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66789646001492Columbus sails ocean blue. What a loser.0
66789646011607Jamestown established.1
66789646021619First African slaves brought to North America.2
66789646031754French and Indian War Begins3
66789646041763French and Indian War Ends; Proclamation of 1763; End of Salutary Neglect.4
66789646051776Declaration of Independence5
66789646061781Battle of Yorktown; End of Revolutionary War Fighting (war not officially ended until Treaty of Paris #2 in 1783)6
66789646071789Ratification of the Constitution7
66789646081800Revolution of 1800; peaceful transition of power from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson8
66789646091803Louisiana Purchase9
66789646101815Battle of New Orleans; I love you Andrew Jackson.10
66789646111820Missouri Compromise11
66789646121823Monroe Doctrine12
66789646131828Andrew Jackson elected - Age of the common man13
66789646141846Beginning of the Mexican-American War14
66789646151850Compromise of 1850; New, more harsh fugitive slave law.15
66789646161854Kansas-Nebraska Act; Birth of the Republican Party16
66789646171860Election of 1860; Abraham Lincoln Elected; South Carolina Secedes17
66789646181865Civil War Ends; Reconstruction Begins18
66789646191869Transcontinental Railroad completed19
66789646201877Reconstruction Ends; Rutherford B. Hayes Elected in Compromise of 187720
66789646381890Massacre of wounded knee; Sherman Anti-Trust Act; frontier closes21
66789646211896Plessy v. Fergusson22
66789646221898Spanish-American War; Beginning of American imperialism23
66789646231906Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle24
66789646241911Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire25
66789646251919Treaty of Versailles; Race Riot in Chicago; First Red Scare26
66789646261929Stock Market Crash; Onset of Great Depression27
66789646271933FDR Inaugurated; Beginning of New Deal28
66789646281941Pearl Harbor; America Enters World War II29
66789646291945End of World War II; Dropping of Atomic Bombs30
66789646301949Soviets get Atomic Bomb; Communist Revolution in China; NATO formed31
66789646311954Brown v. Board of Education decided - Segregation illegal.32
66789646321964Civil Rights Act of 1964; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution33
66789646331968MLK Assassinated; Chicago Democratic Convention; Tet Offensive; Richard Nixon Elected ushering in a period of conservativism.34
66789646341974Watergate Scandal35
66789646351980Ronald Reagan Elected36
66789646361991Operation Desert Storm; End of the Cold War37
667896463720019/1138

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