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Important Years in American History
| Event | Year |
|---|---|
| Columbus lands in the Americas. | 1492 |
| Protestant Reformation begins | 1517 |
| 1st permanent British colony established at Jamestown, VA | 1607 |
| First New England colony established by Puritan Separatists at Plymouth | 1620 |
| The formation of the New England Confederation in response to Pequot War | 1643 |
| King Phillip’s War in New England | 1675 |
| The French and Indian War | 1754 - 1763 |
| The Stamp Act and then the Stamp Act Congress meets in NYC | 1765 |
| Boston Massacre | 1770 |
| Boston Tea Party; Intolerable Acts | 1773 |
| Revolutionary War fighting begins with Lexington & Concord | 1775 |
| Release of Thomas Paine’s pamphlet, Common Sense; Declaration of Independence written | 1776 |
| Articles of Confederation adopted | 1777 |
| Revolutionary War ends; Britain recognizes the US as an independent nation | 1783 |
| New Constitution created; Northwest Ordinance passed | 1787 |
| Samuel Slater establishes first factory in the US | 1790 |
| Bill of Rights added | 1791 |
| Cotton gin invented | 1793 |
| Election of Jefferson, first executive transfer of political power (from Federalists to Dem-Repubs) | 1800 |
| Louisiana Purchase | 1803 |
| Missouri Compromise | 1820 |
| Indian Removal Act | 1830 |
| Trail of Tears | 1838 |
| First wave of "old immigrants" | 1830s - 1850s |
| Mexican-American War | 1846 - 1848 |
| Seneca Falls Convention | 1848 |
| Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act | 1850 |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin published | 1852 |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | 1854 |
| Bleeding Kansas | 1856 |
| Lincoln elected | 1860 |
| Southern secession | 1861 |
| Civil War ends; 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments passed | 1865 |
| Transcontinental Railroad finished | 1869 |
| End of Reconstruction, last federal troops leave the South, Compromise of 1877 | 1877 |
| Dawes Act | 1887 |
| Homestead Acts | 1862 |
| Turner Thesis | 1893 |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | 1896 |
| Spanish-American War | 1898 |
| US enters WWI; Wilson's 14 Points & League of Nations | 1917 |
| 19th Amendment | 1920 |
| National Origins Act | 1924 |
| Stock market crash, beginning of Great Depression | 1929 |
| FDR elected, New Deal begins | 1932 |
| Pearl Harbor attack, US joins WWII | 1941 |
| WWII ends, atomic bomb dropped | 1945 |
| Truman Doctrine | 1947 |
| Berlin Airlift; beginning of Marshall Plan | 1948 |
| Creation of NATO | 1949 |
| Korean War; 2nd Red Scare / McCarthyism | 1950 - 1953 |
| Baby Boom | 1946 - 1964 |
| Brown v. Board of Ed. | 1954 |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | 1962 |
| Gulf of Tonkin Incident | 1964 |
| Great Society programs | 1964 - 1966 |
| Vietnam War | 1955 - 1975 |
| Apollo landing | 1969 |
| Feminine Mystique published | 1963 |
| Silent Spring published | 1962 |
| Woodstock | 1969 |
| Roe v. Wade | 1973 |
| Watergate, Nixon resigns | 1974 |
| Election of Ronald Reagan | 1980 |
| Fall of Berlin Wall; end of Cold War | 1989 |
| 9/11 attacks; war in Afghanistan starts | 2001 |
| Invasion of Iraq | 2003 |
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