| A | B |
| 1867 | U.S. purchased alaska from russia |
| 1869 | women in wyoming get the right to vote |
| 1876 | alexander bell patents phone |
| 1886 | statue of liberty in n.y. harbor |
| 1890 | last battle bewteen mative americans at wounded knee SD |
| 1903 | red soz and pirates in 1st world series |
| 1908 | ford introduces the model t |
| 1917 | u.s. enters wwi |
| 1919 | prohibition becomes law |
| 1920 | 19th ammendment women get the right to vote |
| 1925 | f.scott fitzgerald publishes the great gatsby |
| 1927 | charles lindbergh flies solo and non-sop n.y. to paris |
| 1929 | stock market crash |
| 1933 | president fdr closes banks |
| 1938 | thornton wilder play, our town opens |
| 1939 | john steinbeck publishes grapes of wrath snd u.s. declares neutrality when wwii breaks out |
| 1841 | japanese bomb pearl harbor |
| 1945 | wwii ends after u.s. drops atomic bombs |