AP US History Dates Test

Columbus sails the ocean blue / Columbian Exchange begins / Reconquista of Spain

Jamestown established.

First African slaves brought to North America.

French and Indian War Begins

French and Indian War Ends; Proclamation of 1763; End of Salutary Neglect.

Declaration of Independence

Battle of Yorktown; End of Revolutionary War Fighting (war not officially ended until Treaty of Paris #2 in 1783)

Ratification of the Constitution

Revolution of 1800; peaceful transition of power from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson

Louisiana Purchase

Battle of New Orleans; I love you Andrew Jackson.

Missouri Compromise

Monroe Doctrine

Andrew Jackson elected - Age of the common man

Beginning of the Mexican-American War

Compromise of 1850; New, more harsh fugitive slave law.

Kansas-Nebraska Act; Birth of the Republican Party

Election of 1860; Abraham Lincoln Elected; South Carolina Secedes

Civil War Ends; Reconstruction Begins

Transcontinental Railroad completed

Reconstruction Ends; Rutherford B. Hayes Elected in Compromise of 1877

Massacre of wounded knee; Sherman Anti-Trust Act; frontier closes

Plessy v. Fergusson

Spanish-American War; Beginning of American imperialism

Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

Treaty of Versailles; Race Riot in Chicago; First Red Scare

Stock Market Crash; Onset of Great Depression

FDR Inaugurated; Beginning of New Deal

Pearl Harbor; America Enters World War II

End of World War II; Dropping of Atomic Bombs

Soviets get Atomic Bomb; Communist Revolution in China; NATO formed

Brown v. Board of Education decided - Segregation illegal.

Civil Rights Act of 1964; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

MLK Assassinated; Chicago Democratic Convention; Tet Offensive; Richard Nixon Elected ushering in a period of conservativism.

Watergate Scandal

Ronald Reagan Elected

Operation Desert Storm; End of the Cold War

9/11