Week 2: New government and the 19th century to the Civil War

1783 Treaty of Paris ends the Revolution

1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin

WEEK 1 Beginnings to the American Revolution

Week 2: New government and the 19th century to the Civil War

WEEK 3 Transition to the 20th Century

Week 4: From World War 2 and the Cold War to today

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WEEK 1 Beginnings to the American Revolution

1492 Columbus "discovered" the US

Week 2: New government and the 19th century to the Civil War

1812 War of 1812: war on Britain begins 1818 War Hawks war on Britain ends

1846 Mexican War begins

WEEK 3 Transition to the 20th Century

1870 Hiram Revels of Mississippi becomes the first black Senator 1872 Susan B. Anthony is arrested while attempting to vote. 1876 Custer's Last Stand in Montana 1878 Thomas Edison patents the phonograph 1879 Edison invents the light bulb 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre 1891 Thomas Edison patents his moving picture camera 1895 The first automobile race is run from Chicago to Evanston, Illinois 1898 Spanish American War 1901 JP Morgan's US Steel Corp. is first billion dollar industry 1901 President Mc Kinley is assassinated 1902 President Roosevelt helps settle a coal miner strike 1903 Wright brothers fly first plane at Kitty Hawk, NC 1904 U.S. granted the Panama Canal Zone 1905 Roosevelt negotiates end to Russo Japanese War （Treaty of Portsmouth) 1906 The great San Francisco Earthquake 1908 Ford Company introduces the Model T cost $850 1911 Sherman Antitrust Act breaks up monopolies 1912 The Titanic sinks killing over 1,500 people 1914 World War I starts in Europe 1915 Lusitania is sunk by a German submarine 1917 US enters World War I 1918 Wilson’s Fourteen Points as plan for peace 1919 The Treaty of Versailles ends the War 1919 19th amendment ratified (women’s vote) 1920 The 18th Amendment Prohibition takes effect 1923 President Harding dies during the Teapot Dome oil scandal 1925 The Scopes Monkey Trial 1927 Charles Lindbergh flys solo over the Atlantic 1927 Babe Ruth hits 60th Home Run 1929 stock market collapses; Great Depression 1930 the "Dust Bowl" begins in the Midwest 1931 Al Capone is sentenced to prison 1932 Charles Lindbergh's baby kidnapped and killed 1933 President F.D. Roosevelt "New Deal“ 1937 Steel strike in Chicago (Memorial Day massacre) 1939 Hollywood film "Gone with the Wind" wins Oscar

Week 4: From World War 2 and the Cold War to today 1941 Pearl Harbor attack, US enters WWII 1942 Fermi splits atom, "Manhattan Project" begins 1945 Atomic bomb test in New Mexico 1945 Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombing 1946 Benjamin Spock "Baby and Child Care" 1949 NATO treaty 1950 Mc Carthy era begins 1950 Korean War begins 1951 Color TV introduced 1952 "The pill" produced 1953 Lung cancer reported linked to smoking 1954 Race segregation in schools declared unconstitutional (Brown vs. Board) 1955 Blacks in Montgomery, Alabama boycott bus lines (Rosa Parks) 1955 Disneyland opens 1957 USSR launches Sputnik (first earth satellite) 1958 US launches Satellite Explorer I 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 1963 President Kennedy assassinated 1963 Coup in South Vietnam 1965 Malcolm X assassinated 1966 Protests against Vietnam 1968 Worldwide student protests 1969 First man on moon 1969 US troop withdrawal from Vietnam 1970 Four students killed at Kent State protests 1972 Nixon first visits China 1974 Watergate scandal, Nixon impeached 1975 Apollo/Soyuz link in space 1975 Vietnam War ends 1976 Bicentennial celebrations 1977 President Carter pardons draft evaders 1978 Egypt/Israel summit at Camp David 1979 US Embassy staff taken hostage in Iran 1980 Iraq invades Iran 1981  AIDS identified, IBM personal computer invented 1982 US back Contra rebels in Nicaragua, invade Grenada 1986 Challenger explodes in space 1987 Gorbachev introduces "perestroika" and "glasnost“ ending cold war 1991 Iraq invades Kuwait/Gulf War 1992 Rodney King riots in L.A. 1992 WWW born 1993 World Trade Center bombed 1993 Waco Firestorm 1994 Earthquake in L.A. 1995 Building bombed by Mc Veigh in Oklahoma 1998 President Clinton impeached but found not guilty 1998 US Embassies bombed in Kenya,Tanzania 2001 Twin towers attacked by terrorists (9/11) 2001 Patriot act, War in Afghanistan 2003 War in Iraq 2005 Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans 2008 Lehman Shock and Great Recession 2008 Obama wins election 2009 Michael Jackson dies 2010 First IPAD released 2011 Osama bin Laden killed, End of Iraq war announced 2011 Arab Spring 2013 Terrorism at the Boston Marathon 2016 Trump wins election 2017 # Metoo movement 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting 2019 Trump impeachment 2020 Coronavirus pandemic

TOPICS for SHORT STORIES アメ研2020

1603 Champlain continued exploring Canada

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1870 Hiram Revels of Mississippi becomes the first black Senator

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1603 Champlain continued exploring Canada

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1620 Pilgrims came to Massachusetts on the Mayflower 1655 New Amsterdam expands and takes over New Sweden

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1876 Custer's Last Stand in Montana

1879 Edison invents the light bulb

1891 Thomas Edison patents his moving picture camera

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1920 The 18th Amendment Prohibition takes effect

1933 President F.D. Roosevelt "New Deal“

1946 Benjamin Spock "Baby and Child Care"

1966 Protests against Vietnam 1968 Worldwide student protests

1980 Iraq invades Iran

1986 Challenger explodes in space

1994 Earthquake in L.A. 1995 Building bombed by Mc Veigh in Oklahoma

2001 Twin towers attacked by terrorists (9/11) 2001 Patriot act, War in Afghanistan

2008 Obama wins election, Lehman Shock 2009 Michael Jackson dies 2010 First IPAD released 2011 Osama bin Laden killed, End of Iraq war announced 2011 Arab Spring

YEARS for SHORT STORIES

5500BC Anasazi lived in Southwest 1492 Columbus discovered the US 1497 Cabot sailed to Canada 1519 Magellan sailed around the world 1520 Coronodo entered the Southwest 1534 Cartier explored Canada 1579 Sir Francis Drake landed in California 1598 Don Juan de Onate founded New Mexico 1603 Champlain continued exploring Canada 1607 Jamestown founded by John Smith 1623 Conant started Salem Colony 1624 Fort Orange colony in New York 1626 Dutch purchase Manhattan for 24 dollars 1638 New Sweden founded in Delaware 1620 the Pilgrims came to Massachusetts on the Mayflower 1655 New Amsterdam expands and takes over New Sweden 1664 Britain takes over Dutch colonies 1673 Marquette and Joillet (France) claim Louisiana Mississippi River area 1680 Civil war and dictatorship among Pueblo Indians 1682 Quakers (William Penn) came to Pennsylvania and Delaware 1689 French and Indian wars begin 1692 Salem Witch Trials 1763 French and Indian wars end with France giving up its land to Spain. 1765 Stamp Act 1769 Spanish missions founded up West Coast 1770 Boston Massacre 1773 Boston Tea Party 1775 "The shot heard 'round the world" 1776 Declaration of Independence 1778 France sides with the United States (Lafayette) 1779 John Paul Jones "I have not yet begun to fight." 1781 British surrender at Yorktown 1783 Treaty of Paris ends the Revolution 1787 Constitutional Convention 1789 George Washington's Inauguration as president 1791 Bill of Rights adopted 1793 Eli Whitney's cotton gin 1803 Louisiana Purchase 1805 Lewis and Clark Expedition 1808 Slave importation prohibited 1812 War Hawks war on Britain begins 1818 War Hawks war on Britain ends 1820 missionaries arrive in Hawaii 1820 Missouri Compromise 1823 Monroe Doctrine 1831 Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion 1834 Mc Cormick's reaper 1836 Remember the Alamo! 1843 Oregon Trail 1844 Samuel Morse telegraph 1846 Mexican War begins 1847 Mormon pioneers reach Great Salt Lake 1848 California Gold Rush 1850 1850 compromise 1850 California in as the 31st state 1850 First National Women's Rights Convention held 1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin 1853 Commodore Matthew Perry opens Japan 1853 Gadsen Purchase 1854 Kansas Nebraska Act 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford 1858 Lincoln Douglas Debates 1859 John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry 1860 Abraham Lincoln elected 16th President and South Carolina secedes 1861 Fort Sumter and First Bull Run 1862 Antietam and Fredricksburg and the Emancipation Proclamation 1863 Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg and the Gettysburg Address 1864 Sherman's March to the Sea and Lincoln is reelected 1865 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomatox 1865 President Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth 1867 Alaska purchased from Russia　(Seward’s Folly)‏ 1869 Transcontinental Railroad　(the golden spike) 1870 Hiram Revels of Mississippi becomes the first black Senator

1872 Susan B. Anthony is arrested while attempting to vote. 1875 Black Hills' gold rush in Dakota Territory 1876 Custer's Last Stand 1878 Thomas Edison patents the phonograph 1879 Edison invents the light bulb 1886 The Haymarket Riot 1889 The Oklahoma land rush 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre 1891 Thomas Edison patents his moving picture camera 1892 Homestead Strike 1894 Pullman Strike 1895 The first automobile race is run from Chicago to Evanston, Illinois 1898 Spanish American War 1901 JP Morgan's US Steel Corp. is first billion dollar industry 1901 President Mc Kinley is assassinated 1902 President Roosevelt helps settle a coal miner strike 1903 Wright brothers fly first plane at Kitty Hawk, NC 1904 U.S. granted the Panama Canal Zone 1905 Roosevelt negotiates end to Russo Japanese War （Treaty of Portsmouth) 1906 The great San Francisco Earthquake 1908 Ford Company introduces the Model T cost $850 1911 Sherman Antitrust Act breaks up monopolies 1912 The Titanic sinks killing over 1,500 people 1914 World War I starts in Europe 1915 Lusitania is sunk by a German submarine 1917 US enters World War I 1918 Wilson’s Fourteen Points as plan for peace 1919 The Treaty of Versailles ends the War 1919 19th amendment ratified (women’s vote) 1920 The 18th Amendment 1920 Prohibition takes effect 1923 President Harding dies during the Teapot Dome oil scandal 1925 The Scopes Monkey Trial 1927 Charles Lindbergh flys solo over the Atlantic 1927 Babe Ruth hits 60th Home Run 1929 stock market collapses; Great Depression 1930 the "Dust Bowl" begins in the Midwest 1931 Al Capone is sentenced to prison 1932 Charles Lindbergh's baby kidnapped and killed 1933 President F.D. Roosevelt "New Deal“ 1934 Bonnie and Clyde are killed 1937 Steel strike in Chicago (Memorial Day massacre) 1939 Hollywood film "Gone with the Wind" wins Oscar 1939 WWII begins in Europe 1941 Pearl Harbor attack, US enters WWII 1942 Fermi splits atom, "Manhattan Project" begins 1945 Atomic bomb test in New Mexico 1945 Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombing 1946 Benjamin Spock "Baby and Child Care 1948 Marshall Plan 1949 NATO treaty 1950 Mc Carthy era begins 1950 Korean War begins 1951 Color TV introduced 1952 "The pill" produced 1953 Lung cancer reported linked to smoking 1954 Race segregation in schools declared unconstitutional (Brown vs. Board) 1955 Blacks in Montgomery, Alabama boycott bus lines (Rosa Parks) 1955 Disneyland opens 1957 USSR launches Sputnik (first earth satellite) 1958 US launches Satellite Explorer I 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion fails 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 1963 President Kennedy assassinated 1963 Coup in South Vietnam 1965 Malcolm X assassinated 1966 Protest against Vietnam 1968 Worldwide student protest 1969 First man on moon 1969 US troop withdrawal from Vietnam 1970 Four students killed at Kent State protests 1972 Nixon first visits China 1974 Watergate scandal, Nixon impeached 1975 Apollo/Soyuz link in space 1975 Vietnam War ends 1976 Bicentennial celebrations 1977 President Carter pardons draft evaders 1978 Egypt/Israel summit at Camp David 1979 US Embassy staff taken hostage in Iran 1980 Iraq invades Iran 1981  AIDS identified, IBM personal computer invented 1982 US back Contra rebels in Nicaragua, invade Grenada 1986 Challenger exploded in space 1987 Gorbachev introduces "perestroika" and "glasnost“ ending cold war 1991 Iraq invades Kuwait/Gulf War 1992 Rodney King riots in L.A. 1992 WWW born 1993 World Trade Center bombed 1993 Waco Firestorm 1994 Earthquake in LA 1995 Federal building bombed by Mc Veigh in Oklahoma 1998 President Clinton impeached but found not guilty 1998 US Embassies bombed in Kenya,Tanzania 2001 Twin towers attacked by terrorists (9/11) 2001 War in Afghanistan 2003 War in Iraq 2005 Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans 2008 Democrats win the election

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1520 Francisco Vázquez de Coronado enters the Southwest  

1577 Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the world

1764 James Otis urges a united response to the acts imposed by England. "Taxation without Representation" 1765 The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament. 1766 Stamp Act repealed  1770 "The Boston Massacre" -and ride of Paul Revere 1774 The Coercive Acts (called Intolerable Acts by Americans) 

1780 Benedict Arnold joins the British  1781 American victory at Yorktown terms discussed for the British surrender.  1782 English Parliament votes against further war in America.  1784 The Treaty of Paris is ratified by Congress and the American Revolutionary War officially ends  1787 Constitutional Convention  

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5500 5500 BC Anasazi lived in Southwest  1001 Leif Ericson explores North America  1497 John Cabot claims North America for England  1520 Coronodo entered the Southwest   1534 Jacques Cartier explores the Great Lakes and the the St. Lawrence River  1540 Francisco Vázquez de Coronado explores south-western North America  1542 Cabrillo explores and discovers the Californian coast  1576 Sir Martin Frobisher explores Baffin Bay and the Hudson Strait  1577 Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the world - December 13 1577 to September 26 1580  1624 Fort Orange colony in New York   1655 New Amsterdam expands and takes over New Sweden   1688 The Glorious Revolution in England leads to a constitutional monarchy and passing of the Bill of Rights  1764 James Otis urges a united response to the recent acts imposed by England. The phrase "Taxation without Representation is Tyranny" is usually attributed to James Otis  1765 March 22: The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament. March 24: The Quartering Act required American colonists to house British troops and supply them with food.  1766 1766 March 18. Stamp Act repealed  1770 March: "The Boston Massacre" - Four workers shot by British troops in Boston  1774 March: The Coercive Acts (called Intolerable Acts by Americans)  1778 France sides with the United States (Lafayette)   1780 September 23: Plans discovered indicating Benedict Arnold intends to turn traitor and surrender West Point. Benedict Arnold joins the British  1781 October 17: American victory at Yorktown terms discussed for the British surrender.  1782 February 27: English Parliament votes against further war in America.  1784 January 14: The Treaty of Paris is ratified by Congress and the American Revolutionary War officially ends  1787 1787 Constitutional Convention   1789 First President of the US is George Washington 1789-1797  1793 Fugitive Slave Act passed  1793 Eli Whitney's cotton gin   1795 Vermont and Kentucky were admitted to the US  1797 Second President of the US is John Adams 1797-1801  1801 Third President of the US is Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809  1803 Louisiana Purchase Treaty  1804 Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explore the Louisiana Territory  1809 Fourth President of the US is James Madison 1809-1817  1817 Fifth President of the US is James Monroe 1817-1825  1819 Adams-Onis Treaty, including acquisition of Florida  1820 Alabama and Maine admission to the US  1820 1820 Missouri Compromise   1825 Sixth President of the US is John Quincy Adams 1825-1829  1829 Seventh President of the US is Andrew Jackson 1829-1837  1838 1838-1839: The Trail of Tears  1844 Samuel Morse telegraph    1845 Eleventh President of the US is James Knox Polk 1845-1849  1847 Treaty of Cahuenga ends Mexican-American War  1847 1847 Mormon pioneers reach Great Salt Lake   1849 Twelfth President of the US is Zachary Taylor 1849-1850  1856 Sack of Lawrence, Kansas  1858 Minnesota admission to the US  1861 Fort Sumter and First Bull Run   1872 Yellowstone National Park established  1877 Nineteenth Rutherford Birchard Hayes 1877-1881  1881 Twentieth President of the US is James Abram Garfield 1881  1881 Twenty - First President of the US is Chester Alan Arthur 1881-1885  1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and European Restriction Act  1885 Twenty-Second President of the US is Grover Cleveland 1885-1889  1890 North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington, and Idaho admission to the US  1891 Wyoming admission to the US  1892 1892 Homestead Strike   1893 Twenty - Fourth President of the US is Grover Cleveland 1893-1897  1896 Utah admission to the US  1897 Twenty - Fifth President of the US is William Mckinley 1897-1901  1901 JP Morgans US Steel Corp is first billion dollar industry   1901 President Mckinley is assassinated   1902 President Roosevelt helps settle a coal miner strike   1904 Panama Canal Zone acquired  1908 1908 Ford Company introduces the Model T cost 850   1909 Twenty - Seventh President of the US is William Howard Taft 1909-1913  1911 Sherman Antitrust Act breaks up monopolies   1913 Twenty - Eighth President of the US is Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921  1915 The Birth of a Nation movie directed by D. W. Griffith opens  1919 19th amendment ratified (women’s vote)   1919 1919 The Treaty of Versailles ends the War   1920 First radio broadcast in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania  1920 1920 The 18th Amendment Prohibition takes effect   1921 Twenty- Ninth President of the US is Warren Gamaliel Harding 1921-1923  1923 Thirtieth President of the US is Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929  1923 President Harding dies during the Teapot Dome oil scandal   1924 Indian Reorganization Act  1933 Thirty - Second President of the US is Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1933-1945  1935 Social Security Act  1937 1937 Steel strike in Chicago (Memorial Day massacre)   1946 The Cold War began between the United States and the Soviet Union  1946 1946 Benjamin Spock "Baby and Child Care"  1950 Senator Joseph Mccarthy gains power and start Communist witch hunts (1950-1954)  1953 Thirty - Fourth President of the US is Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961  1953 Lung cancer reported linked to smoking   1954 SEATO alliance  1956 US installs Diem as leader of South Vietnam  1957 Civil Rights Act of 1957  1957 USSR launches Sputnik (first earth satellite)  1960 Greensboro sit-in  1961 Thirty - Fifth President of the US is John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1961-1963  1961 Bay of Pigs invasion fails  1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964  1965 Detroit race riot  1965 1965 Malcolm X assassinated   1968 Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy assassinated  1974 Richard Nixon resigns Presidency over Watergate  1976 1976 Bicentennial celebrations  1977 Thirty - Ninth President of the US is Jimmy Carter 1977-1981  1977 President Carter pardons draft evaders   1978 Egypt/Israel summit at Camp David   1981 Fortieth President of the US is Ronald Wilson Reagan 1981-1989  1981 AIDS identified, IBM personal computer invented   1982 US back Contra rebels in Nicaragua, invade Grenada   1986 Iran-Contra scandal breaks  1990 Forty - First President of the US is George Herbert Walker Bush 1989-1993  1999 President Clinton is acquitted in impeachment trial by U.S. Senate 

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1519 Magellan sailed around the world  1520 Coronodo entered the Southwest 

1603 Champlain continued exploring Canada 1607 Jamestown founded by John Smith 1623 Conant started Salem Colony  1624 Fort Orange colony in New York  1626 Dutch purchase Manhattan for 24 dollars  1655 New Amsterdam expands and takes over New Sweden  1682 Quakers (William Penn) came to Pennsylvania and Deleware 

1775 "The shot heard 'round the world" 

1778 France sides with the United States (Lafayette) 

1779 John Paul Jones "I have not yet begun to fight. 

1793 Eli Whitney's cotton gin 

1844 Samuel Morse telegraph  

1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford 

1861 Fort Sumter and First Bull Run  1862 Antietam and Fredricksburg and the Emancipation Proclamation  1863 Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg and the Gettysburg Address 

1889 The Oklahoma land rush 

1901 JP Morgans US Steel Corp is first billion dollar industry  1901 President Mckinley is assassinated  1902 President Roosevelt helps settle a coal miner strike 

1903 First World Series 1903 Wright brothers fly first plane at Kitty Hawk, N.C.

1905 Roosevelt negotiates end to Russo Japanese War （Treaty of Portsmouth) 

1919 19th amendment ratified (women’s vote) 

1923 President Harding dies during the Teapot Dome oil scandal 

1925 The Scopes Monkey Trial

1927 Babe Ruth hits 60th Home Run 

1929 stock market collapses; Great Depression 

1931 Al Capone is sentenced to prison 

1948 Marshall Plan

1953 Lung cancer reported linked to smoking 

1955 Blacks in Montgomery, Alabama boycott bus lines (Rosa Parks) 

1957 USSR launches Sputnik (first earth satellite)

1958 US launches Satellite Explorer I 

1961 Bay of Pigs invasion fails

1963 President Kennedy assassinated 

1977 President Carter pardons draft evaders  1978 Egypt/Israel summit at Camp David 

1979 US Embassy staff taken hostage in Iran  1980 Iraq invades Iran

1981 AIDS identified, IBM personal computer invented  1982 US back Contra rebels in Nicaragua, invade Grenada 

1993 Waco Firestorm 

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1911 Sherman Antitrust Act breaks up monopolies  1912 Arizona, Alaska and New Mexico admission to the US 1913 Twenty - Eighth President of the US is Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921 1914 WW 1 started 28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918 1915 The Birth of a Nation movie directed by D. W. Griffith opens 1917 US enters World War I

1904 Panama Canal Zone acquired 1905 1905 Roosevelt negotiates end to Russo Japanese War （Treaty of Portsmouth)  1908 Oklahoma admission to the US 1908 1908 Ford Company introduces the Model T cost 850  1909 Twenty - Seventh President of the US is William Howard Taft 1909-1913

1901 1901 JP Morgans US Steel Corp is first billion dollar industry  1901 1901 President Mckinley is assassinated  1902 1902 President Roosevelt helps settle a coal miner strike  1903 Ford Motor Company formed 1903 1903 - First World Series 1903 1903 Wright brothers fly first plane at Kitty Hawk, N.C.

1919 1919 19th amendment ratified (women’s vote)  1919 1919 The Treaty of Versailles ends the War  1920 First radio broadcast in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1920 1920 The 18th Amendment Prohibition takes effect  1921 Twenty- Ninth President of the US is Warren Gamaliel Harding 1921-1923 1923 Thirtieth President of the US is Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929 1923 1923 President Harding dies during the Teapot Dome oil scandal  1924 Indian Reorganization Act 1925 1925 The Scopes Monkey Trial 1927 Indian Reorganization Act 1927 1927 Babe Ruth hits 60th Home Run  1929 Thirty- First President of the US is Herbert Clark Hoover 1929-1933 1929 1929 stock market collapses; Great Depression  1931 Empire State Building opens 1931 1931 Al Capone is sentenced to prison  1932 Amelia Earhart flies across Atlantic Ocean 1933 Thirty - Second President of the US is Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1933-1945 1935 Social Security Act 1936 London Conference on disarmament 1937 Hindenburg disaster 1937 1937 Steel strike in Chicago (Memorial Day massacre)  1939 Germany invades Poland; World War II begins 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor 1944 D-Day 1945 Thirty - Third President of the US is Harry S. Truman 1945-1953 1946 The Cold War began between the United States and the Soviet Union 1946 1946 Benjamin Spock "Baby and Child Care" 1948 Nuremberg trials 1948 1948 Marshall Plan 1949 NATO formed

1900 Boxer Rebellion in China 1901 Twenty - Sixth President of the US is Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909

1950 Senator Joseph Mccarthy gains power and start Communist witch hunts (1950-1954) 1953 Thirty - Fourth President of the US is Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961 1953 1953 Lung cancer reported linked to smoking  1954 SEATO alliance 1955 Warsaw Pact 1955 1955 Blacks in Montgomery, Alabama boycott bus lines (Rosa Parks)  1956 US installs Diem as leader of South Vietnam 1957 Civil Rights Act of 1957 1957 1957 USSR launches Sputnik (first earth satellite) 1958 NASA formed 1958 1958 US launches Satellite Explorer I  1959 Cuban Revolution 1960 Greensboro sit-in 1961 Thirty - Fifth President of the US is John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1961-1963 1961 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion fails 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 1963 1963 President Kennedy assassinated  1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 1965 Detroit race riot 1965 1965 Malcolm X assassinated  1968 Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy assassinated 1969 Thirty - Seventh President of the US is Richard Milhous Nixon 1969-1974 1970 Kent State shootings 1972 Watergate burglary 1973 Vietnam War ends with US pulling out in 1973 1974 Richard Nixon resigns Presidency over Watergate 1976 1976 Bicentennial celebrations 1977 Thirty - Ninth President of the US is Jimmy Carter 1977-1981 1977 1977 President Carter pardons draft evaders  1978 1978 Egypt/Israel summit at Camp David  1979 Three Mile Island nuclear accident 1979 1979 US Embassy staff taken hostage in Iran  1980 1980 Iraq invades Iran 1981 Fortieth President of the US is Ronald Wilson Reagan 1981-1989 1981 1981 AIDS identified, IBM personal computer invented  1982 1982 US back Contra rebels in Nicaragua, invade Grenada  1986 Iran-Contra scandal breaks 1990 Forty - First President of the US is George Herbert Walker Bush 1989-1993 1991 1991 Iraq invades Kuwait/Gulf War  1992 Los Angeles riots 1993 Forty - Second President of the US is William Jefferson Clinton 1993-2001 1993 1993 Waco Firestorm  1995 Oklahoma City bombing 1999 President Clinton is acquitted in impeachment trial by U.S. Senate 2001 Forty - Third President of the US is George Walker Bush 2004 Occupation of Iraq, 2003-2004 2005 Hurricane Katrina 2009 Forty - Fourth President of the US is Barack Obama

1881 Twentieth President of the US is James Abram Garfield 1881 1881 Twenty - First President of the US is Chester Alan Arthur 1881-1885 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and European Restriction Act 1885 Twenty-Second President of the US is Grover Cleveland 1885-1889 1889 Twenty - Third President of the US is Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893 1889 1889 The Oklahoma land rush  1890 North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington, and Idaho admission to the US 1891 Wyoming admission to the US 1892 1892 Homestead Strike  1893 Twenty - Fourth President of the US is Grover Cleveland 1893-1897 1896 Utah admission to the US 1897 Twenty - Fifth President of the US is William Mckinley 1897-1901 1898 Spanish-American War

1859 1859 John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry  1860 Pony Express begins 1861 Sixteenth President of the US is Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 1861 1861 Fort Sumter and First Bull Run  1862 1862 Antietam and Fredricksburg and the Emancipation Proclamation  1863 1863 Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg and the Gettysburg Address  1864 Sand Creek Massacre 1864 1864 Sherman's March to the Sea and Lincoln is reelected  1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated 1865 1865 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomatox  1866 Civil Rights Act of 1866 1867 Nebraska admission to the US 1869 Eighteenth President of the US is Ulysses Simpson Grant 1869-1877 1869 1869 Transcontinental Railroad　(the golden spike)  1870 1870 Hiram Revels of Mississippi becomes the first black Senator  1871 Great Chicago Fire 1872 Yellowstone National Park established 1874 Red River Wars 1875 Civil Rights Act of 1875 1875 1875 Black Hills' gold rush in Dakota Territory  1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn 1877 Nineteenth Rutherford Birchard Hayes 1877-1881 1879 1879 Edison invents the light bulb 

5500 5500 BC Anasazi lived in Southwest

1801 Third President of the US is Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809 1803 Louisiana Purchase Treaty 1804 Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explore the Louisiana Territory 1805 1805 Lewis and Clark Expedition  1807 Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves 1808 U.S. slave trade with Africa ends 1808 1808 Slave importation prohibited  1809 Fourth President of the US is James Madison 1809-1817 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe 1812 War of 1812 begins 1814 Treaty of Fort Jackson ends Creek War 1817 Fifth President of the US is James Monroe 1817-1825 1818 1818 Five more states were admitted to the US - Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana, and Mississippi 1818 1818 War Hawks war on Britain ends  1819 Adams-Onis Treaty, including acquisition of Florida 1820 Alabama and Maine admission to the US 1820 1820 Missouri Compromise  1822 Missouri admission to the US 1825 Sixth President of the US is John Quincy Adams 1825-1829 1829 Seventh President of the US is Andrew Jackson 1829-1837 1830 Indian Removal Act 1831 Nat Turner's revolt 1832 Black Hawk War 1835 Texas War for Independence begins 1837 Battle of the Alamo 1838 1838-1839: The Trail of Tears 1841 Ninth President of the US is William Henry Harrison 1841 1841 Tenth President of the US is John Tyler 1841-1845 1844 1844 Samuel Morse telegraph   1845 Eleventh President of the US is James Knox Polk 1845-1849 1846 Mexican-American War begins and ends in 1848 1847 Treaty of Cahuenga ends Mexican-American War 1847 1847 Mormon pioneers reach Great Salt Lake  1848 Gold discovered in California 1849 Twelfth President of the US is Zachary Taylor 1849-1850 1850 Thirteenth President of the US is Millard Fillmore 1850-1853 1851 California admission to the US 1853 Fourteenth President of the US is Franklin Pierce 1853-1857 1856 Sack of Lawrence, Kansas 1857 Fifteenth President of the US is James Buchanan 1857-1861 1857 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford  1858 Minnesota admission to the US 1859 Oregon admission to the US

5500 5500BC Anasazi lived in Southwest 1001 Leif Ericson explores North America 1492 Christopher Columbus discovers America 1497 John Cabot claims North America for England 1501 Amerigo Vespucci explores the coast of South America 1519 1519 Magellan sailed around the world  1520 1520 Coronodo entered the Southwest  1534 Jacques Cartier explores the Great Lakes and the the St. Lawrence River 1540 Francisco Vázquez de Coronado explores south-western North America 1542 Cabrillo explores and discovers the Californian coast 1576 Sir Martin Frobisher explores Baffin Bay and the Hudson Strait 1577 Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the world - December 13 1577 to September 26 1580 1585 March 25: Walter Raleigh receives the patent to explore and settle in North America 1603 1603 Champlain continued exploring Canada 1607 1607 Jamestown founded by John Smith 1623 1623 Conant started Salem Colony  1624 1624 Fort Orange colony in New York  1626 1626 Dutch purchase Manhattan for 24 dollars  1655 1655 New Amsterdam expands and takes over New Sweden  1682 1682 Quakers (William Penn) came to Pennsylvania and Deleware  1688 The Glorious Revolution in England leads to a constitutional monarchy and passing of the Bill of Rights 1692 1692 Salem Witch Trials  1763 February 10: Treaty of Paris ends French and Indian War (1754-1763). Canada east of the Mississippi River added to the British empire. 1764 James Otis urges a united response to the recent acts imposed by England. The phrase "Taxation without Representation is Tyranny" is usually attributed to James Otis 1765 March 22: The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament. March 24: The Quartering Act required American colonists to house British troops and supply them with food. 1766 1766 March 18. Stamp Act repealed 1768 July: Merchants in Boston and New York boycott British goods 1769 1769 Spanish missions founded up West Coast  1770 March: "The Boston Massacre" - Four workers shot by British troops in Boston 1773 December 16: The Boston Tea Party - Massachusetts patriots dressed as Mohawk Indians protest against the British Tea Act by dumping crates of tea into Boston Harbor. 1774 March: The Coercive Acts (called Intolerable Acts by Americans) 1775 February 9: English Parliament declares Massachusetts to be in a state of rebellion 1775 1775 "The shot heard 'round the world"  1776 May 2: The American revolution gains support from King Louis XVI of France 1776 1776 July 4. Thomas Jefferson presents the United States Declaration of Independence 1777 November 15: Articles of Confederation - Congress is made sole authority of the new national government. 1778 1778 France sides with the United States (Lafayette)  1779 September 27: John Adams is appointed to negotiate peace with England. 1779 1779 John Paul Jones "I have not yet begun to fight.  1780 September 23: Plans discovered indicating Benedict Arnold intends to turn traitor and surrender West Point. Benedict Arnold joins the British 1781 October 17: American victory at Yorktown terms discussed for the British surrender. 1782 February 27: English Parliament votes against further war in America. 1783 1783 Treaty of Paris ends the Revolution  1784 January 14: The Treaty of Paris is ratified by Congress and the American Revolutionary War officially ends 1787 1787 Constitutional Convention  1789 First President of the US is George Washington 1789-1797 1791 Bill of Rights ratified 1793 Fugitive Slave Act passed 1793 1793 Eli Whitney's cotton gin  1794 Whiskey Rebellion 1795 Vermont and Kentucky were admitted to the US 1797 Second President of the US is John Adams 1797-1801