IMPORTANT YEARS AND EVENTS TO KNOW

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1492

COLUMBUS ARRIVED IN AM.

1607

JAMESTOWN FOUNDED

1619

1ST SLAVES TO AM (JAMESTOWN)

1754

THE FRENCH + INDIAN WAR BEGINS

1763

TREATY OF PARIS SIGNED (1ST)

1776

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE SIGNED

1781

BATTLE OF YORKTOWN

1789

U.S. CONSTITUTION RATIFIED

1800

REVOLUTION OF 1800 - PEACEFUL TRANSFER

1803

1) LOUISIANA PURCHASE 2) MARBURY V MADISON

1815

BATTLE OF N.O. + TREATY OF GHENT

1820

MISSOURI COMPROMISE

1823

MONROE DOCTRINE

1828

THE ERA OF COMMON MAN BEGINS W/ ANDREW JACKSON ELECTION

1846

WAR W/ MEXICO

1848

SENECA FALLS CONVENTION

1850

COMPROMISE OF 1850

1854

1) KANSAS NEBRASKA ACT PASSED 2) CREATION OF REPUBLICAN PARTY

1860

ELECTION OF LINCOLN/ S. CAROLINA SECEDES

1865

S. SURRENDERS AT APPOMATTOX COURTHOUSE/13TH AMENDMENT

1869

TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD COMPLETED

1877

COMPROMISE OF 1877 = RECONSTRUCTION ENDS

1890

WOUNDED KNEE MASSACRE

1896

PLESSY V FERGUSON

1898

U.S.S MAINE EXPLODES = WAR W/ SPAIN; 3RD TREATY OF PARIS

1906

Jungle Published

1911

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

1919

19th Amendment passes = Women’s right to vote; Red Summer

1929

Stock Market Crashes (Black Thursday/ Tuesday) = Great Depression Begins

1933

 FDR takes office = New Deal Begins

1941

 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor = U.S. enters WWII

1945

WWII ends = V-E Day; Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki = V-J Day

1949

Chinese Communist Revolution; USSR has A-Bomb

1954

 Brown v Topeka Board of Education

1964

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; Civil Rights Act 

1968

Tet Offensive; MLK assassinated; riots at Chicago Convention; Nixon elected President

1974

 Nixon resigns

1980

Reagan elected President

1991

Operation Desert Storm; Cold War ends

2001

September 11th

2008

Obama elected President

2020

COVID-19 Pandemic