AP US History Important Dates Flashcards

7220666350	1492	Columbus comes to the Americas	0
7220666574	1607	Jamestown founded	1
7220666798	1676	Bacon's Rebellion & King Philip's War	2
7220667565	1754-1763	French & Indian/7 Years' War	3
7220668169	1773-1774	Boston Tea Party & Coercive/Intolerable Acts	4
7220669193	1776	Declaration of Independence	5
7220669532	1783	End of war of American Revolution	6
7220669981	1787-1788	Constitution created and ratified	7
7220670744	1789-1797	President George Washington	8
7220671509	1797-1801	President John Adams	9
7220671510	1800	Election of 1800	10
7220672341	1801-1809	President Thomas Jefferson	11
7220672920	1809-1817	President James Madison	12
7220673190	1812-1815	War of 1812	13
7220673395	1819-1821	Missouri Crisis and Compromise	14
7220673792	1823	Monroe Doctrine	15
7220673793	1828	Election of 1828	16
7220674871	1829-1837	President Andrew Jackson	17
7220675200	1831	The Liberator's initial publication and Nat Turner Rebellion	18
7220679363	1845-1849	President James Polk	19
7220679923	1846-1848	Mexican War	20
7220680073	1848	Seneca Falls Convention	21
7220680368	1854	Kansas Nebraska Act	22
7220680694	1860	Election of 1860	23
7220681036	1861-1865	President Abraham Lincoln & Civil War	24
7220681272	1865	Abolition of slavery/13th amendment ratified	25
7220682177	1868	Definition of citizenship & equal protection of the laws/14th amendment ratified	26
7220682813	1870	Black male suffrage/15th amendment ratified	27
7220683403	1877	Compromise of 1877, Great Railroad Strike of 1877	28
7220684210	1893-1897	Economic depression	29
7220684211	1896	Election of 1896	30
7220685269	1897-1901	President William McKinley	31
7220685891	1898-1902	Spanish-American-Filipino War	32
7220686178	1901	J.P. Morgan bought Carnegie Steel/U.S. Steel	33
7220687254	1901-1909	President Theodore Roosevelt	34
7220688095	1913-1921	President Woodrow Wilson	35
7220688452	1917-1918	USA military involvement in WWI	36
7220688806	1920	Women's suffrage/19th amendment ratified	37
7220689204	1929	Great Depression began	38
7220690165	1933-1945	President Franklin Roosevelt (FDR)	39
7220690755	1935	Social Security created	40
7220690994	1941	Pearl Harbor	41
7220691146	1941-1945	USA involvement in WWII (ended during Truman Presidency)	42
7220691727	1945-1953	President Harry Truman	43
7220692019	1947	Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan	44
7220692546	1950-1953	Korean War (ended during Eisenhower Presidency)	45
7220693146	1953-1961	President Dwight Eisenhower	46
7220693482	1954	Brown decision	47
7220693801	1955-1956	Montgomery Bus Boycott	48
7220694575	1964-1968	Civil Rights Legislation (Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, and Open Housing Act of 1968); end of legalized racism	49
7220696182	1965-1973	Vietnam War w/ U.S. ground troops	50
7220697309	1968	Foreign (TET Offensive) & domestic turmoil; presidential election	51
7220700112	1969-1974	President Richard Nixon	52
7220700585	1972	Nixon visited Communist China	53
7220701678	1973	Watergate scandal escalates; oil shocks, stagflation, end of mass post WWII prosperity	54
7220702412	1974	Nixon resigns from presidency	55
7220702746	1979	Stagflation & foreign policy turmoil; Iranian hostage crisis	56
7220705253	1980	Election of 1980	57
7220705457	1981-1989	President Ronald Reagan	58
7220705959	1987	INF Treaty	59
7220705960	1989	Fall of Berlin Wall	60
7220706158	1990s	Internet as a mass product	61
7220706422	2001	9/11 attacks	62
7220706717	2001-present	Afghanistan War	63
7220706932	2003-2011	Iraq War	64
7220706933	2008	Election of 2008	65