APUSH Important Dates

1492

Columbus’s arrival in the Caribbean

1607

Founding of Jamestown, First British Settlement

1730s

First Great Awakening Begins

1754-1763

French and Indian War

1775

Battles of Lexington and Concord, beginning of the Revolutionary War

1776

Declaration of Independence

1789

Constitution takes effect, Washington becomes president

1800

The Election of Thomas Jefferson

1820s and 1830s

The Market Revolution

1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1846-1848

Mexican American War

1848

Mexican Cession (Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo)

1860

Election of Abraham Lincoln

1861-1865

The Civil War

1865-1877

Reconstruction Era

1870s through 1900

The Industrial Revolution

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson

1898

Spanish American War

1899-1902

American-Philippine War

1890s through 1920

Progressive Era

1914-1918

World War One

1920

19th Amendment

1929-1941

The Great Depression

1941

Pearl Harbor

1939-1945

World War Two

1950-1953

Korean War

1954

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

1964-1973

U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War

1968

Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

1980

Election of Ronald Reagan

1991

Collapse of the Soviet Union (“End” of the Cold War)

2001

9/11 Attacks, War on Terror Begins