APUSH Turning Points Quiz

Jamestown founded

1607

House of Burgesses

1619

Plymouth founded; Mayflower Compact

1620

Bacon’s Rebellion

1676

French & Indian War

1754-63

Revolutionary War

1775-83

Declaration of Independence

1776

Articles of Confederation

1781

US Constitution ratified

1789

Revolution of 1800

1800

Louisiana Purchase

1803

War of 1812 w/ Britain

1812-14

Missouri Compromise

1820

Jackson defeats JQ Adams

1828

Indian Removal Act

1830

Nullification Crisis

1832

Mexican-American War

1846-48

Compromise : CA free, fugitive slave law, no slave trade in DC

1850

Kansas Nebraska Act

1854

Dred Scott Case

1857

Civil War

1861-65

Reconstruction Ended

1877

Frontier Closed

1890

Plessy v. Ferguson Case

1896

Spanish American War

1898

US Participation in WWI

1917-1918

Women’s Suffrage (19th)

1920

Stock Market Crash

1929

FDR’s Election

1932

US Participation in WWII

1941-45

Korean War

1950-53

US Participation in Vietnam

1954-73

Brown v. Board of Education Case

1954

Kennedy elected

1960

March on Washington

1963

Gulf of Tonkin

1964

MLK Jr. assassinated; LBJ nut running again; Robert Kennedy assassinated; Tet Offensive; Race riots in major cities; Nixon elected

1968

Reagan elected / Rise of New Conservatism

1980

Fall of Berlin Wall

1989

Terrorist attacks on World Trade Center, Pentagon

2001