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| 9401311172 | 1607 | Jamestown- The first permanent English settlement in the Americas. | 0 | |
| 9401311173 | 1754-1763 | French and Indian War- resulted from frontier tensions in North America as both the French, Am. colonists, and the British imperial sought to extend into and control the Ohio River Valley. | 1 | |
| 9401315493 | 1776 | Declaration of Independence- adopted by the 2nd Continental Congress. It announced that the 13 colonies were at war with Great Britain. | 2 | |
| 9401319243 | 1783 | Treaty of Paris- ended the Revolutionary War and recognized American sovereignty. | 3 | |
| 9401319244 | 1787 | Constitutional Convention- met to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation and wrote a new government. | 4 | |
| 9401329040 | 1803 | Louisiana Purchase- to acquire the territory around the Mississippi River the U.S. paid 50 million francs ($11.2 M) and a cancellation of debts worth 18 million francs ($3.7 M) for a total of 68 million francs ($15 M, equivalent to $300 M in 2016). | 5 | |
| 9401329041 | 1820 | Missouri Compromise- to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state. | 6 | |
| 9401330761 | 1828-1830 | Tariff/Nullification Crisis- South Carolina declared that the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and unenforceable within the state and that attempts to use force to collect the taxes would lead to the state's secession. | 7 | |
| 9401332934 | 1830-1850 | Manifest Destiny- belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. | 8 | |
| 9401341215 | 1845-1848 | Mexican-Am War- this evidence of Manifest Destiny pitted the U.S. against a much weaker Mexico after a border scuffle in Texas. Led to the seizing of 1/2 of Mexico as part of the Treaty of Guadeloupe. | 9 | |
| 9401341216 | 1848 | Seneca Falls Convention- the 1st woman's rights convention- drew more than 200 men and women in support of women's legal and voting equality. | 10 | |
| 9401343857 | 1861-1865 | Civil War- The long-standing controversy over slavery broke into full armed rebellion between the Union and the Confederacy. | 11 | |
| 9401347613 | 1862 | Homestead Act- parcels of 160 acres given to settlers who lived on the land for 5 years farming it. Used to prevent land speculation and encourage settlement instead. | 12 | |
| 9401347666 | 1890 | Ghost Dance and Massacre at Wounded Knee- U.S. gov. were worried about the increasing influence of the Ghost Dance spiritual movement, a pan Indian traditional group. The U.S. gov. demanded that Plains Indians disarm, and led to a massacre of 150 natives. This was the last major confrontation on the Great Plains. | 13 | |
| 9401351931 | 1890 | Sherman Anti-Trust Act- the federal anti-monopoly and anti-trust law that was trying to promote competition and capitalism. | 14 | |
| 9401351932 | 1896 | Plessy vs. Ferguson- upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality. | 15 | |
| 9401352963 | 1898 | Spanish American War- started as a Cuban independence movement that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America. | 16 | |
| 9401358181 | 1917 | US enters WW1 [WW1 1914-1918]- the U.S. entered the conflict, 2 1/2 years after the war had started as a result of increasing German aggression. | 17 | |
| 9401358182 | 1929 | Stock Market Crash- the largest loss on the U.S. stock market in history, led directly to a worldwide depression for the next 12 years. | 18 | |
| 9401362153 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor-US enters WW2 [WW2 1939-1945]- WW2 was considered Europe's problem and the U.S. will remain largely isolationist until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. | 19 | |
| 9401364033 | 1954 | Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, KS- the Supreme Court declared state laws segregating public schools were inherently unequal and unconstitutional. | 20 | |
| 9401366730 | 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis- a tense, 13-day political and military standoff over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba. | 21 | |
| 9401366731 | 1965 | Voting Rights Act- the MLK and LBJ sponsored law that outlawed racial discrimination in voting. | 22 | |
| 9401370474 | 1968 | Tet Offensive- a series of large surprise attacks against the U.S. and South Vietnamese areas. Convinced the American public that the U.S. couldn't win the war. | 23 | |
| 9401370475 | 1972 | Watergate Break-In- burglars in the pay of Nixon's reelection campaign broke into offices of the Democratic party, that led to his resignation. | 24 | |
| 9401372458 | 1989 | Cold War Ends- the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe. | 25 |
