Apush Important Dates

1492

Columbus landed on El Salvador + Discovers Americas

1607

Jamestown Founded

1619

First Slaves In America Brought to Virginia

1754

French And Indian War Starts

1763

First Treaty of Paris Ends French and Indian war

1776

Declaration of Independence Signed

1781

American Revolution ended, British surrender at Yorktown

1789

Washington becomes 1st president

1800

Thomas Jefferson elected as president, first peaceful transfer of power

1803

Louisiana Purchas + Manbury V Madison

1815

Battle of New Orleans

1820

Missouri Compromise Passed

1823

Monroe Doctrine Declared

1828

Andrew Jackson Elected as President

1846

Mexican American War begins

1848

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Ends Mexican American War

1850

Compromise of 1850 passed

1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act passed + Republican party founded

1860

Abraham Lincoln elected as president

1865

Civil War ends with the unions victory, year Lincoln was assassinated

1869

Transcontinental railroad completed

1877

Reconstruction Ends- Hayes pres

1890

Wounded Knee Massacre

1896

Plessy V Ferguson case

1898

Spanish American War