U.S. History

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PresidentsMount Rashmore NM (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln)
1773 Boston Tea Party
"Boston Tea Party Ship and Museum" in Boston
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1775 Revolutionary War (-1783)
"Bunker Hill Monument," in Boston. Bunker Hill is the place where one of the most famous battles was fought in 1775 during the Revolutionary War.
1776 Declaration of Independence
"Independence Hall," in Philadelphia
1787 Adoption of the Constitution
1789 First President Inaugural Speech
City Hall, New York
The 1st President
George
Washington
(1789 - 1797)
1792 New York Stock Exchange
New York Stock Exchange, New York City, New York
1803 Louisiana Purchase
"Gateway Arch," in St. Louis, Missouri
The 3rd President
Thomas
Jefferson
(1801 - 1809)
1804 Lewis & Clark Expedition (-1806)
Statue of "York," "Seaman," "Lewis," and "Clark" in Great Falls, Montana

Inscription of "Pompy" and "Sacagawena" on $1 coin
1812 The War of Britain (-1815)
"Jackson Square" in New Orleans, Louisiana
1830 Indian Removal Act
The 7th President
Andrew
Jackson
(1829 - 1837)
1836 Independence of Texas
from Mexico
"The Alamo," in San Antonio, Texas
1839 Sutter's Fort
1840s Oregon Trail (-1860s)
Covered Wagon in "End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center," Oregon City, Oregon
1846 The Mexican War (-1848)
"Custom House" in Monterey
1848 Discovery of Gold
Statue of James Marshall in Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park, Coloma, California
Chicago Board of Trade
Chicago Board of Trade
1849 Gold Rush, Forty-Niners
Old Sacramento in Sacramento, California
Constitutional Convention
of California
"Colton Hall Museum" in Monterey, California
1850 31st State, California
An Inscription in Mount Rashmore
1860 Pony Express (-1861)
The Pony Express Statue in Sacramento, California
1861 Civil War (-1865)
The 16th President
Abraham
Lincoln
(1861 - 1865)
1862 Homestead Act
There is "Homestead National Monument of America" in Southeastern Nebraska
1863 Emancipation Proclamation Inscription of "Gettysburg Address" on a wall of a restaurant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1869 Transcontinental Railroad
(Sacramento - Omaha)
California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, California
1871 Great Chicago Fire
"Water Tower," in Chicago, Illinois
1872 First National Park
(Yellowstone NP)
"North Gate of Yellowstone NP"in Wyoming
1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
"Gunfight Show" in Tombstone, Arizona
1886 Coca-Cola
1886 The Statue of Liberty
Statue of Liberty in New York City
1889 Oklahoma Land Rushes (-1893)
1903 Department of
Commerce and Labor
Building of "Department of Commerce" in D.C.
The 26th President
Theodore
Roosevelt
(1901 - 1909)
1916 National Park Service
Sign of "National Park Service" in Glaicier NP in Montana
1919 Black Sox Scandal
"Field of Dreams Movie Site" in Dyersville, Iowa
1919 Prohibition Act
1920s The Jazz Age
"Bourbon Street," in New Orleans, Louisiana
1926 U.S. Highway 66, "Route 66" (-1984)
1927 First Solo Transatlantic Fright
"The Sprit of St. Louis" in National Air and Space Museum, D.C.
1929 Black Thursday
(The Beginning of
the Great Depression)
Wall Street Sign in New York City, New York
1930s Era of "The Grapes of Wrath"
by John Steinbeck
"National Steinbeck Center" in Salinas, California
1931 The Empire State Building
Entrance of the Empire State Building in New York City, New York
1933 New Deal Policy
The 32nd President,
Franklin D. Roosebelt
(1932 - 1945)

1936 "Gone With The Wind"
by Margaret Mitchell
1937 Golden Gate Bridge
"Golden Gate Bridge" in San Francisco, California
1938 Overseas Highway
1939 Manhattan Project (-1945)
1940 "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
by Ernest Hemingway
1945 End of the World War 2
The 33rd President,
Harry S.
Truman
(1945 - 1953)
1950 Korean War
1954 Interstate Highway System
1954 "Brown vs. Board of Education"
1955 Boycot of Segregated Buses
(Civil Rights Movement)
1956 "Heartbreak Hotel" & "Hound Dog"
by Elvis Presley
1957 Little Rock Central High School
(Civil Rights Movement)
1961 Kennedy's Speech
of Apolo Program
Kennedy's Address on Apolo Program
The 35th President,
John F.
Kennedy
(1961 - 1963)
1962 Cuban Crisis
1963 March on Washington
"I Have a Dream Speech"
(Civil Rights Movement)
1963 Assassination of
John F. Kennedy
1964 Civil Rights Act
1965 Vietnam War (-1973)
A Statue in Vietnam Veterans Memorial, D.C.
1968 Assassination of
Martin Luther King Jr.
1969 Man's First Steps
on the Moon
Apolo in National Air and Space Museum, D.C.
1974 Watergate Scandal
1976 "Rocky"
1981 Maiden Voyage of
the Space Shuttle
"Columbia"


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