8022974532 | 1492 | Columbus sails ocean blue. What a loser. | 0 | |
8022974533 | 1607 | Jamestown established. | 1 | |
8022974534 | 1619 | First African slaves brought to North America. | 2 | |
8022974535 | 1754 | French and Indian War Begins | 3 | |
8022974536 | 1763 | French and Indian War Ends; Proclamation of 1763; End of Salutary Neglect. | 4 | |
8022974537 | 1776 | Declaration of Independence | 5 | |
8022974538 | 1781 | Battle of Yorktown; End of Revolutionary War Fighting (war not officially ended until Treaty of Paris #2 in 1783) | 6 | |
8022974539 | 1789 | Ratification of the Constitution | 7 | |
8022974540 | 1800 | Revolution of 1800; peaceful transition of power from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson | 8 | |
8022974541 | 1803 | Louisiana Purchase | 9 | |
8022974542 | 1815 | Battle of New Orleans; I love you Andrew Jackson. | 10 | |
8022974543 | 1820 | Missouri Compromise | 11 | |
8022974544 | 1823 | Monroe Doctrine | 12 | |
8022974545 | 1828 | Andrew Jackson elected - Age of the common man | 13 | |
8022974546 | 1846 | Beginning of the Mexican-American War | 14 | |
8022974547 | 1850 | Compromise of 1850; New, more harsh fugitive slave law. | 15 | |
8022974548 | 1854 | Kansas-Nebraska Act; Birth of the Republican Party | 16 | |
8022974549 | 1860 | Election of 1860; Abraham Lincoln Elected; South Carolina Secedes | 17 | |
8022974550 | 1865 | Civil War Ends; Reconstruction Begins | 18 | |
8022974551 | 1869 | Transcontinental Railroad completed | 19 | |
8022974552 | 1877 | Reconstruction Ends; Rutherford B. Hayes Elected in Compromise of 1877 | 20 | |
8022974553 | 1896 | Plessy v. Fergusson | 21 | |
8022974554 | 1898 | Spanish-American War; Beginning of American imperialism | 22 | |
8022974555 | 1906 | Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle | 23 | |
8022974556 | 1911 | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire | 24 | |
8022974557 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles; Race Riot in Chicago; First Red Scare | 25 | |
8022974558 | 1929 | Stock Market Crash; Onset of Great Depression | 26 | |
8022974559 | 1933 | FDR Inaugurated; Beginning of New Deal | 27 | |
8022974560 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor; America Enters World War II | 28 | |
8022974561 | 1945 | End of World War II; Dropping of Atomic Bombs | 29 | |
8022974562 | 1949 | Soviets get Atomic Bomb; Communist Revolution in China; NATO formed | 30 | |
8022974563 | 1954 | Brown v. Board of Education decided - Segregation illegal. | 31 | |
8022974564 | 1964 | Civil Rights Act of 1964; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | 32 | |
8022974565 | 1968 | MLK Assassinated; Chicago Democratic Convention; Tet Offensive; Richard Nixon Elected ushering in a period of conservativism. | 33 | |
8022974566 | 1974 | Watergate Scandal | 34 | |
8022974567 | 1980 | Ronald Reagan Elected | 35 | |
8022974568 | 1991 | Operation Desert Storm; End of the Cold War | 36 | |
8022974569 | 2001 | 9/11 | 37 | |
8022974570 | 1890 | Massacre of wounded knee; Sherman Anti-Trust Act; frontier closes | 38 |
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