all periods (4)

1846 to 1848

Mexican-American war

1848

Senca falls plus California gold Rush

1850

Compromise of 1815+ fugitive slave law

1852

Uncle Tom’s cabin

1854

Can Nebraska act plus bleeding Kansas

1857

Dread Scott case

1860

Lincoln’s presidency south succession

1862

Emancipation proclamation

1877

End of reconstruction plus compromise of 1877

1980

Ronald Reagan elected

1989

Fall of Berlin wall/end of Cold War

2011

911

Period 8 start

1947

Truman Doctrine (Containment Policy Begins)

1950 to 1953

Korean War

1954

Brown v. Board of Education Topeka

1962

Cuban missile crisis

1963

Martin Luther King’s March on WashingtonJFK

(Assassinated) / Lyndon B. Johnson Presidency Begins

1964

Civil rights act / Gulf of Tonkin resolution

1968

Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated

Tet Offensive in Vietnam

1974

Watergate Nixon (Resigns) / Gerald R. Ford Presidency Begins

1975

U.S. Exit of Vietnam

1979-1981

Iranian Hostage Crisis

Period 7 start

Brown v. Board of Education Topeka

1898

SPAM war

1901

McKinley assassinated/Theodore Roosevelt Presidency

1917

Us enter WW1

1929

Stock Market Crash / Depression Begins

1932

Franklin D. Roosevelt Elected

1933

New Deal Begins

1941

Pearl Harbor - U.S. enters WW II

1945

Yalta Conference, End of World War II & Atomic Bomb on Jap

Period 4 start

1800

Election of Thomas Jefferson

1803

Louisiana purchase

1812 to 1814

War of 1812

1820

Missouri compromise

1823

Monroe doctrine

1825

Erie Canal opens

1828

Jackson presidency

1838

Trail of tears

Period 3 begins

1763

French and Indian War Ends / Pontiacs Rebellion &

Proclamation of 1763

1776

Declaration of Independence

1781

Articles of Confederation

1787

Constitutional convention

1789

Washington Presidency Begins

1791

Bill of rights

Period 2 beings

1619

VA House of Burgesses & First Slaves Arrive

1620

Plymouth Settled

1609

Jamestown Settled

Period 1

1492

Christopher Columbus Arrives