Apush Historic Timeline

Apush Historic Timeline PERIOD 3 (1754-1800) - - - - - french and indian war (1754) - left Britain in debt → taxation on colonists (end of salutary neglect) all the acts - at first, colonists didn’t want independence, they just wanted to return to before salutary neglect ended boston massacre (1770) first continental congress (1774): grievances over coercive acts - second continental congress (1775): calls for war - colonial unity american revolution (1775-) - colonists advantage: french aid (both hated britain), home advantage, leadership and unity - britain: vastly outnumbered patriots - natives favored britain thomas paine’s common sense (1776) - accuses king george III of wrong doings and urged independence declaration of independence signed (1776) - influenced by common sense + enlightenment articles of confederation adopted (1777) - ratified in 1781 french-american alliance (1778) - french debt after war → french revolution treaty of paris (1783) - britain recognized US independence, US gained all land west of mississippi shay’s rebellion (1786-1787) - rebellion in response to inc of taxes (farmers) constitution adopted (1787) - ratified (1787-1788) - rise of nationalist faction - VA vs. NJ plans (large vs. small states) - great compromise, ⅗ compromise (adv for south) federalists (supported ratification) vs. anti-federalists (feared central power, sought a bill of rights → FED papers) - - - - bill of rights adopted (1789) - safeguard against government power, pushed anti-feds to ratify first bank chartered (1791) - hamilton’s financial program: - advocated buying back all loans + interests - proposed assuming all state debt → one national bank first party system - hamilton (federalists): strong national gov - jefferson (republican): agrarian society eli whitney invents the cotton gin (1793) whisky rebellion (1794) - PA farmers rebelled against excise tax (crushed by national gov) jay’s treaty signed (1794) - protect ships from Britain (did not work) pinckney's treaty signed (1795) presidency washington → john adams (1796) xyz affair (1798) alien and sedition acts (1798) - alien: could deport foreigners - sedition: illegal to criticize gov virginia and kentucky resolution (1798) PERIOD 4 (1800-1848) - - - market revolution (change in labor) - greatly affected NE and MW - canals (connected E and W), railroads (connected N and MW) gabriel prosser’s slave rebellion fails (1800): planned slave rebellion → stricter slave laws slavery as a “necessary evil” → “positive good” (justification for slavery) jefferson elected president (1801) the second great awakening (1801): spread of christianity - preaches increased conversions - black christianity - shakers: promoted celibacy and women’s rights (growing public presence) - quakers/enlightenment challenged slavery louisiana purchase (1803) - jefferson: loose construction - - - - - marbury vs madison (1803) - federal law = unconstitutional lewis and clark’s expeditions (1804-5) embargo (1807) - cut trade with all countries importation of slaves banned (1808) madison elected president (1808, reelected in 1812) lowell (1813): greater independence for women - strike (1834) - textile industry: samuel slater (factory system) hartford convention (1814): meeting to discuss grievances over the war of 1812 monroe elected president (1816) second bank chartered (1816) end of seminole war (1818) mcculloch vs. maryland (1819) - assert national authority panic of 1819 (state banks over issued cash) - growing distrust of banks missouri compromise (1820) - missouri applied for statehood (but it would upset the balance of free to slave states) - missouri is added as a slave state, maine is added as a free state - slavery prohibited above 3630 line prolonged depression in tobacco prices (1820s) english market for cotton textiles boost prices (1820s) → increased cotton production in the south mexican independence from spain (1821) - adam-onis treaty, US gained florida, gave up on Texas monroe doctrine (1823) - europe must stay out of western hemisphere (US will not interfere) john quincy adams (1824): corrupt bargain - jackson wins electoral, but not electoral majority → house (clay) supports JQA → JQA’s election (clay as secretary of state) tariff of abominations (1828): raised rates extremely high on manufactured goods (targeted items most frequently imported) - hated by the south, favored by manufacturers in the NE) jackson elected president (1828) - vetoes bank recharter (1832) - specie circular (1836): required payment of land to be in silver/gold - - decentralized bank war: jackson vetoes national bank recharter (moves all bank deposits → pet banks) major immigration from ireland (1830s) indian removal act (1830) - jackson advocated removal, ignores decision in worcester v. georgia nat turner slave rebellion (1831) nullification crisis (1832-1833) seminole war (1835-1842) texas declares independence from (1836) panic of 1837: crop failures, overproduction of goods → 100s of banks failed, unemployment increased, price of land decreased native american association (1837) whigs holds first national convention (1839) brook farm (1841) PERIOD 5 (1844-1877) - - - polk elected president (1844) - polk fully supports annexation of texas (added to the union as a slave state) - clay/whigs feared expansion (tensions over slavery) irish potato famine → immigration (1845) frederick douglass (1845) rotary press (1846) united states declares war on mexico (1846) - treaty of guadalupe hidalgo (1848) - wilmot proviso: slavery will not exist in any land gained from mexico - free-soil party: against expansion of slavery (took away jobs from whites) failed revolution in germany → imigration (1848) seneca falls convention (1848) - declaration of sentiments: all mean and women are equal california gold rush (1848-1849): mostly men, population inc - many mexicans/californians were forced off their land compromise of 1850 - popular sovereignty - CA admitted as a free state - more strict fugitive slave laws - slave outlawed in DC - - - - texas paid money to relinquish some land “concentration” policy devised for western tribes (1851) know nothings party (1852) uncle tom’s cabin (1852) gadsden purchase (1853): desire to buy land from mexico for RR thoreau published walden (1854) kansas-nebraska act (1854) - proposed popular sovereignty in Nebraska whitman published leaves of grass (1855) bleeding kansas (1855-6) dred scott decision (1857) lincoln-douglas debate (1858) - douglas wins, but alienates south - lincoln emerges on national level john brown raid (1859) - harper’s ferry, hoped to incite a slave rebellion democratic party splits (1860) - lincoln’s election (1860) south carolina secedes from the union (1860) - buchanan did not stop secession homestead act + morrill land grant act passed (1862) confederacy enacts military draft (1862) battle of gettysburg (1863) emancipation proclamation (1863) - union enacts military draft (1863) - freed slaves in areas of rebellion (helped keep europe out of war) lincoln announces preliminary reconstruction plan (1863) wade-davis bill (1864) sherman’s march to the sea (1864) - national union party (republicans) - sherman’s army destroyed RR PERIOD 6 (1865-1898) - 13th amendment ratified (1865) - abolishes slavery black codes enacted (1865) freedmen’s bureau (1865) - food, education, and assistance to freedmen (biggest success was education) - - - - - presidential approach - amnesty to most confederates - states could be readmitted once 10% of voters pledged loyalty + ratified 13th amendment congressional approach - wade-davis bill (calling for 50% loyalty) lincoln assassinated / johnson becomes president (1865) congress approves 14th amendment (1866): granted citizenship to all born in US - most southern states rejected it - ratified in 1868 ku klux klan formed (1866) national labor union (1866) sioux wars (1866-7) united states purchases alaska (1867) radical reconstruction - military reconstruction act (1867): divided the south into 5 military districts - states must provide suffrage for blacks tenure of office act / command of the army act (1867) andrew johnson impeached but not convicted (1868): violated tenure of office - ulysses s. grant elected (1868) - reelected in 1872 15th amendment passed (1869) - women’s suffrage knights of labor founded( 1869): union that accepted all workers john d. rockefeller established standard oil (1870) boss tweed convicted (1872) carnegie steel founded (1873) women’s christian temperance union founded (1873) hayes elected president after disputed election (1873) congress discontinues coinage of silver (1873) civil rights act of 1875: equal access to political accomodations for african americans - black communities: black churches (integration of cultures) alexander graham bell invents telephone (1876) railroad workers strike nationwide (1877) union pacific railroad completed (1869) james a garfield becomes president (1880) - assassinated in 1881 → arthur becomes president american federation of labor founded (1881) chinese exclusion act (1882) - - - nativist sentiment - workingmen’s party: hostility to chinese haymarket bombing (1886) - blamed on anarchists dawes act passed (1887) - wanted to assimilate/americanize natives (eliminated tribal lands) - promoted christianity interstate commerce act passed (1887) jane addams opens hull house (1889) PERIOD 7 (1890-1945) - - sherman antitrust act passed (1890) - goal was to break up trusts (actually broke up unions) mckinley tariff enacted (1890): raising of tariffs sherman silver purchase act passed (1890) - repealed in 1893 indian “ghost dance” revival (1890) battle of wounded knee (1890) jim crow laws (1890s) - lynching increased people’s party formed in nebraska (1892) turner’s frontier thesis (1893) depression begins (1893) immigration restriction league founded (1894) workers strike pullman company (1894) plessy v. ferguson (1896) - “separate but equal” william jennings bryan - “cross of gold” speech → democratic nomination (1896) william mckinley elected president (1896) united states formally annexes hawaii (1898) us battleship maine explodes (1898) congress declares war in spain (1898) - cuba revolted against spain in 1895: US was concerned over investments and trade w/ cuba treaty of paris (1898) - cedes puerto rico, philippines and other spanish possessions to the united states - - recognized cuban independence8 philippines revolt against american rule (1898-1902) kate chopin publishes “the awakening” (1899) boxer rebellion (1900) platt amendment passed by congress (1901) mckinley assassinated / roosevelt becomes president (1901) - roosevelt elected in 1905 women’s trade union league founded (1903) roosevelt corollary (1904) roosevelt mediates russo-japanese war (1905) burke act (1906) - speed assimilation of tribes henry ford produces first automobiles (1906) - assembly line (1913) meat inspection act passed (1906) william taft elected (1908) naacp founded (1909) roosevelt forms progressive party (1912) wilson elected president (1912) seventeenth amendment ratified (1913) WWI begins (1913) great migration of blacks to the north (1915) wilson reelected (1916) germany announces unrestricted submarine warfare (1917) selective service act passed (1917) war industries board created (1917) sedition act passed (1918) armistice ends war (1918) wilson announces the 14 points (1918) treaty of versailles signed (1919) - senate rejects chicago race riots (1919) steel strike (1919) eighteenth amendment ratified (1919) nineteenth amendment ratified (1920) palmer raids and red scare (1920) harding elected president (1920) - dies in 1923 → coolidge becomes president prohibition begins (1920) - - teapot dome and other scandals (1923) national origins act passed (1924) dawes plan (1924) coolidge elected (1924) scopes trials (1925) brotherhood of sleeping car porters (1925) sacco and vanzetti executed (1927) herbert hoover elected (1928) kellogg-brian pact signed (1928) stock market crash (1929) tariff of 1930 reconstruction finance corporation established (1932) japan invades manchuria (1931) roosevelt elected again (1932) banking crisis (1932) new deal (1933) good neighbor policy (1933) american communist party (1935) 21st amendment repeals 18th amendment (1933) townsend + old age pensions (1933) huey long + share our wealth society (1934) nazi-soviet nonaggression pact (1939) WWII begins (1939) japan, germany, italy signed tripartite pact (1940) roosevelt reelected (1940) pearl harbor attacked → united states declares war against japan (1941) lend-lease plan (1941) germany invades soviet union (1941) - germany declares war on US + vice versa manhattan project (1941) japanese-americans interned (1942) GI bill of rights enacted (1944) roosevelt dies → truman president (1945) WWII in 1945 - germany surrenders - US drops atomic bombs on nagasaki and hiroshima - japan surrenders yalta conference (1945) UN founded (1945) president timeline (up until 1945) - George Washington (1788-1797, unaffiliated) John Adams (1797-1801, federalist) Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809, democratic-republican) James Madison (1809-1817, democratic-republican) James Monroe (1817-1825, democratic-republican) John Quincy Adams (1825-1829, democratic-republican) Andrew Jackson (1829-1837, democratic) Martin Van Buren (1837-1841, democratic) William Henry Harrison (1841- died 31 days in, whig) John Tyler (1841-1845, whig) James K. Polk (1845-1849, democratic) Zachary Tyler (1849-1850 death, whig) Millard Filmore (1850-1853, whig) Franklin Pierce (1853-1857, democratic) James Buchanan (1857-1861, democratic) Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865, republican) Andrew Johnson (1865-1869, national union) Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877, republican) Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881, republican) James A. Garfield (1881-assassinated, republican) Chester A. Arthur (1881-1885, republican) Grover Cleveland (1885-1888, democratic) (1893 - 1897) Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893, republican) William Mckinley (1897-1901, republican) Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909, republican) William Howard Taft (1909-1913, republican) Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921, democratic) Warren G. Harding (1921-1923 death, republican) Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929, republican) Herbert Hoover (1929-1933, republican) Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945, democratic) Truman 1945-1948, dem, 1946 congress turned republican Truman 1948-1952, doctrine, containment, greece and turkey. Eisenhower 1952 -1956 end korean war, republican, VP Dulles (“massive resistance” focus on use of nuclear warfare to combat communism)