harvard founded
1650-17501676 Bacon’s rebellion1686 Creation of Dominion of New England1683 Glorious Revolution in England1700 (250,000) Settlers in English colonies1704 first colonial newspaper1720s colonial economic life quickens1739-1744 Great Awakening (FIRST)1756-1763 French and Indian war
1750-17751763 Proclamation Line established1763-1764 Pontiac’s Rebellion1764-1765 Sugar Act and Stamp Act Congress1766 Declaratory Act1767 Townshend Act, NY Assembly suspended1770 Boston Massacre1772 Committees of Correspondence formed1773 Boston tea Party1774 Coercive Acts, 1st Continental Congress convenes1775 Revolution begins at Lexington and Concord
1775-18001776 Declaration of Independence1777 British defeated at Saratoga1778 French join the war against the British1781 Battle of Yorktown
Articles of Confederation ratified1783 Peace signed in Paris1784-1787 Northwest Ordinance of 1784,85,and 871786 Annapolis Convention1787 Shays’ Rebellion
Constitutional Convention1788 Federalist papers written
Constitution ratified
1775-1800 (continued)1789 George Washington inaugurated as president of the United States
French Revolution Begins1790 Capital places on Potomac River1793 Citizen Genet1794 Whiskey Rebellion
Indians defeated at Fallen Timbers1795 Jays Treaty, Pinckney's Treaty1789 Un-declared war with France
Alien and Sedition ActsKentucky and Virginia Resolutions
1800 Jefferson Elected
1800-18251803 Louisiana Purchase1807-1809 Embargo Act in effect1808 Slave Trade ended1809 Non-Intercourse Act1812 War with England1814 treaty of Ghent1820 Missouri Compromise1820s First Labor unions formed
Romanticism flourished in America1823 Monroe Doctrine
1825-18501828 Andrew Jackson elected1830s Railroad era begins1831 Nat Turners rebellion, Liberator founded1832 Nullification crisis1834 Whig party formed1835 Texas Revolution, Republic of Texas established1840s Manifest Destiny, Telegraph and RR create
communications revolution1846 Mexican war begins
1825-1850 (continued)1848 Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo ended Mex. War; US acquires CA and Territory of NM
(includes Nevada, Utah, Arizona, NM, and Colorado)1849 Gold Discovered in CA1850 Compromise of 1850
California admitted to the unionFugitive Slave law strengthened
1850-18751853 Gadsden Purchase1854 Kansas-Nebraska ActRepublican Party Formed1856 violence in KansasSenator Sumner attacked in senate1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates1859 John Browns Raid on Harper’s Ferry1860 Democratic party splits apartAbraham Lincoln elected 16th president Lower South Secedes
1850-1875 (continued)1861 Confederate States of America Formed
Civil War begins at Fort Sumterupper South secedesNorth defeated at First battle of Bull Run
1862 battle of Antietam; Morill tariff; Homestead act; emancipation Proclamation1864 Grant's wilderness campaign
Sherman takes AtlantaSherman's "March to the Sea"
1850-1875 (continued)1865 Sherman takes South and North Carolina
Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House
Thirteenth Amendment abolishes slaveryLincoln assassinatedAndrew Johnson becomes PresidentKKK formed
1867 First Reconstruction Act launches Radical Reconstruction
Alaska purchased1868 Fourteenth Amendment guarantees Civil Rights
Johnson impeached
1850-1875 (continued)1870 Fifteenth Amendment forbids denial of vote on racial grounds1870s Terrorism against blacks in South, flourishing of Darwinism and ideas of racial inferiority
1875-19001876 End of ReconstructionBattle of Little Big Horn1877 Munn v. Illinois: Court rules states may regulate warehouse rates1879 Stand Oil Trust formed1880s Big Business emerge1883 Railroad companies divide nation into four time zonesPendleton Civil Service Act1886 Haymarket riots1887 Interstate Commerce CommissionDawes Act
1875-1900 (continued)1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Massacre at Wounded KneeSherman Silver Purchase Act
1890-1920 Fifteen million "new" immigrants1893 Repeal of Sherman Silver Purchase Act1895 Pollock v Farmers
Court strikes down income tax
1875-1900 (continued)1898 War with Spain
Hawaii annexed1899 Peace with Spain, U. S. receives Philippines, Samoa, Guam, and Puerto Rico1900 Gold Standard
1900- 19201901 Theodore Roosevelt becomes President1904 Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine1904-1914 Panama Canal built1906 Hepburn Act, Pure Food and Drug Act
The Jungle1912 Election of Woodrow Wilson1913 Sixteen Amendment authorizing income tax
ratifiedSeventeenth Amendment providing for
direct elections of Senators ratifiedFederal Reserve System begunWilson broadens segregation in civil service
1900-1920 (continued)1914 World War 1 begins
U. S. troops occupy Vera Cruz1915 U. S. troops sent to Haiti
Lusitania sunk, U. S. intervenedKKK revived
1916 Germany issues Sussex pledge1917 Russian Revolution
U. S. enters WW11918 WW1 ends
Treaty of Versailles1919 Eighteenth Amendment prohibits alcoholic beverages
Red Scare1920 Nineteenth Amendment gives women the right to vote
First radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh
1920-19401921 Washington Naval Conference1924 Revenue Act slashes income tax on wealthy and
corporations1927 Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic1929 Stock market crashes1932 Franklin Roosevelt elected1933 Bank holiday, "Hundred Days"
NRA, AAA, FDIC, TVA, FERA, CCCTwentieth Amendment changes inauguration
day to JanuaryTwenty-first Amendment repeals prohibitionHitler comes to power in Germany
1920-1940 (Continued)1934 Gold standard terminated
SEC1935 Social Security Act, WP, NLRA
CIO formedU. S. Begins neutrality legislation
1936 FDR re-elected1937 FDR attempts to pack Supreme Court
Japan invades China1938 United States Housing Authority
Fair labor Standards ActHitler takes Austria, Munich Agreement
1920-1940 (Continued)1939 World War 2 begins1940 Roosevelt makes destroyers-for-bases deal with the British
Fall of FranceFirst peacetime draft
1940-19601940 Roosevelt makes destroyers-for-bases deal with the British
Fall of FranceFirst peacetime draft
1941 Lend-Lease, Battle of Britain, Hitler attacks USSRAtlantic CharterJapan attacks Pearl Harbor
1942 Allied year of disasterU. S. interns JapaneseU. S. halts Japanese at Coral Sea and Midway
1943 Tide turns against AxisRussia wins at Stalingrad, unconditional surrender
demandedItaly invaded
1940-1960 (continued)1944 France invaded
Bombing of Japan beginsRussia sweeps through Eastern EuropePhilippines liberated
1945 YaltaFDR diesGermany surrendersAtom bombsEnd of WW 2
1946 U. S. - USSR relations worsen“Iron Curtain" speech
1947 Cold War beginsMarshall PlanContainment
1940-1960 (continued)1948-1949 Berlin Airlift
Taft-HartleyMilitary integrated
1949 NATORussia explodes the bombCommunists control China
1950 Korean WarJoseph McCarthy
1951 Twenty-second Amendment limits the President to two terms1952 Dwight Eisenhower elected President
1940-1960 (continued)1953 Industries agree on guaranteed annual wage1954 Brown v. Board of Education, Supreme Court strikes down "separate but equal."
Vietnam divided1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, emergence of Martin Luther King, Jr.1957 Sputnik
Eisenhower DoctrineLittle rock CrisisCivil Rights Act
1940-1960 (continued)1958 First U. S. satellite and ICBM
NASAU. S. occupies Lebanon
1960 U-2 shot down over RussiaSoviet and Chinese splitJohn F. Kennedy elected Presidentnon-violent protests against
segregation
1960-19701961 Freedom rides
Twenty-third Amendment gives District of Columbia the right to vote for PresidentBerlin crisisPeace CorpsBay of Pigs
16,000 in Vietnam1962 University of Mississippi integrated
Cuban Missile Crisis1963 Civil Rights march on Washington
JFK assassinatedFeminine Mystique
1960-1970 (continued)1964 Free speech movement at Berkeley
BeatlesTwenty-fourth Amendment outlaws the poll taxWar on povertyGulf of Tonkin
1965 Great SocietyOperation Rolling Thunder in VietnamMalcolm X assassinated
1966 Black PowerFrance withdraws from NATON. O. W. formed
1967 Detroit RiotPeace movement in the U. S.
1960-1970 (continued)1968 Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King murdered
Tet OffensiveJohnson won't seek re-electionRichard Nixon elected President
1969 VietnamizationFirst man on the moonNixon proposed New Federalism
1970 Massacre at Kent StateEPA establishedCambodian invasion creates anti-war turbulenceSALT talks begin
1970-19801971 Nixon opens talks with China
Wage-price controlsMy Lai massacre revealedPentagon Papers published
1972 Intensive bombing of North VietnamWatergateNixon re-electedGNP over 1 trillion
1973 Cease-fire in VietnamU. S. forces withdrawSpiro Agnew resigns
1974Watergate tapesNixon resigns, Ford's pardonSerious inflation and recession
1970-1980 (continued)1975 Vietnam falls
44% of married women employed1976 Bicentennial
Jimmy Carter elected President1977 Human Rights1978 Camp David Accords
Panama Canal treaties ratified1979 SALT 2 completed
U. S. recognizes chinaAmerican Embassy in Iran occupiedUSSR invaded Afghanistan
1980 U. S. boycotts Olympics, withdraws from SALT Reagan elected President
1980-19901982 Equal Rights Amendment dies
CIA Organizes contra war against Nicaragua's Sandinista government1983 239 U.S. Marines die in Beirut terrorist attack
U.S. Invasion of GrenadaReagan proposes Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)
1984 Geraldine Ferraro chosen as vice presidential running mate on Democratic ticket
Reagan defeats Walter Mondale in landslideCongress bars military aid to contras
1986 William Rehnquist becomes chief justice of the Supreme Court
Antonin Scalia joins the Supreme Court
1980-1990 (continued)1988 Oliver North, John Poindexter, and other Iran-contra figures indictedReagan signs INF Treaty in MoscowGeorge Herbert Walker Bush elected PresidentAnthony Kennedy joins the Supreme Court1989 Oliver North convicted of Iran-contra roleMassive Alaskan oil spill by Exxon ValdezU.S. Invasion of Panama; Manuel Noriega overthrownChina's rulers crush prodemocracy movementBerlin Wall is opened1990 Iraq invades KuwaitRecession beginsGermany reunited; Soviet troops start withdrawal from Eastern EuropeDavid H. Souter joins the Supreme Court
1990-20001991 Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)
U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign treaty reducing strategic nuclear arms by 25%
Soviet Republics declare independenceClarence Thomas joins the Supreme Court
1992 Recession recoverySupreme Court upholds Roe v. WadeBill Clinton elected President
1993 Congress approves NAFTA treatyRecession EndsRuth Bader Ginsberg joins the Supreme CourtWorld Trade Center bombed
1994 Republican victory in Mid-term ElectionsStephen G. Breyer joins Supreme Court
1990- 2000 (continued)1996 Bill Clinton re - elected President1998 Monica Lewinsky Scandal breaks
Operation Desert ThunderHouse Judiciary Committee sends 4 articles of
ImpeachmentBill Clinton is Impeached by the United States
House of Representatives1999 Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate2000 George W. Bush elected President of the United
States
2001 Sen. Jeffords of Vermont leaves the
Republican Party, thus upsetting Republican majority in the Senate
World Trade Center, and Pentagon attacked by Terrorists, along with a plane crash in rural Pennsylvania
Operation Enduring Freedom and War against Terrorism begins
George W. Bush's approval ratings soar to 94%