APUSH P&D Test

1607

Jamestown founded

1619

First Africans are brought to British North America AND House of Burgesses founded

1754/56

French & Indian War (fighting begins/war declared)

1763

Treaty of Paris ends French & Indian War

1775

Battles of Lexington & Concord; American Revolution begins

1776

Declaration of Independence

1783

Treaty of Paris ends the American Revolution

1787 & 89

Constitution written & ratified

1791

Bill of Rights

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1846

Mexican-American War begins

1848

Mexican-American War ends (Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo) OR Seneca Falls Convention

1861

Civil War begins

1865

End of Civil War

1868

14th amendment (citizenship & equal protection)

1869

Transcontinental Railroad completed

1877

End of Reconstruction

1890

"Closing the frontier" census & Massacre at Wounded Knee OR Sherman Anti-Trust Act

1898

Spanish-American War

1914

WWI begins in Europe

1917

US enters WWI

1918

End of WWI

1920

19th amendment (Women's suffrage)

1929

stock market crash

1933

New Deal begins as FDR takes office

1939

WWII begins in Europe

1941

Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII

1945

End of WWII

1950

Korean War begins

1954

Brown v. Board of Education

1964

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution - Vietnam War begins (ALSO Civil Rights Act ends segregation)

1974

Nixon resigns

1975

Fall of Saigon

1989

Fall of Berlin Wall

1991

Fall of USSR/end of Cold War AND Persian Gulf War

2001

9/11 attack/ start of War on Terror