Time Line1650-2001APUSH Study :http://www.apstudynotes.org/us-history/timelines/1650-and-earlier/

1650 and earlier1430 Portuguese start voyages down the west coast of Africa1492 Columbus arrives in Western

hemisphere1509-1547 Henry VII rules England

Protestant reformation begins1558-1603 Reign of Queen Elizabeth I...Ireland conquered

by England1607 Jamestown Founded1612 Tobacco made a profitable crop by John Rolfe

1650 and Earlier (continued)1619 First group of blacks brought to Virginia

First legislative assembly meets in Virginia1620 First pilgrims in Plymouth1622 Indian attacks in Virginia end hopes of becoming a bi-racial society1629 Great Puritan migration to Massachusetts bay1636 Harvard founded

1650-17501676 Bacon’s rebellion1686 Creation of Dominion of New England1683 Glorious Revolution in England1700 (250,000) Settlers in English colonies1704 first colonial newspaper1720s colonial economic life quickens1739-1744 Great Awakening (FIRST)1756-1763 French and Indian war

1750-17751763 Proclamation Line established1763-1764 Pontiac’s Rebellion1764-1765 Sugar Act and Stamp Act Congress1766 Declaratory Act1767 Townshend Act, NY Assembly suspended1770 Boston Massacre1772 Committees of Correspondence formed1773 Boston tea Party1774 Coercive Acts, 1st Continental Congress convenes1775 Revolution begins at Lexington and Concord

1775-18001776 Declaration of Independence1777 British defeated at Saratoga1778 French join the war against the British1781 Battle of Yorktown

Articles of Confederation ratified1783 Peace signed in Paris1784-1787 Northwest Ordinance of 1784,85,and 871786 Annapolis Convention1787 Shays’ Rebellion

Constitutional Convention1788 Federalist papers written

Constitution ratified

1775-1800 (continued)1789 George Washington inaugurated as president of the United States

French Revolution Begins1790 Capital places on Potomac River1793 Citizen Genet1794 Whiskey Rebellion

Indians defeated at Fallen Timbers1795 Jays Treaty, Pinckney's Treaty1789 Un-declared war with France

Alien and Sedition ActsKentucky and Virginia Resolutions

1800 Jefferson Elected

1800-18251803 Louisiana Purchase1807-1809 Embargo Act in effect1808 Slave Trade ended1809 Non-Intercourse Act1812 War with England1814 treaty of Ghent1820 Missouri Compromise1820s First Labor unions formed

Romanticism flourished in America1823 Monroe Doctrine

1825-18501828 Andrew Jackson elected1830s Railroad era begins1831 Nat Turners rebellion, Liberator founded1832 Nullification crisis1834 Whig party formed1835 Texas Revolution, Republic of Texas established1840s Manifest Destiny, Telegraph and RR create

communications revolution1846 Mexican war begins

1825-1850 (continued)1848 Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo ended Mex. War; US acquires CA and Territory of NM

(includes Nevada, Utah, Arizona, NM, and Colorado)1849 Gold Discovered in CA1850 Compromise of 1850

California admitted to the unionFugitive Slave law strengthened

1850-18751853 Gadsden Purchase1854 Kansas-Nebraska ActRepublican Party Formed1856 violence in KansasSenator Sumner attacked in senate1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates1859 John Browns Raid on Harper’s Ferry1860 Democratic party splits apartAbraham Lincoln elected 16th president Lower South Secedes

1850-1875 (continued)1861 Confederate States of America Formed

Civil War begins at Fort Sumterupper South secedesNorth defeated at First battle of Bull Run

1862 battle of Antietam; Morill tariff; Homestead act; emancipation Proclamation1864 Grant's wilderness campaign

Sherman takes AtlantaSherman's "March to the Sea"

1850-1875 (continued)1865 Sherman takes South and North Carolina

Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House

Thirteenth Amendment abolishes slaveryLincoln assassinatedAndrew Johnson becomes PresidentKKK formed

1867 First Reconstruction Act launches Radical Reconstruction

Alaska purchased1868 Fourteenth Amendment guarantees Civil Rights

Johnson impeached

1850-1875 (continued)1870 Fifteenth Amendment forbids denial of vote on racial grounds1870s Terrorism against blacks in South, flourishing of Darwinism and ideas of racial inferiority

1875-19001876 End of ReconstructionBattle of Little Big Horn1877 Munn v. Illinois:  Court rules states may regulate warehouse rates1879 Stand Oil Trust formed1880s Big Business emerge1883 Railroad companies divide nation into four time zonesPendleton Civil Service Act1886 Haymarket riots1887 Interstate Commerce CommissionDawes Act

1875-1900 (continued)1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Massacre at Wounded KneeSherman Silver Purchase Act

1890-1920 Fifteen million "new" immigrants1893 Repeal of Sherman Silver Purchase Act1895 Pollock v Farmers

Court strikes down income tax

1875-1900 (continued)1898 War with Spain

Hawaii annexed1899 Peace with Spain, U. S. receives Philippines, Samoa, Guam, and Puerto Rico1900 Gold Standard

1900- 19201901 Theodore Roosevelt becomes President1904 Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine1904-1914 Panama Canal built1906 Hepburn Act, Pure Food and Drug Act

The Jungle1912 Election of Woodrow Wilson1913 Sixteen Amendment authorizing income tax

ratifiedSeventeenth Amendment providing for

direct elections of Senators ratifiedFederal Reserve System begunWilson broadens segregation in civil service

1900-1920 (continued)1914 World War 1 begins

U. S. troops occupy Vera Cruz1915 U. S. troops sent to Haiti

Lusitania sunk, U. S. intervenedKKK revived

1916 Germany issues Sussex pledge1917 Russian Revolution

U. S. enters WW11918 WW1 ends

Treaty of Versailles1919 Eighteenth Amendment prohibits alcoholic beverages

Red Scare1920 Nineteenth Amendment gives women the right to vote

First radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh

1920-19401921 Washington Naval Conference1924 Revenue Act slashes income tax on wealthy and

corporations1927 Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic1929 Stock market crashes1932 Franklin Roosevelt elected1933 Bank holiday, "Hundred Days"

NRA, AAA, FDIC, TVA, FERA, CCCTwentieth Amendment changes inauguration

day to JanuaryTwenty-first Amendment repeals prohibitionHitler comes to power in Germany

1920-1940 (Continued)1934 Gold standard terminated

SEC1935 Social Security Act, WP, NLRA

CIO formedU. S. Begins neutrality legislation

1936 FDR re-elected1937 FDR attempts to pack Supreme Court

Japan invades China1938 United States Housing Authority

Fair labor Standards ActHitler takes Austria, Munich Agreement

1920-1940 (Continued)1939 World War 2 begins1940 Roosevelt makes destroyers-for-bases deal with the British

Fall of FranceFirst peacetime draft

1940-19601940 Roosevelt makes destroyers-for-bases deal with the British

Fall of FranceFirst peacetime draft

1941 Lend-Lease, Battle of Britain, Hitler attacks USSRAtlantic CharterJapan attacks Pearl Harbor

1942 Allied year of disasterU. S. interns JapaneseU. S. halts Japanese at Coral Sea and Midway

1943 Tide turns against AxisRussia wins at Stalingrad, unconditional surrender

demandedItaly invaded

1940-1960 (continued)1944 France invaded

Bombing of Japan beginsRussia sweeps through Eastern EuropePhilippines liberated

1945 YaltaFDR diesGermany surrendersAtom bombsEnd of WW 2

1946 U. S. - USSR relations worsen“Iron Curtain" speech

1947 Cold War beginsMarshall PlanContainment

1940-1960 (continued)1948-1949 Berlin Airlift

Taft-HartleyMilitary integrated

1949 NATORussia explodes the bombCommunists control China

1950 Korean WarJoseph McCarthy

1951 Twenty-second Amendment limits the President to two terms1952 Dwight Eisenhower elected President

1940-1960 (continued)1953 Industries agree on guaranteed annual wage1954 Brown v. Board of Education, Supreme Court strikes down "separate but equal."

Vietnam divided1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, emergence of Martin Luther King, Jr.1957 Sputnik

Eisenhower DoctrineLittle rock CrisisCivil Rights Act

1940-1960 (continued)1958 First U. S. satellite and ICBM

NASAU. S. occupies Lebanon

1960 U-2 shot down over RussiaSoviet and Chinese splitJohn F. Kennedy elected Presidentnon-violent protests against

segregation

1960-19701961 Freedom rides

Twenty-third Amendment gives District of Columbia the right to vote for PresidentBerlin crisisPeace CorpsBay of Pigs

16,000 in Vietnam1962 University of Mississippi integrated

Cuban Missile Crisis1963 Civil Rights march on Washington

JFK assassinatedFeminine Mystique

1960-1970 (continued)1964 Free speech movement at Berkeley

BeatlesTwenty-fourth Amendment outlaws the poll taxWar on povertyGulf of Tonkin

1965 Great SocietyOperation Rolling Thunder in VietnamMalcolm X assassinated

1966 Black PowerFrance withdraws from NATON. O. W. formed

1967 Detroit RiotPeace movement in the U. S.

1960-1970 (continued)1968 Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King murdered

Tet OffensiveJohnson won't seek re-electionRichard Nixon elected President

1969 VietnamizationFirst man on the moonNixon proposed New Federalism

1970 Massacre at Kent StateEPA establishedCambodian invasion creates anti-war turbulenceSALT talks begin

1970-19801971 Nixon opens talks with China

Wage-price controlsMy Lai massacre revealedPentagon Papers published

1972 Intensive bombing of North VietnamWatergateNixon re-electedGNP over 1 trillion

1973 Cease-fire in VietnamU. S. forces withdrawSpiro Agnew resigns

1974Watergate tapesNixon resigns, Ford's pardonSerious inflation and recession

1970-1980 (continued)1975 Vietnam falls

44% of married women employed1976 Bicentennial

Jimmy Carter elected President1977 Human Rights1978 Camp David Accords

Panama Canal treaties ratified1979 SALT 2 completed

U. S. recognizes chinaAmerican Embassy in Iran occupiedUSSR invaded Afghanistan

1980 U. S. boycotts Olympics, withdraws from SALT Reagan elected President

1980-19901982 Equal Rights Amendment dies

CIA Organizes contra war against Nicaragua's Sandinista government1983 239 U.S. Marines die in Beirut terrorist attack

U.S. Invasion of GrenadaReagan proposes Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)

1984 Geraldine Ferraro chosen as vice presidential running mate on Democratic ticket

Reagan defeats Walter Mondale in landslideCongress bars military aid to contras

1986 William Rehnquist becomes chief justice of the Supreme Court

Antonin Scalia joins the Supreme Court

1980-1990 (continued)1988 Oliver North, John Poindexter, and other Iran-contra figures indictedReagan signs INF Treaty in MoscowGeorge Herbert Walker Bush elected PresidentAnthony Kennedy joins the Supreme Court1989 Oliver North convicted of Iran-contra roleMassive Alaskan oil spill by Exxon ValdezU.S. Invasion of Panama; Manuel Noriega overthrownChina's rulers crush prodemocracy movementBerlin Wall is opened1990 Iraq invades KuwaitRecession beginsGermany reunited; Soviet troops start withdrawal from Eastern EuropeDavid H. Souter joins the Supreme Court

1990-20001991 Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)

U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign treaty reducing strategic nuclear arms by 25%

Soviet Republics declare independenceClarence Thomas joins the Supreme Court

1992 Recession recoverySupreme Court upholds Roe v. WadeBill Clinton elected President

1993 Congress approves NAFTA treatyRecession EndsRuth Bader Ginsberg joins the Supreme CourtWorld Trade Center bombed

1994 Republican victory in Mid-term ElectionsStephen G. Breyer joins Supreme Court

1990- 2000 (continued)1996 Bill Clinton re - elected President1998 Monica Lewinsky Scandal breaks

Operation Desert ThunderHouse Judiciary Committee sends 4 articles of

ImpeachmentBill Clinton is Impeached by the United States

House of Representatives1999 Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate2000 George W. Bush elected President of the United

States

2001 Sen. Jeffords of Vermont leaves the

Republican Party, thus upsetting Republican majority in the Senate

World Trade Center, and Pentagon attacked by Terrorists, along with a plane crash in rural Pennsylvania

Operation Enduring Freedom and War against Terrorism begins

George W. Bush's approval ratings soar to 94%