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| event | year |
|---|---|
| Pueblo, Iroquois, Algonquin, Sioux (chase buffalo) | 1491 |
| Columbian exchange starts | 1492 |
| Vallodolid Debate (Sepulveda vs Las Casas) | 1550 |
| Jamestown founded | 1607 |
| Puritans arrive in Plymouth | 1620 |
| Maryland Act of Toleration | 1649 |
| Bacon’s Rebellion | 1676 |
| Pueblo Revolt (against Spanish in SW) | 1680 |
| Pennsylvania founded by Quakers | 1681 |
| French and Indian War begins | 1754 |
| Pontiac’s Rebellion and Proclamation Line drawn | 1763 |
| Stamp Act, Tea Act, Boston Tea Party, Coercive Acts | 1763-1775 |
| American Revolution begins | 1775 |
| Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence | 1776 |
| Articles of Confederation | 1781 |
| Constitution written | 1787 |
| Jefferson purchases Louisiana | 1803 |
| Missouri Compromise | 1820 |
| Indian Removal Act/Trail of Tears | 1830 |
| Nullification Crisis | 1832 |
| Jackson destroys the 2nd Bank | 1836 |
| Mexican-American War begins | 1846 |
| Seneca Falls Convention | 1848 |
| Compromise of 1850 (California) ((gee i wonder...)) | 1850 |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | 1854 |
| Civil War | 1861-1865 |
| Radical Reconstruction | 1867-1877 |
| cattle drives | 1880s |
| Dawes Act | 1887 |
| Homestead Strike at Carnegie Steel | 1892 |
| Atlanta Compromise of Booker T. Washington | 1895 |
| Plessy v Ferguson | 1896 |
| Spanish-American War begins | 1898 |
| US enters World War I | 1917 |
| women vote for Prez for 1st time (19th Amendment) | 1920 |
| Immigration Quota Act (limited SE immigration; racist) | 1924 |
| stock market crash starts Great Depression | 1929 |
| FDR elected and starts New Deal | 1933 |
| Pearl Harbor pulls US into World War II | 1941 |
| Korean War begins | 1950 |
| Brown v Board of Education | 1954 |
| Kennedy-Nixon Debates | 1960 |
| Bay of Pigs Invasion and Cuban Missile Crisis | 1961-1962 |
| Vietnam War | 1965-1973 |
| Richard Nixon resigns as a result of Watergate | 1974 |
| Iran-Hostage Crisis | 1979 |
| Ronald Regan elected President | 1980 |