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)

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

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