APUSH dates quiz 1

1492

Columbus arrived in America

1607

jamestown settled

1619

1st American slaves arrived in US

1754

french and Indian war begins

1763

treaty of Paris signed = french and Indian war ends

1776

Declaration of independence signed

1781

Battle of Yorktown = end of revolutionary war

1789

constitution is ratified

1800

jefferson becomes president = peaceful transition of power (revolution of 1800)

1803

Louisiana purchase; marbury V Madison decision

1815

battle of New Orleans

1820

missouri compromise

1823

Monroe doctrine proclaimed

1828

Era of common man = andrew Jackson become president

1848

seneca falls convention

1846

Mexican American war begins

1850

compromise of 1850 - stricter fugitive slave act

1854

kansas-nebraska act, republican party created

1860

Lincoln becomes president

1865

south surrenders at Appomattox courthouse

1877

compromise of 1877 = recontruction ends

1869

trascontitnetial railroad completed

1890

wounded knee massacre

1896

Plessy V Ferguson

1898

U.S.S marine explodes = war w/Spain, 3rd TREATY of Paris