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AP US History Dates

Mental Filing Cabinet for important US History dates

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Colonial Period 1607-1763
Jamestown 1607. 1st permanent English colony in the new world
Georgia 1733. buffer to protect Charleston from Spanish Florida
End of Colonial Period 1763. With the end of the French and Indian War, Britain reorganized the colonial governments and ended the period of salutary neglect
Revolutionary War and Critical Period 1775-1789
Revolutionary War 1775-1783
Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776
Articles of Confederation ratified 1781
Federalist Era 1789-1801 Presidents Washington and Adams
Age of Jefferson 1801-1816 Presidents Jefferson and Madison
War of 1812 Ended in 1814 with stalemate with Great Britain 1812-1814
Era of Good Feelings 1816-1824 President Monroe
Missouri Compromise 1820 Declares MO will come in as a slave state, ME as a free state, and states formed north of MO's southern border will be closed to slavery while those south of line will be open to slavery
Monroe Doctrine 1823 Acts as a "Keep Out" sign on the Western Hemisphere
Jacksonian Democracy or the Age of the Common Man 1824-1844
Manifest Destiny 1830s and 1840s
Mexican-American War 1846-1848 Conflict triggered by the US annexation of Texas and America's belief that its "manifest destiny" was to control the american continent from coast to coast President James K. Polk
California Gold Rush 1849 Surge of miners westward which gave California enough population to apply for statehood in 1850 Zachary Taylor
Compromise of 1850 Compromise over admission of territories gained form the Mexican Cession
Antebellum Period 1840-1861
Civil War 1861-1865 Abraham Lincoln
Reconstruction 1865-1877 Presidents Lincoln, Johnson, and Grant
End of Reconstruction 1877 Resulted in the withdrawal of federal troops from the South and the gradual abandonment by Republicans of the freedom there; the "Solid South" resulted. Rutherford B. Hayes
Gilded Age, Age of Industrialism, Farmer Discontent 1865-1900
Frontier Declared Officially Closed 1890 the census report stated that a line dividing settled territory from unsettled areas no longer existed in the continental US
Spanish-American War 1898 Short, imperialistic war which projected the US into world politics as a major power William McKinley
Progressive Era 1900-1920 Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson
19th Amendment 1920 Women gain the right to vote
World War I 1914-1918 Woodrow Wilson US entered in 1917
Great Depression 1929-1941 Herbert Hoover Franklin D Roosevelt and the New Deal
World War II 1939-1945
Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 FDR Harry Truman
The Cold War 1945-1989 Presidents in order: Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, George HW Bush
Korean War 1950-1953 Undeclared war fought under UN mandate which left the country divided to this day Truman Eisenhower
Brown v. Board of Education 1954 Resulted in the integration of public schools and was a major step toward integrating American society Chief Justice Earl Warren
Vietnam Involvement 1954-1975 Undeclared war fought in Indochina in order to contain communism' US withdrew and the area became communist JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Ford
The Great Society 1964-1969 LBJ
Nixon's Resignation 1974
Reagan Elected 1980
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