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1492
Columbus sails to America
1607
Jamestown settlement
1619
First African slaves arrive at Jamestown
1620
Plymouth plantation, creation of Mayflower Contract
1630
Puritans found Massachusetts Bay Colony
1676
Bacon's rebellion
1730s-1740s
1st Great Awakening
1754-1763
French and Indian War
1765
Stamp Act
1770
Boston Massacre
1773
Boston Tea Party
1775-1783
American Revolution
1786
Shays Rebellion
1787
Constitutional Convention
1793
Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin
1794
Whiskey Rebellion
1803
Louisiana Purchase
1812-1815
War of 1812
1820
Missouri Compromise
1823
Monroe Doctrine
1828
Andrew Jackson Elected
1830
Indian Removal Act
1838-1839
Trail of Tears
1790s-1840s
Second Great Awakening
1831
Nat Turner Rebellion, "Liberator" published
1848
Seneca Falls Convention; Declaration of Women's Rights
1846-1848
Mexican War begins
1854
Kansas-Nebraska Act
1857
Dred Scott
1861
Fort Sumter--Start of Civil War
1865
End of Civil War, Lincoln assassinated
1865
13th Amendment- Free
1868
14th Amendment- Citizens
1870
15th Amendment- Vote
1869
Transcontinental railroad complete
1877
End of reconstruction
1896
Plessy v. Ferguson, separate but equal
1898
Spanish-American War
1914-1918
WWI
1917
Zimmerman telegram intercepted, US enters WWI
1920
19th Amendment (Women’s Right to Vote)
1929
Stock market crashes
1933
FDR Inaugurated, first 100 days of New Deal, 21st amendment ratified (undo prohibition)
1941
Pearl Harbor
1945
End of WWII, VE Day, VJ Day, Atomic bomb dropped on Japan
1954
Brown V. Board of Education
1957
Little Rock, Sputnik
1963
March on Washington, Birmingham, Kennedy Assasination
1964
Civil Rights Act
1965
Voting Rights Act
1968
Tet Offensive, MLK assassinated, Robert Kennedy Assassinated
1980
Reagen elected
2008
Election of Obama, first black president
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