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1617 the Great Epidemic
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1619 Land of the Free? Slavery Begins
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1636 Freedom of Worship — Roger Williams
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1654 Yearning to Breathe Free — Immigration
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1676 Near Disaster — King Philip's War
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1735 Freedom of the Press — The Zenger Trial
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1773 Liberty! The Boston Tea Party
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1776 We're Outta Here — Declaring Independence
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1777 Game Changer — The Battle of Saratoga
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1786 Toward a Constitution — Shays's Rebellion
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1789 Samuel Slater — The Industrial Revolution
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1800 Peaceful Transfer — The Election of 1800
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1803 Supreme Authority — Marbury V. Madison
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1807 on the Move — Transportation Revolution
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1816 One Man, One Vote — Expanding Suffrage
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1821 Reborn — The Second Great Awakening
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1831 the Righteous Crusade — Abolition
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1844 What's New? The Communication Revolution
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1845 the Ultimate American Game — Baseball
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1846 Land and Gold — The Mexican War
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1862 Go West, Young Man! The Homestead Act
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1862 Terrible Reality — The Battle of Antietam
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1868 Equal Protection — The 14th Amendment
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1872 Open Spaces — The National Parks
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1873 Bloody Sunday — Ending Reconstruction
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1876 How the West Was Won and Lost — Custer
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1886 the First Red Scare — Haymarket
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1898 the End of Isolation — War With Spain
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1900 the Promised Land — The Great Migration
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1901 That Damned Cowboy! Theodore Roosevelt
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1903 the Second Transportation Revolution
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1909 the Scourge of the South — Hookworm
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1917 Votes for Women! The 19th Amendment
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1919 Strikes and Bombs — The Year of Upheaval
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1933 Bold Experimentation — The New Deal
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1939 Einstein's Letter — The Manhattan Project
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1942 Surprise — The Battle of Midway
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1945 the Land of Lawns — Suburbanization
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1948 the Berlin Airlift and the Cold War
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1950 Tuning in — The Birth of Television
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1960 the Power to Choose — The Pill
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1963 Showdown in Birmingham — Civil Rights
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1968 Losing Vietnam — The Tet Offensive
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1969 Disaster — The Birth of Environmentalism
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1974 an Age of Crisis — Watergate
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1975 the Digital Age — The Personal Computer
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1989 Collapse — The End of the Cold War
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2001 the Age of Terror — The 9/11 Attacks