AP EXAM: dates to memorize

Question 1

Columbus discovers the Americas

Answer 1

1491

Question 2

Jamestown founded

Answer 2

1607

Question 3

Pilgrims arrive in New England

Answer 3

1620

Question 4

Bacons Rebellion (transition from indentured servants to African slaves)

Answer 4

1676

Question 5

French & Indian War ends

Answer 5

1763

Question 6

Stamp Act

Answer 6

1765

Question 7

Common Sense published, Declaration of Independence

Answer 7

1776

Question 8

Constitutional convention

Answer 8

1787

Question 9

Constitution Ratified, George Washington elected President

Answer 9

1788

Question 10

Thomas Jefferson elected President

Answer 10

1801

Question 11

Andrew Jackson elected President

Answer 11

1828

Question 12

Telegraph invented, James K. Polk elected President

Answer 12

1837

Question 13

Mexican-American War begins

Answer 13

1846

Question 14

Civil war begins

Answer 14

1861

Question 15

Civil war ends

Answer 15

1866

Question 16

Reconstruction ends

Answer 16

1877

Question 17

Closing of the frontier

Answer 17

1890

Question 18

Spanish-American War

Answer 18

1898

Question 19

US enters WWI

Answer 19

1917

Question 20

Treaty of Versailles ends World War I, 18th Amendment begins Prohibition

Answer 20

1919

Question 21

19th Amendment – Women’s suffrage

Answer 21

1920

Question 22

Stock Market Crash, Great Depression begins

Answer 22

1929

Question 23

FDR elected President, New Deal begins

Answer 23

1932

Question 24

Pearl Harbor attacked, U.S. enters WWII

Answer 24

1941

Question 25

Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, WWII ends

Answer 25

1945

Question 26

March on Washington – I Have a Dream speech, JFK assassinated

Answer 26

1963

Question 27

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (escalation of Vietnam War), Great Society begins

Answer 27

1964

Question 28

Tet Offensive (turning point in Vietnam), MLK assassinated

Answer 28

1968

Question 29

Ronald Reagan elected President

Answer 29

1980

Question 30

Berlin Wall torn down, Cold War ends

Answer 30

1989