apush top 40

• Pre-Colombus


  Native Americans
• 1492


  Columbus arrives in Western Hemisphere
• 1607


  Jamestown founded
• 1619


  - First group of Africans brought to Virginia

  - First legislative assembly (House of Burgesses) meets in Virginia
• 1620


  First Pilgrims in Plymouth
• 1630s-1640s


  Great Puritan Migration to Massachusetts Bay
• 1756-1763


  French and Indian War
• 1773


  Boston Tea Party
• 1775-1783


  American Revolutionary War
• 1776


  - Common Sense by Thomas Paine

  - Declaration of Independence (Jefferson, Adams, Franklin)
• 1781


  Articles of Confederation ratified
• 1789


  - U.S. Constitution (Madison and Hamilton)

  - George Washington Becomes President

  - French Revolution begins
• 1791


  Bill of Rights
• 1803


  - Louisiana Purchase (Jefferson, Lewis and Clark)

  - Marbury v. Madison
• 1820


  Missouri Compromise
• 1823


  Monroe Doctrine
• 1845


  Texas Annexation
• 1846-1848


  US/Mexican War
• 1840s


  - Manifest Destiny

  - Telegraph and railroads create a communications revolution
• 1849


  California Gold Rush
• 1850


  - Compromise of 1850

  - California admitted to the union

  - Fugitive Slave Law strengthened
• 1854


  - Kansas-Nebraska Act

  - Republican Party formed
• 1861-1865


  Civil War (Lincoln)
• 1869


  Transcontinental Railroad completed
• 1876


  - End of Reconstruction

  - Battle of Little Big Horn
• 1883


  - Railroad companies divide nation into four time zones

  - Pendleton Civil Service Act
• 1890


  - Sherman Anti-Trust Act

  - Massacre at Wounded Knee
• 1898


  - War with Spain

  - Hawaii annexed
• 1904-1914


  Panama Canal built
• 1906


  Pure Food and Drug Act
• 1914-1918


  World War I
• 1920s


  Jazz Age/Roaring Twenties
• 1920


  - Nineteenth Amendment gives women the right to vote

  - First radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh
• 1929-1939


  Great Depression
• 1939-1945


  World War II
• 1947-1991


  Cold War:

  - Korea (1950-53)

  - Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) (JFK)

  - Arms Race, Space Race (Man on moon by 1969

  - Vietnam (1954-1973) (Johnson)
• 1954


  Brown v Board of Education
• 1955-1965


  Civil Rights Movement
• 1972-1974


  Watergate (Nixon)
• 1979-1981


  Iran Hostage Crisis (Carter)