AP US History Significant Dates Flashcards
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| 6678964600 | 1492 | Columbus sails ocean blue. What a loser. | 0 | |
| 6678964601 | 1607 | Jamestown established. | 1 | |
| 6678964602 | 1619 | First African slaves brought to North America. | 2 | |
| 6678964603 | 1754 | French and Indian War Begins | 3 | |
| 6678964604 | 1763 | French and Indian War Ends; Proclamation of 1763; End of Salutary Neglect. | 4 | |
| 6678964605 | 1776 | Declaration of Independence | 5 | |
| 6678964606 | 1781 | Battle of Yorktown; End of Revolutionary War Fighting (war not officially ended until Treaty of Paris #2 in 1783) | 6 | |
| 6678964607 | 1789 | Ratification of the Constitution | 7 | |
| 6678964608 | 1800 | Revolution of 1800; peaceful transition of power from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson | 8 | |
| 6678964609 | 1803 | Louisiana Purchase |  | 9 |
| 6678964610 | 1815 | Battle of New Orleans; I love you Andrew Jackson. | 10 | |
| 6678964611 | 1820 | Missouri Compromise |  | 11 |
| 6678964612 | 1823 | Monroe Doctrine | 12 | |
| 6678964613 | 1828 | Andrew Jackson elected - Age of the common man |  | 13 |
| 6678964614 | 1846 | Beginning of the Mexican-American War | 14 | |
| 6678964615 | 1850 | Compromise of 1850; New, more harsh fugitive slave law. | 15 | |
| 6678964616 | 1854 | Kansas-Nebraska Act; Birth of the Republican Party | 16 | |
| 6678964617 | 1860 | Election of 1860; Abraham Lincoln Elected; South Carolina Secedes | 17 | |
| 6678964618 | 1865 | Civil War Ends; Reconstruction Begins | 18 | |
| 6678964619 | 1869 | Transcontinental Railroad completed |  | 19 |
| 6678964620 | 1877 | Reconstruction Ends; Rutherford B. Hayes Elected in Compromise of 1877 | 20 | |
| 6678964638 | 1890 | Massacre of wounded knee; Sherman Anti-Trust Act; frontier closes | 21 | |
| 6678964621 | 1896 | Plessy v. Fergusson | 22 | |
| 6678964622 | 1898 | Spanish-American War; Beginning of American imperialism | 23 | |
| 6678964623 | 1906 | Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle | 24 | |
| 6678964624 | 1911 | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire | 25 | |
| 6678964625 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles; Race Riot in Chicago; First Red Scare | 26 | |
| 6678964626 | 1929 | Stock Market Crash; Onset of Great Depression | 27 | |
| 6678964627 | 1933 | FDR Inaugurated; Beginning of New Deal | 28 | |
| 6678964628 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor; America Enters World War II | 29 | |
| 6678964629 | 1945 | End of World War II; Dropping of Atomic Bombs | 30 | |
| 6678964630 | 1949 | Soviets get Atomic Bomb; Communist Revolution in China; NATO formed | 31 | |
| 6678964631 | 1954 | Brown v. Board of Education decided - Segregation illegal. | 32 | |
| 6678964632 | 1964 | Civil Rights Act of 1964; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | 33 | |
| 6678964633 | 1968 | MLK Assassinated; Chicago Democratic Convention; Tet Offensive; Richard Nixon Elected ushering in a period of conservativism. | 34 | |
| 6678964634 | 1974 | Watergate Scandal | 35 | |
| 6678964635 | 1980 | Ronald Reagan Elected | 36 | |
| 6678964636 | 1991 | Operation Desert Storm; End of the Cold War | 37 | |
| 6678964637 | 2001 | 9/11 | 38 |