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APUSH Dates
Important dates to know for AP US History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1607 | Jamestown founded |
| 1612 | New process for curing tobacco leads to success of Jamestown |
| 1619 | First group of African slaves arrives in Jamestown/first legislative assembly meets in Virginia |
| 1620 | First pilgrims arrive in Plymouth |
| 1676 | Bacon's Rebellion |
| 1739-1744 | First Great Awakening |
| 1754-1763 | French and Indian War |
| 1764-1765 | Sugar and Stamp Acts |
| 1766 | Declaratory Act |
| 1767 | Townshend Act |
| 1770 | Boston Massacre |
| 1773 | Boston Tea Party |
| 1774 | First Continental Congress |
| 1775 | Fighting begins at Lexington and Concord |
| 1776 | Declaration of Independence signed |
| 1777 | British defeated at Saratoga |
| 1778 | French join the Revolutionary War |
| 1781 | Battle of Yorktown/Articles of Confederation |
| 1783 | Treaty of Paris ends the Revolutionary War |
| 1787 | Constitutional Convention |
| 1788 | Federalist Papers published/Constitution ratified |
| 1789 | George Washington becomes president |
| 1794 | Whiskey Rebellion |
| 1795 | Jay Treaty/Pinckney Treaty |
| 1798 | Alien and Sedition Acts/Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions |
| 1803 | Louisiana Purchase |
| 1808 | Slave trade outlawed |
| 1809 | Non-Intercourse Act |
| 1812 | War with England |
| 1814 | Treaty of Ghent |
| 1820 | Missouri Compromise |
| 1823 | Monroe Doctrine |
| 1828 | Andrew Jackson elected |
| 1831 | Nat Turner's Rebellion |
| 1834 | Whig Party created |
| 1835 | Texas Revolution |
| 1840's | Manifest Destiny |
| 1846 | Mexican War begins |
| 1848 | Treaty of Guadelope Hidalgo/U.S. acquires California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado |
| 1849 | Gold discovered in California |
| 1850 | Compromise of 1850 = California admitted as a Free State and Fugitive Slave Law strengthened |
| 1854 | Kansas-Nebraska Act/Republican Party formed |
| 1858 | Lincoln Douglas Debates |
| 1859 | John Brown's Raid |
| 1860 | Democratic Party Splits/Abraham Lincoln elected/Lower states secede |
| 1861 | Confederate States of America is formed/Civil War begins/Upper South secedes/North is defeated at Bull Run |
| 1862 | Battle of Antietam/Emancipation Proclamation |
| 1864 | Sherman's March to the Sea |
| 1865 | Sherman takes North and South Carolina/Lee surrenders/13th ammendment/Lincoln assasinated/Andrew Johnson becomes president/KKK formed |
| 1867 | Reconstruction begins/Alaska purchased |
| 1868 | 14th ammendment |
| 1870 | 15th ammendment |
| 1876 | End of Reconstruction/Battle of Little Big Horn |
| 1886 | Haymarket Riots |
| 1890 | Sherman Anti-Trust Act passed |
| 1890-1920 | 15 million immigrants arrive in U.S. |
| 1898 | War with Spain/Hawaii annexed |
| 1899 | Peace with Spain/U.S. receives Philippines, Samoa, Guam, and Puerto Rico |
| 1901 | Theodore Roosevelt becomes president |
| 1904-1914 | Panama Canal Built |
| 1912 | Election of Woodrow Wilson |
| 1913 | 16th and 17th ammendment |
| 1914 | World War I begins |
| 1915 | Lusitania sunk/KKK revived |
| 1916 | Sussex pledge |
| 1917 | U.S. enters World War I |
| 1918 | Treaty of Versailles/World War I ends |
| 1919 | 18th ammendment/Red Scare |
| 1920 | 19th ammendment/First Radio Station-KDKA |
| 1929 | Stock Market Crashes |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt elected |
| 1933 | Hundred Days session/NRA,AAA,FDIC,FERA,CCC/20th ammendment/21st ammendment/Hitler comes to power |
| 1934 | Gold Standard terminated |
| 1935 | Social Security Act/WP,NLRA,CIO/Neutrality Legislation |
| 1937 | Japan invades China |
| 1938 | Hitler takes Austria |
| 1939 | World War II begins |
| 1940 | France falls/first peace time American draft |
| 1941 | Lend-Lease Act/Battle of Britain/Hitler takes U.S.S.R./Pearl Harbor |
| 1942 | Japanese Internment Camps/Battles of Coral Sea and Midway |
| 1943 | Italy invaded |
| 1944 | France invaded/Japan bombed |
| 1945 | FDR dies/Germany surrenders/Atom bombs/End of World War II |
| 1946 | Iron Curtain |
| 1947 | Cold War begins/Marshall Plan/Containment policy |
| 1948-1949 | Berlin Airlift/Military integrated |
| 1949 | NATO formed/Communists control China |
| 1950 | Korean War |
| 1951 | 22nd Ammendment |
| 1952 | Dwight Eisenhower elected |
| 1954 | Brown v. Board of Education/Vietnam divided |
| 1955 | Martin Luther King Junior begins protesting |
| 1957 | Sputnik/Little Rock Crisis |
| 1958 | 1st U.S. satellite/NASA formed |
| 1960 | U2 shot down over Russia/John F. Kennedy |
| 1961 | 23rd ammendment/Berlin Crisis/Bay of Pigs |
| 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| 1963 | JFK assasinated |
| 1964 | 24th ammendment/Gulf of Tonkin |
| 1968 | Nixon elected |
| 1969 | Vietnamization/1st man to walk on the moon |
| 1971 | Pentagon Papers published |
| 1972 | Bombing of North Vietnam/Watergate |
| 1973 | U.S. troops withdraw from Vietnam/Spiro Agnew resigns |
| 1974 | Watergate tapes exposed/Nixon resigns |
| 1980 | Reagan elected |
| 1989 | Berlin Wall falls |
| 1992 | Roe v. Wade |
| 2001 | Terrorist attacks on U.S./Enduring Freedom and War against terrorism |
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