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APUSH timeline
important dates for the ap test!
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1491 | last year before European contact in the Americas |
| 1492 | Columbus lands on the Americas |
| 1607 | Founding of Jamestown |
| 1619 | First ship of enslaved Africans arrive in Jamestown |
| 1680 | Pueblo Revolt |
| 1730s | First Great Awakening |
| 1754 | Beginning of French and Indian War |
| 1776 | Declaration of Independence |
| 1781 | Battle of Yorktown |
| 1787 | Constitutional Convention |
| 1800 | Revolution of 1800 |
| 1820 | Missouri Compromise of 1820 |
| 1828 | Andrew Jackson Elected |
| 1830s | Second Great Awakening |
| 1848 | Seneca Falls Convention |
| 1844 | Election of James Polk |
| 1850 | Compromise of 1850. |
| 1860 | Election of Abraham Lincoln; South Carolina Secedes |
| 1865 | Lee's Surrender at Appomattox |
| 1877 | Compromise of 1877 |
| 1869 | First Transcontinental Railroad completed |
| 1882 | Chinese Exclusion Act |
| 1890 | Closing of the Western Frontier |
| 1892 | Homestead Strike |
| 1896 | Plessy v. Furguson |
| 1898 | Spanish American War begins |
| 1917-1919 | US enters WWI |
| 1920 | 19th Amendment Ratified |
| 1929 | Great Depression begins |
| 1933 | FDR becomes President; New Deal begins |
| 1941 | US enters WWII |
| 1945 | US drops 2 atomic bombs on Japan |
| 1954 | Brown V Board of Education |
| 1957 | Launch of Sputnik |
| 1950s-1979s | Vietnam War |
| 1964 | Civil Rights Act passed |
| 1968 | Asssasination of MLK |
| 1969 | U.S. lands a man on the moon |
| 1979 | Iran hostage crisis |
| 1981 | Reagan becomes president |
| 1989 | Destruction of the Berlin Wall |
| 2001 | 9/11 Terrorist Attacks |
| 2008 | Election of Barack Obama |