7220666350 | 1492 | Columbus comes to the Americas | 0 | |
7220666574 | 1607 | Jamestown founded | 1 | |
7220666798 | 1676 | Bacon's Rebellion & King Philip's War | 2 | |
7220667565 | 1754-1763 | French & Indian/7 Years' War | 3 | |
7220668169 | 1773-1774 | Boston Tea Party & Coercive/Intolerable Acts | 4 | |
7220669193 | 1776 | Declaration of Independence | 5 | |
7220669532 | 1783 | End of war of American Revolution | 6 | |
7220669981 | 1787-1788 | Constitution created and ratified | 7 | |
7220670744 | 1789-1797 | President George Washington | 8 | |
7220671509 | 1797-1801 | President John Adams | 9 | |
7220671510 | 1800 | Election of 1800 | 10 | |
7220672341 | 1801-1809 | President Thomas Jefferson | 11 | |
7220672920 | 1809-1817 | President James Madison | 12 | |
7220673190 | 1812-1815 | War of 1812 | 13 | |
7220673395 | 1819-1821 | Missouri Crisis and Compromise | 14 | |
7220673792 | 1823 | Monroe Doctrine | 15 | |
7220673793 | 1828 | Election of 1828 | 16 | |
7220674871 | 1829-1837 | President Andrew Jackson | 17 | |
7220675200 | 1831 | The Liberator's initial publication and Nat Turner Rebellion | 18 | |
7220679363 | 1845-1849 | President James Polk | 19 | |
7220679923 | 1846-1848 | Mexican War | 20 | |
7220680073 | 1848 | Seneca Falls Convention | 21 | |
7220680368 | 1854 | Kansas Nebraska Act | 22 | |
7220680694 | 1860 | Election of 1860 | 23 | |
7220681036 | 1861-1865 | President Abraham Lincoln & Civil War | 24 | |
7220681272 | 1865 | Abolition of slavery/13th amendment ratified | 25 | |
7220682177 | 1868 | Definition of citizenship & equal protection of the laws/14th amendment ratified | 26 | |
7220682813 | 1870 | Black male suffrage/15th amendment ratified | 27 | |
7220683403 | 1877 | Compromise of 1877, Great Railroad Strike of 1877 | 28 | |
7220684210 | 1893-1897 | Economic depression | 29 | |
7220684211 | 1896 | Election of 1896 | 30 | |
7220685269 | 1897-1901 | President William McKinley | 31 | |
7220685891 | 1898-1902 | Spanish-American-Filipino War | 32 | |
7220686178 | 1901 | J.P. Morgan bought Carnegie Steel/U.S. Steel | 33 | |
7220687254 | 1901-1909 | President Theodore Roosevelt | 34 | |
7220688095 | 1913-1921 | President Woodrow Wilson | 35 | |
7220688452 | 1917-1918 | USA military involvement in WWI | 36 | |
7220688806 | 1920 | Women's suffrage/19th amendment ratified | 37 | |
7220689204 | 1929 | Great Depression began | 38 | |
7220690165 | 1933-1945 | President Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) | 39 | |
7220690755 | 1935 | Social Security created | 40 | |
7220690994 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor | 41 | |
7220691146 | 1941-1945 | USA involvement in WWII (ended during Truman Presidency) | 42 | |
7220691727 | 1945-1953 | President Harry Truman | 43 | |
7220692019 | 1947 | Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan | 44 | |
7220692546 | 1950-1953 | Korean War (ended during Eisenhower Presidency) | 45 | |
7220693146 | 1953-1961 | President Dwight Eisenhower | 46 | |
7220693482 | 1954 | Brown decision | 47 | |
7220693801 | 1955-1956 | Montgomery Bus Boycott | 48 | |
7220694575 | 1964-1968 | Civil Rights Legislation (Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, and Open Housing Act of 1968); end of legalized racism | 49 | |
7220696182 | 1965-1973 | Vietnam War w/ U.S. ground troops | 50 | |
7220697309 | 1968 | Foreign (TET Offensive) & domestic turmoil; presidential election | 51 | |
7220700112 | 1969-1974 | President Richard Nixon | 52 | |
7220700585 | 1972 | Nixon visited Communist China | 53 | |
7220701678 | 1973 | Watergate scandal escalates; oil shocks, stagflation, end of mass post WWII prosperity | 54 | |
7220702412 | 1974 | Nixon resigns from presidency | 55 | |
7220702746 | 1979 | Stagflation & foreign policy turmoil; Iranian hostage crisis | 56 | |
7220705253 | 1980 | Election of 1980 | 57 | |
7220705457 | 1981-1989 | President Ronald Reagan | 58 | |
7220705959 | 1987 | INF Treaty | 59 | |
7220705960 | 1989 | Fall of Berlin Wall | 60 | |
7220706158 | 1990s | Internet as a mass product | 61 | |
7220706422 | 2001 | 9/11 attacks | 62 | |
7220706717 | 2001-present | Afghanistan War | 63 | |
7220706932 | 2003-2011 | Iraq War | 64 | |
7220706933 | 2008 | Election of 2008 | 65 |
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