1794 cotton gin patented 1803 Marbury vs Madison 1820 Missouri Compromise 1823 Monroe Doctrine 1836 Battle of the Alamo 1838 “Trail of Tears” 1846 Mexican War 1848 Mexican Cession1848 Seneca Falls convention 1849 California gold rush 1850 Compromise of 18501854 Bleeding Kansas1857 Dred Scott Case1859 Harpers Ferry 1861 Attack on Fort Sumter 1865 Lincoln assassinated 1868 Fourteenth Amendment 1869 “Wedding of the Rails” 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn1877 End of Reconstruction 1882 Standard Oil Trust formed 1883 Pendleton Act 1896 “Cross of Gold” speech 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson1898 Spanish-American War 1901 Theodore Roosevelt became President 1904 Construction began on Panama Canal 1906 Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle 1913 Federal Reserve created 1917 US entered World War I 1920 Nineteenth Amendment 1929 Black Tuesday 1933 beginning of New Deal 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor 1945 atomic bombs dropped on Japan 1949 creation of NATO 1954 Brown vs Board of Education 1957 founding of Southern Christian Leadership Conference 1961 Berlin Wall1963 Cuban Missile Crisis1963 John F. Kennedy assassinated 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 1964 Civil Rights Act passed1968 Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated 1969 Moon landing1974 Nixon resigned Presidency1979 US Embassy in Iran is taken with hostages1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall