Y2K - First 30 Years (2026-2027)

A set of vocabulary flashcards covering the first 30 essential milestone years, events, and historical movements in United States history.

1607

Jamestown, Virginia founded (1st permanent British colony)

1619

First Africans to the Chesapeake (Jamestown, start of slavery)

1620

Pilgrims arrive at Plymouth, MA on the Mayflower

1676

Bacon's Rebel lion (Virginia - switch to slavery) AND King Philip's War (ends Native resistance in New England)

1730s/1740s

First Great Awakening (colonial protestant religious revival)

1763

End of French and Indian War (defeat French --> debt --> ends salutary neglect)

1776

Declaration of Independence (TJ: Enlightenment ideals of equality, life, liberty. & happiness)

1783

End of the Revolutionary War (Treaty of Paris signed)

1789

Constitution went into effect (replaced weak Articles of Confederation)

1800-1840

Second Great Awakening (religious revival sparks reform)

1803

Louisiana Purchase (TJ buys from France) & Marbury v. Madison (judicial review)

1820

Missouri Compromise (MO slave, ME free, 36-30 line)

1828

Jacksonian Democracy & start of Democratic Party

1830

Indian Removal Act

1831

Garrison first publishes the Liberator (anti-slavery newspaper) & Nat Turner's Slave Rebel lion

1848

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican-African War & Seneca Fal ls Convention (women's rights!)

1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act (popular sovereignty) & start of Republican Party

1861

Confederate States of America established, Civil War begins (Fort Sumter)

1863

Emancipation Proclamation (Lincoln frees Southern slaves)

1877

Reconstruction ends in failure with Compromise of 1877

1882

Chinese Exclusion Act (bans Chinese laborers from immigrating)

1890

Sherman Anti-Trust Act (bans monopolies) and Battle of Wounded Knee (end of Indian Wars)

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson (separate but equal) and Wil liam McKinley defeats Wil liam Jennings Bryan (Populist)

1898

Spanish-American War (US gains Philippines, PR, Guam)

1919

Treaty of Versail les ends World War One and 1st Red Scare

1920

Women's suffrage/vote (19th amendment)

1929

Great Depression begins with Stock Market crash

1933

FDR's "First 100 Days," New Deal goes into effect

1941

Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (US enters WWII)

1945

Atomic bombs dropped on Japan, World War Two ends