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1492
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Columbus, Spanish, Columbian Exchange
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1607
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First permanent English colony: Jamestown
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1619
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First slaves in Jamestown & House of Burgesses
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1620
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Plymouth founded (Puritans) in New England
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1676
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Bacon's Rebellion
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1680
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Pueblo Revolt
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1754
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French and Indian War begins (7 Years' War)
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1763
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Treaty of Paris ends the 7 Years' War, Pontiac's Rebellion,& Proclamation Line
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1765
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Stamp Act, first direct tax, "no taxation without representation"
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1775
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American Revolution begins; Lexington & Concord, Second Continental Congress, Articles of Confederation
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1776
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Thomas Paine's Common Sense & the Declaration of Independence
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1783
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Treaty of Paris: end of American Revolution & beginning of U.S. under Articles of Confederation
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1787
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Northwest Ordinance & Constitution
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1788
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Constitution ratified by 9 states & takes effect
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1791
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Bill of Rights added to Constitution
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1790s
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First Two-Party System, Hamilton vs. Jefferson
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1800
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Election of Thomas Jefferson
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1803
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Louisiana Purchase, Marbury v. Madison
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1808
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Slave importation ends (Slavery compromise 1789)
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1812
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War of 1812 begins
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1815
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Treaty of Ghent, end of the War of 1812, Hartford Resolutions arrive in D.C., end of Federalist Party, beginning of Era of Good Feelings
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1820
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Missouri Compromise
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1823
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Monroe Doctrine
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1824
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"Corrupt Bargain" election, beginning of Democratic Party (pro-Jackson movement)
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1828
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Andrew Jackson elected, Era of the Common Man
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1820s-1830s
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Second Two-Party System, Jackson vs. Clay
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1844
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Election of Polk; Manifest Destiny
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1846
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Mexican-American War begins
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1848
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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, Mexican Cession, end of Mexican-American War; Seneca Falls Convention
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1850
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Compromise of 1850
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1854
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Kansas-Nebraska Act; Republican Party
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1857
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Dred Scott v. Sanford
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1860
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Election of Abraham Lincoln, secession begins
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1861
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Beginning of Civil War, Battle of Fort Sumter
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1862
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Homestead Act,Pacific Railway Act, Treasury System, Morrill Act; Antietam
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1863
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Battle of Gettysburg, Gettysburg Address, Battle of Vicksburg, Emancipation Proclamation
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1865
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Civil War ends; assassination of Lincoln; 13th Amendment
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1877
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End of Radical Reconstruction; Compromise of 1877; Jim Crow begins
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1890
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Wounded Knee; Closure of the West (frontier "closed"); Sherman Antitrust Act
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1892
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People's Party (Populist Third Party) nationwide
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1896
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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1898
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Spanish American War/beginning of imperialism
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1917
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U.S. enters W.W.I; Fourteen Points
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1918
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W.W.I ends
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1919
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First Red Scare; Red Summer
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1920
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19th Amendment;Treaty of Versailles not ratified
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1920s
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More urban than rural; culture conflicts
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1929
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Stock Market Crash; beginning of Great Depression
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1933
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FDR's New Deal begins
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1941
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Pearl Harbor, U.S. enters W.W.II; Depression ends
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1945
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End of W.W.II; atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; beginning of Cold War ("iron curtain" descends)
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1949
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NATO; USSR atomic bomb;China=communist
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1950
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Korean War begins
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1953
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Korean War ends; armistice and DMZ
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1954
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Brown v. Board of Education
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1957
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Sputnik; beginning of space race
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1963
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March on Washington;JFK assassinated
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1964
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; LBJ's Great Society,Civil Rights Act of 1964
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1965
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Voting Rights Act;Immigration Act
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1968
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MLK and RFK assassinated, Tet Offensive, Chicago riot, silent majority, race riots, anti-war escalates
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1973
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Vietnam War ends with armistice
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1974
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Watergate Scandal
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1975
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Fall of Saigon
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