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Period: Jan 1, 1492 to
US History Timeline 1492 - 2011
USA history -
Sep 6, 1492
Columbus “Discovers” America
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Jun 24, 1497
John Cabot claims North America for England
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Sep 1, 1534
Jacques Cartier explores the Great Lakes and the the St. Lawrence River
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Virginia colony of Roanoke Island established by Walter Raleigh
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Captain John Smith explorer and founder of Jamestown
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20 slaves in Virginia...
Twenty slaves in Virginia Africans brought to Jamestown are the first slaves imported
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Mayflower Compact
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First Public School (Boston Latin School
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First College - Harvard College, the first institute for higher education in a North AmericanColony, established at Cambridge in Massachusetts
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Colonial North America's slave trade begins...
Colonial North America's slave trade begins when the first American slave carrier,
Desire, is built and launched in Massachusetts. -
English Bill of Rights
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Benjamin Franklins's Lighting Rod
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French And Indian War
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Proclamation of 1763 by King George III
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Stamp Act
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Santa Claus - Colonial America
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Revolutionary War
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Declaration of Independence
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Vermont is 1st colony to free all slaves.
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1787 Articles of Confederation
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Constitution
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Delaware Added
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Pennsylvania Added
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New Jersey Added
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Georgia Added
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Connecticut Added
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Massachusetts Added
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Maryland Added
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South Carolina Added
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New Hampshire Added
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Virginia Added
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New York Added
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George Washington becomes president
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North Carolina Added
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Census Population- 4 million
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Rhode Island Added
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Vermont
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Bill of Rights
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Kentucky Added
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Eli Whitney - Cotton Gin
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11th Amendment
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Tennessee Added
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John Adams becomes president
Both John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams were both president of the United States of America -
Census Population- 5.3 million
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Thomas Jefferson becomes president
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James Maddison becomes president
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Ohio Added
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12th Amendment
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James Monroe becomes president
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Census Population- 7.2 million
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Louisiana Added
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War Of 1812
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Indiana Added
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U of M- 1817 - Founded in Detroit, Moved to Ann Arbor in 1837
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Mississippi Added
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Illinois Added
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Alabama Added
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Census Population- 9.6 million
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Maine Added
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Missouri Added
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John Quincy Adams becomes president
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Andrew Jackson becomes president
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Graham Cracker
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Census Population- 12.8 million
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Indian Removal Act (1838 Trail of Tears)
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Oberlin College - First College to accept Women
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Texas Revolution
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Oberlin College - First School to accept Blacks
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Arkansas Added
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Michigan Added
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Martin Van Buren becomes president
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Vulcanized Rubber - Charles Goodyear
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Census Population- 17 million
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William Henery Harrison becomes president
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John Tyler becomes president
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Florida Added
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James Knox Polk becomes president
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Baseball - Alexander Cartwright
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Texas Added
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Mexican American War
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Iowa Added
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Doughnut
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Wisconsin Added
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Zachary Taylor becomes president
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Census Population- 23 million
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Millard Fillmore becomes president
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California Added
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Franklin Pierce becomes president
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Michigan State Established
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James Buchanan becomes president
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MInnesota Added
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Pencil Eraser - Hymen Lipman
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Oregon Added
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Census Population- 31.4 million
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Repeating Rifle - Benjamin Tyler Henr
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Kansas Added
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Abraham Lincoln becomes president
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American Civil War
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Jelly Bean - William Schrafft
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Machine Gun - Richard Gatling
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West Virginia Added
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Breakfast Cereal - James Caleb Jackson
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Nevada Added
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Andrew Johnson becomes president
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13th Amendment - Abolition of Slavery
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Nebraska Added
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14th Amendment
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Ulysses Simpson Grant becomes president
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American Football - Walter Camp
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Soccer - Princeton vs. Rutgers (6-4 Rutgers)
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Census Population- 38.6 million
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African Americans’ Right to Vote
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15th Amendment
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Jeans - Levi Straus
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Colorado Added
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Ruthford Bichard Hayes becomes president
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Toilet Paper- Seth Wheeler
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Light Bulb - Thomas Alva Edison
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Census Population- 50.1 million
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James Abram Garfield becomes president
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Chestar Alan Arthur becomes president
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Grover Clevland becomes president
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Coca-Cola - John S. Pemberton
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Softball - George Hancock
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Benjamin Clevland becomes president
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North Dakota Added
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South Dokota Added
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Montana Added
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Washington Added
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Census Population- 62.9 million
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Idaho Added
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Wyoming Added
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Stop Sign - William Phelps En
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CMU Established
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Grover Clevland becomes president
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Radio - Nikola Tesla
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Corn Flakes- Will Keith Kellogg
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Volleyball
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Utah Added
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William Mkinley
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William Mckinley becomes president
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Census Population- 76.2 million
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Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
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Car - Oldsmobile - Ransom E. Olds
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Assembly Line - Henry For
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Teddy Bear - Morris Michtom
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Banana Split - David Strickle
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Oklahoma Added
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William Howard Taft becomes president
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Census Population- 92.2 million
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New Mexico Added
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Arizona Added
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Woodrow Wilson becomes president
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16th Amendment (Income Tax)
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17th Amendment (direct election of United States Senators by popular vote)
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World War I
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18th Amendment (prohibits alcohol)
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Census Population- 106 million
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19th Amendment - Women’s Right to Vote
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Warren Gamiel Handing becomes president
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Calvin Coolidge becomes president
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Kool Aid
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Television - Philo T. Farnswort
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Mickey Mouse - Walt Disney
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Bubble Gum - Walter Diemer “Double Bubble”
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Herbert Clark Hoover becomes president
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Census Population- 123 million
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Electric Guitar - George Beauchamp and Adolph Rickenbacke
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20th Amendment - Jan. 20 inauguration
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21st Amendment - Repeal 18th amendment.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes president
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Soft Serve Ice Cream
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World War II
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Census Population- 132 million
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Harry S. Truman
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Cable TV
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Video Game
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Census Population- 151 million
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Korean War
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22nd Amendment - 2 term limit for President
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Barcode
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Dwight David Eisenhower becomes president
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Video Tape
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Alaska Added
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Hawii Added
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Census Population- 179.3 million
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Vietnam War
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John F. Kennady becomes president
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23rd Amendment - Wash. D.C. representation
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Computer Mouse
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
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24th Amendment - poll taxes illegal
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Buffalo Wings
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Minicomputer ($18,000!)
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CD
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25th Amendment - presidential succession
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Richard Milhous Nixon becomes president
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Census Population- 203 million
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26th Amendment - 18 as voting age
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Email
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Cel Phone
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Gerald Rudolph Ford becomes president
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Census Population- 226.5
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Ronald Wilson Reagan becomes president
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George Herbert Wilson Bush becomes president
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Laptop
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Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
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James Earl Carter Jr. becomes president
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Census Population- 248.7
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Persian Gulf War
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27th Amendment - Congress salary changes take place in next term
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William Jefferson Clinton becomes president
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Census Population- 281.4
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George Walker Bush becomes president
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U.S. Invasion Of Afganistan
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Ipod
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U.S Invasion Of Iraq
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Barrack Hussin Obama
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Census Population- 308.7
