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AP US History Dates
Mental Filing Cabinet for important US History dates
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Colonial Period | 1607-1763 |
| Jamestown | 1607. 1st permanent English colony in the new world |
| Georgia | 1733. buffer to protect Charleston from Spanish Florida |
| End of Colonial Period | 1763. With the end of the French and Indian War, Britain reorganized the colonial governments and ended the period of salutary neglect |
| Revolutionary War and Critical Period | 1775-1789 |
| Revolutionary War | 1775-1783 |
| Declaration of Independence | July 4, 1776 |
| Articles of Confederation | ratified 1781 |
| Federalist Era | 1789-1801 Presidents Washington and Adams |
| Age of Jefferson | 1801-1816 Presidents Jefferson and Madison |
| War of 1812 | Ended in 1814 with stalemate with Great Britain 1812-1814 |
| Era of Good Feelings | 1816-1824 President Monroe |
| Missouri Compromise | 1820 Declares MO will come in as a slave state, ME as a free state, and states formed north of MO's southern border will be closed to slavery while those south of line will be open to slavery |
| Monroe Doctrine | 1823 Acts as a "Keep Out" sign on the Western Hemisphere |
| Jacksonian Democracy or the Age of the Common Man | 1824-1844 |
| Manifest Destiny | 1830s and 1840s |
| Mexican-American War | 1846-1848 Conflict triggered by the US annexation of Texas and America's belief that its "manifest destiny" was to control the american continent from coast to coast President James K. Polk |
| California Gold Rush | 1849 Surge of miners westward which gave California enough population to apply for statehood in 1850 Zachary Taylor |
| Compromise of 1850 | Compromise over admission of territories gained form the Mexican Cession |
| Antebellum Period | 1840-1861 |
| Civil War | 1861-1865 Abraham Lincoln |
| Reconstruction | 1865-1877 Presidents Lincoln, Johnson, and Grant |
| End of Reconstruction | 1877 Resulted in the withdrawal of federal troops from the South and the gradual abandonment by Republicans of the freedom there; the "Solid South" resulted. Rutherford B. Hayes |
| Gilded Age, Age of Industrialism, Farmer Discontent | 1865-1900 |
| Frontier Declared Officially Closed | 1890 the census report stated that a line dividing settled territory from unsettled areas no longer existed in the continental US |
| Spanish-American War | 1898 Short, imperialistic war which projected the US into world politics as a major power William McKinley |
| Progressive Era | 1900-1920 Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson |
| 19th Amendment | 1920 Women gain the right to vote |
| World War I | 1914-1918 Woodrow Wilson US entered in 1917 |
| Great Depression | 1929-1941 Herbert Hoover Franklin D Roosevelt and the New Deal |
| World War II | 1939-1945 |
| Pearl Harbor | December 7, 1941 FDR Harry Truman |
| The Cold War | 1945-1989 Presidents in order: Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, George HW Bush |
| Korean War | 1950-1953 Undeclared war fought under UN mandate which left the country divided to this day Truman Eisenhower |
| Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 Resulted in the integration of public schools and was a major step toward integrating American society Chief Justice Earl Warren |
| Vietnam Involvement | 1954-1975 Undeclared war fought in Indochina in order to contain communism' US withdrew and the area became communist JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Ford |
| The Great Society | 1964-1969 LBJ |
| Nixon's Resignation | 1974 |
| Reagan Elected | 1980 |
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