key dates in american history
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| 6749120583 | 1607 | Jamestown founded | 0 | |
| 6748960249 | 1620 | Mayflower Compact | 1 | |
| 6748960250 | 1675 | King Philip's War | 2 | |
| 6748960251 | 1676 | Bacon's Rebellion | 3 | |
| 6749126409 | 1692-1693 | Salem Witch Trials | 4 | |
| 6748960252 | 1739-1744 | FIrst Great Awakening | 5 | |
| 6748960253 | 1756-1763 | French and Indian War (Seven Year's War) | 6 | |
| 6748960254 | 1763 | Pontiac's Rebellion | 7 | |
| 6748960255 | 1765 | Stamp Act | 8 | |
| 6748960256 | 1766 | Declaratory Act | 9 | |
| 6748960257 | 1770 | Boston Massacre | 10 | |
| 6748960258 | 1773 | Boston Tea Party | 11 | |
| 6748960259 | 1774 | Coercive/Intolerable/Repressive Acts | 12 | |
| 6748960260 | 1775-1783 | Revolutionary War | 13 | |
| 6748960261 | 1776 | Declaration of Independence | 14 | |
| 6748960262 | 1781 | Battle of Yorktown, end of Revolutionary fighting | 15 | |
| 6748960263 | 1781-1788 | Articles of Confederation | 16 | |
| 6748960265 | 1786-1787 | Shay's Rebellion | 17 | |
| 6748960264 | 1787 | Constitutional Convention | 18 | |
| 6749023253 | 1788 | Constitution ratified | 19 | |
| 6748960266 | 1788 | Ratification of the Constitution | 20 | |
| 6749000358 | 1789 | Washington sworn in as President | 21 | |
| 6748960267 | 1789 | Judiciary Act | 22 | |
| 6748960268 | 1791 | Bill of RIghts | 23 | |
| 6748960269 | 1793 | Cotton Gin invented | 24 | |
| 6748960270 | 1794 | Whiskey Rebellion | 25 | |
| 6748960272 | 1798 | Alien and Sedition Acts | 26 | |
| 6748960273 | 1800-1840 | Second Great Awakening | 27 | |
| 6748960274 | 1801-1805 | Tripolitan War | 28 | |
| 6748960275 | 1803 | Louisana Purchase | 29 | |
| 6748960276 | 1804-1806 | Lewis and Clark expedition | 30 | |
| 6748960278 | 1812-1815 | War of 1812 | 31 | |
| 6748960279 | 1814 | Hartford Convention | 32 | |
| 6748960280 | 1817-1824 | Era of Good Feelings | 33 | |
| 6748960281 | 1819 | Adams-Onis Treaty | 34 | |
| 6748960282 | 1820 | Missouri Compromise | 35 | |
| 6748960283 | 1823 | Monroe Doctrine | 36 | |
| 6748960284 | 1825 | Corrupt Bargain | 37 | |
| 6748960285 | 1831 | Nat Turner Rebellion | 38 | |
| 6748960286 | 1832 | Nullification Crisis | 39 | |
| 6748960287 | 1835-1836 | Texas War of Independence | 40 | |
| 6748960288 | 1838-1839 | Trail of Tears | 41 | |
| 6748960289 | 1830s-1840s | Transcendentalism | 42 | |
| 6748960290 | 1846-1848 | Mexican-American War | 43 | |
| 6748960291 | 1848 | Seneca Falls Convention | 44 | |
| 6748960292 | 1850s | Transportation Revolution | 45 | |
| 6748960293 | 1854 | Kansas-Nebraska Act | 46 | |
| 6748960294 | 1856 | Dred Scott case | 47 | |
| 6748960295 | 1859 | Harper's Ferry (John Brown's Raid) | 48 | |
| 6748960296 | 1861 | Fort Sumter- Civil War begins | 49 | |
| 6748960297 | 1862 | Emancipation Proclamation | 50 | |
| 6749082840 | 1862 | Homestead Act | 51 | |
| 6749087568 | 1865 | Pacific Railway Act | 52 | |
| 6748960298 | 1863 | Vicksburg and Gettysburg | 53 | |
| 6748960299 | 1865 | Assassination of Lincoln | 54 | |
| 6748960300 | 1867 | Reconstruction Acts | 55 | |
| 6749880238 | 1867 | Alaska Purchase | 56 | |
| 6748960301 | 1873 | Credit Mobilier scandal | 57 | |
| 6748960302 | 1874 | Barbed Wire Invented | 58 | |
| 6748960303 | 1876 | Telephone Invented | 59 | |
| 6748960304 | 1876 | Battle of Little BIg Horn/ Custer's Last Stand | 60 | |
| 6749095771 | 1881 | Helen Hunt Jackson's "A Century of Dishonor" published | 61 | |
| 6749075507 | 1882 | Chinese Exclusion Act | 62 | |
| 6748960305 | 1886 | Haymarket Riot | 63 | |
| 6749091812 | 1887 | Dawes Severalty Act | 64 | |
| 6749890131 | 1887 | Interstate Commerce Act | 65 | |
| 6748960306 | 1890 | Sherman Anti-Trust Act | 66 | |
| 6748960307 | 1890 | Battle of Wounded Knee | 67 | |
| 6748960308 | 1894 | Pullman Strike | 68 | |
| 6749885807 | 1896 | Plessy v. Ferguson | 69 | |
| 6748960309 | 1898 | Spanish American War | 70 | |
| 6748960310 | 1898 | Annexation of Hawaii | 71 | |
| 6749901773 | 1903 | Wright Brothers- first in flight | 72 | |
| 6748960311 | 1913 | Model-T released | 73 | |
| 6748960312 | 1917 | US declares war against Germany- WWI | 74 | |
| 6748960313 | 1919 | First Red Scare | 75 | |
| 6748960314 | 1919 | 18th Amendment (Prohibition) | 76 | |
| 6748960315 | 1920s | Harlem Renaissance | 77 | |
| 6748960316 | 1920 | 19th Amendment (Women's Suffrage) | 78 | |
| 6748960317 | 1929 | Stock Market Crash | 79 | |
| 6748960318 | 1933 | 21st Amendment (ends Prohibiton) | 80 | |
| 6748960319 | 1933 | Hundred Days | 81 | |
| 6748960320 | 1941-1945 | WWII | 82 | |
| 6749894196 | 1944 | D-Day invasion at Normandy | 83 | |
| 6749897570 | 1945 | U.S. uses nuclear bombs against Japan | 84 | |
| 6748960321 | 1950-1953 | Korean War | 85 | |
| 6748960322 | 1954 | Brown v. Board of Ed | 86 | |
| 6748960323 | 1955-1956 | Montgomery Bus Boycott | 87 | |
| 6748960340 | 1961 | Berlin Wall built | 88 | |
| 6748960325 | 1961 | Bay of Pigs invasion | 89 | |
| 6748960326 | 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis | 90 | |
| 6748960327 | 1963 | March on Washington-"I have a dream" speech | 91 | |
| 6748960341 | 1963 | JFK assassinated | 92 | |
| 6748960324 | 1964-1975 | Vietnam War | 93 | |
| 6748960329 | 1964 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | 94 | |
| 6749916962 | 1964 | LBJ's Civil Rights Act | 95 | |
| 6749910217 | 1965 | Voting Rights Act passed | 96 | |
| 6748960328 | 1968 | MLK Jr. assassinated | 97 | |
| 6748960330 | 1968 | My Lai Massacre | 98 | |
| 6748960331 | 1968 | Democratic Convention riot in Chicago | 99 | |
| 6749868286 | 1968 | Tet Offensive in Vietnam | 100 | |
| 6748960332 | 1969 | Neil Armstrong lands on the moon | 101 | |
| 6748960333 | 1972 | Watergate | 102 | |
| 6748960334 | 1972 | Nixon to China | 103 | |
| 6748960335 | 1973 | War Powers Act | 104 | |
| 6748960336 | 1973 | Paris Accord to end involvement in Vietnam | 105 | |
| 6748960337 | 1973 | Oil Embargo | 106 | |
| 6748960338 | 1978-1981 | Iranian Hostage Crisis | 107 | |
| 6748960339 | 1986-1987 | Iran Contra affair | 108 | |
| 6748960342 | 1989 | Berlin Wall falls | 109 | |
| 6748960343 | 1991 | USSR dissolves | 110 | |
| 6748960344 | 1991 | Persian Gulf War | 111 | |
| 6748960346 | 1994 | Newt Gingrich's Contract with America | 112 | |
| 6748960345 | 1991 | LA Riots (Rodney King) | 113 | |
| 6748960347 | 1995 | Oklahoma City Bombing | 114 | |
| 6748960348 | 1998 | Clinton Impeached | 115 | |
| 6748960349 | 1999 | NATO to Bosnia | 116 | |
| 6748960350 | 2001 | September 11th Attacks | 117 | |
| 6748960351 | 2003 | Invasion of Iraq | 118 |
