1End of the Pre-Columbian Era in the U.S. - Start of European Contact
1492
3First enslaved Africans arrive in Virginia
1619
5First Great Awakening
1730s - 1740s
6Seven Years War, aka “French and Indian War”
1754
7Declaration of Independence
1776
8Treaty of Paris ending the American Revolution
1783
9Constitution Written
1787
10Cotton Gin invented reviving slavery
1793
11Jefferson Elected, aka “The Revolution of 1800”
1800
13Second War of Independence, aka “War of 1812”
1812
14Missouri Compromise
1820
16Mexican American War
1845 - 1848
17Seneca Falls Convention
1848
18Election of Lincoln
1860
20End of the Civil War; Lincoln assassinated
1865
21Transcontinental Railroad
1869
22Hayes-Tilden Affair Ends Reconstruction
1877
23Dawes Severalty Act
1887
26Spanish American War; U.S. Annexation of Hawaii
1898
28U.S. Entry into WWI
1917
29Drafting 19th Amendment Women’s Suffrage; Palmer Raids
1919
30Scopes Monkey Trial
1925
32Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7th)
1941
33Atomic Bombs Dropped on Japan Ending WWII
1945
35Brown v. Board of Education
1954
36Cuban Missile Crisis; Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
1962
38Tet Offensive; Assassination of MLK & RFK; Chicago Dem Convention
1968
41Iran Hostage Crisis
1979
42Reagan Elected President; Rise of Conservatism
1980
43Fall of the USSR; First Gulf War
1991
44NAFTA Signed by Bill Clinton
1994
46Obama Elected President
2008