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This is a master copy of any possible event or topic covered in the timeline quiz. Use this copy to stabilize your
understanding of dates, as well as expectations for causes and effects. Please take note that the causes & effects in this
master copy include phrases that you might need to elaborate upon or clarify in order for your answers to make
historical sense. You are encouraged to do so as you prepare and study independently.
Directions for timeline quiz
1. You will be given 6 events out of chronological order. There is no guarantee that all time periods will be
represented.
2. You must assemble the events in the correct order, provide a date, state its causes and effects, and identify
whether or not it is a turning point. Each event is worth five points.
Example:
McCullough v. Maryland
Seneca Falls Convention
Missouri Compromise
First Great Awakening
Jefferson elected
Bacons Rebellion
1.

2.

3.

Bacon's Rebellion (1676)

a. Causes: Backcountry farmers resented Berkeleys close relations with Indians. Berkeley
monopolized the fur trade with the Indians in the area. Berkley refused to retaliate for Indian
attacks on frontier settlements.
b. Effects: Governor Berkeley driven from Jamestown. It exposed resentments between inland
frontiersmen and landless former servants against gentry on coastal plantations. Socio-economic
class differences/clashes between rural and urban communities would continue throughout
American history. Upper class planters searched for laborers less likely to rebel black slaves.
First Great Awakening (1739-1744)
a. Causes: Church membership was believed to be in decline, and there was a sense of a diminishing
role of religion due to the establishment of more populated cities in North America. In the
background, the Englightenment was also encouraging individuals to challenge authority.
b. Effects: Faith in Protestantism revived. Evangelical church membership significantly increased. The
governments in the Colonies passed laws to keep ecclesiastical order, fuelling sentiment for the
separation of church and state. Many converts separated from established churches to form
churches with stricter membership requirements.
Jefferson elected (1800) TURNING POINT
a. Causes: Washington and Adams had already established the precedent for a strong central
government during their administrations. Federalists had alienated large groups due to discontent
over the Alien & Sedition Acts.
b. Effects: This marked the first time in American history where power was transferred from one
political party to another. Jeffersons elected also rebuked the Federalists and attempted to
decentralize government.

APUSH timeline: Period 2 (1607-1754)

Date
Event
1612
Tobacco made a profitable
crop by John Rolfe

Cause
Starving time and failure of
Jamestown colony.

Effect
Vital role in putting VA on a
firm economic footing.
Ruinous to soil when
continuously planted.
Chained VAs economy to a

1619

First group of blacks

brought to Virginia

Arrival of Dutch ship to

Virginia carrying Africans.

1676

Bacon's Rebellion

Rebels resented Berkeleys

close relations with
Indians. Berkeley
monopolized the fur trade
with the Indians in the
area. Berkley refused to
retaliate for Indian attacks
on frontier settlements.

1739-1744

First Great Awakening

Declining church
membership. Diminishing
role of religion.
Enlightenment.

APUSH timeline: Period 3 (1754-1800)

Date
Event
1756-1763
French and Indian War

1774

First Continental Congress

convenes

Cause
French and British claims
over the Ohio River Valley.
Both European countries
used Native American
claims to the land.

Stamp Act Congress

precursor to Continental
Congress. Committees of
Correspondence, which
kept the local colonial
governments in
communication with one
another as their common

single crop. Tobacco

promoted the use of the
plantation system. Need for
cheap, abundant labor
indentured servitude.
Their status was not clear
perhaps slaves, perhaps
indentured servants. Slavery
not that important until the
end of the 17c. Sets
precedent for Bacons
Rebellion as a source of
slave labor.
Governor Berkeley driven
from Jamestown. It exposed
resentments between inland
frontiersmen and landless
former servants against
gentry on coastal
plantations. Socio-economic
class differences/clashes
between rural and urban
communities would
continue throughout
American history. Upper
class planters searched for
laborers less likely to rebel
black slaves.
Faith in Protestantism
revived. Evangelical church
membership significantly
increased. The governments
in the Colonies passed laws
to keep ecclesiastical order,
fuelling sentiment for the
separation of church and
state. Many converts
separated from established
churches to form churches
with stricter membership
requirements.
Effect
England felt that a
major reorganization of her
American Empire was
necessary. It united the
colonists against a common
enemy for the first time.
Proclamation Line of 1763
created bitter feelings
towards the British that
would only intensify.
Boycott British goods, cease
exports to Britain as long as
Intolerable Acts are in
place. Intolerable Acts are
repealed. Outbreak of war
leads to Second Continental
Congress.

opposition to Britain grew.

Outbreak of war at
Lexington and Concord.
Formation of Second
Continental Congress. King
George ignores Olive
Branch petition. Popularity
of Common Sense.

1776

Declaration of
Independence

1784-1787

Northwest Ordinance of
1784, 1785, and 1787

Area around Ohio long

desired by colonists. States
laid claim to territories
following the
Revolutionary War.
Jefferson proposes
territory should be set up
as new states.

1788

Constitution ratified

Shays Rebellion. No
consistency in state
currencies. No consistent
taxation and trade between
states.

1790

Hamiltons financial plan

Large debt by the federal

government. Useless paper
money by the Articles of
Confederation. No foreign
credit available.

1798

Alien and Sedition Acts

Undeclared naval war

against France. Congress
seeks to give more
authority to government to
deal with foreign nationals.
Desire to stifle D-R
opposition.

1800

Jefferson elected

Establishment of strong
central government under
Washington and Adams.
Alienation of large groups
by the Federalists. Alien &
Sedition Acts.

APUSH timeline: Period 4 (1800-1848)

Date
Event
1803
Marbury v. Madison

Cause
Adams appoints midnight
judges on his departure
from the presidency.

Justifies American
Revolution. Articulates
grievances toward the
British government.
Incorporates Lockean ideals
of natural rights in
American society. Inspires
subsequent revolutions and
social/reform movements.
Procedure of establishing
new states set up. The
principle of granting new
states equal rather than
inferior status to older ones
was firmly established.
Extending religious liberty
to new territories. No
slavery allowed in
Northwest Territory.
Removed Articles of
Confederation. Established
three branches of
government. Strong central
government. Establishment
of federalism. Led to
debates concerning states
rights and role of central
government.
Federal government pays
off state debts. Issuance of
new government bonds.
Establishment of Bank of
the United States. Selfsufficiency of
manufacturing through
subsidies and protective
tariffs. Sparks division
between Federalists and
Democratic-Republicans.
First Party System.
Illegalized treasonous
writings and activities.
Arrest and imprisonment of
25 men charged with
violating Sedition Act.
Virginia and Kentucky
Resolutions. Popularization
of Democratic-Republicans
and Jefferson.
First time that presidential
power transitioned from
one party to another.
Decentralized government.

Effect
First time Supreme Court
declares something
unconstitutional.

Madison, Jeffersons
Secretary of State, refuses
to deliver William
Marburys commission.
British interference with
American shipping.
Impressment. Americans
believe British are pushing
natives against settlers.
War Hawks want to
expand into Canada.

1812-1815

War of 1812

1819

McCullough v. Maryland

Panic of 1819. Maryland

tries to impede a branch
of the BUS by taxing it.

1820

Missouri Compromise

Louisiana Purchase.
Unresolved questions
about slavery in Louisiana
Territory. Missouri
attempts to join Union as
slave state, exposing the
question to Congress for
the first time regarding
the West.

1828

Andrew Jackson
elected/Jacksonian Era
begins

Election of 1824/corrupt
bargain. Growth of
political machines under
Van Buren. Expansion of
white male suffrage in the
states.

1848

Seneca Falls Convention

Second Great Awakening

challenges womens
traditional roles, since
more women are leading
reform movements.
Female involvement in
abolition movement
inspires women to fight
for rights.

APUSH timeline: Period 5 (18441877)

Date
Event
1846-1848
Mexican-American War

Cause
No establishment of
Southern boundary of
Texas. Manifest Destiny
ideology because
aggressive and

Establishes the concept of

judicial review in the
United States.
Increase in American
patriotism/Era of Good
Feelings. Native
Americans weakened.
Growth of U.S.
manufacturing. U.S.
survives a war against a
global power. Growth in
confidence in countrys
ability to survive.
Established two
principles: 1) Constitution
gives Congress implied
powers (ex. BUS). 2) A
state cannot impede
action by the federal
government.
Missouri is a slave state,
Maine is admitted as a
free state. Prohibited
slavery in the former
Louisiana Territory north
of the parallel 3630'
north except within the
boundaries of the
proposed state of
Missouri. Presaged
sectional debates about
slavery that would emerge
in the 1840s and 50s.
Ended rule of notables.
Established an era of
distrust of the elites.
Dawn of a populist era.
Indissolubility of the
Union declared.
Expansion of presidential
powers to rival Congress.
Second Party System
established.
Begins womens rights
movement. Reformers
draft Declaration of
Sentiments and Rights.
Increasing cooperation
between womens rights
groups and abolitionists.
Paved way for suffrage
movement in Progressive
Era.
Effect
Mexico ceded California,
New Mexico, Arizona,
Utah, Nevada to U.S.
Subsequent attempts to
regulate slavery in

1850

Compromise of 1850

1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act

1860

Lincoln elected

1861-1865

Civil War

expansionist. Border
skirmishes between U.S.
and Mexico over southern
Texas border.
Victory in Mex-Am War.
Mexican Cession opens up
lands in the West for
settlement. Gold Rush of
1849 makes southwestern
lands attractive to South.
California wants to be
admitted as free state, but
will upset free/slave state
balance.
Transcontinental railroad
system through
established territory to
connect East to newly
acquired Western lands.
Stephen A. Douglas
proposes bill to establish
Kansas and Nebraska
territories and proposes
popular sovereignty to
determine fate of slavery.
Republicans field Lincoln,
but Democratic Party is
split. Fire-eaters compete
with moderate Democrats
over control of the party.
South becomes
increasingly hostile to
anti-slavery Northerners
as a result of Republican
Party platform, Harpers
Ferry, and attempts to
limit slavery.
Election of 1860,
Republicans and Lincoln.
Secession of Southern
states between December
1860 and early 1861.
Attack on Ft. Sumter by
Confederate forces.
Establishment of
Confederate States of
America.

territory contribute to
sectional crisis.
California admitted as free
state. Borders of Texas
and New Mexico
established. New Fugitive
Slave Act causes increased
tension between North
and South.

K-N bill becomes law.

Bleeding Kansas as a
result of pro-slavery and
anti-slavery forces
clashing in Kansas.
Reversal of Missouri
Compromise. Leads to
establishment of
Republican Party, death of
Whigs, and the start of the
Third Party System.
Lincoln wins with 40% of
popular vote. South
refuses to submit to
Republican rule.
Crittenden Compromise
fails to placate South.
Southern states begin to
secede. Leads to Civil
War.

Division of West Virginia

and Virginia. Union
victory. Reconstruction
amendments (13, 14, and
15) which forbid slavery,
extended equal protection
under the law, and
prohibited discrimination
based on race, color, or
previous servitude.
Federalism emerges
victorious over states
rights. Wartime demand
spurs industrialization.
Reconstruction begins.