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KEY DATES TO KNOW FOR AP EXAM 1492 -- Columbus 1517 -- Protestant Reformation 1588 -- Spanish Armada 1607 -- Jamestown 1619 -- 1st blacks arrive in Virginia from Africa 1620 -- Pilgrims @ Plymouth 1629 -- Puritans @ Massachusetts Bay 1643 -- New England Confederation 1660 -- Restoration of Charles II 1675 -- King Philip's War 1676 -- Bacon's Rebellion 1688 -- "Glorious Revolution" 1692 -- Salem Witch Trials 1733 -- Georgia, last of 13 colonies, founded 1736 -- Zenger Case 1756 -- Washington's Ohio mission; Albany Plan 1763 -- Proclamation of 1763 1765 -- Stamp Act 1775 -- Lexington and Concord 1776 -- Declaration of Independence 1783 -- Treaty of Paris 1787 --Constitutional Convention; NW Ordinance 1790 -- First turnpike (Lancaster) 1791 -- Slater builds first textile factory; 1st BUS 1793 -- Eli Whitney's cotton gin; "Reign of Terror" 1803 -- Louisiana Purchase; Marbury v. Madison 1807 -- Robert Fulton's steamboat 1811 -- National Road begins (completed in 1852) 1812 -- War of 1812 1819 -- Florida Purchase Treaty; Panic of 1819 1820 -- Missouri Compromise 1825 -- Erie Canal completed 1828 -- first railroad line in U.S. (B & O Railroad) c.1830--2nd Great Awakening peaks; mower reaper 1830 -- Indian Removal Act 1831 -- William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator 1832 -- Nullification Crisis; BUS issue 1837 -- Panic of 1837; Deere invents steel plow 1844 -- telegraph invented by Samuel Morse 1845 -- Texas annexed 1846 -- Oregon; Mexican War; sewing machine 1848 -- Seneca Falls Convention; Wilmot Proviso 1849 -- California gold rush 1850 -- Compromise of 1850 1854 -- Kansas-Nebraska Act 1861 -- Fort Sumter; Bull Run 1865 -- Lincoln assassinated; 13th Amendment 1869 -- Transcontinental Railroad 1870 -- Standard Oil organized 1873 -- Panic of 1873 1876 -- telephone invented 1877--"Compromise of 1877";Great RR Strike 1879 -- Edison invents light bulb 1885 -- Louis Sullivan builds first skyscraper 1886 -- Haymarket Square bombing; AFL 1887 -- Dawes Act; Interstate Commerce Act 1889 --Hull House founded; Samoan Crisis 1890—Sherman Act; Wounded Knee; no frontier 1892 -- Populists; Homestead Steel Strike 1893 -- Panic of 1893 1896 -- McKinley defeats Bryan; Plessy case 1898 -- Spanish-American War 1901 -- U.S. Steel Corp formed; TR president 1903 -- Wright Bros. Kitty Hawk; first movie 1912 -- Panama Canal completed 1913 -- Ford's Model T; assembly line 1915 -- Birth of a Nation, KKK 1917 -- U.S. enters WWI 1919 -- Versailles; Red Scare; 18th Amend 1920 – 19th Amendment; radio, KDKA 1927 -- First "talkie": Jazz Singer 1928 -- Lindbergh's flight across Atlantic 1929 -- stock market crash 1933 -- New Deal; rise of Hitler 1939 -- Germany invades Poland 1941 -- Pearl Harbor 1945 -- A-bomb against Japan 1947 -- TV 1949 -- China falls; Soviet A-bomb 1950 -- Korean War begins; McCarthyism 1952 -- U.S. explodes H-bomb 1954 -- Brown v. Board of Education 1955 -- Rosa Parks 1957 -- Sputnik 1962 -- Cuban Missile Crisis; Rachel Carson: Silent Spring 1963 -- Betty Friedan: The Feminine Mystique 1964 -- Gulf of Tonkin; “Great Society” 1968 -- Tet, assassinations, Nixon wins 1969 -- moonshot 1973 -- Oil Crisis; Roe v. Wade 1974 -- Watergate 1980 -- "Reagan Revolution"