APUSH dates quiz 1492-1898

1492

Columbus discovers america which initiates European exploration and colonization.

1607

Jamestown founded , first permanent English settlement in America

1619

first documented slaves in Jamestown

1754

start of French Indian war and the struggle for control of North America between France and Britain.

1763

treaty of Paris signed (1st one)

1776

Declaration of Independence signed

1781

Battle of Yorktown

1789

US constitution ratified

1800

Election of Thomas Jefferson

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1803

Marbury V Madison establishing the principle of judicial review, courts can declare laws or executive actions unconstitutional and invalid

1815

Battle of New Orleans/N.O, final battle of 1812

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1828

Era of Common Man w/ election of Jackson

1846

War with Mexico, Mexican American War, Causes: Annexation of Texas (1845), disputed border (U.S. said Rio Grande; Mexico said Nueces River), and expansionist pressure (Manifest Destiny).

1848

Seneca Falls Convention (July 1848): first major women’s rights convention in the U.S.; produced the Declaration of Sentiments demanding equal rights, including women’s suffrage

1850

Compromise of 1850, Five laws to ease North–South tension — California free, New Mexico/Utah use popular sovereignty, Texas debt settled, DC banned slave trade, and a tougher Fugitive Slave Act.

1854

Kansas–Nebraska Act, Repealed the Missouri Compromise and let settlers in Kansas and Nebraska decide on slavery by popular sovereignty.

1854

Republican Party forms, ends feel good era

1860

Election of Lincoln/ SC secedes

1865

South surrenders at Appomattox courthouse, end of civil war

1869

transcontinental railroad complete

1877

Compromise of 1877, ends reconstruction

1890

wounded knee massacre, U.S. Army killed ~150–300 Lakota at Wounded Knee Creek, SD (1890); marked the end of major Native American armed resistance.

1896

Plessy v Ferguson case, separate but equal ruled legal

1898

Splendid little war aka Spanish American War, brief U.S. victory over Spain that won Cuba's independence (informally) and gave the U.S. Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines, marking U.S. emergence as an imperial power.