America's Top 40 (APUSH)

• 1492


  First voyage of Columbus to "New World"
• 1588


  Defeat of the Spanish Armada by England
• 1607


  English settlement begins with the founding of Jamestown
• 1620


  Pilgrim's arrival at Plymouth in New England
• 1763


  Treaty of Paris ends French and Indian War/ Proclamation line
• 1776


  Declaration of American Independence
• 1781-87


  Articles of Confederation
• 1789


  Ratification of U.S. Constitution/ new government established
• 1800


  Election of Thomas Jefferson/ transfer of power to new political party
• 1803


  Jefferson makes the Louisana Purchase from the French
• 1828


  Election of Andrew Jackson
• 1838


  Trail of Tears (Cherokee Indian removal)
• 1845


  "Manifest Destiny" reaches peak
• 1850


  Compromise of 1850 delays civil war for 10 years
• 1860


  Election of Lincoln/ beginning of southern secession
• 1861-1865


  U.S. Civil War
• 1864-1877


  Restruction period in American South
• 1890


  Census Bureau announces the end of the frontier
• 1896


  Election of Mckinley / End of Populist movement
• 1898


  Spanish-American war
• 1898-1917


  Progressive era
• 1914-1918


  World War I
• 1929


  Crash of stock market marks beginning of great depression
• 1932


  Election of Franklin D Roosevelt
• 1941


  Pearl Harbor/ U.S. Enters World War II
• 1945


  Yalta Conference; V.E. day and V.J. day end WW II in Europe and Japan
• 1947


  Truman Doctrine
• 1950-53


  Korean Conflict
• 1957


  Sputnik
• 1963


  Assassination of John Kennedy
• 1964


  Civil Rights Act; Tonkin Gulf Resolution
• 1964-1973


  Direct involvment by U.S. in Vietnam
• 1968


  Tet Offensive in iVetnam; anti-war demonstrations;riots at democratic convention; assassinations of MLK and RFK
• 1974


  Resignation of Richard Nixon/ Watergate
• 1979


  Establishment of formal relations with China
• 1979-81


  Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days
• 1980


  Election of Ronald Reagan marks conservative political swing
• 1989


  End of Cold War; fall of Berlin Wall and political changes in Eastern Europe
• 1991


  Gulf War
• 2000


  Bush v. Gore supreme court decision