The APUSH Dates Your mental filing cabinet for United States History

Rationale FOR LEARNING DATES act as “File Folders” to help you organize what you know and retrieve information more easily. make it easier to sequence events. facilitate comparisons across time periods.

Study Smarter Study events in chronological order (or some logical order) group events or facts logically use some type of color coding Make flash cards Use visuals (a time line, pictures, etc.) Use mnemonic devices STUDY! STUDY!

The APUSH Dates Learn them!

Jamestown founded 1607 First permanent English colony in the “New World ”

Georgia Founded 1733 Last of the original 13 colonies to be “planted” haven for debtors buffer to protect Charleston from Spanish Florida

End of Colonial Period 1763 With the end of the French and Indian War, Britain reorganized the colonial governments and ended the period of salutary neglect.

Revolutionary War War fought to obtain U.S.’s independence from Great Britain

Declaration of Independence 1776 Document which officially separated the U.S. from Great Britain; designed to persuade both Americans and the world that the U.S.’s cause was just.

Constitution written 1787 Framework for the U.S. government formulated

Monroe Doctrine 1823 Acts as a “Keep Out” sign on the Western Hemisphere Keep Out! James Monroe

Mexican-American War Conflict triggered by the U.S. annexation of Texas and America’s belief that its “manifest destiny” was to control the American continent from “sea to shining sea.” James K. Polk

California Gold Rush 1849 Surge of miners westward which gave California enough population to apply for statehood in 1850 Zachary Taylor

Civil War War Between the States; fought over states’ rights and slavery Abraham Lincoln

End of Reconstruction 1877 Resulted in the withdrawal of federal troops from the South and the gradual abandonment by Republicans of the freedmen there The result was the“Solid South,” which voted for the Democrats. Rutherford B. Hayes

Frontier Declared Officially Closed 1890 The census report stated that a line dividing settled territory from unsettled areas no longer existed in the continental U.S. Benjamin Harrison

Spanish-American War 1898 Short, imperialistic war which projected the US into world politics as a major power William McKinley

War World I War which started and was fought mainly in Europe but which involved the whole world due to European colonies and trade disputes. Lusitania Woodrow Wilson

19th Amendment 1920 Women finally gained the right to vote Woodrow Wilson

Great Depression Worldwide economic crisis; longest and worst ever faced in the U.S. Herbert Hoover Franklin D. Roosevelt

World War II Most extensive war in world history Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry Truman

Korean War Undeclared war fought under UN mandate which left the country divided to this day. Harry Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower

Brown v. Board of Education 1954 Resulted in the integration of public schools and was a major step toward integrating American society Dwight Eisenhower

Vietnam conflict Undeclared war fought in Indochina in order to contain communism; the U.S. withdrew and the area became communist. John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson Richard Nixon Gerald Ford Vietnam