APUSH all exam important dates

1491

last year before Colombian Exchange

1607

Jamestown- 1st permanent English settlement

1763

end of salutary neglect; end of French and Indian War; Pontiac's Rebellion; Proclamation Line

1783

Treaty of Paris

1787

writing of Constitution

1793

cotton gin and textile mill

1807

Slave Trade Ban;

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1844

election of James K. Polk; manifest destiny; annexation of Texas

1848

gold discovered in California

1849

Gold Rush

1850

Compromise of 1850- California added as free state which inbalances power in Senate; Fugitive Slave Act

1854

beginning of Republican part made of old Whigs, anti-slavery people, and federalists

1860

election of lincoln/ beginning of southern secession

1862

Burreau of Freedman, Refugees, and Abandoned Lands; Homestead Act; Morroll Land Grant; Pacific Railway Act

1865

Lee surrenders to Grant (end of Civil War); assassination of Lincoln; 13-15th Amendment; beginning of Reconstruction

1868

election of Grant; beginning of Gilded Age;

1877

Rutherford B. Hayes which is Corrupt Bargain; end of Reconstruction when police removed from south

1882

Chinese Exclusion Act

1898

end of Gilded Age; beginning of Spanish American War

1853

Commodore Matthew Perry opens trade w/ Japan

1898-1917

Progressive Era

1917

US involvement in WW1

1919

Red Summer and Prohibition

1920

women's suffrage

1929

stock market crash and beginning of Great Depression

1941

bombing of Pearl Harbor

1945

end of Japanese War and creation of United Nations

1950

Korean War

1954

Brown v. Topeka, Kansas

1960

President Kennedy elected (1st Catholic president)

1964

Civil Rights Act signed by Johnson

1965

Voting Rights Act signed by Johnson

1932

election of FDR; New Deal

1980

election of Reagan