AP U.S. History - Important Dates to Remember

1492

End of the Pre-Columbian Era in the U.S. - Start of European Contact

1607

Jamestown

1619

First enslaved Africans arrive in Virginia

1680

Pueblo Revolt

1730s-1740s

First Great Awakening

1754

Seven Years War/French and Indian War

1776

Declaration of Independence

1783

Treaty of Paris Ending the American Revolution

1787

Constitution Written

1793

Cotton Gin invented reviving slavery

1800

Jefferson Elected, “The revolution of 1800”

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1812

War of 1812

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1845-1848

Mexican American War

1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1860

Election Of Lincoln

1862

Homestead Act

1865

End of Civil War; Lincoln assassinated

1869

Transcontinental Railroad

1877

Hayes-Tilden Affair Ends Reconstruction

1887

Dawes Severalty Act

1894

Pullman Strike

1896

Plessy V. Ferguson

1898

Spanish American War; U.S. Annexation of Hawaii

1909

NAACP Founded

1917

U.S. Entry into WWI

1919

Drafting 19th Amendment Women’s Suffrage; Palmer Raids

1925

Scopes Monkey Trial

1929

Stock Market Crash, Great Depression

1933

FDR Bank Holiday

1941

Pearl Harbor

1945

Atomic Bombs dropped on Japan, end of World War II

1950

Korean War

1954

Brown v. Board of Education

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

1964

Civil Rights Act

1968

Tet Offensive; Assassination of MLK & RFK; Chicago Democratic Convention

1969

Stonewall Riots

1975

Nixon Resigns

1979

Iran Hostage Crisis

1980

Reagan Elected; Rise of Conservatism

1991

Fall of USSR; First Gulf War

1994

NAFTA signed by Bill Clinton

2001

9/11

2008

Obama Elected President; Housing Crisis and Great Recession