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1773 - The Boston Tea Party
1756 - 1763 - The French & Indian War
1775–1783 - The Revolutionary War
1791 - The Whiskey Rebellion
1791 - Bill of Rights Ratified
1798 - Alien and Sedition Act
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1803 - Louisiana Purchase
1804 - Lewis and Clark Expedition
1812- 1815 - The War of 1812
1841 - Amistad Trial
1849 - California Gold Rush
1861 - 1864 - The Civil War
1869: Golden Spike Transcontinental Railroad
1877: Telephone patented by Alexander Bell
1890 - Wounded Knee Massacre
1903 - Wright Brothers Kittyhawk
1914 - 1918 - World War I
1927 - 1st Trans-Atlantic Flight
1929 - 1941 - The Great Depression
1937 - The Hindenburg Disaster
1937 - Amelia Earhart disappears
1941 - Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 - 1945 - World War II
1948 - 1949 Berlin Airlift
1946 - Railroad Strike
1950 - Truman Assassination attempt
1959 - Alaska Statehood
1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis
1963 - March on Washington
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