AP US History Dates Test Flashcards

5686764960	1492	Columbus sails ocean blue. What a loser.	0
5686764961	1607	Jamestown established.	1
5686764962	1619	First African slaves brought to North America and House of Burguesses established in Virginia	2
5686764963	1754	French and Indian War Begins	3
5686764964	1763	French and Indian War Ends; Proclamation of 1763; End of Salutary Neglect.	4
5686764965	1776	Declaration of Independence	5
5686764966	1781	Battle of Yorktown; End of Revolutionary War Fighting (war not officially ended until Treaty of Paris #2 in 1783)	6
5686764967	1789	Ratification of the Constitution	7
5686764968	1800	Revolution of 1800; peaceful transition of power from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson	8
5686764969	1803	Louisiana Purchase	9
5686764970	1815	Battle of New Orleans; I love you Andrew Jackson: becomes national hero	10
5686764971	1820	Missouri Compromise	11
5686764972	1823	Monroe Doctrine	12
5686764973	1828	Andrew Jackson elected - Age of the common man	13
5686764974	1846	Beginning of the Mexican-American War	14
5686764975	1850	Compromise ---New, more harsh fugitive slave law, Cali enters as free state	15
5686764976	1854	Kansas-Nebraska Act; Birth of the Republican Party	16
5686764977	1860	Election of Abraham Lincoln Elected; South Carolina Secedes	17
5686764978	1865	Civil War Ends; Reconstruction Begins	18
5686764980	1877	Reconstruction Ends; Rutherford B. Hayes Elected in Compromise of 1877	19
5686796306	1787	Constitutional Convention	20
5686803481	1491	Pre-European contact; Natives developed complex societies	21
5686814657	1588	defeat of the Spanish Armada---signals the beginning of English naval superiority	22
5824802688	1775-1783	American Revolution and Independence movement date.	23