Important Dates

1492: Columbian Exchange begins.
1607: Jamestown founded.
1619: First African slaves arrive in America.
1660s: Navigation Acts enacted.
1675: King Philip’s War.
1763: End of French & Indian War.
1776: Declaration of Independence signed.
1789: U.S. Constitution adopted.
1803: Louisiana Purchase.
1811: Lowell Mills open.
1820: Missouri Compromise.
1823: Monroe Doctrine established.
1830s: Jacksonian Democracy.
1846: Mexican War starts.
1848: Seneca Falls Convention.
1854: Kansas-Nebraska Act.
1861-1865: Civil War.
1865-1877: Reconstruction era.
1869: Transcontinental Railroad completed.
1880s: Gilded Age (Immigration, Urbanization, Industrialization).
1887: Dawes Severalty Act.
1896: End of Populist Party.
1898: Spanish-American War.
1890-1920: Progressive Movement.
1917: U.S. enters World War I.
1929: Stock Market Crash.
1941: U.S. enters World War II.
1945: End of World War II, beginning of Cold War.
1950: Korean War starts.
1954: Brown v. Board of Education decision.
1957: Sputnik launched.
1968: Tet Offensive.
1970: EPA formed.
1980: Reagan elected.
1989: Fall of Berlin Wall.
2001: 9/11 Attacks.