APUSH dates quiz

Colony established at Jamestown, Virginia

1607

French and Indian War begins

1754

Signing of the Declaration of Independ

1776

President Jefferson purchases the Louisiana territory from France

1803

Battle of New Orleans (War of 1812)

1815

Nullification Crisis in South Carolina

1832

Mexican-American War begins

1846

Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sanford

1857

American Civil War

1861-65

end of the Reconstruction era

1877

“closing” of the American frontier

1890

Spanish-American War

1898

Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt becomes US president

1901

American participation in World War I

1917-18

Wall Street crash (“Black Tuesday”)

1929

American participation in World War II

1941-45

The Soviet Union launches the Sputnik satellite

1957

Congress passes the Civil Rights Act

1964

The US begins “drafting” American men to fight in Vietnam

1969

Ronald Reagan elected to the presidency

1980