| Introduction |
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Columbus Arrives in the "New World" (1492) |
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3 | (5) |
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Jamestown Is Founded (1607) |
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8 | (4) |
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The First African Slaves Are Sold in America (1619) |
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12 | (4) |
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The Mayflower Arrives (1620) |
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16 | (3) |
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Tisquantum---Squanto---Saves the Pilgrims (1621) |
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19 | (4) |
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A Massachusetts Settler Kills an Indian, Touching Off King Philip's War (1675) |
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23 | (6) |
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Salem Tries Its People for Witchcraft (1692) |
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29 | (4) |
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Young George Washington Ignites the French and Indian War (1754) |
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33 | (4) |
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The Boston Massacre Is Followed by a Trial (1770) |
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37 | (5) |
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A Minuteman Fires the Shot Heard 'Round the World (1775) |
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42 | (4) |
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The Continental Congress Adopts the Declaration of Independence(1776) |
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46 | (5) |
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Victory at the Battle of Yorktown Assures Independence (1781) |
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51 | (6) |
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Delaware Becomes the First State to Ratify the Constitution (1787) |
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57 | (4) |
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The Bill of Rights Is Drafted (1789) |
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61 | (3) |
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The Supreme Court Decides Its Supremacy (1803) |
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64 | (3) |
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Thomas Jefferson Purchases Louisiana from Napoleon (1803) |
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67 | (4) |
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The British Burn Washington (1814) |
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71 | (4) |
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Ground Is Broken on the Erie Canal (1817) |
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75 | (2) |
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South Carolina's John C. Calhoun Launches the Nullification Crisis (1828) |
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77 | (3) |
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Congress Passes the Indian Removal Act (1830) |
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80 | (4) |
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Andrew Jackson Wages War on the Second Bank of the United States (1832) |
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84 | (3) |
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Samuel F. B. Morse Demonstrates His Telegraph (1844) |
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87 | (3) |
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James Marshall Finds Gold in California (1848) |
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90 | (5) |
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Female Suffragists Meet in Seneca Falls (1848) |
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95 | (3) |
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The Supreme Court Hands Down Its Verdict in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) |
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98 | (3) |
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William Smith Strikes Oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania (1859) |
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101 | (4) |
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Abolitionist John Brown Leads a Raid on the Federal Arsenal at Harpers Ferry (1859) |
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105 | (4) |
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The Confederacy Goes to War against the United States (1861) |
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109 | (4) |
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The Homestead Act Becomes Law (1862) |
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113 | (4) |
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Abraham Lincoln Issues the Emancipation Proclamation (1862) |
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117 | (4) |
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The Union Army Prevails in the Battle of Gettysburg (1863) |
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121 | (5) |
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John Wilkes Booth Assassinates President Lincoln (1865) |
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126 | (4) |
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The Cowboy Becomes an American Icon (1866) |
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130 | (4) |
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The Transcontinental Railroad Is Completed (1869) |
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134 | (4) |
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Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse Triumph in the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876) |
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138 | (5) |
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Thomas Edison Demonstrates His Incandescent Electric Lamp (1879) |
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143 | (3) |
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The "Battle" of Wounded Knee Ends the Indian Wars (1890) |
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146 | (4) |
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William Jennings Bryan Refuses Crucifixion on a "Cross of Gold" (1896) |
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150 | (3) |
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To Hell with Spain (1898) |
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153 | (5) |
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Edwin S. Porter Directs The Great Train Robbery (1903) |
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158 | (3) |
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The Jungle Aims for America's Heart but Hits It in the Stomach (1906) |
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161 | (3) |
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Kills 146 Immigrant Workers (1911) |
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164 | (5) |
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Ford's Moving Assembly Line Begins Operation in Highland Park, Michigan (1913) |
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169 | (2) |
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The Zimmermann Telegram Is Revealed (1917) |
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171 | (4) |
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A Worldwide Influenza Pandemic Begins in the United States (1918) |
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175 | (2) |
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Prohibition Becomes a Federal Case (1919) |
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177 | (4) |
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Congress Rejects the League of Nations (1919) |
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181 | (4) |
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Americans Ratify the Nineteenth Amendment, Giving Women the Vote (1920) |
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185 | (3) |
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Congress Cracks Down on Immigration (1924) |
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188 | (109) |
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The Stonewall Uprising in New York City Begins the Gay Liberation Movement (1969) |
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297 | (2) |
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Neil Armstrong Sets Foot on the Moon (1969) |
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299 | (3) |
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The Woodstock Festival Becomes an Icon of 1960s American Youth Culture (1969) |
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302 | (4) |
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ARPANET, Precursor to the Internet, Is Launched (1969) |
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306 | (3) |
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Sesame Street Debuts on Public Television, Becoming an Instant Media Landmark in Culture and Education (1969) |
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309 | (3) |
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Richard Nixon Creates the Environmental Protection Agency (1970) |
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312 | (3) |
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President Richard M. Nixon Takes the United States off the Gold Standard (1971) |
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315 | (3) |
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Nixon's Plumbers Are Nabbed at the Watergate (1972) |
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318 | (2) |
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Richard M. Nixon Resigns the Presidency (1974) |
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320 | (4) |
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AIDS First Clinically Observed in the United States (1981) |
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324 | (3) |
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Motorola Releases the DynaTAC 8000X, First Commercial Cellular Telephone (1983) |
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327 | (3) |
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The Berlin Wall Falls (1989) |
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330 | (3) |
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Federal Officers Lay Siege to the "Branch Davidian Compound" in Waco, Texas (1993) |
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333 | (4) |
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Terrorists Attack the United States (2001) |
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337 | (3) |
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Human Genome Project Is Completed (2003) |
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340 | (3) |
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Facebook Is Launched (2004) |
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343 | (4) |
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Lehman Brothers Collapses, Triggering a Global Financial Crisis (2008) |
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347 | (3) |
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Barack Obama Is Elected the Nation's First African American President (2008) |
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350 | (4) |
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Donald Trump Defeats Hillary Clinton to Become the Forty-Fifth President of the United States (2016) |
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354 | (5) |
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Russia Is Accused of "Meddling" in the US Presidential Election (2016) |
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359 | (4) |
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Amid a New Nationalism, the United States Withdraws from the Paris Climate Accords (2017) |
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363 | (4) |
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