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- Irish Rebellion and Cromwell's Invasion of Ireland, 1641-1650 (1)
- American Revolution, 1775-1783 (8)
- French Revolution, 1789-1799 (1)
- Haitian Independence Movement, 1791-1804 (4)
- Fugitive Slave Act, U.S., February 12, 1793 (1)
- International Slave Trade Ended with U.S., March 2, 1807 (1)
- War of 1812 (2)
- Missouri Compromise, 1820-1821 (1)
- Vesey Conspiracy, SC, 1822 (2)
- Nat Turner's Insurrection, 1831 (1)
- British West Indian Emancipation, July 31, 1834 (1)
- U.S. Annexation of Texas, 1845 (1)
- Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1920 (1)
- Fugitive Slave Act, U.S., September 18, 1850 (4)
- Compromise of 1850 (1)
- Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1859 (4)
- Kansas-Nebraska Act Enacted, U.S., May 30, 1854 (1)
- Dred Scott Decision, 1857 (2)
- Seminole Wars, FL, 1817-1858 (1)
- Harpers Ferry Raid, VA, October 16, 1859 (5)
- U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865 (25)
- Reconstruction, US, 1865-1877 (26)
- Great Sioux War, 1876-1877 (1)
- U.S. Supreme Court Declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 Unconstitutional, 1883 (1)
- Haymarket Incident, May 4, 1886 (1)
- Plessy v. Ferguson, Supreme Court Decision, U.S., 1896 (3)
- Spanish-American War, 1898 (4)
- World War I, 1914-1918 (18)
- Russian Revolution, 1917-1921 (3)
- Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1939 (6)
- Great Depression, 1929-1941 (6)
- Scottsboro Case, AL, 1931 (9)
- U.S. Indian Civil Rights, 1934- (3)
- Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (3)
- World War II, 1939-1945 (16)
- Cold War, 1945-1989 (13)
- Israeli-Palestinian Conflicts, 1948- (3)
- Apartheid, South Africa, 1948-1994 (3)
- Korean Conflict, 1950-1953 (3)
- Algerian War of Independence, 1954-1962 (1)
- U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1954- (62)
- Vietnam War, 1956-1975 (25)
- Second Wave Feminism, 1960-1990 (1)
- Nicaraguan Revolution, 1960s-1990 (1)
- Kenya, Independence from United Kingdom, 1963 (1)
- John F. Kennedy, Assassination, Dallas, TX, November 22, 1963 (6)
- Black Arts Movement, 1965-1976 (4)
- U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1966- (29)
- Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970 (1)
- Violence at the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, August 29, 1968 (1)
- Watergate Scandal, 1972-1975 (15)
- U.N. General Assembly Says Zionism is Racism, November 10, 1975 (2)
- Jonestown Mass Suicide, Guyana, November 18, 1978 (2)
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 (3)
