1491-1754
1491
Pre-Columbus Arrival to the Americas
1776
Declaration of Independence/"Common Sense" (Bonus $50 for BOTH correct answers)
1848
Seneca Falls Convention
1877
Compromise of 1877 (end of Reconstruction)
1898
Spanish-American War
1941-45
World War II
1963
Assassination of JFK,
March on Washington and Letter from Birmingham,
Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique (2nd Wave Feminism)
1607
Establishment of Jamestown
1800
Transfer of Power from Adams (Federalists) to Jefferson (Dem-Reps)
1803
Louisiana Purchase, Marbury v. Madison.
1861-65
Civil War
1896
Plessy v. Ferguson case
1914-18
World War I
1954
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka case
1619
First enslaved Africans sold/House of Burgesses established in Virginia (Bonus $150 for BOTH correct answers)
1763
Proclamation Line for limiting English settlement, Treaty of Paris (End of F&I War), Pontiac's Rebellion
1830
Indian Removal Act, Trail of Tears
1846-48
Mexican-American War
1892
Pullman Strike
1890
Sherman Antitrust Act
1980
Election of Ronald Reagan, President from 1981-1989
1754-63
French and Indian (7 Years) War
1775-83
Revolutionary War
1823
Monroe Doctrine
1860
Election of Abraham Lincoln
1887
Interstate Commerce Act: The Interstate Commerce Act addressed the problem of railroad monopolies by setting guidelines for how the railroads could do business. The act became law with the support of both major political parties and pressure groups from all regions of the country.
1929
Stock Market Crash (Black Thursday)
1962
Cuban Missile Crisis
1676
Bacon's Rebellion/King Philip's (Metacom's) War
1787
Constitutional Convention, Northwest Ordinance—an act that established a framework for governing the Northwest Territory, admitting new states, and protecting the civil liberties of settlers. It also banned slavery in the new territories.
1816-24
1857
Dred Scott v. Sandford case
1886
Haymarket Square Riot
1933-38
1945-91, and Proxy events 1950-1953, and 1955-1975
Cold War with Soviet Union, Korean War, and Vietnam War