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Cards Term 1492 Definition Columbus discoverd the New World Term 1517 Definition Beginning of Protestant Reformation Term 1588 Definition defeat of spanish armada Term 1497 Definition John Cabot reaches coast of north america Term 1607 Definition Jamestown colony is founded Term 1619 Definition House of Burgesses is founded Term 1620 Definition Plymouth colony founded Term 1630 Definition Massachusetts Bay colony is founded Term 1732/1733 Definition Georgia colony is founded Term 1647 Definition Ole' Deluder Satan Act adopted Term 1636 Definition Harvard College Term 1730's-1740's Definition Great Awakening Term 1754-1763 Definition French and Indian war Term 1760 Definition George III became king Term 1763 Definition Grenville's Program adopted Term 1763 Definition Proclamtion Line adopted Term 1765 Definition Stamp Act congress convenes Term 1773 Definition Boston Tea Party Term 1774 Definition First Continental Congress Term April 19, 1775 Definition Lexington and Concord battles fought Term 1775 Definition Second Continental Congress Term July 4, 1776 Definition Declatation Of Independence is adopted Term 1777 Definition Battle of Saratoga Term 1781 Definition Battle of Yorktown Term 1783 Definition Treaty of Paris Term 1781-1789 Definition Critical Period Term 1787 Definition Constitutional Convention Term 1789 Definition United States Constitution Ratified Term 1791 Definition Bill of Rights Term 1789-1800 Definition Federalist Era Term 1803 Definition Louisania Purchase Term 1812-1814 Definition War of 1812 Term 1814 Definition Treaty of Ghent Term 1815 Definition Battle of New Orleans Term 1816 Definition Second Bank of U.S. Term 1819 Definition Transcontinental Treaty/ Adams-Onis treaty Term 1823 Definition Missouri Compromise Term 1824 Definition "Favorite Sons" election Term 1832 Definition Nullification Controversy Term 1828-1841 Definition Jacksonian Era Term 1850's Definition Peak of Second Great Awakening Term 1821 Definition First Public Highschool Term 1825 Definition Completion of Erie Canal Term 1836 Definition Texas war for independence Term 1845 Definition Annexation of Texas Term 1846-1848 Definition Mexican War Term 1848 Definition Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Term 1849 Definition California Gold Rush Term 1853 Definition Gadsden Purchase Term 1850 Definition Compromise of 1850 Term 1850 Definition Compromise of 1850 Term 1854 Definition Kansas-Nebraska Bill Term 1854 Definition Republican Party Term 1860 Definition Election of Abraham Lincoln Term 1861-1865 Definition Civil War Term April 12, 1861 Definition Fort Sumter Term April 9, 1865 Definition Appomattox Court House Term 1877 Definition Official end of reconstruction Term 1862 Definition Homestead act Term May 10, 1869 Definition first transcontinental railroad complete Term 1975 Definition invention of telephone Term 1879 Definition invention of incandescent light bulb Term 1891 Definition Invention of Basketball Term 1890's Definition Gay nineties Term 1887 Definition Interstate Commerce Act Term 1867 Definition Purchase of Alaska Term 1897 Definition Klondike Gold Rush Term 1898 Definition annexation of hawaii Term 1898 Definition Spanish-American War Term 1903 Definition Wright Brothers Term 1908 Definition Henry Ford introduces Model T Term 1912 Definition Titanic sinks Term 1914 Definition opening of Panama Canal Term 1914-1918 Definition World war 1 Term April 6, 1917 Definition U.S. enters WWI Term Novemeber 11, 1918 Definition Armistice Day Term 1919 Definition Treaty of Versailles Term 1919 Definition 18 Amendment Term 1920 Definition First commercial radio station goes on air KDKA Term 1925 Definition Scopes Trial Term 1927 Definition Charles Lindbergh makes first solo flight across Atlantic Term Oct 29, 1929 Definition Black Tuesday/Beginning of Great Depression Term 1933 Definition Beginning of FDR administration and NEW DEAL Term 1933 Definition 21 amendment Term 1939-1945 Definition World War II Term Dec 7, 1941 Definition Bombing of Pearl Harbor Term 1945 Definition founding of United Nations Term 1948 Definition Israel becomes nation Term 1949 Definition NATO established Term 1950-1953 Definition Korean War Term 1964 Definition Civil Rights Act Term 1965-1973 Definition Vietnam War Term 1974 Definition Watergate Affair Term 1981-1993 Definition Reagan Era Term 1987 Definition 200 Birthday of the Constitution Term 1989 Definition U.S. Troops invade Panama Term 1989 Definition Beginning of the end of the iron curtain and communism in Eastern Europe Term 1991 Definition Operation Desert Storm (Persian Gulf War) Term 1995 Definition Terrorist bomb federal building in Oklahoma city Term 1998 Definition Bill Clinton becomes 2nd President to become impeached Term 1999 Definition Bill Clinton is acquitted by the Senate Term Novemeber 2000 Definition Constitution Crisis arises with the most closely contested Presidential election in over a century