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APUSH Dates
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Columbus discovers the Americas | 1492 |
| Jamestown founded | 1607 |
| Pilgrims arrive in New England | 1620 |
| Bacon’s Rebellion (transition from indentured servants to African slaves) | 1676 |
| Stamp Act | 1765 |
| Revolutionary War begins | 1775 |
| Common Sense published, Declaration of Independence | 1776 |
| Constitutional Convention | 1787 |
| Constitution Ratified, George Washington elected President | 1789 |
| Thomas Jefferson elected President | 1800 |
| Andrew Jackson elected President | 1828 |
| Telegraph invented, James K. Polk elected President | 1844 |
| Mexican-American War begins | 1846 |
| Civil War begins | 1861 |
| Civil War ends | 1865 |
| Reconstruction ends | 1877 |
| Closing of the frontier | 1890 |
| Spanish-American War | 1898 |
| U.S. enters World War I | 1917 |
| Treaty of Versailles ends World War I, 18th Amendment begins Prohibition | 1919 |
| 19th Amendment – Women’s suffrage | 1920 |
| Stock Market Crash, Great Depression begins | 1929 |
| FDR elected President, New Deal begins | 1933 |
| Pearl Harbor attacked, U.S. enters WWII | 1941 |
| Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, WWII ends | 1945 |
| March on Washington – I Have a Dream speech, JFK assassinated | 1963 |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (escalation of Vietnam War), Great Society begins | 1965 |
| Tet Offensive (turning point in Vietnam), MLK assassinated | 1968 |
| Ronald Reagan elected President | 1980 |
| Berlin Wall torn down, Cold War ends | 1989 |