Dates in U.S History

Jamestown founded

1607

First Africans arrive

1619

First Great Awakening

1730s-1740s

French and Indian War ends

1763

American Revolution

1775-1783

Declaration of Independence

1776

Treaty of Paris (ends rev. war)

1783

Constitutional Convention

1787

Federal government begins

1789

Revolution of 1800 (TJ elected)

1800

Marbury vs. Madison

1803

LA purchase

1803

Importation of enslaved illegal

1808

Era of Good Feelings

1816

Erie Canal begun

1817

MO Compromise

1820

Monroe Doctrine

1823

Second Great Awakening

1830

Indian Revolution Act

1803

Nat Turner’s Insurrection

1832

War with Mexico

1842-1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1848

Gold Rush

1849

Compromise of 1850

1850

Kansas Nebraska Act

1854

Dred Scott case

1857

Lincoln elected

1860

Civil War

1861-1865

Emancipation Proclimation

1863

Reconstruction ends

1877

Wounded Knee

1890

Plessy vs. Ferguson

1896

Delasalle High School established

1900

NAACP founded

1909

WW1

1914-1918

Treaty of Versailles

1919

19th Amendment

1920

Stock Market Crash

1929

Bonus Army/FDR elected

1932

WW2

1914-1945

Korean War

1950-1953

Brown vs. Board of Education

1954

Montgomery Bus Boycott

1955

Vietnam War

1961-1975

March on Washington

1963

Civil Rights Act

1964

Tet Offense and “Turmoil”

1968

Apollo 11

1969

Roe vs. Wade

1973

Nixon resigns

1974

Persian Gulf War

1991

OK City attack

1995

Hurricane Katrina

2005

Great Recession

2008

Affordable Health Care Act

2011

George Floyd/COVID

2020