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APUSH Important Dates

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1492
Columbus arrives in the Americas
1607
jamestown settled
1619
first African slaves came to America,
1754
French and Indian War begins
1763
Treaty of Paris that ends the French and Indian War; Proclamation Act;
1776
Common Sense published; Declaration of Independence
1781
Battle of Yorktown; Articles of Confederation ratified
1789
Judiciary Act passed; George Washington president
1800
election of 1800; Thomas Jefferson becomes president; U.S. capital moves to D.C.
1803
Louisiana Purchase; Lewis & Clark
1815
(Battle of New Orleans)
1820
Missouri Compromise
1823
Monroe Doctrine; C. Beecher founds Hartford Female Society
1828
Andrew Jackson's becomes president
1846
Mexican American war begins
1854
Kansas-Nebraska Act passed; Bleeding Kansas; creation of the Republican Party
1860
Election of Lincoln; south Carolina succeeds
1865
Appomattox Courthouse; 13th amendment, Lincolns assasinated
1869
15th amendment passed
1877
compromise of 1877 = reconstruction ends= Hayes becomes president
1896
Plessy v. Ferguson; Election of 1896; W.J. Bryan Cross of Gold speech
1898
Spanish American War; Treaty of Paris
1906
"Jungle" published; passing of food reforms (Pure Food & Drug Act, Meat Inspection Act)
1911
Triangle shirtwaist fire
1919
Treaty of Versailles
1929
Stock Market Crashes= great depression begins
1933
FDR takes office, New Deal begins
1941
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, US enters WWII
1945
V-E Day, Fat man detonated over Hiroshima, Little Boy detonated over Nagasaki, V-J Day
1945
Yalta Conference, post dam conference, FDR died = Truman takes over
1949
Truman's Fair Deal; NATO est; Chinese Communist Revolution; USSR has a A-Bomb
1954
Brown v. Board, france surrendered Dien Bien Phu
1964
Gulf of Tonkin, Freedom Summer, Civil Rights Act passed
1968
Tet offensive, assassinations of RFK and MLK Jr, Nixon elected president
1974
Nixon resigns
1980
Iran hostage crisis ends, Reagan elected president
1977
great RxR strike, nez perce war
1980
reagan elected president
1991
USSR collapses = cold war ends
2001
September 11
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