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APUSH dates
Important dates in US history
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Columbus lands in America | 1492 |
| Founding of Jamestown VA | 1607 |
| French and Indian War | 1754-1763 |
| Declaration of Independence | 1776 |
| Articles of Confederation | 1781 |
| US Constitution signed | 1787 |
| Louisiana Purchase | 1803 |
| War of 1812 with Britain | 1812-1814 |
| Nullification Crisis | 1831-1833 |
| Indian Removal - Trail of Tears | 1830s |
| Texas breaks from Mexico | 1836 |
| War with Mexico | 1846-1848 |
| Civil War | 1861-1865 |
| First transcontinental railroad | 1869 |
| End of reconstruction | 1877 |
| Battle of Wounded Knee | 1890 |
| Populist party formed | 1892 |
| USS Maine sinks in Havana | 1898 |
| Spanish-American war | 1898 |
| Annexation of Hawaii | 1898 |
| NAACP formed | 1909 |
| Panama Canal completed | 1914 |
| World War I | 1914-1918 |
| US enters WW I | 1917 |
| Prohibition | 1919-1933 |
| Red Scare | 1920 |
| Stock market crashes | 1929 |
| Dust Bowl | 1933-1936 |
| New Deal begins | 1933 |
| Hitler Invades Poland | 1939 |
| Japanese attack Pearl Harbor | 1941 |
| US Involvement in WWII | 1941-1945 |
| Atomic bombs devastate Japan | August 1945 |
| Korean War | 1950-1953 |
| McCarthyism | 1950-1954 |
| American Involvement in Vietnam | 1954-1973 |
| Brown v Board of Education | 1954 |
| Sputnik | 1957 |
| Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba | 1961 |
| Berlin Wall built | 1961 |
| Cuban Missile crisis | 1962 |
| March on Washing; King's speech | 1963 |
| Kennedy assassinated | 1963 |
| Tonkin Gulf Resolution | 1964 |
| Tet offensive | 1968 |
| Equal rights amendment | 1972 |
| Watergate scandal; Nixon resigns | 1974 |
| Iran holds Americans hostage | 1979-1981 |
| Fall of Berlin Wall, breakup of Soviet Union | 1989-1991 |
| Persian Gulf War | 1990-1991 |