APUSH IMPORTANT DATES

1492

Columbus arrives in Americas

1607

Jamestown founded

1619

First slaves in Americas

1754

French and Indian War begins

1763

Boston Tea Party

1776

Declaration of Independence signed

1781

Battle of yorktown

1789

Constitutional Convention

1800

Revolution of 1800 (Jefferson becomes president)

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1803

Marbury v. Madison

1815

Battle of New Orleans

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1828

Era of the Common Man begins w/ Andrew Jackson’s presidency

1846

War w/ Mexico

1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1850

Compromise of 1850

1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act passed

1854

Creation of Republican Party

1860

Election of Lincoln

1860

South Carolina secedes

1865

South Surrenders at Appomattox Courthouse (End of Civil War)

1869

Transcontinental Railroad completed

1877

Compromise of 1877

1890

Wounded Knee Massacre

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson

1898

Sinking of USS Maine

1906

“Jungle” published (meat/food industry reforms)

1911

Triangle Shirtwaist fire

1919

Women get the right to vote (19th amendment)

1929

Stock market crash/Black Tuesday

1933

New Deal begins

1941

Japan bombs pearl harbor (US enters WWII)

1945

End of WWII

1949

Chinese Communist Revolution

1954

Brown v. Board of Education

1964

Montgomery Bus Boycott

1964

Cuban Missile Crisis

1964

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

1964

Civil Rights Act

1968

MLK assassinated

1968

Nixon elected

1968

Chicago Democratic convention (protests/riots)

1968

Tet offensive

1974

Nixon resigns

1979

Iran Hostage crisis

1980

Reagan elected president

1991

Cold war ends/ Desert storm

1945

Cold War begins

1945

Yalta Conference

1993

1st WTC bombing

1995

OKC bombing

1999

Y2K/ Battle in Seattle (protests against WTO)

2001

9/11, and invasion of Afghanistan

2003

Operation Iraqi Freedom

2011

Bin laden killed/ troops withdrawn from Iraq