AP US History - Important Dates Flashcards
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| 6711865344 | 1492 | Columbus sails ocean blue. | 0 | |
| 6711865345 | 1607 | Jamestown established. | 1 | |
| 6711865346 | 1619 | First African slaves brought to North America. | 2 | |
| 6711865347 | 1754 | French and Indian War Begins. | 3 | |
| 6711865348 | 1763 | French and Indian War Ends; Proclamation of __YEAR__; End of Salutary Neglect. | 4 | |
| 6711865349 | 1776 | Declaration of Independence signed. | 5 | |
| 6711865350 | 1781 | Battle of Yorktown; End of Revolutionary War Fighting. | 6 | |
| 6711865351 | 1789 | Ratification of the Constitution. | 7 | |
| 6711865352 | 1800 | Jeffersonian Revolution; Peaceful transition of power from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson. | 8 | |
| 6711865353 | 1803 | Louisiana Purchase. | 9 | |
| 6711865354 | 1815 | Battle of New Orleans; Andew Jackson comes to prominence. | 10 | |
| 6711865355 | 1820 | Missouri Compromise. | 11 | |
| 6711865356 | 1823 | Monroe Doctrine. | 12 | |
| 6711865357 | 1828 | Andrew Jackson elected; Age of the common man. | 13 | |
| 6711865358 | 1846 | Beginning of the Mexican-American War. | 14 | |
| 6711865359 | 1850 | Great Compromise; New, more harsh fugitive slave law. | 15 | |
| 6711865360 | 1854 | Kansas-Nebraska Act; Birth of the Republican Party. | 16 | |
| 6711865361 | 1860 | Abraham Lincoln Elected; South Carolina Secedes. | 17 | |
| 6711865362 | 1865 | Civil War Ends; Reconstruction Begins. | 18 | |
| 6711865363 | 1869 | Transcontinental Railroad completed. | 19 | |
| 6711865364 | 1872 | Ulysses S. Grant signs into law Yellowstone as the first National Park. | 20 | |
| 6711865365 | 1890 | Massacre of wounded knee; Sherman Anti-Trust Act; frontier closes. | 21 | |
| 6711865366 | 1896 | Plessy v. Fergusson. | 22 | |
| 6711865367 | 1898 | Spanish-American War. | 23 | |
| 6711865368 | 1906 | Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" published. | 24 | |
| 6711865369 | 1911 | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. | 25 | |
| 6711865370 | 1915 | Sinking of the RMS Lusitania. | 26 | |
| 6711865371 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles; Race Riot in Chicago; First Red Scare. | 27 | |
| 6711865372 | 1929 | Stock Market Crash; Onset of Great Depression. | 28 | |
| 6711865373 | 1933 | FDR Inaugurated; Beginning of New Deal. | 29 | |
| 6711865374 | 1941 | Attacks on Pearl Harbor; FDR's Infamy speech; | 30 | |
| 6711865375 | 1945 | End of World War II; Dropping of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. | 31 | |
| 6711865376 | 1949 | Soviets get Atomic Bomb; NATO formed. | 32 | |
| 6711865377 | 1954 | Brown v. Board of Education. | 33 | |
| 6711865378 | 1957 | Sputnik 1 launched into orbit. | 34 | |
| 6711865379 | 1964 | Civil Rights Act; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. | 35 | |
| 6711865380 | 1968 | MLK Assassinated; Chicago Democratic Convention; Tet Offensive; Richard Nixon Elected. | 36 | |
| 6711865381 | 1974 | Watergate Scandal. | 37 | |
| 6711865382 | 1980 | Ronald Reagan Elected. | 38 | |
| 6711865383 | 1991 | Operation Desert Storm; End of the Cold War. | 39 | |
| 6711865384 | 2001 | September 11 attacks (9/11). | 40 |