AP US History General Years to know

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1607

Jamestown founded

1619

First African slaves

1676

Bacon's Rebellion

1730s-1740s

First Great Awakening

1763

End of French and Indian War

1776

Declaration of Independence

1783

End of the American Revolution

1789

Constitution went into effect

1800-1840

Second Great Awakening

1800

Revolution of 1800(Jefferson beats Adams in election)

1803

Louisiana Purchase and Marbury v. Madison

1815

Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1828

Jacksonian Democracy & establishment of Democratic party

1848

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ending Mexican-American War and Seneca Falls Convention

1850

Compromise of 1850

1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act and founding of Republican party

1861

Confederate States of America established, Civil War begins

1863

Emancipation Proclamation

1865

Civil war ends and Reconstruction begins

1877

Reconstruction ends with Compromise of 1877

1882

Chinese Exclusion Act

1890

Sherman Anti-Trust Act and Battle of Wounded Knee (end of Indian Wars)

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson and William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan

1898

Spanish-American War

1917

U.S. enters World War One

1919

Treaty of Versailles ends World War One and First Red Scare

1920

Women's suffrage (19th amendment)

1929

Great Depression begins with Stock Market crash

1933

FDR's "First 100 Days", New Deal goes into effect

1930s

Neutrality Acts passed to keep U.S. out of another European War

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor

1945

Atomic bomb dropped on Japan, WWII ends

1947

Truman Doctrine issued (Cold War Policy of Containment)

1949

U.S. joins NATO; China becomes Communist; Soviets detonate atomic bomb

1950

Korean "War" begins and the Second Red Scare

1953

Armistice (tie) ends the Korean "War"

1954

Geneva Accords (Vietnam split into two) and Brown v. Board of Education

1955

Montgomery Bus Boycott