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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)