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Jamestown Founded
1607
First African Slaves in the Colonies
1619
Bacon's Rebellion
1676
First Great Awakening
1730s-40s
End of French and Indian War
1763
Declaration of Independence
1776
End of American Revolution
1783
Constitution went into Effect
1789
Articles of Confederation
1781-89
Constitution Ratified
1788
Bill of Rights Ratified
1791
Second Great Awakening
1800-1840
Revolution of 1800
1800
Louisiana Purchase and Marbury v. Madison
1803
Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812
1815
Missouri Compromise
1820
Monroe Doctrine
1823
Jacksonian Democracy and founding of the Democratic Party
1828
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican-American War and Seneca Falls Convention
1848
Compromise of 1850
1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act and Founding of the Republican Party
1854
Lincoln Elected, South Carolina Secedes
1860
Confederate States of America Established, Civil War Begins, Fort Sumter
1861
Emancipation Proclamation
1863
Civil War Ends and Reconstruction Begins, Lincoln Assassinated, 13th Amendment Ratified
1865
Reconstruction ends with Compromise of 1877
1877
Chinese Exclusion Act
1882
Sherman Anti-Trust Act and Battle of Wounded Knee ends Indian Wars
1890
Plessy v Ferguson and William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan (Populist)
1896
Spanish-American War
1898
U.S. Enters World War One
1917
Treaty of Versailles ends World War One and First Red Scare
1919
Women's Suffrage (19th Amendment)
1920
Great Depression Begins with Stock Market Crash
1929
FDR's "First 100 Days", New Deal goes into effect
1933
Neutrality Act passed ('35, '36, '37, '38', '39) to keep U.S. out of another European war
1930s
Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941
Atomic Bombs Dropped on Japan, World War II ends, Unofficial Start to Cold War, 1945-1991
1945
Truman Doctrine Issued (Cold War Policy of Containment)
1947
U.S. Joins NATO; China becomes Communist; Soviets Detonate Atomic Bomb
1949
Korean "War" Begins and Second Red Scare (1950-1954)
1950
Armistice ends the Korean "War"
1953
Geneva Accords (Vietnam Split into Two) and Brown v. Board of Education
1954
Montgomery Bus Boycott
1955
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
MLK's March on Washington and Feminine Mystique Written by Betty Friedan
1963
Civil Rights Act Passed and Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Passed (Vietnam War Officially Begins)
1964
Voting Rights Act
1965
Tet Offensive; MLK Assassinated; DNC Convention in Chicago
1968
Stonewall Riots
1969
Paris Peace Accords Ends Vietnam War and Roe v. Wade
1973
Watergate Hearings
1974
Iranian Hostage Crisis
1979
Ronald Reagan Elected, “Reagan Era” Begins
1980
Berlin Wall Comes Down
1989
First Gulf War and Break-Up of the USSR
1991
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
1993
September 11 Attacks Followed by U.S. Invasion of Afghanistan (Don’t Forget)
2001
Iraq War
2003
Barack Obama, First African American Elected President
2008