APUSH Anchor Dates: Time Periods 1-6

Columbus lands in Bahamas

Santa Fe founded by Spanish

Jamestown founded by English

Quebec founded by French

1st African slaves imported to Jamestown

Virginia House of Burgesses first meets

Pilgrims land in Plymouth

The Enlightenment

The Winthrop Fleet (Puritans) arrives in Massachusetts

Pequot War ends (opening New England expansion west)

Maryland Toleration Act

Virginia’s Act Xll (creating perpetual racial slavery)

Pueblo Revolt

First Great Awakening (revitalizing religion in America)

Georgia’s founded (last of original 13 colonies)

Stono Rebellion

French and Indian War begins/Albany Congress

Treaty of Paris (ends the French and Indian war)

Britain passes Intolerable Acts

Common Sense/Declaration of Independence

Articles of Confederation in place

Treaty of Paris (Britain recognizes independence)

Constitutional Convention

U.S. Constitution went into effect/Washington elected

Bill of Rights ratified

First Party System (federalist/democratic-republicans)

Whitney invents cotton gin

Jefferson Elected

Marbury v Madison/Louisiana Purchase

Slave importation made illegal

Second war of independence

Market Revolution

Missouri Compromise

Monroe Doctrine

The “Corrupt Bargain”

Erie Canal completed

Jackson elected

2nd party system (democrats/whigs)

Second great awakening

War with Mexico

Seneca Falls convention

California gold rush

Compromise of _____

Fugitive slave law

Kansas-Nebraska act

3rd party system (democrats/republicans)

Lincoln elected

Civil war begins/Fort Sumter

Emancipation Proclamation

Sand Creek Massacre

civil war ends/Lincoln assassinated

Age of the “Forgettable Presidents”

14th amendment passed

Transcontinental railroad completed

15th amendment passed

Gilded age

End of reconstruction/the “great betrayal”

Helen Hunt Jackson’s century of dishonor

Chinese exclusion act

Alfred Mahan’s influence of sea power on history

Pullman strike

Plessey v Ferguson