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1754

begining of French and Indian war

1763

Treaty of Paris ending the French and Indian war, end of salutary neglet

1775

battle of Lexington and Concord begins the revolution

1776

Declaration of Independence signed; Common Sense is published

1777

Battle of Saratoga, French begins openly supporting the U.S

1781

Surrender at Yorktown

1783

Treaty of Paris (2) ended the revolution

1787

Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia

1791

Bill of Rights approved

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1808

International Slave Trade banned in America

1814

Treaty of Ghent

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine issued

1830

Indian Removal Act is passed

1832

Andrew Jackson vetoed the re-charter of the BUS

1846

Mexican-American War begins

1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1852

Uncle Toms Cabin is published

1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act

1857

Dred Scott decision

1859

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

1860

Election of Abraham Lincoln

1861

Start of the Civil War with bombing and Fort Sumter

1863

The Emancipation Proclamation, Battle of Gettysburg

1865

Civil War ended; Lincoln Assassination; 13th amendment

1868

Johnson impeached; 14th amendment

1870

15th amendment ratified; 3rd wave of immigration

1873

Panic of 1873; Slaughterhouse cases guts 14th amendment; Boss Tweed convicted

1877

Compromise of 1877; Hayes shuts down the Great Rail Strike

1882

Chinese Exclusion Act passes

1886

Haymarket bomb

1887

Interstate Commerce Act passed

1890

Sherman Antitrust Act passed

1892

Homestead Strike against Carnegie Steel; Ellis Island opened

1894

Pullman Strike ended in violence

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson

1898

Wong Kim Ark v. U.S affirmed 14th amendment

1917

U.S. enters WW1

1918

Wilsons 14 points; armistice signed ending WW1

1919

18th amendment bans alcohol

1920

19th amendment grants women the right to vote

1924

National Origins Act

1925

Scopes Monkey Trial on evolution

1929

Stock Market crashes causing Great Depression

1933

FDR takes office, begins the New Deal

1935

1st Neutrality Act and Social Security Act

1938

Fair Labor Standards Act, which set minimum wage

1941

Lend-Lease Act passes, Pearl Harbor attacked

1944

D-Day invasion began, liberating Europe from Nazi control

1945

Yalta Conference, Atomic Bombs dropped, Germany and Japan surrendered, war is over