Dates to know

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1. Columbus “discovers” America: (1492)
2. Jamestown: (1607)
3. Pilgrims and the Mayflower: (1620)
4. Great Awakening: (1730-1749)
5. French and Indian War: (1756-1763)
6. Declaration of Independence: (1776)
7. Revolutionary War :(1775-1783)
8. Constitutional Convention: (1787)
9. Louisiana Purchase: (1803)
   10. Missouri Compromise: (1820)
   11. Market Revolution: (1820-1850)
   12. Second Great Awakening: (1790-1840)
   13. Manifest Destiny: (1845)
   14. Mexican American War: (1846-1848)
   15. Homestead Act: (1862)
   16. Civil War: (1861-1865)
   17. Alaska Purchase: (1867)
   18. Reconstruction: (1865-1877)
   19. Dawes Severalty Act: (1887)
   20. Wounded Knee: (1890)
   21. Plessy v. Ferguson: (1896)
   22. Gilded Age: (1870-1900)
   23. Ellis Island: (1892)
   24. Progressive Era: (1896-1916)
   25. Spanish American War: (1898)
   26. World War I: (1917-1918)
   27. Prohibition/18th Amendment: (1919-1933)
   28. 19th Amendment: (1920)
   29. Stock Market Crash: (1929)
   30. Great Depression: (1929-1939)
   31. Isolationism/Neutrality: (1920-1940)
   32. FDR elected: (1932)
   33. World War II: (1941-1945)
   34. Cold War: (1945-1991)
   35. Truman Doctrine/Marshall Plan: (1948)
   36. NATO: (1949)
   37. Korean War: (1950-1953)
   38. McCarthy Hearings: (1954)
   39. Rosa Parks: (1955)
   40. Cuban Missile Crisis: (1962)
   41. I Have a Dream Speech/March on Washington: (1963)
   42. Vietnam War: (1965-1973)
   43. Great Society: (1964)
   44. Nixon Resigns: (1974)
   45. Iran Hostage Crisis: (1979)
   46. Ronald Reagan Election and Beginning of Modern Conservative Movement: (1980)
   47. Fall of Berlin Wall: (1989)
   48. Soviet Union Collapses: (1991)
   49. Bush v. Gore: (2000)
   50. 9/11: (2001)