Apush Dates

1607 Jamestown founded

1620 Pilgrims arrive

1730-1760 (approx.) Great Awakening (First)

1754-1763 Treaty of Paris ends French and Indian War

1775-1783 Revolutionary War

1787 Constitutional Convention

1793 Cotton gin invented

1800 Jefferson defeats Adams; ends Federalist era

1812-1814 War of 1812

1820 Missouri Compromise

1824 “Corrupt Bargain” election Adams over Jackson

1840 Whigs win under Harrison

1846-1848 Mexican War

1850 Compromise of 1850

1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act

1860 Election of Lincoln

1861-1865 Civil War

1869 Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

1877 Compromise of 1877 ends Reconstruction

1883 Civil Rights Cases of 1883

1887 Interstate Commerce Act passes

1896 McKinley over Bryan and Populists/Democrats

1898 Spanish-American War

1912 Wilson over TR and Taft

1914-1918 World War I

1917-1918 US involvement in World War I

1929 October stock market crash

1939-1945 World War II

1941 December 7 Pearl Harbor bombed

1950-1953 Korean War

1960 Kennedy defeats Nixon

1963 November 22 Kennedy assassinated

1965 Vietnam Escalation/Voting Rights Bill passes—end of civil rights era

1968 Tet Offensive/Death of King, RFK/Election of Nixon/Tigers win World Series

1973 US forces leave Vietnam

1974 Nixon resigns

1980 Reagan defeats Carter