APUSH - ALL IMPORTANT DATES

1492

Columbus arrived in Americas

1607

Jamestown is founded

1619

1st slaves to America

1754

The French & Indian War begins

1763

1st Treaty of Paris signed

1776

Declaration of Independence signed

1781

Battle of Yorktown

1789

US constitution ratified

1800

Revolution of 1800

1803

Louisiana Purchase & Marbury v. Madison

1815

Battle of N.O. (Treaty of Ghent)

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1828

Era of Common Man

1846

War with Mexico

1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1850

Compromise of 1850

1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act passed & creation of Republican party

1860

Election of Lincoln & South Carlina secedes

1865

South surrenders at Appomattox Courthouse & 13th Amendment passed

1869

Transcontinental Railroad completed

1877

Compromise of 1877 & reconstruction ends

1890

Wounded Knee-Massacre

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson case

1898

Sinking of U.S.S. Maine

1906

Jungle published & food reforms passed

1911

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

1919

Women get the right to vote & Red Summer

1929

Stock Market Crashed

1933

New Deal Begins

1941

Japan bombs pearl harbor & US enters WW2

1945

WW2 ends with atomic bombing

1949

Chinese communist revolution & USSR has A-Bomb

1954

Brown v. Board

1964

Gulf of Tonkin & Civil Rights Act passed

1968

Tet offensive, assassination of MLK, Nixon elected president, Chicago Democratic convention

1974

Nixon resigns

1980

Reagon elected president

1991

End of Cold War with collapse of USSR & Operation Desert Storm

2001

9/11 & Invasion of Afghanistan

2008

Election of 2008 - Obama elected president

2020

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