PART 2: 50 key apush dates (active recall)

1492 – Columbus Arrives in the New World

1607 – Jamestown Founded

1620 – Mayflower Compact Signed

1676 – Bacon’s Rebellion

1754–1763 – French and Indian War

1763 – Proclamation of 1763

1765 – Stamp Act

1770 – Boston Massacre

1773 – Boston Tea Party

1774 – Coercive/Intolerable Acts

1775 – Battles of Lexington and Concord

1776 – Declaration of Independence

1781 – Articles of Confederation Ratified / Battle of Yorktown

1787 – U.S. Constitution Drafted

1789 – George Washington Inaugurated

1791 – Bill of Rights Ratified

1800 – Election of Jefferson (1st peaceful transfer of power)

1803 – Louisiana Purchase

1812–1815 – War of 1812

1820 – Missouri Compromise

1823 – Monroe Doctrine

1828 – Andrew Jackson Elected

1830 – Indian Removal Act

1846–1848 – Mexican-American War

1848 – Seneca Falls Convention / Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

1850 – Compromise of 1850

1854 – Kansas-Nebraska Act

1857 – Dred Scott Decision

1860 – Lincoln Elected

1861–1865 – Civil War

1863 – Emancipation Proclamation

1865 – Civil War Ends / 13th Amendment

1867 – Reconstruction Acts

1877 – Compromise of 1877 (End of Reconstruction)

1890 – Sherman Antitrust Act

1898 – Spanish-American War

1901 – Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President

1914–1918 – World War I

1917 – U.S. Enters World War I

1920 – 19th Amendment (Women’s Suffrage)

1929 – Stock Market Crash

1933 – New Deal Begins

1941 – Pearl Harbor / U.S. Enters WWII

1945 – WWII Ends / Cold War Begins

1954 – Brown v. Board of Education

1964 – Civil Rights Act

1968 – Tet Offensive / MLK & RFK Assassinated

1973 – Roe v. Wade

1980 – Reagan Elected

2001 – September 11 Attacks