24 Important Dates in American History

Jamestown

Treaty of Paris, Pontiac's Uprising

Declaration of Independence, Revolutionary War

Constitution

Revolution of 1800

Louisiana Purchase, Marbury v. Madison

War of 1812

Missouri Compromise

Election of Andrew Jackson

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Start of Civil War

End of Civil War, Start of Reconstruction

End of Reconstruction, Hayes Tilden Compromise, Start of Gilded Age

Census declares there is no frontier line

McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan

US Enters WWI

Stock Market Crash, Great Depression

Pearl Harbor

End of WWII, Hiroshima & Nagasaki

French defeat in Vietnam, Brown vs. Board of Education, CIA-sponsored coup in Guatemala

Tonkin Gulf Resolution, War on Poverty programs, Civil Rights Act of 1964, 24th Amendment, Freedom Summer

Tet Offensive, assasinations of Robert F. Kennedy & Martin Luther King Jr., Democratic convention, urban riots, Election of 1968

Watergate

Eastern Europe throws off communist regimes, Fall of the Berlin Wall, New World Order