APUSH: Significant Dates Flashcards

Vocabulary style flashcards pairing significant American history events from the word bank with their corresponding chronological years/dates.

Columbus lands in the Americas

1492

Hernan Cortes Conquers Aztecs

1521

Valladolid Debates over Encomienda

1550-51

Jamestown is Founded

1607

House of Burgesses in Virginia Created

1619

Plymouth Colony is Founded (Pilgrims, Mayflower Compact)

1620

Massachusetts Bay Colony Founded (Puritans)

1630

Nathaniel Bacon’s Rebellion and King Philip’s War

1676

Pueblo Revolt

1680

Salem Witch Trials (Massachusetts)

1692-93

The First Great Awakening

1730-40s

Stono Rebellion

1739

French and Indian War

1754-1763

Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts

1765-1774

The American Revolutionary War

1775-1783

Declaration of Independence

1776

The Articles of Confederation (officially) Adopted

1781

Constitutional Convention - US Constitution Created

1787

Invention of the Cotton Gin

1793

The Whiskey Rebellion

1794

Federalist and Democratic-Republican Parties Created

1796

Louisiana Purchase and Marbury v Madison (“Judicial Review”)

1803

The War of 1812

1812-1814

The Era of Good Feelings

1815-1825

Monroe Doctrine

1823

The “Corrupt Bargain”

1824

Jacksonian Democrat Party Created

1828

The Second Great Awakening

1820s-1830s

Indian Removal Act

1830

Whig Party Created

1834

John C Calhoun “Positive Good” Speech

1837

Texas Annexation

1845

The War with Mexico

1846-1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1848

Fugitive Slave Law/Compromise of ______ (Year)

1850

The Republican Party Created, Kansas-Nebraska Act

1854

Dred Scott Decision - Slaves Property, Blacks NOT Citizens

1857

John Brown Raids Harpers Ferry, Virginia

1859

The US Civil War

1861-1865

Homestead Act

1862

The Reconstruction Amendments (13-15)

1865-1870

Reconstruction Ends

1877

Haymarket Riot

1886

The “Populist Party” Runs

1892

Plessy v Ferguson - “Separate but Equal” Legal

1896

Spanish-American War, Hawaii Annexed

1898

Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

1904

Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” Published

1906

The Progressive Amendments (16-19)

1913-1920

World War I

1914-1918

The “Roaring” 20s

1920s

Stock Market Crash

1929

The Great Depression

1929-1941

World War II

1939-1945

Pearl Harbor

1941

Atomic Bombs Dropped, The Cold War Begins

1945

The Korean War

1950-1953

Brown v Board of Education - Schools Desegregated

1954

Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways Created

1956

The Vietnam War

1955-1975

Bay of Pigs Invasion, Cuban Missile Crisis

1961-62

MLK Jr “I Have a Dream” Speech

1963

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

1964

Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts

1964-65

Robert Kennedy and MLK Assassinated

1968

Watergate Scandal

1972

Camp David Accords Peace Agreement Between Israel and Egypt

1978

“Reaganomics” Begin

1981

Persian Gulf War

1990-1991

The Cold War Ends - Soviet Union Dissolved

1991

9/11

2001

The War on Terror

2001-2021