Key Dates - APUSH

1492 :: Christopher Columbus makes his first voyage to the Americas

1607 :: Founding of Jamestown

1619 :: Arrival of the first Africans in Virginia; beginning of slavery in North America

1754-1763 :: French and Indian War (Seven Years' War)

1775-1783 :: American Revolution

1787 :: Constitutional Convention; drafting of the U.S. Constitution

1803 :: Louisiana Purchase

1812-1815 :: War of 1812

1820 :: Missouri Compromise

1830 :: Indian Removal Act; Trail of Tears

1846-1848 :: Mexican-American War

1857 :: Dred Scott v. Sandford Supreme Court decision

1861-1865 :: American Civil War

1862 :: Homestead Act; Emancipation Proclamation

1865-1877 :: Reconstruction Era

1896 :: Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision

1898 :: Spanish-American War

1917-1918 :: United States enters World War I

1929 :: Stock Market Crash; beginning of the Great Depression

1933-1939 :: The New Deal (Roosevelt)

1941-1945 :: United States enters World War II

1949 :: Truman’s Fair Deal

1954 :: Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision

1964 :: Civil Rights Act

1968 :: Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.; Tet Offensive in Vietnam

1968 :: Nixon Elected

1973 :: End of the Vietnam War

1980 :: Election of Ronald Reagan as President

2001 :: 9/11 terrorist attacks

2008 :: Election of Barack Obama as President.