APUSH Timeline

  • Period: Jan 1, 1491 to

    APUSH Period 1

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    APUSH Period 2

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    APUSH Period 3

  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress
  • Bunker Hill

    Bunker Hill
  • Thomas Paine's Common Sense

    Thomas Paine's Common Sense
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris
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    APUSH Period 4

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

    Ends Mexican-American War
  • Purchase of Alaska

    By Seward
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    APUSH Period 7

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    Progressive Era

  • Overthrow of Hawaii

  • Spanish-American War

    Ends in August
  • Annexation of Hawaii

  • Boxer Rebellion

    Chinese Uprising
  • Platt Amendment

    U.S. exits Cuba
  • Pure Food and Drug Act/ Meat Inspection Act

  • Root-Takahira Agreement

    Recognition of Japan/U.S. Pacific possessions
  • "Gentlemen's Agreement"

  • Formation of NAACP

  • 17th Amendment

    U.S. senators elected by popular vote
  • Completion of the Panama Canal

    Started in 1904
  • 18th Amendment (Prohibition)

  • Lusitania Crisis

  • Child Labor Act

  • Espionage and Sedition Act

  • Zimmermann Telegram

  • Russian Revolution

  • Declaration of War

  • Treaty of Versailles

  • Quota Laws

  • Palmer Raids

  • Invention of the Radio

  • 19th Amendment (Women's Suffrage)

  • Dawes Plan

  • The Scopes Trial

  • Stock Market Crash

  • Harlem Renaissance

  • Stimson Doctrine

  • 21st Amendment (Repeal of Prohibition)

  • Bank Holiday

  • Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)

  • National Recovery Administration (NRA)

  • Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

  • Work Progress Administration (WPA)

  • Wheeler-Howard Act

  • Social Security

  • Neutrality Acts

  • Kellogg-Briand Pact

  • Fair Labor Standards Act

  • Pearl Harbor

  • D-Day

  • Yalta

  • Potsdam

  • Atomic Bomb

  • Castro Takes Over Cuba

  • Bay of Pigs

  • APUSH Test