Time |
Events |
Pictures Related
to Each Event |
Popular
Presidents |
1773 |
Boston Tea Party |
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1775 |
Revolutionary War (-1783) |
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1776 |
Declaration of Independence |
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1787 |
Adoption of the Constitution |
1789 |
First President Inaugural Speech |
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The 1st President
George
Washington
(1789 - 1797)
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1792 |
New York Stock Exchange |
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1803 |
Louisiana Purchase |
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The 3rd President
Thomas
Jefferson
(1801 - 1809)
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1804 |
Lewis & Clark Expedition (-1806) |
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1812 |
The War of Britain (-1815) |
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1830 |
Indian Removal Act |
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The 7th President
Andrew
Jackson
(1829 - 1837)
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1836 |
Independence of Texas
from Mexico |
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1839 |
Sutter's Fort |
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1840s |
Oregon Trail (-1860s) |
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1846 |
The Mexican War (-1848) |
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1848 |
Discovery of Gold |
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Chicago Board of Trade |
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1849 |
Gold Rush, Forty-Niners |
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Constitutional Convention
of California |
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1850 |
31st State, California |
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1860 |
Pony Express (-1861) |
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1861 |
Civil War (-1865) |
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The 16th President
Abraham
Lincoln
(1861 - 1865)
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1862 |
Homestead Act |
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1863 |
Emancipation Proclamation |
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1869 |
Transcontinental Railroad
(Sacramento - Omaha) |
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1871 |
Great Chicago Fire |
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1872 |
First National Park
(Yellowstone NP) |
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1881 |
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral |
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1886 |
Coca-Cola |
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1886 |
The Statue of Liberty |
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1889 |
Oklahoma Land Rushes (-1893) |
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1903 |
Department of
Commerce and Labor |
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The 26th President
Theodore
Roosevelt
(1901 - 1909)
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1916 |
National Park Service |
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1919 |
Black Sox Scandal |
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1919 |
Prohibition Act |
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1920s |
The Jazz Age |
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1926 |
U.S. Highway 66, "Route 66" (-1984) |
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1927 |
First Solo Transatlantic Fright |
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1929 |
Black Thursday
(The Beginning of
the Great Depression) |
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1930s |
Era of "The Grapes of Wrath"
by John Steinbeck |
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1931 |
The Empire State Building |
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1933 |
New Deal Policy |
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The 32nd President,
Franklin D. Roosebelt
(1932 - 1945)
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1936 |
"Gone With The Wind"
by Margaret Mitchell |
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1937 |
Golden Gate Bridge |
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1938 |
Overseas Highway |
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1939 |
Manhattan Project (-1945) |
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1940 |
"For Whom the Bell Tolls"
by Ernest Hemingway |
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1945 |
End of the World War 2 |
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The 33rd President,
Harry S.
Truman
(1945 - 1953)
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1950 |
Korean War |
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1954 |
Interstate Highway System |
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1954 |
"Brown vs. Board of Education" |
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1955 |
Boycot of Segregated Buses
(Civil Rights Movement) |
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1956 |
"Heartbreak Hotel" & "Hound Dog"
by Elvis Presley |
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1957 |
Little Rock Central High School
(Civil Rights Movement) |
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1961 |
Kennedy's Speech
of Apolo Program |
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The 35th President,
John F.
Kennedy
(1961 - 1963)
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1962 |
Cuban Crisis |
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1963 |
March on Washington
"I Have a Dream Speech"
(Civil Rights Movement) |
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1963 |
Assassination of
John F. Kennedy |
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1964 |
Civil Rights Act |
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1965 |
Vietnam War (-1973) |
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1968 |
Assassination of
Martin Luther King Jr. |
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1969 |
Man's First Steps
on the Moon |
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1974 |
Watergate Scandal |
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1976 |
"Rocky" |
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1981 |
Maiden Voyage of
the Space Shuttle
"Columbia" |
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