Dates of important events in American history
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| 6864887 | 1763 | Treaty of Paris ends the French and Indian War | |
| 6864888 | 1776 | Declaration of Independence | |
| 6864889 | 1789 | Ratification of the Constitution | |
| 6864890 | 1800 | Democratic-Republicans win the presidency and control of Congress during the "Revolution of 1800" | |
| 6864891 | 1803 | Louisiana Purchase and the Supreme Court decision of Marbury v. Madison | |
| 6864892 | 1814 | Treaty of Ghent ends the War of 1812 | |
| 6864893 | 1848 | Treaty of Guadelupe-Hidalgo ends the Mexican War and gives the US control of the Mexican Cession | |
| 6864894 | 1861 | Outbreak of the Civil War | |
| 6864895 | 1865 | End of the Civil War and the death of Abraham Lincoln | |
| 6864896 | 1877 | Hayes withdraws last Union troops from the South and officially ends Reconstruction | |
| 6864897 | 1914 | Outbreak of WWI in Europe | |
| 6864898 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles | |
| 6864899 | 1929 | Stock Market Crash of 1929 | |
| 6864900 | 1941 | Japanese attack Pearl Harbor and US enters WWII. | |
| 6864901 | 1945 | WWII ends, Atomic Age begins, creation of the United Nations, Cold War, and the beginning of the end for colonialism | |
| 6864902 | 1954 | US enters Vietnam and the Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education | |
| 6864903 | 1960 | First sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina and the election of JFK | |
| 6864904 | 1964 | Civil Rights Act is passed | |
| 6864905 | 1968 | Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy end the Civil Rights Movement | |
| 6864906 | 1973 | Paris Peace Agreement and the War-Powers Resolution | |
| 6864907 | 1989 | Dismantling of the Berlin Wall, the election of Solidarity in Poland, and the fall of the Eastern European economies signal the collapse of the Soviet Union | |
| 6864908 | 1994 | Republican landslide victories give them control of both houses of Congress |
