Top 40 APUSH

Crash of stock market marks beginning of great depression

Direct Involvement by US in Vietnam

Civil Rights Act; Tonkin Gulf Resolution

Election of Franklin Roosevelt

Election of Andrew Jackson

Trail of Tears (Cherokee Indian Removal)

First voyage of Columbus

Declaration of Independence

Spanish - American war

Pearl Harbor; US enters World War 2

Resignation of Richard Nixon; Watergate

Election of McKinley; End of the populist movement

“Manifest Destiny” reaches peak

Americans Held Hostage in Iran for 444 days

Gulf war

Bush V. Gore supreme court decision

Defeat of Spanish Armada by England

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

Establishment of Formal Relations with China

Korean Conflict

Ratification of US Constitution; New government established

Election of Ronald Reagan marks conservative political swing

Progressive Era

Census bureau announces the end of the frontier

Jamestown was founded

Peace of Paris ends French and Indian War

Truman Doctrine

Pilgrims arrival at Plymouth in New England

Reconstruction period in American South

Compromise of 1850 delays Civil War for 10 years

Election of Lincoln; Beginning of Southern seccession

Jefferson purchases Louisiana from the French

Assassination of John Kennedy

Critical Period (Articles of Confederation)

Yalta Conference; V-E Day and V-J day end WW2

Election of Jefferson; Transfer of power to new political party

American Civil War

World War 1

Tet offensive; Anti-war demonstrations; Riots at Democratic Convention; Assassinations of MLK and RFK

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