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TOPICS and YEARS for SHORT STORIES 2020 '''WEEK 1 Beginnings to the American Revolution''' 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 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. '''Week 2: New government and the 19th century to the Civil War''' 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 of 1812: 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 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 '''WEEK 3 Transition to the 20th Century''' 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. 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