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The fifty most important historical events and their dates.

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Great Awakening 1730s
End of French and Indian War 1763
Stamp Act 1765
Boston Tea Party 1773
First Democratic Revolution/ DOI 1776
Treaty of Paris 1783
Shay's Rebellion 1787
Constitutional Convention 1787
Cotton Gin 1793
First peaceful transfer of power between parties 1800s
Second Great Awakening 1800s
Marbury vs. Madison 1803
Louisiana Purchase 1803
Missouri Compromise 1820
Monroe Doctrine 1823
Erie Canal 1825
Era of the Common Man begins with Andrew Jackson's election 1828
Uncle Tom's Cabin 1852
Dred Scott Decision 1857
Antietam 1862
Vicksburg and Gettysburg: military turning points 1863
13th Amendment 1865
Transcontinental Railroad 1869
Reconstruction Ends 1877
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
Interstate Commerce Act---first federal regulatory agency 1886
Dawes Severalty Act 1887
Homestead and Pullman Strikes 1890s
Turner's Frontier Thesis 1893
Plessy vs. Ferguson 1896
Spanish American War---America attains an external empire 1898
Open Door Policy 1899
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine 1904
U.S. completes Panama Canal 1914
U.S. enters WWI, which had begun three years earlier 1917
Lindbergh becomes the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic 1927
Stock Market Crashes 1929
FDR becomes first president elected to a third term 1940
Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, triggering U.S. to enter WWII 1941
WW2 Ends with the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan, the first and only time a nation has used a nuclear bomb 1945
Containment policy articulated; this becomes the fundamental politico-military strategy of the Cold War 1947
Berlin Airlift 1948
Brown vs. Board of Education 1954
Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
Civil Rights Act makes segregation illegal in all public facilities 1964
Voting Rights Act---African Americans in the South can vote for the first time since Reconstruction 1965
Apollo lands on the moon 1969
Nixon becomes the first president to resign 1973
Republican Ronald Reagan is elected president, marking a Conservative resurgence 1980
Cold War ends 1989
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