APUSH Dates quiz

Period 1

1491-1607

1492

Columbus arrived in Americas

Period 2

1607–1754

1619

First slaves to America

Period 3

1754–1800

1754

Start of French + Indian War

1763

1st Treaty of paris signed

1776

Declaration of Independence signed

1781

Battle of Yorktown

1789

U.S. Constitution ratified

Period 4

1800–1848

1800

Election of Jefferson

1803

Louisiana Purchase + Marbury v. Madison

1815

Battle of N.O.

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1828

Era of common man begins w/ Andrew Jackson election

1848

Seneca Falls Convention

Period 5

1844–1877

1846

War with Mexico

1850

Compromise of 1850

1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act + creation of Republican Party

Period 6

1865–1898

1869

Transcontinental Railroad completed

1877

Reconstruction ends

1890

Wounded Knee Massacre

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson case

Period 7

1890–1919

1898

Sinking of USS Maine

1906

The Jungle published → passing food reforms

1911

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

1919

Women get voting rights + Red Summer

Period 8

1945–1980

1945

V-J Day

1949

Chinese communist revolution

1954

Brown v. Board

1964

Gulf of Tonkin + Civil Rights Act passed

1968

Tet Offensive, assassinations (MLK + Kennedy), Nixon elected, Chicago riots

1974

Nixon resigns

1980

Reagan elected president

Period 9

1980–2020

1991

End of Cold War / collapse of USSR

2001

Twin Towers / invasion of Afghanistan

2008

Obama election