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APUSH - Dates&Events
Overview Unit - Important Dates & Events
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History
12th Grade
09/05/2011
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Columbus voyage
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1492
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Jamestown becomes first English settlement
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1607
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First blacks come to Jamestown; House of Burgesses meets
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1619
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Pilgrims land at Plymouth
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1620
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French and Indian War
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1754 - 1763
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Declaration of independence
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1776
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Revolutionary War
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1775 - 1783
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Articles of Confederation
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1781
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Constitutional convention, federal plan
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1787
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Federal government established w/ George Washington
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1789
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Louisiana purchased
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1803
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Second great war with England
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1812 - 1814
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Monroe Doctrine - isolationsism
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1823
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Andrew Jackson, western president
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1828
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War of Texas Independence
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1836
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Mexican War
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1846 - 1848
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California gold rush
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1849
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Civil War
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1861 - 1865
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Transcontinental railroad completed
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1869
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Reconstruction ends;
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1877
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Edison's lightbulb
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1879
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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1896
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Spanish American War
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1898
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WWI
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1914-1919
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19th amendment, women vote
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1920
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stock market crash
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1929
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FDR takes office, New Deal ; big gov't
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1933
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WWII
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1939 - 1945
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Marshall plan & Truman doctrine
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1947
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Korean War
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1950 -1953
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Brown vs. Board
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1954
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Kennedy Years (election, bay of pigs, missil crisis, assass.)
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1960-1963
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Black Revolution
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1963
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Vietnam war escalates, tonkin resolution
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1964
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first man on the moon
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1969
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watergate, nixon resigns
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1974
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usa moves rights, elects Ronald Reagan
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1980
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Modern Space Age, reusable space shuttle columbia
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1981
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Gulf War
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1991
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controversial election, Bush elected
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2000
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9/11, world trade center falls
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2001
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Second Gulf War
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2003
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