AP US History Dates Test Flashcards

6622603711	1492	Columbus sails ocean blue. What a loser.	0
6622603712	1607	Jamestown established.	1
6622603713	1619	First African slaves brought to North America.	2
6741253424	1692	Salem witch trials	3
6622603714	1754	French and Indian War Begins	4
6622603715	1763	French and Indian War Ends; Proclamation, End of Salutary Neglect.	5
6622603716	1776	Declaration of Independence	6
6622603717	1781	Battle of Yorktown; End of Revolutionary War Fighting (war not officially ended until Treaty of Paris #2 in 1783)	7
6622603718	1789	Ratification of the Constitution	8
6622603719	1800	Revolution of 1800; peaceful transition of power from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson	9
6622603720	1803	Louisiana Purchase	10
6622603721	1815	Battle of New Orleans.	11
6622603722	1820	Missouri Compromise	12
6622603723	1823	Monroe Doctrine	13
6622603724	1828	Andrew Jackson elected - Age of the common man	14
6622603725	1846	Beginning of the Mexican-American War	15
6622603726	1850	Compromise of 1850; New, more harsh fugitive slave law.	16
6622603727	1854	Kansas-Nebraska Act; Birth of the Republican Party	17
6622603728	1860	Election of 1860; Abraham Lincoln Elected; South Carolina Secedes	18
6622603729	1865	Civil War Ends; Reconstruction Begins	19
6622603730	1869	Transcontinental Railroad completed	20
6622603731	1877	Reconstruction Ends; Rutherford B. Hayes Elected in Compromise of 1877	21
6622603749	1890	Massacre of wounded knee; Sherman Anti-Trust Act; frontier closes	22
6622603732	1896	Plessy v. Fergusson	23
6622603733	1898	Spanish-American War; Beginning of American imperialism	24
6622603734	1906	Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle	25
6622603735	1911	Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire	26
6622603736	1919	Treaty of Versailles; Race Riot in Chicago; First Red Scare	27
6622603737	1929	Stock Market Crash; Onset of Great Depression	28
6622603738	1933	FDR Inaugurated; Beginning of New Deal	29
6622603739	1941	Pearl Harbor; America Enters World War II	30
6622603740	1945	End of World War II; Dropping of Atomic Bombs	31
6622603741	1949	Soviets get Atomic Bomb; Communist Revolution in China; NATO formed	32
6741297886	1953	End of the Korean War	33
6622603742	1954	Brown v. Board of Education decided - Segregation illegal.	34
6622603743	1964	Civil Rights Act of 1964; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution	35
6622603744	1968	MLK Assassinated; Chicago Democratic Convention; Tet Offensive; Richard Nixon Elected ushering in a period of conservativism.	36
6622603745	1974	Watergate Scandal	37
6622603746	1980	Ronald Reagan Elected	38
6622603747	1991	Operation Desert Storm; End of the Cold War	39
6622603748	2001	9/11	40