AMSTUD Y2K Study Guide

Jamestown Founded

Jamestown Founded

1607

First African Slaves in the Colonies

1619

Bacon's Rebellion

1676

First Great Awakening

1730s-40s

End of French and Indian War

1763

Declaration of Independence

1776

End of American Revolution

1783

Constitution went into Effect

1789

Articles of Confederation

1781-89

Constitution Ratified

1788

Bill of Rights Ratified

1791

Second Great Awakening

1800-1840

Revolution of 1800

1800

Louisiana Purchase and Marbury v. Madison

1803

Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812

1815

Missouri Compromise

1820

Monroe Doctrine

1823

Jacksonian Democracy and founding of the Democratic Party

1828

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican-American War and Seneca Falls Convention

1848

Compromise of 1850

1850

Kansas-Nebraska Act and Founding of the Republican Party

1854

Lincoln Elected, South Carolina Secedes

1860

Confederate States of America Established, Civil War Begins, Fort Sumter

1861

Emancipation Proclamation

1863

Civil War Ends and Reconstruction Begins, Lincoln Assassinated, 13th Amendment Ratified

1865

Reconstruction ends with Compromise of 1877

1877

Chinese Exclusion Act

1882

Sherman Anti-Trust Act and Battle of Wounded Knee ends Indian Wars

1890

Plessy v Ferguson and William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan (Populist)

1896

Spanish-American War

1898

U.S. Enters World War One

1917

Treaty of Versailles ends World War One and First Red Scare

1919

Women's Suffrage (19th Amendment)

1920

Great Depression Begins with Stock Market Crash

1929

FDR's "First 100 Days", New Deal goes into effect

1933

Neutrality Act passed ('35, '36, '37, '38', '39) to keep U.S. out of another European war

1930s

Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor

1941

Atomic Bombs Dropped on Japan, World War II ends, Unofficial Start to Cold War, 1945-1991

1945

Truman Doctrine Issued (Cold War Policy of Containment)

1947

U.S. Joins NATO; China becomes Communist; Soviets Detonate Atomic Bomb

1949

Korean "War" Begins and Second Red Scare (1950-1954)

1950

Armistice ends the Korean "War"

1953

Geneva Accords (Vietnam Split into Two) and Brown v. Board of Education

1954

Montgomery Bus Boycott

1955

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962

MLK's March on Washington and Feminine Mystique Written by Betty Friedan

1963

Civil Rights Act Passed and Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Passed (Vietnam War Officially Begins)

1964

Voting Rights Act

1965

Tet Offensive; MLK Assassinated; DNC Convention in Chicago

1968

Stonewall Riots

1969

Paris Peace Accords Ends Vietnam War and Roe v. Wade

1973

Watergate Hearings

1974

Iranian Hostage Crisis

1979

Ronald Reagan Elected, “Reagan Era” Begins

1980

Berlin Wall Comes Down

1989

First Gulf War and Break-Up of the USSR

1991

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

1993

September 11 Attacks Followed by U.S. Invasion of Afghanistan (Don’t Forget)

2001

Iraq War

2003

Barack Obama, First African American Elected President

2008