AP US History Dates Test

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1492
Columbus sails the ocean blue / Columbian Exchange begins / Reconquista of Spain
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1607
Jamestown established.
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1619
First African slaves brought to North America.
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1754
French and Indian War Begins
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1763
French and Indian War Ends; Proclamation of 1763; End of Salutary Neglect.
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1776
Declaration of Independence
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1781
Battle of Yorktown; End of Revolutionary War Fighting (war not officially ended until Treaty of Paris #2 in 1783)
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1789
Ratification of the Constitution
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1800
Revolution of 1800; peaceful transition of power from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson
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1803
Louisiana Purchase
Louisiana Purchase
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1815
Battle of New Orleans; I love you Andrew Jackson.
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1820
Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise
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1823
Monroe Doctrine
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1828
Andrew Jackson elected - Age of the common man
Andrew Jackson elected - Age of the common man
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1846
Beginning of the Mexican-American War
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1850
Compromise of 1850; New, more harsh fugitive slave law.
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1854
Kansas-Nebraska Act; Birth of the Republican Party
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1860
Election of 1860; Abraham Lincoln Elected; South Carolina Secedes
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1865
Civil War Ends; Reconstruction Begins
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1869
Transcontinental Railroad completed
Transcontinental Railroad completed
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1877
Reconstruction Ends; Rutherford B. Hayes Elected in Compromise of 1877
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1890
Massacre of wounded knee; Sherman Anti-Trust Act; frontier closes
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1896
Plessy v. Fergusson
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1898
Spanish-American War; Beginning of American imperialism
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1906
Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle
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1911
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
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1919
Treaty of Versailles; Race Riot in Chicago; First Red Scare
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1929
Stock Market Crash; Onset of Great Depression
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1933
FDR Inaugurated; Beginning of New Deal
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1941
Pearl Harbor; America Enters World War II
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1945
End of World War II; Dropping of Atomic Bombs
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1949
Soviets get Atomic Bomb; Communist Revolution in China; NATO formed
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1954
Brown v. Board of Education decided - Segregation illegal.
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1964
Civil Rights Act of 1964; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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1968
MLK Assassinated; Chicago Democratic Convention; Tet Offensive; Richard Nixon Elected ushering in a period of conservativism.
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1974
Watergate Scandal
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1980
Ronald Reagan Elected
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1991
Operation Desert Storm; End of the Cold War
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2001
9/11