APUSH important terms

founding of jamestown

1607

mayflower compact

1620

French and Indian War

1754-1763

Treaty of Paris (end of revolution)

1783

constitutional convention

1787

Louisiana purchase

1803

War of 1812

1812-1814

Missouri compromise

1820

Monroe Doctrine

1823

Mexican-American War

1846-48

End of Reconstruction

1877

Spanish American War

1898

US enters WW1

1917

19th amendment

1920

Stock Market Crash

1929

Pearl Harbor

1941

Assassination of JFK

1963

Watergate

1974

Election of Reagan

1980

9/11

2001

colonial

1607-1763

Great Awakening

1730s-1750s

Revolutionary

1763-1783

A new nation

1787-1800

2nd great awakening

1800s-1840s

Market revolution

1800-1850

Civil War

1861-1865

Reconstruction

1865-1877

Gilded Age

1870-1900

Progressive

1900-1920

Imperialism

1890s+

WW1

1917-1919

Great depression

1929-1940

WW2

1941-1945

Vietnam

1955-1975

Civil rights

1950s and 1960s

Rise of conservatism

1960s-1980s

Reagan revolution

1980-2004

War on terror

2001+

Antebellum

before the civil war

Covenant

An agreement; a clause in a contract

Pious

Devoutly religious

Proximity

Very near, close, soon forthcoming, imminent

Resubjugation

one again bring under control and governance as a subject, to reconquer, to make submissive one more, to subdue once more

Utopianism

Proposing or advocating impractically ideal social and political schemes.