Apush Dates Test

Columbus discovered Americas

1492

Jamestown

1607

Mayflower Compact

1620

Beginning of French and Indian War

1754

Boston Tea Party

1773

Declaration of Independence

1776

Ratification of Constitution; George Washington as 1st President

1789

Election of Jefferson

1800

Marbury v. Madison; Louisiana Purchase

1803

End of War of 1812 (Treaty of Ghent)

1812

Missouri Compromise

1820

Monroe Doctrine

1823

Election of Jackson

1828

South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification

1832

Election of Polk; Western Expansion

1844

Seneca Falls convention; end of Mexican War (Treaty Guadalupe-Hidalgo)

1848

Beginning of Civil War

1861

End of Civil War

1865

End of Reconstruction

1877

Sherman Antitrust Act

1890

Plessy v. Ferguson

1896

Spanish-American War (Treaty of Paris)

1898

Beginning of World War I

1914

American entry in World War 1

1917

Treaty of Versailes

1919

19th Amendment (Women’s suffrage)

1920

Stock Market Crash

1929

Beginning of World War II

1939

Pearl Harbor; American entry in World War II

1941

End of World War II; U.S. atomic bomb; beginning of Cold War

1945

National Security Act of 1947; Creation of CIA; Establishment of Department of Defense

1947

Soviet denotate first atomic bomb, Creation of NATO, China falls to communism

1949

Beginning of Korean War

1950

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

1954

Sputnik 1 launched into orbit

1957

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962

JFK Assasination

1963

Civil Rights Act, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

1964

Tet Offensive, MLK assassinated, RFK assassinated, Democratic Convention

1968

Apollo 11 moon landing

1969

Nixon visits China

1972

Americans withdraw troops from Vietnam

1973

Election of Reagan

1980

Fall of Berlin wall

1989

9/11, Beginning of Global War on Terror

2001

Beginning of Iraq war

2003

Election of Obama

2008

Americans withdraw troops from Iraq

2011

Election of Trump

2016

Capitol Riots, Americans withdraw from Afghanistan

2021

Election of Trump

2024