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APUSH DATES QUIZ
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1492 | Columbus arrives in America |
| 1607 | establishment of Jamestown |
| 1619 | First slaves arrive in the colonies |
| 1754 | the french and indian war begins |
| 1763 | Treaty of Paris signed; Proclamation Act |
| 1776 | Common Sense is published; Declaration of Independence is signed |
| 1781 | Battle of Yorktown; Articles of Confederation ratified |
| 1789 | Washington becomes president; Judiciary Act; Bill of Rights adopted by Congress |
| 1800 | Capital moves to DC; Jefferson becomes president |
| 1803 | Louisiana Purchase |
| 1815 | Battle of New Orleans |
| 1820 | Missouri Compromise |
| 1823 | Monroe Doctrine proclaimed; C. Beecher founded Hartford Female Seminary school |
| 1828 | Andrew Jackson becomes president |
| 1846 | Mexican American war begins |
| 1854 | Kansas Nebraska Act = Bleeding Kansas = start of Republican party |
| 1860 | Lincoln becomes president; South Carolina secedes |
| 1865 | 13th amendment passed; Lincoln assassinated; South surrenders at Appomattox courthouse |
| 1869 | 15th amendment passed |
| 1877 | Compromise of 1877 = Reconstruction ends = Hayes becomes president |
| 1869 | Transcontinental railroad completed; Knights of Labor founded |
| 1896 | W.J. Bryan "Cross of Gold" speech; Plessy v. Ferguson |
| 1877 | Great RR strike; Nez Perce war |
| 1898 | U.S.S. Maine explodes = war w/ Spain ; Treaty of Paris |
| 1906 | Jungle published; Pure Food and Drug Act passed; Meat inspection Act passed |
| 1911 | Taft files antitrust lawsuit; Triangle shirtwaist fire |