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66226037111492Columbus sails ocean blue. What a loser.0
66226037121607Jamestown established.1
66226037131619First African slaves brought to North America.2
67412534241692Salem witch trials3
66226037141754French and Indian War Begins4
66226037151763French and Indian War Ends; Proclamation, End of Salutary Neglect.5
66226037161776Declaration of Independence6
66226037171781Battle of Yorktown; End of Revolutionary War Fighting (war not officially ended until Treaty of Paris #2 in 1783)7
66226037181789Ratification of the Constitution8
66226037191800Revolution of 1800; peaceful transition of power from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson9
66226037201803Louisiana Purchase10
66226037211815Battle of New Orleans.11
66226037221820Missouri Compromise12
66226037231823Monroe Doctrine13
66226037241828Andrew Jackson elected - Age of the common man14
66226037251846Beginning of the Mexican-American War15
66226037261850Compromise of 1850; New, more harsh fugitive slave law.16
66226037271854Kansas-Nebraska Act; Birth of the Republican Party17
66226037281860Election of 1860; Abraham Lincoln Elected; South Carolina Secedes18
66226037291865Civil War Ends; Reconstruction Begins19
66226037301869Transcontinental Railroad completed20
66226037311877Reconstruction Ends; Rutherford B. Hayes Elected in Compromise of 187721
66226037491890Massacre of wounded knee; Sherman Anti-Trust Act; frontier closes22
66226037321896Plessy v. Fergusson23
66226037331898Spanish-American War; Beginning of American imperialism24
66226037341906Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle25
66226037351911Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire26
66226037361919Treaty of Versailles; Race Riot in Chicago; First Red Scare27
66226037371929Stock Market Crash; Onset of Great Depression28
66226037381933FDR Inaugurated; Beginning of New Deal29
66226037391941Pearl Harbor; America Enters World War II30
66226037401945End of World War II; Dropping of Atomic Bombs31
66226037411949Soviets get Atomic Bomb; Communist Revolution in China; NATO formed32
67412978861953End of the Korean War33
66226037421954Brown v. Board of Education decided - Segregation illegal.34
66226037431964Civil Rights Act of 1964; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution35
66226037441968MLK Assassinated; Chicago Democratic Convention; Tet Offensive; Richard Nixon Elected ushering in a period of conservativism.36
66226037451974Watergate Scandal37
66226037461980Ronald Reagan Elected38
66226037471991Operation Desert Storm; End of the Cold War39
662260374820019/1140

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