APUSH Important Dates

Jamestown Founded

1607

House of Burgesses Founded

1619

Plymouth Colony Founded/Mayflower Compact

1620

Bacon’s Rebellion

1676

French & Indian War

1745-1763

Revolutionary War

1775-1783

Declaration of Independence

1776

Articles of Confederation

1781

US Constitution Ratified

1789

Revolution of 1800

1800

Louisiana Purchase

1803

War of 1812 w/ Britain

1812-1814

Missouri Compromise

1820

Jackson Defeats JQ Adams

1828

Indian Removal Act

1830

Nullification Crisis

1832

Mexican American War

1846-1848

Compromise of _____/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

World War 1

1914-1918

Women’s Suffrage (19th Amendment)

1920

Stock Market Crash

1929

FDR’s Election

1932

World War 2

1939-1945

Korean War

1950-1953

US Participation in Vietnam

1954-1973

Brown v. Board of Education Case

1954

Kennedy Election

1960

March on Washington

1963

Gulf of Tonkin

1964

MLK Assasinated/Nixon Elected

1968

Reagan Election/Rise of New Conservatism

1980

Fall of Berlin Wall

1989

Terrorist Attack on World Trade Center/Pentagon

2001