APUSH Semester

  • Jamestown is Established

  • Hudson Explores Hudson River

  • First Black Slaves Arrive in VA

  • Mayflower

  • Dutch West Indes settles in Manhattan

  • MA Founded

  • Maryland Founded

  • First Navigation Act

  • Connecticut Founded

  • Halfway Covenant

  • English Seize New Netherland

  • First English settlers arrive in Carolina

  • King Philip's War

  • Bacon's Rebellion

  • Pueblo Reolt

  • William Penn granted Pennsylvania

  • France Revokes the Edict of Nantes

  • Glorious Revolution in England

  • Plymouth Colony absorbed into MA

  • Salem With Trials

    (Continues to 1692)
  • Treaty of Utrecht

  • Junto Club founded by Ben Franklin

  • Great Awakening

    1730s
  • Georgia Colony Founded

  • Walking Purchase

  • Stono Rebellion

  • Ohio Company awarded from Virginia

  • Albany Plan of Union drafted by Ben Franklin

  • Period: to

    The Seven Years War

  • William Pitt sits as British prime minister

  • Pontiac's Rebellion

  • British Government Issues Proclamation of 1763

  • Sugar Act

  • Stamp Act

  • Sons of Liberty organized

  • Townshend Acts

  • Boston Massacre

  • Tea Act

  • Continental Congress convenes

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Thomas Paine's Common Sense

  • John Adams' Thoughts on Government

  • Battle of Saratoga

  • Articles of Confederation Drafted

  • French Treaty of Amity and Commerce

  • Rhode Island forms a black regiment

  • Cornwallis surrenders

  • Articles of Confederation Ratified

  • Treaty of Paris

  • Daniel Shay's Rebellion

    -1787
  • Northweat Ordinance of 1787

  • Constitutional Convention Convenes

  • First Quaker Community

  • Constitution ratified

  • GW Inauguration

  • Naturalization Act

  • Bill of Rights Ratified

  • Period: to

    Haitian Revolution

  • Washington's Neutrality Proclomation

  • The Cotton Gin

  • Inauguration of John Adams

  • XYZ Affair

  • Alien and Sedition Acts

  • Fries' Rebellion

  • Gabriel's Rebellion

  • Inauguration of Thomas Jefferson

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Congress approves funds for Cumberland Road

  • Congress prohibits the slave trade

  • Embargo Act

  • Bank of the US Charter expires

  • Period: to

    War of 1812

  • Hartford Convention

  • Treaty of Ghent

  • Second Bake of US is established

  • Inauguration of James Monroe

  • Transcontinental Treaty w/ Spain

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Monroe Doctrine

  • Inauguration of JQA

  • Erie Canal Opens

  • Indian Removal Act

  • Period: to

    Nullification Crisis

  • Nat Turner's Rebellion

  • The Liberator Debuts

  • Depression Begins

  • Inauguration of MVB

  • Texas declares independence from Mexico

  • Period: to

    Second Great Awakening

  • Inauguration of Harrison

  • Dorr War

    The Dorr Rebellion (1841–1842) was a failed attempt to force broader democracy in the U.S. state of Rhode Island, where a small rural elite was in control of government. It was led by Thomas Wilson Dorr, who mobilized the disenfranchised to demand changes to the state's electoral rules.
  • Brook Farm Founded

  • Period: to

    Mexican War

  • Oneida Founded

  • Seneca Falls Convention

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Know-Nothing Party Established

  • Dred Scott decision

  • John Brown raids Harpers Ferry

  • Tax-supported school system

  • SC secedes

  • Inauguration of Abe Lincoln

  • Fort Sumter fired upon

  • First Battle of Bull Run

  • Monitor vv. Merrimac battle

  • Antietam

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • NY Draft Riots

  • Battle at Gettysburg

  • Battle at Vicksburg

  • War of Attrition- Grant

  • General Sherman's March to the Sea

  • Thirteenth Amendment

  • Union Captures Richmond

  • General Lee Surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Court House

    April 9
  • Lincoln Assassinated

    Shot April 14, died April 15