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APUSH Summer Assign.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1492 | Columbus discovers America |
| 1517 | Martin Luther launches the Protestant Reformation |
| 1519 | Cortes begins the Spanish conquest of Mexico and defeat of Aztecs |
| 1565 | Spaniards build settlement at St. Augustine (Florida), the first permanent European outpost in the present-day U.S. |
| 1588 | The English navy defeats the Spanish Armada. |
| 1607 | Jamestown established - the first permanent English settlement in US |
| 1630 | Massachusetts Bay founded |
| 1680 | Pueblo Revolt |
| 1730s-1740s | The Great Awakening |
| 1763 | French & Indian War ends |
| 1763 | Pontiacs Rebellion |
| 1773 | Boston Tea Party |
| 1776 | Declaration of Independence |
| 1787 | Constitutional Convention is held in Philadelphia |
| 1781 | Articles of Confederation go into effect |
| 1783 | Revolutionary War (The War for Independence) ends |
| 1789 | The Constitution goes into effect. George Washington inaugurated. |
| 1791 | Bill of Rights are ratified |
| 1793 | Cotton Gin invented - increase of slavery |
| 1803 | Louisiana Purchase |
| 1807 | Steamboat transportation starts |
| 1820 | Missouri Compromise |
| 1825 | Erie Canal opens in upstate New York |
| 1830 | Indian Removal Act |
| 1845 | Irish potato famine |
| 1848 | Mexican War |
| 1849 | California Gold Rush |
| 1861 | Civil War begins |
| 1865 | Civil War ends |
| 1868 | Fourteenth Amendment is passed |
| 1869 | Completion of the 1St Transcontinental Railroad |
| 1876 | Alexander Graham Bell patents his telephone |
| 1876 | Battle of Little Bighorn |
| 1877 | Reconstruction ends |
| 1880s | Widespread use of electricity begins |
| 1886 | American Federation of Labor is organized |
| 1898 | Spanish-American War |
| 1898 | Hawaii annexed |
| 1902 | Nationwide Coal Strike |
| 1906 | Pure Food and Drug Act passed |
| 1913 | Sixteenth Amendment legalizing the income tax becomes law |
| 1914 | Panama Canal opens |
| 1917 | U.S. enters World War I |
| 1920s | Automobile revolution |
| 1920 | Prohibition begins |
| 1924 | Immigration Act |
| 1930s | The Great Depression |
| 1933 | Franklin Roosevelt becomes president and the New Deal is enacted. |
| 1935 | Social Security passed by Congress |
| 1941 | (Dec 7th) Pearl Harbor attack |
| 1945 | World War Il ends |
| 1949 | China falls to communism |
| 1950 | Korean War begins |
| 1950 | McCarthy's Red Scare begins |
| 1954 | Brown v. Board of Education |
| 1955 | Montgomery Bus Boycott |
| 1956 | Interstate Highway System created |
| 1957 | Sputnik, the first satellite, is launched by the Soviets |
| 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| 1963 | President John F. Kennedy assassinated |
| 1964 | Civil Rights Act ends discrimination based on race |
| 1965 | Major U.S. escalation of troops in the Vietnam War |
| 1965 | Watts (LA) riot |
| 1965 | Medicare and Medicaid passed |
| 1968 | Martin Luther King assassinated |
| 1969 | Woodstock |
| 1972 | Nixon visits China and Soviet Union. |
| 1972 | "SALT I" - Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty passed by U.S. and Soviets reducing nuclear weapons. |
| 1973 | Roe v. Wade legalizes abortion |
| 1973 | U.S. withdrawal from V begins |
| 1974 | "Watergate Scandal" results in resignation of President Richard Nixon |
| 1979 | Iranian hostage crisis begins |
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan elected president |
| 1989 | Berlin Wall falls - Communist Soviet empire starts to break up |
| 1991 | The Gulf War - U.S. drives Iraq out of Kuwait |
| 1994 | Republican Revolution - Republican gain control of both Houses of Congress |
| 2000 | George W. Bush wins controversial presidential election |
| 2001 | War in Afghanistan |
| 2003 | War starts in Iraq |
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