Equal Rights Amendment (women)
1923
Civil Rights Act (African-Americans)
1964
Declaration of Independence
1776
The Constitution
1787
First wave of immigration: colonial
1680-1776
Scots-Irish, Germans
Second wave of immigration: the old immigrants
1790-1850
Britain, Germany, France, Scandinavia
Third wave of immigration: the new
1870-1920
Italy, Austria, Hungary, Russia
Civil War
1861-1865
Rosa Parks
1955
Freedom of slaves
Lincoln freed them in 1863
Harvard college
1636
War for independence
1775-1783