24 Important Dates
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- 1877
- end of Reconstruction, Hayes Tilden Compromise, start of the Guilded Age
- 1800
- Jefferson's election ("Revolution of 1800")
- 1848
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
- 1989
- East Europe throws off communist regimes, Fall of the Berlin Wall, "New World Order"
- 1789
- Ratification of Constitution Judiciary Act of 1789
- 1964
- Tonkin Gulf Resolution, "War on Poverty" programs, Civil Rights Act of '64, 24th Amendment (no poll tax), "Freedom Summer" voter registration in South
- 1803
- Louisiana Purchase, Marbury vs Madison
- 1861
- outbreak of Civil War
- 1896
- McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan
- 1941
- bombing of Pearl Harbor
- 1917
- US entry into WWI
- 1974
- Watergate scandal
- 1890
- Census declares there is no longer a discernable frontier line
- 1820
- Missouri Compromise
- 1607
- settlement of Jamestown
- 1968
- Tet Offensive, assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., Democratic convention, urban riots, Election of 1968
- 1763
- Treaty of Paris (end of French & Indian War), Pontiac's uprising
- 1854
- French defeated in Vietnam, Brown vs Board of Education, CIA-sponsored group in Guatemala
- 1812
- War of 1812
- 1776
- Declaration of Independence, Revolutionary War
- 1865
- end of Civil War, beginning of Reconstruction
- 1828
- Andrew Jackson elected as President
- 1945
- end of WWII, atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1929
- Stock Market Crash, Great Depression