AP US History Turning Points

Key events in United States History

Jamestown

1607

House of Burgesses

1619

Plymouth founded; Mayflower Compact

1620

Bacon’s Rebellion

1676

French & Indian War

1754-63

Revolutionary War

1775-83

Declaration of Independence

1776

Articles of Confederation

1781

US Constitution ratified

1789

Revolution of 1800

1800

Louisiana Purchase

1803

War of 1812 w/ Britain

1812-14

Missouri Compromise

1820

Jackson defeats JQ Adams

1828

Indian Removal Act

1830

Nullification Crisis

1832

Mexican-American War

1846-48

Compromise of 1850

1850

Kansas Nebraska Act

1854

Dred Scott case

1857

Civil War

1861-65

Reconstruction Ended

1877

Frontier Closed

1890

Plessy v. Ferguson case

1896

Spanish American War

1898

World War I

1914-18 (US joined in ‘16)

Women’s suffrage (19th amendment)

1920

Stock Market Crash

1929

FDR’s election

1932

World War II

1939-45

Korean War

1950-53

US participation in Vietnam

1954-73

Brown v. Board of Education case

1954

Kennedy elected

1960

March on Washington

1963

Gulf of Tonkin

1964

MLK assassinated, LBJ not running, RK assassinated, Tet offensive, Race Riots, Nixon elected

1968

Reagan elected / Rise of New Conservatism

1980

Fall of Berlin Wall

1989

Terrorist attacks on World Trade Center, Pentagon

2001