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A secret Reagan administration operation that involved illegal arms sales and funding rebels.

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Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy, was brutally murdered in Mississippi after being accused of offending a white woman. His death became a major catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement

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An American battleship mysteriously exploded in Havana Harbor, Cuba. The U.S. blamed Spain, increasing tension and leading directly to war.

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(1886) A labor protest in Chicago turned violent when a bomb exploded and killed several police officers and civilians, making people associate labor unions with violence

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(1846-1848) War between U.S. and Mexico over land disputes, ended with the U.S. gaining CA, AZ, and New Mexico

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(1803) the purchase of the territory of Louisiana from the French First Republic

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1754-1763

The start of the taxation from the Debt incurred by this war after the major losses

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(Aug-Oct 1492) Columbus discovers the Americas in his voyage for Asia. This time period marks the European exploration of the Americas and the colonization and Columbian Exchange brought forth by the discovery.

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(May-August 1521) The fall of the Aztec empire. The Spanish Army, commanded by Cortes and indigenous allied took over the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlan, leading to the fall of the empire and the start of Spanish colonial rule.

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A massive trade agreement between North America's three largest nations to remove trade barriers.

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Four Black college students in Greensboro, North Carolina, staged a peaceful protest by sitting at a segregated lunch counter, sparking sit-ins across the country

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(1892) Steelworkers went on strike in Pennsylvania after pay cuts, turning into a violent clash between workers and private guards

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(1812-1815) started when the US declared war on Britain and fought that war with its UK allies.

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1773, a political protest where patriots dressed up as Native Americans and dumped 342 chests of tea from the British East India Company into the Boston Harbour.

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The U.S. fought Spain and won, gaining territories like Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines, and becoming a global power.

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(1857) Supreme Court ruled that enslaved people were property, not citizens, and that Congress couldn't ban slavery in new territories, and made tensions between North and South worse.

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(around 1585) The first group of settlers to arrive used this colony as a military outpost, but they soon returned to England because of a lack of resources. The second settlers arrived a few years later and were more permanent, consisting of women and children as well.

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(June 1675- August 1678) This war was a conflict between tribes in New England consisting of Native Americans in retaliation to the colonist's treatment of their lands and people, such as their encroachment and their territorial expansion. It ended with the colonists' win.

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(1676-1677) It started as a conflict between the Doeg Indians and settlers became a major dispute led by Nathaniel Bacon against Gov. Sir William Berkeley, a wealthy planter, and his government the following year. It was one of the most serious uprisings to royal tyranny before the American Revolution.

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1774, the first unified group sent to reason with Britain with the colonies' list of grievances.

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1776, The Declaration of Independence officially declared America's independence from Britain.

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Shay's Rebellion, 1786. Rebellion in MA against high taxation.

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(1814) a British retaliation for the US burning York. Carried out by Rear Admiral George Cockburn

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1787, First convention to discuss the actual constitution for the new country

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1796, he gave three warnings in his address regarding factionalism, sectionalism and foreign entanglements.

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(1815-1820s) transformed American business and global trade by becoming mainly agrarian and self sufficient

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(1863) President Lincoln declared all enslaved people in Confederate states free, shifting the Civil War's focus to ending slavery

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admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, maintaining the balance of power in Congress between free and slave states

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(1848) the first women's rights convention, discussing the social, civil, and religious conditions and rights of women

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(1894) Railroad workers protested wage cuts and high rent, and the strike spread nationwide and disrupted rail traffic until federal troops had to stop it

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(1865) Confederate Lee surrendered to General Ulysses, effectively ending the Civil War

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A violent uprising in China against foreign influence. U.S. and European forces intervened to protect trade access and citizens.

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(1865) Just days after the war ended, Lincoln was shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington

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(1865-1877) The period after the Civil War when the U.S. worked to rebuild the South, reintegrate former Confederate states, and expand rights for newly freed African Americans

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(1896) A Supreme Court case that upheld racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine

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A massive civil rights demonstration in Washington, D.C., where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech calling for racial equality and jobs

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(1906) Sinclair's book exposed unsafe and unsanitary conditions in the meatpicking industry, leading to food safety reforms.

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A political crisis involving presidential conduct and legal testimony regarding a personal scandal.

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A global war mainly between European powers. The U.S. entered in 1917 on the Allies’ side, helping end the war.

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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, deeply shocking the nation and affecting the direction of U.S. civil rights and Cold War policies.

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A German submarine sank this British ship carrying American passengers. It angered the U.S. and pushed it closer to entering WWI

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A decade of economic growth, jazz music, flappers, and cultural change in the U.S.

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The stock market crash in October caused massive unemployment and economic collapse worldwide.

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt launched programs to create jobs, stabilize banks, and help the poor during the Depression.

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A massive global war. The U.S. entered after the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941 and helped defeat the Axis powers.

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Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, leading to nationwide mourning and unrest.

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Also known as the Fair Housing Act, this law prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing and strengthened civil rights protections.

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A Supreme Court case that decided the winner of one of the closest presidential elections in history.

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The United States officially ended direct military involvement in Vietnam following the Paris Peace Accords.

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A political scandal involving President Richard Nixon that began with a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters and ended with Nixon’s resignation.

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A global military and political campaign launched by the U.S. following the September 11 attacks.

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A law passed shortly after 9/11 to expand the government's ability to monitor and catch terrorists.