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- Irish Rebellion and Cromwell's Invasion of Ireland, 1641-1650 (1)
- American Revolution, 1775-1783 (1)
- Haitian Independence Movement, 1791-1804 (1)
- International Slave Trade Ended with U.S., March 2, 1807 (1)
- War of 1812 (1)
- Nat Turner's Insurrection, 1831 (1)
- Fugitive Slave Act, U.S., September 18, 1850 (1)
- Dred Scott Decision, 1857 (3)
- Seminole Wars, FL, 1817-1858 (1)
- Harpers Ferry Raid, VA, October 16, 1859 (2)
- U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865 (7)
- Reconstruction, US, 1865-1877 (10)
- Fort Laramie Treaty between the U.S. and Sioux, November 6, 1868 (1)
- Great Sioux War, 1876-1877 (1)
- U.S. Supreme Court Declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 Unconstitutional, 1883 (1)
- Plessy v. Ferguson, Supreme Court Decision, U.S., 1896 (3)
- Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920 (1)
- Chinese Revolution, 1911-1912 (1)
- World War I, 1914-1918 (7)
- Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1939 (2)
- Great Depression, 1929-1941 (2)
- Scottsboro Case, AL, 1931 (8)
- Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Alabama, 1932-1972 (1)
- U.S. Indian Civil Rights, 1934- (9)
- Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (2)
- World War II, 1939-1945 (8)
- Cold War, 1945-1989 (29)
- Israeli-Palestinian Conflicts, 1948- (2)
- Apartheid, South Africa, 1948-1994 (5)
- Korean Conflict, 1950-1953 (5)
- U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1954- (83)
- Vietnam War, 1956-1975 (22)
- Second Wave Feminism, 1960-1990 (2)
- Nicaraguan Revolution, 1960s-1990 (1)
- Patrice Lumumba, Assassination, Congo, January 17, 1961 (1)
- Kenya, Independence from United Kingdom, 1963 (1)
- John F. Kennedy, Assassination, Dallas, TX, November 22, 1963 (8)
- Black Arts Movement, 1965-1976 (2)
- U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1966- (40)
- Freedom of Information Act Signed, U.S., July 4, 1966 (1)
- Violence at the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, August 29, 1968 (4)
- Cambodian Civil War, 1970-1975 (2)
- U.S. Supreme Court Rules Death Penalty Unconstitutional, 1972 (1)
- Watergate Scandal, 1972-1975 (30)
- FBI Agents, Killed, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, SD, June 26, 1975 (1)
- U.S. Supreme Court Reinstates Death Penalty, 1976 (2)
- Jonestown Mass Suicide, Guyana, November 18, 1978 (1)
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 (1)
