APUSH Timeline

By ACE918
  • 1492

    Columbus lands in Bahamas

  • 1508

    Spanish establish Puerto Rico

    First permanent European colony
  • 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

    The colonists brutally attack the natives
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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

    Catholics can practice their religion in Maryland, ML became savehaven for Catholics

  • Navigation Act

    England's first major law to control colonial trade, requiring goods from Asia, Africa, and the Americas to be brought to England only on English ships with English crews

  • Half-Way Covenant

    Compromise in New England Puritan churches that allowed baptized but unconverted adults ("half-way members") to have their children baptized as Puritan

  • Bacon's Rebellion

  • Pueblo Revolt

  • Salem Witch Trials

  • Stono Rebellion

  • Start of French & Indian War

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    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

  • Tea Act / Boston Tea Party

    British law granting the struggling East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies, allowing them to sell tea cheaper than smuggled Dutch tea by removing some British taxes. However, colonists saw it as a trick to force acceptance of Parliament's right to tax them, leading to boycotts and the iconic Boston Tea Party where patriots dumped tea into the harbor, sparking the punitive Intolerable Acts and escalating towards revolution.

  • Intolerable / Coercive Acts

    Closed Boston harbors as punishment for BTP

  • Battle of Lexington & Concord

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

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    American Revolution

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Ratification of Articles of Confederation

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Treaty of Paris

  • Shay's Rebellion

    Massachusetts farmer (Shay) led a rebellion, he didn't like how Massachusetts was paying taxes back too fast from Revolutionary Wars, banks repossessed their homes -- riot at banks

  • Constitution ratified

    (and Philadelphia Constitutional Convention)

  • NW Ordinance of 1787

    during Articles of Confederation

  • Judiciary Act of 1789

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    Washington's Presidency

  • Invention of the cotton gin

    Eli Whitney

  • Haitian Rev

  • Whiskey Rebellion

    Act passed in 1791 but intervention of washington in 94

  • Jay's Treaty

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

  • Treaty of Greenville

    followed warfare with natives
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    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
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    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

  • Webster-Ashburton Treaty

  • Webster-Ashburton Treaty

    Solidified borders with Canada -- know how to draw on map!
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    Mexican-American War

  • Seneca Falls Convention

    Resulted in Declaration of Sentiments, demands equal rights for women

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

  • Gadsden Purchase

  • Osted Manifesto

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Anthony Burns and Fugitive Slave Act

  • Gadsden Purchase

  • 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

  • Transcontinental RR completed

    Connected E W coasts, facilitated 2nd Ind Rev

  • 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