Columbus “discovers” America: (1492)

Jamestown: (1607)

Pilgrims and the Mayflower: (1620)

Great Awakening: (1730-1749)

French and Indian War: (1756-1763)

Declaration of Independence: (1776)

Revolutionary War :(1775-1783)

Constitutional Convention: (1787)

Louisiana Purchase: (1803)

Missouri Compromise: (1820)

Market Revolution: (1820-1850)

Second Great Awakening: (1790-1840)

Manifest Destiny: (1845)

Mexican American War: (1846-1848)

Homestead Act: (1862)

Civil War: (1861-1865)

Alaska Purchase: (1867)

Reconstruction: (1865-1877)

Dawes Severalty Act: (1887)

Wounded Knee: (1890)

Plessy v. Ferguson: (1896)

Gilded Age: (1870-1900)

Ellis Island: (1892)

Progressive Era: (1896-1916)

Spanish American War: (1898)

World War I: (1917-1918)

Prohibition/18th Amendment: (1919-1933)

19th Amendment: (1920)

Stock Market Crash: (1929)

Great Depression: (1929-1939)

Isolationism/Neutrality: (1920-1940)

FDR elected: (1932)

World War II: (1941-1945)

Cold War: (1945-1991)

Truman Doctrine/Marshall Plan: (1948)

NATO: (1949)

Korean War: (1950-1953)

McCarthy Hearings: (1954)

Rosa Parks: (1955)

Cuban Missile Crisis: (1962)

I Have a Dream Speech/March on Washington: (1963)

Vietnam War: (1965-1973)

Great Society: (1964)

Nixon Resigns: (1974)

Iran Hostage Crisis: (1979)

Ronald Reagan Election and Beginning of Modern Conservative Movement: (1980)

Fall of Berlin Wall: (1989)

Soviet Union Collapses: (1991)

Bush v. Gore: (2000)

9/11: (2001)