Date's Test

1814

End of War of 1812 (Treaty of Ghent)

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1828

Election of Andrew Jackson

1832

South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification

1844

Election of James K. Polk; Western Expansion

1848

Seneca Falls Convention; end of Mexican War (Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo)

1861

Beginning of Civil War

1865

End of Civil War

1877

End of Reconstruction

1890

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson

1898

Spanish-American War (Treaty of Paris)

1914

Beginning of WWI

1917

America enters WWI

1919

Treaty of Versailles

1920

19th Amendment (Women's Suffrage)

1929

stock market crash

1939

Beginning of WWII

1941

Pearl Harbor, American entry in WWII

1945

End of WWII; atomic bomb; beginning of Cold War

1954

Brown v. Board of Education

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

1963

JFK assassinated

1964

Civil Rights Act; Gulf of Tonkin

1968

Tet Offensive; MLK assassinated; RFK assassinated; Democratic Convention

1973

Americans withdraw troops from Vietnam

1980

Election of Reagan

1989

Fall of Berlin Wall

2001

9/11

2008

Election of Obama

2021

Capitol Riots

1492

Columbus discovered Americas

1607

Jamestown

1620

Mayflower Compact

1754

Beginning of French and Indian War

1763

End of French and Indian War (Treaty of Paris)

1773

Boston Tea Party

1776

Declaration of Independence

1789

Ratification of Constitution; George Washington 1st President

1800

Election of Thomas Jefferson

1803

Marbury v. Madison; Louisiana Purchase

1947

National Security Act of 1947: Creation of the CIA:  Establishment of the Department of Defense

1949

Soviet detonate first atomic bomb, Creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization/China falls to Communism

1950

Beginning of the Korean War

1957

Sputnik 1 Launched into orbit

1969

Apollo 11 Moon Landing

1972

Nixon visits China

2003

Beginning of the Iraq War

2011

Americans withdraw troops from Iraq