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AP US History

By TracieFloyd
  • Jamestown, VA

    Jamestown, VA

    first permanent English colony established

  • Plymouth is founded

  • founding of New York

    was the Netherlands, later became New York

  • Massachusetts Bay Colony is founded

  • New Hampshire

  • Maryland

  • Conecticut

  • Rhode Island

  • Pequot War

  • Delaware

  • Period: to

    English Civil War

  • North Carolina

  • New Jersey

  • South Carolina

  • Period: to

    King Philips's War

  • Pennsylvania is established

  • Pennsylvania

  • Glorious Revolution

  • Salem Witchcraft trials

  • Slavery legally established in 13 colonies

    in the 1700s
  • Period: to

    Great Awakening

  • Georgia is founded

  • Period: to

    French and Indian War

  • Peace of Paris

  • Pontiac's Rebellion

  • Peace of Paris

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

  • Tea Act

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

  • British close port

    reaction to Boston Tea Party

  • First Continental Congress

  • Battles of Lexigton and Concord

  • Period: to

    Revolutionary War

  • Common Sense written by Thomas Paine

  • Virginia Declaration of Rights

  • Virginia Constitution adopted

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

  • Articles of Confederation

  • Period: to

    Shays's Rebellion

  • Northwest Ordinance of 1787

    excluded slavery from ohio

  • Constitution of the United States of America

  • Tariff of 1789

  • Election of George Washington

    Election of George Washington

  • first Bank of the United States

  • Bill Of Rights

  • Pickney's Treaty

    negotiated with Spain
  • Election of John Adams

    Election of John Adams

  • Alien and Sedition Acts

  • Period: to

    Second Great Awakening

  • Election of Thomas Jefferson

    Election of Thomas Jefferson

  • Louisiana Purchase

    Louisiana Purchase

  • Election of James Madison

    Election of James Madison

  • End of Slave Trade

  • Macon's Bill #2

  • Battle of Tippecanoe

  • Period: to

    War of 1812

  • Treaty of Ghent

  • Costruction of the National Railroad begins

  • Election of James Monroe

    Election of James Monroe

  • American Colonization Society is founded

  • Tariff of 1816

  • Panic of 1819

  • MIssouri Compromise

    AKA Compromise of 1820 establishes the 36*30' line
  • The Lowell System

    The Lowell System

  • Florida becomes territory

    Florida becomes territory

  • Monroe Doctrine

  • Election of John Quincy Adams

  • Corrupt Bargain

  • Election of Andrew Jackson

    Election of Andrew Jackson

  • Tarrif of Abominations

  • Indian Removal Act

  • Cyrus McCormick invents mechanical reaper

  • Tariff of 1833

  • Indian Intercourse Act

  • Election of Van Buren

    Election of Van Buren

  • Period: to

    Trail of Tears

    Eastern Indians are forced west
  • Election of William H. Harrison

    Election of William H. Harrison

  • Election of James K. Polk

    Election of James K. Polk

  • US annexes Texas

  • Period: to

    Mexican-American War

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson literature

  • Election of Zachary Taylor

    Election of Zachary Taylor

  • California Gold Rush begins

  • Seneca Falls Convention

    Women issue the Declaration of Sentiments

  • Treaty of Guadalupe

    Concluding treaty of Mexican-American War

  • Compromise of 1850

    Debate over whether to allow slavery in the territories gained from Mexico which had banned slavery
  • Election of Franklin Pierce

    Election of Franklin Pierce

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

    Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

  • Gadsen Purchase

    US acquires 30,000 square miles from Mexico

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act passed by congress

  • Ostend Manifesto

  • Election of James Buchanan

    Election of James Buchanan

  • Dred Scott v. Stanford

  • Election of Abraham Lincoln

    Election of Abraham Lincoln

  • South Carolina secedes from the Union

    (begining of Civil War)
  • Period: to

    Civil War

  • First Battle of Bull Run

  • Homestead Act

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    signed by Lincoln, cleclared all slaves free

  • Ku Klux Klan

    (1865-1877)

  • Gen. Lee surrenders to Gen. Grant

  • Thirteenth Amendment is ratified

  • Lincoln is Assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act

  • Tenure of Office Act

  • Election of Ulysses S. Grant

    Election of Ulysses S. Grant

  • Fourteenth Amendment

  • Knights of Labor begins

    grew in the 1970s

  • Compromise of 1977

    ends Reconstruction

  • Great Railroad Strike

  • Election of James A. Garfield

    Election of James A. Garfield

  • A Century of Dishonor- by Helen Hunt Jackson

  • assassination of President Garfield

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Electric Power

  • Election of Grover Cleveland

    Election of Grover Cleveland

  • Haymarket incident

    a bomb set off at Chicago labor rally kills and wounds police officers

  • Dawes Severalty Act

  • Interstate Commerce Act

  • Election of Benjamin Harrison

    Election of Benjamin Harrison

  • Oddis Elevator

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Sherman Silver Purchase Act, McKinley Tarrif

  • Basketball is Invented

    Basketball is Invented

    by James Naismith
  • Election of Grover Cleveland

    Election of Grover Cleveland

  • Ellis Island

    Ellis Island

    federal center for processing immigrants, opens
  • Baseballś National League is formed

    Baseballś National League is formed

  • Pullman Strike

  • Election of McKinley

    Election of McKinley

  • Plessy v. Ferguson decison

  • US annexes Hawaii

  • U.S. battleship Maine Explodes in Havana Harbor

    ¨remeber the Maine to kill the Spain

  • Spanish-American War

  • Platt Amendment

  • Election of Theodore Roosevelt

    Election of Theodore Roosevelt

  • First Move house opens

  • Upton Sinclairś The Jungle is published

  • Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food, Drug Act

  • Panic

  • Election of William H. Taft

    Election of William H. Taft

  • W.E.B Du Bois founded NAACP

  • Election of Woodrow Wilson

    Election of Woodrow Wilson

  • Federal Reserve Act

  • Clayton Anti-Trust Act

  • Period: to

    WWI

    begins in Europe on 1914, US enters the Great War on April 1917

  • Zimmerman Note

  • Election of Warren G. Harding

    Election of Warren G. Harding

  • Prohibition begins

  • Rise of automobile use

    Henry Ford's Model T

  • Emergency Immigration Act

  • Joint resolution

    ends war among United States, Germany, and Austo-Hungary

  • President Warren Harding dies in office

  • Election of Calvin Coolidge

    Election of Calvin Coolidge

  • Immigration Act

  • Indian Citizenship Act

  • election of Herbert C. Hoover

    election of Herbert C. Hoover

  • Stock Market Crashes

  • Period: to

    The Great Depression

    Began with the Stock market crash and expanded to the early 1940s

  • Dust Bowl in the 1930s

  • Election of Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Election of Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • The Wagner Act of 1935

    ensured workers' right to organize and bargain collectively

  • Social Security Act

    act from the New Deal
  • Period: to

    WWII

  • Japanese Attack on Pear Harbor

  • Battle of the Coral Sea

  • Yalta Conference

    Roosevelt, Churchil, and Stalin plan the shape of the postwar world

  • Franklin Roosevelt dies

  • V-E Day

  • Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima

  • Atomic Bomb created

  • Atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki

  • V-J Day

    (Japan surrenders)

  • Japanese Surrender

  • Election of Harry S. Truman

    Election of Harry S. Truman

  • Period: to

    Korean War

  • Election of Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Election of Dwight D. Eisenhower

  • Armistice

    Concluding treaty of Korean War

  • Brown vs. Board

  • Operation Wetback

  • Montogomery Alabama, bus boycott begins

  • Elvis Presley

    Rock and Roll was big in the 1950s

  • Baby Boom

    1950s, peaks in 1957

  • Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas

    Federal troops are ordered to guarntee the safety of students attemting to to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, AR.
  • Election of John F. Kennedy

    Election of John F. Kennedy

  • Period: to

    Vietnam War

  • Bay of Pigs fiasco

    President John F. Kennedy's attemp to overthrow Cuban Fidel Castro

  • Student for a Demorcratic Society

  • Cuban missile crisis

  • Betty Friedan- Feminine Mystique

    Feminism movement
  • I Have a Dream Speech- Martin Luther King Jr.

    I Have a Dream Speech- Martin Luther King Jr.

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated

    in Dallas, TX
  • Election of Lyndon B. Jognson

    Election of Lyndon B. Jognson

  • 24th Amendment

  • Anit-Vietnam War Movement

  • La Raza

    (Chicango youth movement)

  • Voting Rights Act

  • Election of Richard M. Nixon

    Election of Richard M. Nixon

  • Tet Offensive

    turning point, causes widespread destruction and heavy casualties

  • Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Gay Rights Movement

  • 1st Man on the moon

    1st Man on the moon

  • Microprocessor is invented

  • Paris Peace Accords

    concluding treaty of Vietnam War

  • Election of Jimmy Carter

  • Camp David Accords

    Jimmy Carter, an agreement between Israel and Egypt
  • Election of Ronald Reagan

    Election of Ronald Reagan

  • Immigration Reform and Control Act

  • Election of George H.W. Bush

    Election of George H.W. Bush

  • Berlin Wall is torn down

  • Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)

  • Election of Bill Clinton

    Election of Bill Clinton

  • North American Free Trade Agreement

    U.S., Canada, and Mexico end most barriers

  • Bill Clinton is impeached

  • Election of George W. Bush

    Election of George W. Bush

  • 911 Attack

    911 Attack

    Terrorist attack, fall of Twin Towers in New York

  • Afghanistan War BEGINS

  • Period: to

    Second Gulf War (Operation Iraqi Freedom)

  • Bush Doctrine

  • Hurricane Katrina

    Hurricane Katrina

  • Election of Barack Obama

    Election of Barack Obama