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1491 | Year Before Columbus Arrived in the Americas |
1607 | 1st permanent English settlement – Jamestown |
1676 | Bacon’s Rebellion |
1754 | Start of the French & Indian War |
1765 | Stamp Act |
1776 | Declaration of Independence; Common Sense |
1787 | Constitutional Convention |
1791 | Bill of Rights |
1790-1850s | Market Revolution |
1796 | Washington’s farewell address; No Euro Alliances |
1800 | First peaceful transfer of power; Jefferson Wins |
1814 | Hartford Convention; Era of Good Feelings Begins |
1820 | Missouri Compromise |
1823 | Monroe Doctrine |
1828 | Andrew Jackson Elected President; Common Man Era |
1830 | Indian Removal Act |
1848 | Mexican American War Ends;Seneca Falls Convention |
1850 | Compromise of 1850 |
1854 | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
1861 | Beginning of the Civil War |
1865 | Civil War Ends & Reconstruction Begins |
1869 | Transcontinental Railroad is completed |
1877 | End of Reconstruction |
1890 | Wounded Knee Massacre/Closing of the Frontier |
1896 | Plessy v. Ferguson/Jim Crow Ruled Legal |
1898 | Spanish-American War Begins |
1900-1920 | The Progressive Era |
1917 | U.S. Enters World War I/Wilson Issues 14 Points |
1919 | Passage of the 19th Amendment - Women’s Suffrage |
1929 | Stock Market Crashes |
1933 | New Deal Begins |
1941 | Japan attacks Pearl Harbor / U.S. joins WWII |
1944 | D-Day |
1945 | End of WWII/ Atomic Bombs Dropped |
1946-1948 | The Long Telegram / Truman Doctrine / Marshall Plan (Origins of Cold War) |
1950-1953 | The Korean War |
1954 | Brown v. Board of Education / McCarthy Army Hearings |
1956 | Interstate Highway Act |
1963 | The Feminine Mystique / March on Washington / Kennedy Assassinated |
1964 | Civil Rights Act / Gulf of Tonkin incident |
1965 | Selma & Voting Rights Act / Beginning of Great Society (Medicare) |
1968 | Tet Offensive / LBJ refuses nomination / MLK & RFK Assassinations / DNC Chaos |
1972 | Nixon Visits China (Detente) |
1974 | Nixon Resigns due to Watergate |
1980 | Reagan Elected President |
1989 | Fall of the Berlin Wall |
1992 | Rodney King Trial & LA Riots |
1994 | NAFTA / Contract with America |
2001 | 9/11 Terrorist Attacks |
2007 | Iphone is released |