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There have been many over the years. A non-exhaustive list:

Christopher Columbus discovers America

Voyage of the Mayflower

American Revolution

War of Independence

Making of the Constitution

Civil War & Subsequent abolition of slavery (Emancipation Proclamation)

Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln

World War One

Great Depression

World War Two - D-Day, V-E Day & Atomic bombings of Hiroshima + Nagasaki

Cold War (1949-1991)

1960 Presidential Election (Kennedy-LBJ vs. Nixon-Lodge)

Berlin Crisis of 1961 and subsequent building of the Berlin Wall

Cuban Missile Crisis

Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Vietnam War

Moon Landing (Man on the Moon)

Watergate Scandal

President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) + Star Wars

Dissolution of the Soviet Union (End of the Cold War)

Impeachment of President Bill Clinton

9/11

Economic Crisis of the late 2000s

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For long-term effects: Probably one of the amendments in the Bill of Rights (1-10) but maybe also 13 (no slavery), 15(no racism in voting), or 19(no sexism in voting).

However the amendment that had the greatest immediate effect was 18 (outlawed alcohol, caused prohibition era) and 21 (repealed 18)

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