Apush Timeline

Atlantic Slave Trade

Period: 1400 to Jan 1, 1808

Period 1

Period: 1491 to 1607

The Colombian Exchange

Period: 1492 to 1800

Christopher Columbus found the Americas

Oct 12, 1492

MIG - Migration and Settlement

The Encomienda System

Period: 1500 to 1721

Europe receives tobacco for the first time

1555

Period 2

Period: 1607 to 1754

Creation of Jamestown, Virginia

May 14, 1607

Period 3

Period: 1754 to 1800

B The Seven Years War (A French and Indian War)

Period: 1754 to 1763

PP - Politics and Power

First Continental Congress

Period: Sep 5, 1774 to Oct 26, 1774

The Second Continental Cogress

Period: May 10, 1775 to 1781

Common Sense is Published

Jan 9, 1776

The Declaration of Independence is Adopted

Jul 4, 1776

Identity

Federalist Papers

Period: 1787 to 1788

George Washington's Presidency

Period: 1789 to 1797

No Political Party

Whiskey Rebellion

Period: 1791 to 1794

PP - Politics and Power

Cotton Gin created by Eli Whitley

1793

Market Revolution

Period: 1793 to 1909

The Second Great Awakening

Period: 1795 to 1835

John Adams's Presidency

Period: 1797 to 1801

Federalist

The Alien and Sedation Acts

1798

Period 4

Period: 1800 to 1848

Thomas Jefferson's Presidency

Period: 1801 to 1809

Democratic Republican

James Madison's Presidency

Period: 1809 to 1817

Democratic Republican

Era of Good Feelings

Period: 1815 to 1825

James Monroe's Presidency

Period: 1817 to 1825

Democratic Republican

The Missouri Compromise

Mar 3, 1820

PP - Politics and Power
Compromise of 1820
Missouri Compromise made Missouri a slave states and Maine a free state
36/30 Line Above would be free, below would be slave

John Quincy Adam's Presidency

Period: 1825 to 1829

Democratic Republican

Mexican American War

Period: Apr 8, 1826 to Dec 5, 1826

Andrew Jackson's Presidency

Period: 1829 to 1837

Democrat

Abolitionist Movement

Period: Nov 20, 1830 to Jun 2, 1865

Martin Van Buren's Presidency

Period: 1837 to 1841

Demorcat

William Henry Harrison's Presidency

Period: 1841 to 1841

Whig

John Tyler's Presidency

Period: 1841 to 1845

Whig

Period 5

Period: 1844 to 1877

James K. Polk's Presidency

Period: 1845 to 1849

Democrat

Declaration of Sentiments

1848

Zachary Taylor's Presidency

Period: 1849 to 1850

Whig

Millard Fillmore's Presidency

Period: 1850 to 1853

Whig

Compromise of 1850

Sep 9, 1850

PP - Politics and Power
1 California as a free state
2 Ban on Slavery Trade in DC
3 Fugitive Slave Law
4 Changing the Border on Texas and New Mexico
5 Creating the South West Territory without considering slavery

Fugitive Slave Act

Sep 18, 1850

PP- Politics and Power
Made it so the North had to return runaway slaves

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Jan 20, 1851

PP - Politics and Power
Allowing the people of a state to decide whether they want to be a slave state or free state, Repealed Missouri Compromise No more compromise

Franklin Pierce's Presidency

Period: 1853 to 1857

Democrat

Bleeding Kansas

Period: 1854 to 1859

People came to the Kansas territory to vote o slavery and violence started because of the pro and anti slave people there. John Brown caused some violence

James Buchanan's Presidency

Period: 1857 to 1861

Democrat

Dred Scott Decison

Mar 6, 1857

Lincoln elected President

Nov 6, 1860

Abraham Lincoln's Presidency

Period: 1861 to 1865

Republican

Civil War

Period: Apr 6, 1861 to Jun 2, 1865

Identity

Period 6

Period: 1865 to 1898

Reconstruction

Period: 1865 to 1877

Andrew Johnson's Presidency

Period: 1865 to 1869

Union

Ulysses S. Grant's Presidency

Period: 1869 to 1877

Republican

Rutherford B. Hayes Presidency

Period: 1877 to 1881

Republican

James A. Garfield's Presidency

Period: 1881 to 1881

Republican

Chester Arthur's Presidency

Period: 1881 to 1885

Republican

Grover Cleveland's Presidency

Period: 1885 to 1889

Democrat

Benjamin Harrison's Presidency

Period: 1889 to 1893

Republican

Period 7

Period: 1890 to 1945

Grover Cleveland's Presidency

Period: 1893 to 1897

Democrat

William McKinley

Period: 1897 to 1901

Republican

Theodore Roosevelt's Presidency

Period: 1901 to 1909

Republican

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair published

1906

William Howard Taft's Presidency

Period: 1909 to 1913

Republican

Woodrow Wilson's Presidency

Period: 1913 to 1921

Democrat

Warren G. Harding's Presidency

Period: 1921 to 1923

Republican

Calvin Coolidge's Presidency

Period: 1923 to 1929

Republican

Herbert Hoover's Presidency

Period: 1929 to 1933

Republican

Franklin D. Roosevelt's Presidency

Period: 1933 to 1945

Democrat

Period 8

Period: 1945 to 1980

Harry S. Truman's Presidency

Period: 1945 to 1953

Democrat

Dwight D. Eisenhower's Presidency

Period: 1953 to 1961

Republican

The Vietnam War

Period: 1954 to 1975

John F. Kennedy's Presidency

Period: 1961 to 1963

Democrat

Lyndon B. Johnson's Presidency

Period: 1963 to 1969

Democrat

March on Washington

Sep 28, 1963

MLK's I Have A Dream Speech

Sep 28, 1963

Richard Nixon's Presidency

Period: 1969 to 1974

Republican

Gerald Ford's Presidency

Period: 1974 to 1977

Republican

Jimmy Carter's Presidency

Period: 1977 to 1981

Democrat

Period 9

Period: 1980 to 2021

Ronald Reagan's Presidency

Period: 1981 to 1989

Republican

George H.W. Bush's Presidency

Period: 1989 to 1993

Republican

Bill Clinton's Presidency

Period: 1993 to 2001

Democrat

George W. Bush's Presidency

Period: 2001 to 2009

Republican

Barack Obama's Presidency

Period: 2009 to 2017

Democrat