APUSH DATES

1492

Columbus discovers the New World

1607

Jamestown is founded

1619

1st slaves to America

1754

French and Indian War Begins

1763

Treaty of Paris signed

1776

Boston Tea Party

1781

Battle of Yorktown

1789

U.S Constitution ratified

1800

Revolution of 1800, Thomas Jefferson is elected president

1803

Louisiana Purchase; Marbury v. Madison

1815

Treaty of Ghent/ Battle of New Orleans

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1828

The era of common man begins/ Andrew Jackson Election

1846

War with Mexico

1848

Seneca Falls Conventions

1850

Compromise of 1850

1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act; Creation of Republican Party

1860

Dred Scott Decision

1865

Appomattox Courthouse/ 13th Amendment/ Cornstock Lode Discovered

1869

Transcontinental Railroad completed

1877

End of Reconstruction; Compromise of 1877; Hayes Presidency

1898

Spanish- American War

1906

Jungle Published/ Passing of Food Reforms

1911

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

1919

Women get right to vote; Red Summer

1929

Stock Market Crash

1933

New Deal begins

1941

Japan bombs Pearl Harbor/ U.S enters WWII

1945

World War II ends with atomic bombing

1949

Chinese Communist revolution; USSR has atomic bomb

1954

Brown v. Board

1964

Gulf of Tonkin / Civil Rights Act Passed

1968

Tet Offensive; assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. ; Nixon Elected President; Chicago Democratic Convention

1974

Nixon Resigns

1890

wounded knee massacre

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson case

1980

Reagan elected president

1991

End of Cold War with Collapse of Cold War; Operation Desert Storm

2001

9/11; Invasion of Afghanistan

2008

Obama becomes president

2020

Covid -19