Dates to know
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)
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)