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Timeline of American History
1607
Colonists land at Jamestown
1619
African Blacks brought to Jamestown; beginning of slavery in Virginia colony
1636
First university in colonies founded (Harvard College)
1754-63
French and Indian Wars
1774
First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia
1776
July 4th: Declaration of American Independence signed
1781
Articles of Confederation ratified
1788
Constitution ratified
1789
First session of Congress meets; George Washington inaugurated
1791
Bill of Rights passed
1800
Washington DC becomes capital of national government
1812-14
War of 1812
1831
Nat Turner’s slave insurrection
1846-48
Mexican War
1848
Gold discovered in California; Western Gold Rush begins
1860
Abraham Lincoln elected president
1861-65
Civil War
1863
Emancipation Declaration; slaves freed
1865
Lincoln assassinated
1865-77
Reconstruction
1869
First transcontinental railroad completed
1876
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
1903
Wright brothers’ flight
1917
Prohibition instituted; U.S. enters World War I
1920
19th amendment ratified; women gain the right to vote
1927
Charles Lindberg’s trans-Atlantic flight
1929
Great Depression begins
1933
Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated; initiates New Deal program
1941
Pearl Harbor bombed; U.S. enters World War II
1945
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1950
U.S. enters Korea in Police Action
1960
John F. Kennedy elected president
1962
Cuban Missile Crisis
1963
JFK assassinated
1965
March on Washington in support of equal rights for blacks; bombing of North Vietnam begins; combat troops are sent in
1968
Martin Luther King assassinated
1969
First Moon landing
1974
President Richard M. Nixon resigns after Watergate break-in
1980
Ronald Reagan elected president
1992
Bill Clinton elected president