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APUSH: America's 40
Top 40 events that changed our history forever
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1492 | First voyage of columbus |
| 1588 | Defeat of the Spanish Armada |
| 1607 | English founds Jamestown |
| 1619 | House of Burgesses established/first Africans brought to colonies |
| 1620 | Pilgrim's arrival at Plymouth |
| 1763 | Peace of Paris ends F/I war |
| 1775 | Lexington and Concord |
| 1776 | Declaration of American Independence signed |
| 1781 | Articles of Confederation adopted |
| 1783 | Treaty of Paris ends Revolutionary War |
| 1789 | Ratification of US constitution |
| 1800 | Election of Jefferson |
| 1803 | Louisiana Purchase |
| 1815 | Treaty of Ghent ends war of 1812 |
| 1820 | Missouri Compromise signed |
| 1823 | Monroe Doctrine established |
| 1828 | Tariff of Abominations |
| 1838 | Trail of Tears (Indian removal) |
| 1845 | Manifest Destiny Reaches Peak/Texas added to union |
| 1848 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
| 1854 | Republican Party formed in Ripon, WI |
| 1860 | Lincoln is elected/ South Carolina is first to succed |
| 1877 | Compromise of 1877 ends reconstrustion |
| 1890 | Census Bureau Announces the End of the Frontier |
| 1896 | Plessy v Ferguson |
| 1929 | Crash of Stock Market |
| December 7, 1941 | Pearl Harbor marks entry into WWII |
| 1945 | Yalta Conference; V-E Day and V-J end WWII in Europe and Japan |
| 1954 | Brown v Board reverses Plessey decision on segregation |
| 1957 | Sputnick Launched begins space race |
| 1963 | Assassination of John Kennnedy |
| 1964 | Civil Rights Act; Tonkin Gulf Resolution |
| 1968 | Tet Offensive in Vietnam; Riots at Democratic Convention; Assassinations of MLK and RFK |
| 1974 | Resignation of Richard Nixon |
| 1979 | Formal Relations with communist China |
| 1979-1981 | Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days |
| 1989 | Fall of Berlin Wall |
| 1991 | Gulf War 1 |
| 1998 | House approves two charges of impreachment |
| June 6, 1944 | D-day |
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