1783 Treaty of Paris ends the Revolution

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

1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin
1853 Commodore Matthew Perry opens Japan

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

!! TOPICS for SHORT STORIES アメ研2020

WEEK 1

1492 Columbus discovered the US

WEEK 2

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

1846 Mexican War begins

Week 3

1870 Hiram Revels of Mississippi becomes the first black Senator

YEARS for SHORT STORIES

1603 Champlain continued exploring Canada

WEEK 2

WEEK 3

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

WEEK 4
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
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"
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 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

1603 Champlain continued exploring Canada

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

1875 Black Hills' gold rush in Dakota Territory
1876 Custer's Last Stand

1879 Edison invents the light bulb
1886 The Haymarket Riot
1889 The Oklahoma land rush

1891 Thomas Edison patents his moving picture camera
1892 Homestead Strike
1894 Pullman Strike

1920 The 18th Amendment
1920 Prohibition takes effect

1933 President F.D. Roosevelt "New Deal“
1934 Bonnie and Clyde are killed

1946 Benjamin Spock "Baby and Child Care
1948 Marshall Plan

1961 Bay of Pigs invasion fails

1966 Protest against Vietnam
1968 Worldwide student protest

1980 Iraq invades Iran

1986 Challenger exploded in space

1994 Earthquake in LA
1995 Federal building bombed by Mc Veigh in Oklahoma

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

2008 Democrats win the election

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WEEK 1
5500 5500 BC Anasazi lived in Southwest 
1001 Leif Ericson explores North America 
1497 John Cabot claims North America for England 
1520 Francisco Vázquez de Coronado enters the Southwest  
1534 Jacques Cartier explores the Great Lakes and the the St. Lawrence River 
1542 Cabrillo explores and discovers the Californian coast 
1577 Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the world
1624 Fort Orange colony in New York  
1655 New Amsterdam expands and takes over New Sweden  
WEEK 2
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) 
1778 France sides with the United States (Lafayette)  
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  
1789 First President of the US is George Washington 1789-1797 
WEEK 3
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 
WEEK 4
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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TOPICS STILL AVAILABLE!!

1520 Coronodo entered the Southwest  

1540 Francisco Vázquez de Coronado explores south-western North America 

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 

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) 

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  

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5500 5500 BC 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 Magellan sailed around the world 
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 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 
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 "The shot heard 'round the world" 
1776 May 2: The American revolution gains support from King Louis XVI of France
1777 November 15: Articles of Confederation - Congress is made sole authority of the new national government.
1778 France sides with the United States (Lafayette) 
1779 September 27: John Adams is appointed to negotiate peace with England.
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 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
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 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 Dred Scott v. Sandford 
1858 Minnesota admission to the US
1859 Oregon admission to the US
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 Fort Sumter and First Bull Run 
1862 Antietam and Fredricksburg and the Emancipation Proclamation 
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 
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 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
1901 Twenty - Sixth President of the US is Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909
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 Ford Motor Company formed
1903 First World Series
1903 Wright brothers fly first plane at Kitty Hawk, N.C.
1904 Panama Canal Zone acquired
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
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
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
1925 The Scopes Monkey Trial
1927 Indian Reorganization Act
1927 Babe Ruth hits 60th Home Run 
1929 Thirty- First President of the US is Herbert Clark Hoover 1929-1933
1929 stock market collapses; Great Depression 
1931 Empire State Building opens
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 Marshall Plan
1949 NATO formed
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
1955 Warsaw Pact
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 USSR launches Sputnik (first earth satellite)
1958 NASA formed
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 Bay of Pigs invasion fails
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
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 President Carter pardons draft evaders 
1978 Egypt/Israel summit at Camp David 
1979 Three Mile Island nuclear accident
1979 US Embassy staff taken hostage in Iran 
1980 Iraq invades Iran
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
1991 1991 Iraq invades Kuwait/Gulf War 
1992 Los Angeles riots
1993 Forty - Second President of the US is William Jefferson Clinton 1993-2001
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

TOPICS STILL OK!

1993 Waco Firestorm 

1519 1519 Magellan sailed around the world 
1520 1520 Coronodo entered the Southwest 

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 

1775 1775 "The shot heard 'round the world" 

1776 1776 July 4. Thomas Jefferson presents the United States Declaration of Independence

1778 1778 France sides with the United States (Lafayette) 

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

1793 1793 Eli Whitney's cotton gin 

1844 1844 Samuel Morse telegraph  

1857 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford 

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 

1889 1889 The Oklahoma land rush 

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

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

1919 1919 19th amendment ratified (women’s vote) 

1923 1923 President Harding dies during the Teapot Dome oil scandal 

1925 1925 The Scopes Monkey Trial

1927 1927 Babe Ruth hits 60th Home Run 

1929 1929 stock market collapses; Great Depression 

1931 1931 Al Capone is sentenced to prison 

1948 1948 Marshall Plan

1953 1953 Lung cancer reported linked to smoking 

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

1957 1957 USSR launches Sputnik (first earth satellite)

1958 1958 US launches Satellite Explorer I 

1961 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion fails

1963 1963 President Kennedy assassinated 

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

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

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

1993 1993 Waco Firestorm 

2009 Forty - Fourth President of the US is Barack Obama

YEARS for SHORT STORIES

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1900 Boxer Rebellion in China

5500 5500BC Anasazi lived in Southwest

5500BC Anasazi lived in Southwest
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 
1692 Salem Witch Trials 
1769 Spanish missions founded up West Coast 
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. 
1783 Treaty of Paris ends the Revolution 
1787 Constitutional Convention 
1793 Eli Whitney's cotton gin 
1805 Lewis and Clark Expedition 
1808 Slave importation prohibited 
1818 War Hawks war on Britain ends 
1820 Missouri Compromise 
1844 Samuel Morse telegraph  
1847 Mormon pioneers reach Great Salt Lake 
1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford 
1859 John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry 
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 
1869 Transcontinental Railroad　(the golden spike) 
1870 Hiram Revels of Mississippi becomes the first black Senator 
1875 Black Hills' gold rush in Dakota Territory 
1879 Edison invents the light bulb 
1889 The Oklahoma land rush 
1892 Homestead Strike 
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 
1905 Roosevelt negotiates end to Russo Japanese War （Treaty of Portsmouth) 
1908 Ford Company introduces the Model T cost $850 
1911 Sherman Antitrust Act breaks up monopolies 
1919 19th amendment ratified (women’s vote) 
1919 The Treaty of Versailles ends the War 
1920 The 18th Amendment Prohibition takes effect 
1923 President Harding dies during the Teapot Dome oil scandal 
1927 Babe Ruth hits 60th Home Run 
1929 stock market collapses; Great Depression 
1931 Al Capone is sentenced to prison 
1933 President F.D. Roosevelt "New Deal“ 
1937 Steel strike in Chicago (Memorial Day massacre) 
1950 Mc Carthy era begins 
1953 Lung cancer reported linked to smoking 
1955 Blacks in Montgomery, Alabama boycott bus lines (Rosa Parks) 
1958 US launches Satellite Explorer I 
1963 President Kennedy assassinated 
1965 Malcolm X assassinated 
1974 Watergate scandal, Nixon impeached 
1977 President Carter pardons draft evaders 
1978 Egypt/Israel summit at Camp David 
1979 US Embassy staff taken hostage in Iran 
1981 AIDS identified, IBM personal computer invented 
1982 US back Contra rebels in Nicaragua, invade Grenada 
1991 Iraq invades Kuwait/Gulf War 
1993 Waco Firestorm 

TAKEN!
1205 Koki 1957 USSR launches Sputnik (first earth satellite)
1146 Kosuke 1998 President Clinton impeached but found not guilty 
1247 Miura 1980 Iraq invades Iran
0223 Gotoh 1976 Bicentennial celebrations
1218 Sakamoto 1946 Benjamin Spock "Baby and Child Care"
1219 Shigaki 1949 NATO treaty
1118 Ai 1770 Boston Massacre
1209 Shiori 1497 Cabot sailed to Canada
1239 Yuko 1948 Marshall Plan
1105 Kurumi 1925 The Scopes Monkey Trial
1229 Tomohata 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion fails
1151 Murakami 1917 US enters World War I