HSHS AP U.S. History Key Dates
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| 200762944 | 1607 | Anglicans found Jamestown | |
| 200762945 | 1620 | Pilgrims arrive in Plymouth | |
| 200762946 | 1754-1763 | French and Indian War; Treaty of Paris ends the war | |
| 200762947 | 1775-1783 | Revolutionary War | |
| 200762948 | 1787 | Constitutional Convention; Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists | |
| 200762949 | 1793 | Invention of the cotton gin | |
| 200762950 | 1800 | Jefferson defeats Adams; ends Federalist Era | |
| 200762951 | 1812-1814 | War of 1812 (2nd War of American Independence) | |
| 200762952 | 1820 | Missouri Compromise | |
| 200762953 | 1824 | Adams defeats Jackson in the "Corrupt Bargain" election | |
| 200762954 | 1840 | Whigs win under Harrison; 2-party system; log cabins and hard cider | |
| 200762955 | 1846-1848 | Mexican War | |
| 200762956 | 1850 | Compromise of ____ admits California as a free state; allows popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah; bans slave trade in Washington, D.C.; fugitive slave laws | |
| 200762957 | 1854 | Kansas-Nebraska Act repeals Missouri Compromise | |
| 200762958 | 1860 | Election of Lincoln | |
| 200762959 | 1861-1865 | Civil War | |
| 200762960 | 1869 | Completion of Transcontinental Railroad | |
| 200762961 | 1877 | Compromise of ____ ends Reconstruction and appoints Hayes into office | |
| 200762962 | 1883 | Civil Rights Cases of ____ rule unconstitutionality of Civil Rights Act of 1875 | |
| 200762963 | 1887 | Interstate Commerce Act | |
| 200762964 | 1896 | McKinley defeats Bryan and Demo-Pops; ends free-silver question | |
| 200762965 | 1898 | Spanish-American War; Teller Amendment | |
| 200762966 | 1912 | Wilson defeats TR and Taft | |
| 200762967 | 1914-1918 | World War I | |
| 200762968 | 1917-1918 | U.S. involvement in World War I | |
| 200762969 | October 1929 | Stock market crash | |
| 200762970 | 1939-1945 | World War II | |
| 200762971 | December 7, 1941 | Bombing of Pearl Harbor | |
| 200762972 | 1950-1953 | Korean War | |
| 200762973 | 1960 | Kennedy defeats Nixon | |
| 200762974 | November 22, 1963 | Assassination of Kennedy | |
| 200762975 | 1965 | Vietnam Escalation; Voting Rights Bill; Civil Rights Era ends | |
| 200762976 | 1968 | Tet Offensive; Death of MLK and RFK; Election of Nixon; Detroit Tigers win World Series | |
| 200762977 | 1973 | U.S. forces leave Vietnam | |
| 200762978 | 1974 | Resignation of Nixon | |
| 200762979 | 1980 | Reagan defeats Carter |