Dates to know

Columbus "discovers" America

(1492)

Jamestown

(1607)

Pilgrims and the Mayflower

(1620)

Great Awakening

(1730-1749)

French and Indian War

(1756-1763)

Declaration of Independence

(1776)

Revolutionary War

(1775-1783)

Constitutional Convention

(1787)

Louisiana Purchase

(1803)

Missouri Compromise

(1820)

Market Revolution

(1820-1850)

Second Great Awakening

(1790-1840)

Manifest Destiny

(1845)

Mexican American War

(1846-1848)

Homestead Act

(1862)

Civil War

(1861-1865)

Alaska Purchase

(1867)

Reconstruction

(1865-1877)

Dawes Severalty Act

(1887)

Wounded Knee

(1890)

Plessy v. Ferguson

(1896)

Gilded Age

(1870-1900)

Ellis Island

(1892)

Progressive Era

(1896-1916)

Spanish American War

(1898)

World War I

(1917-1918)

Prohibition/18th Amendment

(1919-1933)

19th Amendment

(1920)

Stock Market Crash

(1929)

Great Depression

(1929-1939)

Isolationism/Neutrality

(1920-1940)

FDR elected

(1932)

World War II

(1941-1945)

Cold War

(1945-1991)

Truman Doctrine/Marshall Plan

(1948)

NATO

(1949)

Korean War

(1950-1953)

McCarthy Hearings

(1954)

Rosa Parks

(1955)

Cuban Missile Crisis

(1962)

I Have a Dream Speech/March on Washington

(1963)

Vietnam War

(1965-1973)

Great Society

(1964)

Nixon Resigns

(1974)

Iran Hostage Crisis

(1979)

Ronald Reagan Election and Beginning of Modern Conservative Movement

(1980)

Fall of Berlin Wall

(1989)

Soviet Union Collapses

(1991)

Bush v. Gore

(2000)

9/11

(2001)