AP US History Dates Test

1492

Columbus sails the ocean blue / Columbian Exchange begins / Reconquista of Spain

1607

Jamestown established.

1619

First African slaves brought to North America.

1754

French and Indian War Begins

1763

French and Indian War Ends; Proclamation of 1763; End of Salutary Neglect.

1776

Declaration of Independence

1781

Battle of Yorktown; End of Revolutionary War Fighting (war not officially ended until Treaty of Paris #2 in 1783)

1789

Ratification of the Constitution

1800

Revolution of 1800; peaceful transition of power from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1815

Battle of New Orleans; I love you Andrew Jackson.

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1828

Andrew Jackson elected - Age of the common man

1846

Beginning of the Mexican-American War

1850

Compromise of 1850; New, more harsh fugitive slave law.

1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act; Birth of the Republican Party

1860

Election of 1860; Abraham Lincoln Elected; South Carolina Secedes

1865

Civil War Ends; Reconstruction Begins

1869

Transcontinental Railroad completed

1877

Reconstruction Ends; Rutherford B. Hayes Elected in Compromise of 1877

1890

Massacre of wounded knee; Sherman Anti-Trust Act; frontier closes

1896

Plessy v. Fergusson

1898

Spanish-American War; Beginning of American imperialism

1906

Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle

1911

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

1919

Treaty of Versailles; Race Riot in Chicago; First Red Scare

1929

Stock Market Crash; Onset of Great Depression

1933

FDR Inaugurated; Beginning of New Deal

1941

Pearl Harbor; America Enters World War II

1945

End of World War II; Dropping of Atomic Bombs

1949

Soviets get Atomic Bomb; Communist Revolution in China; NATO formed

1954

Brown v. Board of Education decided - Segregation illegal.

1964

Civil Rights Act of 1964; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

1968

MLK Assassinated; Chicago Democratic Convention; Tet Offensive; Richard Nixon Elected ushering in a period of conservativism.

1974

Watergate Scandal

1980

Ronald Reagan Elected

1991

Operation Desert Storm; End of the Cold War

2001

9/11