Turning Points in AP US History

Jamestown founded

1607

House of Burgesses

1619

Plymouth founded; Mayflower Compact

1620

Bacon’s Rebellion

1676

French and Indian War

1754-63

Revolutionary War

1775-83

Declaration of Independence

1776

Articles of Confederation

1781

US Constitution ratified

1789

Revolution of 1800

1800

War of 1812 w/ Britian

1812-14

Missouri Compromise

1820

Jackson defeats JQ Adams

1828

Indian Removal Act

1830

Nullification Crisis

1832

Mexican-American War

1846-1848

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

1850

Kansas Nebraska Act

1854

Dred Scott Case

1857

Civil War

1861-1865

Reconstruction Ended

1877

Frontier Closed

1890

Plessy v. Ferguson case

1896

Spanish-American War

1898

US participation in WWI

1917-18

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, Civil Rights Act, 24th Amendment

1964

Mlk Jr. assasinated; LBJ not running again; Robert Kennedy assassinated; Tet Offensive; Race riots in major cities; Nixon elected

1968

Reagan elected/ New conservatism

1980

Fall of Berlin Wall

1989

Terrorist attacks in World Trade Center, Pentagon

2001

Great Recession

2008