First voyage of Columbus to the New World
1492
Jamestown
1607
French and Indian War Ends
1763
Lexington and Concord/ American Revolution Begins
1775
Declaration of Independence
1776
Treaty of Paris (ending American Revolution)
1783
Constitution Ratified
1788
Louisiana Purchase
1803
Missouri Compromise
1820
Monroe Doctrine
1823
Mexican American War*
1846-1848
Seneca Falls Convention
1848
Election of Lincoln
1860
Civil War*
1861-1865
15th Amendment
1870
Reconstruction Ends
1877
Chinese Exclusion Act
1882
Populist Movement/Party Founded
1892
Plessy v. Ferguson/ Jim Crow Laws Begin
1896
Spanish American War
1898
Meat Inspection Act/ Pure Food and Drug Act
1906
World War I (America's Involvement)*
1917-1918
19th Amendment
1920
Black Tuesday
1929
World War II (America's Involvement)*
1941-1945
Korean War*
1950-1953
Brown v. Board of Education
1954
Sputnik
1957
Feminine Mystique
1963
Civil Rights Act
1964
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1964
Tet Offensive
1968
First Man on the Moon
1969
Watergate Scandal/ Resignation of Nixon*
1972-1974
Iranian Hostage Crisis*
1979-1981
Election of Reagan (new Conservative movement)
1980
Berlin Wall Falls
1989
Persian Gulf War*
1990-1991
World Trade Center Terrorist Attack
2001
Barack Obama Elected President
2008