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1492

Columbus sails to America

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1607

Jamestown settlement

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1619

First African slaves arrive at Jamestown

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1620

Plymouth plantation, creation of Mayflower Contract

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1630

Puritans found Massachusetts Bay Colony

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1676

Bacon's rebellion

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1730s-1740s

1st Great Awakening

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1754-1763

French and Indian War

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1765

Stamp Act

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1770

Boston Massacre

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1773

Boston Tea Party

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1775-1783

American Revolution

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1786

Shays Rebellion

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1787

Constitutional Convention

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1793

Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin

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1794

Whiskey Rebellion

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1803

Louisiana Purchase

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1812-1815

War of 1812

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1820

Missouri Compromise

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1823

Monroe Doctrine

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1828

Andrew Jackson Elected

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1830

Indian Removal Act

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1838-1839

Trail of Tears

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1790s-1840s

Second Great Awakening

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1831

Nat Turner Rebellion, "Liberator" published

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1848

Seneca Falls Convention; Declaration of Women's Rights

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1846-1848

Mexican War begins

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1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act

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1857

Dred Scott

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1861

Fort Sumter--Start of Civil War

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1865

End of Civil War, Lincoln assassinated

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1865

13th Amendment- Free

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1868

14th Amendment- Citizens

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1870

15th Amendment- Vote

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1869

Transcontinental railroad complete

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1877

End of reconstruction

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1896

Plessy v. Ferguson, separate but equal

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1898

Spanish-American War

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1914-1918

WWI

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1917

Zimmerman telegram intercepted, US enters WWI

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1920

19th Amendment (Women’s Right to Vote)

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1929

Stock market crashes

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1933

FDR Inaugurated, first 100 days of New Deal, 21st amendment ratified (undo prohibition)

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1941

Pearl Harbor

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1945

End of WWII, VE Day, VJ Day, Atomic bomb dropped on Japan

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1954

Brown V. Board of Education

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1957

Little Rock, Sputnik

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1963

March on Washington, Birmingham, Kennedy Assasination

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1964

Civil Rights Act

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1965

Voting Rights Act

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1968

Tet Offensive, MLK assassinated, Robert Kennedy Assassinated

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1980

Reagen elected

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2008

Election of Obama, first black president