APUSH Timeline
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pre-
1491
Native american societies
early
colonization
1492
columbus arrives, initiating the columbian exchange
1607
Jamestown Founded, first permanent english settlement
colonial
1619
development
first enslaved Africans, house of burgesses forms
1620
May flower compact. establishes self government traditions
1676
Bacons Rebellion, class tensions, indentured Servitude racial slavery
1754-
revolution
1763
1 years war/F&I war, impenal policy reshaped, colonial resentment
1776
declaration of independance, colonial separation
LSLI
constitutional convention oreates us constitution
democracy, expansion,
1803
louisiana purchase, 2x size of us
1820
missouri compromise, attempts to balance free/Slave states, 36/30 line
Market
1830
indian removal act, andrew Jackson
1846-
mexican-american war, expanded U.S. territory, slavery debates, treaty of
war
1848
guadalupe Hidalgo
186/-
1865
civil war preserves union 8 ends slavery
1863
emancipation proclaimation, reframes war around abolition
1877
compromise of 1877, end of reconstruction, abandoned civil rights protection, Hayes president
(1869
completion of the transcontinental Railroad , accelerated western settlement
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1890's
rise of monopolies, Rockefeller (oil), Carnegie (steel), vanderbilt (railroads), corruption
gilded
age
1882
chinese exclusion Act, nativism, First federal immigration restriction
1896
plessy V. Ferguson, separate but equal
1898
sparsh-American war, us imperial power, gained Guam, puerto Rico , & philippines
1901-
1917
progressive era, Teddy Roosevelt, taft, wilson, trust busting, reforms
imperialism
1914-
WWI - shifted global powers, debates over civil liberties
Progressivism,
1918
Depression,
1920
19th amendment, women's suffrage
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1929
stock market crash, great depression, unemployment soars, banks collapsed
1933-
New deal, FDR (ccc, WPA, Social security), expanded federal power to combat economic crisis
1939
1941-
1945
wwll - - us mobilization ended depression, global superpower
1947
twman Doctrine, containment & coldwar policy
1950.
cold war,
1953
Korean war, ended in stalemates at 38th parallel
civil rights,
1954
Brown V. Board, overturned plessy, School segregation unconstitutional
Social ial
change
1955-
Civil rights movement, montgomery boycott (55), cruilvignts act (64), voting rights Act (65)
1968
1964-
vietnam war, massive protests, credibility gap OF government
1973
1970's
Environmental & social Movements, EPA (70) women, LGBTQ activism, Native American rights
1980
Ronald reagan, reganomics- tax cuts & dereguation,
lagl
end of cold war, collapse of soviet union
2001
9/11 attacks, war on terror, Patriot act, war in Afghanistan & iraq
Moderna
2008
great recession -financial crisis, economic reform
