Key Dates in AP US History (Ritter)

1607

Jamestown founded

1620

Pilgrims arrive

1730-1760 (approx.)

Great Awakening (First)

1754-1763

Treaty of Paris ends French and Indian War

1775-1783

Revolutionary War

1787

Constitutional Convention

1793

Cotton gin invented

1800

Jefferson defeats Adams; ends Federalist era

1812-1814

War of 1812

1820

Missouri Compromise

1824

“Corrupt Bargain” election Adams over Jackson

1840

Whigs win under Harrison

1846-1848

Mexican War

1850

Compromise of 1850

1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act

1860

Election of Lincoln

1861-1865

Civil War

1869

Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

1877

Compromise of 1877 ends Reconstruction

1883

Civil Rights Cases of 1883

1887

Interstate Commerce Act passes

1896

McKinley over Bryan and Populists/Democrats

1898

Spanish-American War

1912

Wilson over TR and Taft

1914-1918

World War I

1917-1918

US involvement in World War I

1929

October stock market crash

1939-1945

World War II

1941, December 7

Pearl Harbor bombed

1950-1953

Korean War

1960

Kennedy defeats Nixon

1963, November 22

Kennedy assassinated

1965

Vietnam Escalation/Voting Rights Bill passes—end of civil rights era

1968

Tet Offensive/Death of King, RFK/Election of Nixon/Tigers win World Series

1973

US forces leave Vietnam

1974

Nixon resigns

1980

Reagan defeats Carter