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Columbus reaches the Americas	1492		us-history-key-dates
Jamestown founded	1607		us-history-key-dates
Pilgrims land at Plymouth	1620		us-history-key-dates
First enslaved Africans arrive in Virginia	1619		us-history-key-dates
Salem witch trials	1692		us-history-key-dates
French and Indian War begins	1754		us-history-key-dates
Stamp Act	1765		us-history-key-dates
Boston Massacre	1770		us-history-key-dates
Boston Tea Party	1773		us-history-key-dates
Battles of Lexington and Concord	1775		us-history-key-dates
Declaration of Independence adopted	July 4, 1776		us-history-key-dates
Battle of Saratoga	1777		us-history-key-dates
Winter at Valley Forge	1777-1778		us-history-key-dates
British surrender at Yorktown	1781		us-history-key-dates
Treaty of Paris ends the Revolution	1783		us-history-key-dates
Constitutional Convention	1787		us-history-key-dates
George Washington becomes president	1789		us-history-key-dates
Bill of Rights ratified	1791		us-history-key-dates
Louisiana Purchase	1803		us-history-key-dates
Lewis and Clark expedition	1804-1806		us-history-key-dates
War of 1812 begins	1812		us-history-key-dates
Star-Spangled Banner written	1814		us-history-key-dates
Missouri Compromise	1820		us-history-key-dates
Monroe Doctrine	1823		us-history-key-dates
Erie Canal opens	1825		us-history-key-dates
Indian Removal Act	1830		us-history-key-dates
Battle of the Alamo	1836		us-history-key-dates
Seneca Falls Convention	1848		us-history-key-dates
California Gold Rush begins	1848		us-history-key-dates
Mexican-American War ends	1848		us-history-key-dates
Compromise of 1850	1850		us-history-key-dates
Dred Scott decision	1857		us-history-key-dates
Lincoln elected president	1860		us-history-key-dates
Fort Sumter attacked	1861		us-history-key-dates
Emancipation Proclamation	1863		us-history-key-dates
Battle of Gettysburg	1863		us-history-key-dates
Lee surrenders at Appomattox	1865		us-history-key-dates
Lincoln assassinated	1865		us-history-key-dates
13th Amendment ratified	1865		us-history-key-dates
Alaska purchased from Russia	1867		us-history-key-dates
Transcontinental railroad completed	1869		us-history-key-dates
Telephone patented	1876		us-history-key-dates
Battle of Little Bighorn	1876		us-history-key-dates
Light bulb perfected by Edison	1879		us-history-key-dates
Statue of Liberty dedicated	1886		us-history-key-dates
Ellis Island opens	1892		us-history-key-dates
Plessy v. Ferguson	1896		us-history-key-dates
Spanish-American War	1898		us-history-key-dates
Wright brothers' first flight	1903		us-history-key-dates
World War I begins in Europe	1914		us-history-key-dates
US enters World War I	1917		us-history-key-dates
19th Amendment (women's suffrage)	1920		us-history-key-dates
Stock market crash	1929		us-history-key-dates
Franklin Roosevelt elected; New Deal begins	1932-1933		us-history-key-dates
Social Security Act	1935		us-history-key-dates
Pearl Harbor attacked	December 7, 1941		us-history-key-dates
D-Day	June 6, 1944		us-history-key-dates
World War II ends	1945		us-history-key-dates
Marshall Plan	1948		us-history-key-dates
Korean War begins	1950		us-history-key-dates
Brown v. Board of Education	1954		us-history-key-dates
Montgomery Bus Boycott	1955-1956		us-history-key-dates
Sputnik launched	1957		us-history-key-dates
Cuban Missile Crisis	1962		us-history-key-dates
March on Washington	1963		us-history-key-dates
JFK assassinated	1963		us-history-key-dates
Civil Rights Act	1964		us-history-key-dates
Voting Rights Act	1965		us-history-key-dates
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated	1968		us-history-key-dates
First Moon landing	1969		us-history-key-dates
Nixon resigns	1974		us-history-key-dates
Fall of Saigon	1975		us-history-key-dates
Berlin Wall falls	1989		us-history-key-dates
Soviet Union dissolves	1991		us-history-key-dates
September 11 attacks	2001		us-history-key-dates
Barack Obama elected	2008		us-history-key-dates