APUSH important dates

1607

Jamestown founded

1619

First Africans were brought to British North America

1754

French and Indian War begins

1763

Treaty of Paris (ends French and Indian War)

1775

Battles of Lexington and Concord

1776

Declaration of Independence

1783

Revolution ends

1787

Constitution written

1791

Bill of Rights

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1846

War with Mexico

1861

Civil War Begins

1865

Civil War ends

1868

14th Amendment

1869

1st Transcontinental Railroad

1877

Reconstruction ends

1890

Closing of the frontier (last Native American resistance on the plains)

1898

Spanish-American War

1914

WW1 begins

1917

US enters WW1

1918

WW1 ends

1920

19th Amendment (voting rights for women)

1929

Stock Market Crash

1933

New Deal Begins (FDR)

1939

WW2 begins

1941

US enters WW2

1945

WW2 ends (UN was formed)

1950

Korean War begins

1954

Brown Vs Board of Education

1964

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (escalated Vietnam War)

1974

Nixon’s Resignation

1975

Saigon Falls (US leave Vietnam and Vietnam is taken over by communists)

1989

Berlin Wall Falls (ending of the Cold War)