1500 to 1550:

COLUMBUS DISCOVERED AMERICA ACCIDENTALLY: 1490

TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE: 1530 - 1800

1700 to 1800:

THE ENLIGHTENMENT: 1690

THE GREAT AWAKENING: 1730 - 1770

FRENCH INDIAN WAR: 1755 - 1760

HEAVY TAXATION ON COLONIES: 1770s

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: 1776

AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR: 1775 - 1785

NEW AMERICAN CONSTITUTION: 1790

1800 to 1850:

LOUISIANA PURCHASE: 1803

WAR OF 1812: 1812

MARKET REVOLUTION: 1820s - 1830s

ELECTION OF 1824 (JOHN QUINCY ADAMS WIN): 1824

ELECTION OF 1828 (ANDREW JACKSON WIN): 1828

1850 to 1900:

THE SECOND GREAT AWAKENING + REFORM MOVEMENTS: 1795 - 1840

MANIFEST DESTINY + GOLD RUSH: 1840s - 1850s

MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR: 1846 - 1848

REPUBLICAN PARTY FORMED: 1854

ELECTION OF 1860 (ABRAHAM LINCOLN WIN): 1860

CIVIL WAR: 1861 - 1865

RECONSTRUCTION: 1865 - 1877

WESTWARD EXPANSION: 1800 - 1860

PLESSY V FERGUSON: 1896

1900 to 1950:

THE GILDED AGE (CORRUPTION AND WEALTH INEQUALITY): 1870s - 1900

THE POPULIST PARTY: 1890s - 1910s

SPANISH AMERICAN WAR: 1898 (less than a year)

PHILIPPINE WAR: 1899 - 1902

THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT: 1900s - 1920s

WORLD WAR ONE: 1914 - 1918; US ENTERED 1917

THE GREAT DEPRESSION: 1930 - 1940

WORLD WAR TWO: 1940 - 1945; US ENTERED 1940

1950 to 2000:

THE COLD WAR (SCARED OF COMMUNISM): 1945 - 1990

• IRON CURTAIN: 1946

MCCARTHYISM (prominent figures being fired because they were suspected to be communists): 1950 - 1954

KOREAN WAR: 1950 - 1953; US ENTERED 1950 because of fear of communism

BROWN V BOARD OF EDUCATION (ENDED SEGREGATION IN SCHOOLS): 1954

EISENHOWER DOCTRINE (aid to middle east fighting communism): 1957

VIETNAM WAR: 1955 - 1975; US ENTERED 1965 because of fear of communism

BABY BOOM: 1945 - 1965

CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS (missiles in Cuba set up by the Soviet union targeting the US, almost brought them to war but didn’t): 1962

COUNTERCULTURE (against all things popular, the new left): 1960s

NIXON’S VISIT TO CHINA (established a stronger relationship between America and China): 1972