APUSH Important Dates

APUSH Most Important Dates Flashcards

Columbus lands in the Caribbean

1492

Jamestown Founded

1607

End of the French and Indian War

1763

Thomas Paine's Common Sense and Declaration of Independence

1776

Constitution Written

1787

Missouri Compromise

1820

Seneca Falls Convention

1848

California Gold Rush

1849

Lincoln’s election / Start of the Civil War

1860-61

Wounded Knee Massacre / End of Westward Expansion

1890

Spanish American war

1898

US Enters WWI

1917

19th Amendment - Women can Vote

1919

Black Tuesday / Stock Market Crash

1929

Pearl Harbor / US Enters WWII

1941

Atomic Bombings / End of WWII / Cold War Begins

1945

Brown v. Board of Education

1954

USSR Launches Sputnik

1957

Gulf of Tonkin Incident & Resolution / 1st Troops sent to Vietnam

1964

Watergate – Nixon Resigns

1974

Reagan Elected / Reagan Revolution Begins

1980

Fall of the Berlin Wall / Break-up of the Soviet Union / End of the Cold War

1989 – 1991

NAFTA Signed into Law

1993

9/11 Terrorist Attacks

2001