Key Dates.docx

**Key Dates in AP US History** 1607 Jamestown founded 1620 Pilgrims arrive 1730-1760 (approx.) Great Awakening (First) 1754-1763 Treaty of Paris ends French and Indian War 1775-1783 Revolutionary War 1787 Constitutional Convention 1793 Cotton gin invented 1800 Jefferson defeats Adams; ends F...

**Key Dates in AP US History** 1607 Jamestown founded 1620 Pilgrims arrive 1730-1760 (approx.) Great Awakening (First) 1754-1763 Treaty of Paris ends French and Indian War 1775-1783 Revolutionary War 1787 Constitutional Convention 1793 Cotton gin invented 1800 Jefferson defeats Adams; ends Federalist era 1812-1814 War of 1812 1820 Missouri Compromise 1824 "Corrupt Bargain" election Adams over Jackson 1840 Whigs win under Harrison 1846-1848 Mexican War 1850 Compromise of 1850 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act 1860 Election of Lincoln 1861-1865 Civil War 1869 Completion of Transcontinental Railroad 1877 Compromise of 1877 ends Reconstruction 1883 Civil Rcights Cases of 1883 1887 Interstate Commerce Act passes 1896 McKinley over Bryan and Populists/Democrats 1898 Spanish-American War 1912 Wilson over TR and Taft 1914-1918 World War I 1917-1918 US involvement in World War I 1929 October stock market crash 1939-1945 World War II 1941 December 7 Pearl Harbor bombed 1950-1953 Korean War 1960 Kennedy defeats Nixon 1963 November 22 Kennedy assassinated 1965 Vietnam Escalation/Voting Rights Bill passes---end of civil rights era