| A | B |
| Jamestown | May 1607 |
| 1st Slaves in Williamsburg | 1619 |
| VA House of Burgesses | 1624 |
| Mayflower Compact | 1620 |
| Massachusetts Bay Colony | 1630 |
| Act of Religious Toleration | 1649 |
| Rhode Island (Roger Williams) | 1635 |
| Bacon's Rebellion | 1676 |
| Pueblo Conflict (Pope's Revolt) | 1680 |
| Glorious Revolution | 1689 |
| Dominion of New England | 1686-89 |
| Salem Witch Trials | 1692 |
| Albany Plan | 1754 |
| French and Indian War | 1756-63 |
| Treaty of Paris (French and Indian War) | 1763 |
| Line of Proclamation | 1763 |
| Boston Tea Party | December 1773 |
| Coercive/Intolerable Acts | 1774 |
| 1st Continental Congress | September 1774 |
| Declaration of Independence | July 4, 1776 |
| American Revolution | 1775-83 |
| Treaty of Paris (Revolutionary War) | September 1783 |
| Constitution ratified | 1788 |
| Bill of Rights | 1791 |
| Slave Trade Ends | 1808 |
| War of 1812 | 1812-14 |
| Treaty of Ghent | December 1814 |
| Missouri Compromise | 1820 |
| War of Texas Independence | 1835-36 |
| Mexican-American War | 1846-48 |
| Bleeding Kansas | 1856 |
| Dred Scott Ruling | 1857 |
| Civil War | 1861-65 |
| Emancipation Proclamation | 1863 |
| Wounded Knee Massacre | 1890 |
| Plessy v Ferguson | 1896 |
| USS Maine explodes, Spanish-American War | 1898 |
| 19th Amendment | (proposed June 1919, ratified August 1920) |
| WWI: US enters | April 1917-19 (Treaty of Versailles) |
| The Great Crash, Black Tuesday | October 29, 1929 |
| Great Depression | 1930s-WWII (33-34 worst) |
| 1st New Deal | 1933 |
| 2nd New Deal | 1935-36 |
| Pearl Harbor | December 7, 1941 |
| US enters WWII | 1941-45 |
| Atomic Bomb | 1945 (Hiroshima Aug. 6, Nagasaki Aug. 9) |
| Korean War | 1950-53 |
| Brown v Board of Education | 1954 |
| Bay of Pigs | 1961 |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | 1962 |
| JFK Assassinated | 1963 |
| Civil Rights Act | 1964 |
| Voters Rights Act | 1965 |
| MLK & RFK Assassinated | 1968 |
| Berlin Wall Falls | 1989 |
| USSR collapses | 1991 (Cold War over) |