American history

Question 1

The Mayflower, carrying the first permanent British settlers, arrived in what is now New England.

Answer 1

1620

Question 2

The begginninig of the american revolution

Answer 2

1775

Question 3

Declaration of independance

Answer 3

4th July 1776

Question 4

The british recognized the independance of the USA

Answer 4

1783

Question 5

The American constitution was drouwn up by the Founding Fathers

Answer 5

1787

Question 6

Goerge Washington, first president of the USA, was elected

Answer 6

1789

Question 7

The Louisian Purchase : The USA doubles in size

Answer 7

1803

Question 8

The Lewis and Clark expedition explored the newly-arrived territories

Answer 8

1804-1806

Question 9

The Indian Removal Act
The Trail of Tears

Answer 9

1830s

Question 10

Abraham Lincolm was elected

Answer 10

1860

Question 11

Abolition of Slavery

Answer 11

1861

Question 12

The American Civil War

Answer 12

1861-1865

Question 13

The Frontier was closed

Answer 13

1890

Question 14

Plessy V. Fergusson Supreme Court decision stated that segragation was unconstitutional
Beginning of Jim Crow Era

Answer 14

1896

Question 15

The Great Depression and the Dust Bowl: poverty unemployement and migrations to the west to find work and oppotunities

Answer 15

1930s

Question 16

Of Mice and Men was published

Answer 16

1937

Question 17

Consumerism and materialism
Consertism
Pressure to conform

Answer 17

Post-war year and 1950s

Question 18

Birth of the Civil Right movement
Emergence of a distrint teen culture

Answer 18

Things started to change

Question 19

First performance of “Death of a Salesman”

Answer 19

1949

Question 20

Brown V. Board of Education: The Supreme Court overturned the Plessy V. Fergusson decision of 1896

Answer 20

1954

Question 21

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott (Alabama) beginning of the Civil Right Movement

Answer 21

1955

Question 22

“12 Angry Men” was released
Publication of “On the Road” by John Keravac, a member of the Beat Generation

Answer 22

1957

Question 23

American society became more progressive
Birth of counter-culture Movements (The Hippie Movement, opposition to the Vietnam War)
Birth of Liberation Movement (women and Gay)

Answer 23

1960s
1970s

Question 24

President Kennedy was elected

Answer 24

1960

Question 25

"I Have a Dream" by Martin Luther King

Answer 25

1963

Question 26

Civil Rights Act : end of Jim Crow Era

Answer 26

1964

Question 27

President Johnson ordered the deployment of combat units in Vietnam

Answer 27

1965

Question 28

Stonewall Riots : beginning of the Gay Liberation

Answer 28

1969

Question 29

Millions of people across the USA took the streets to protest the continued us involvement in Vietnam

Answer 29

November 15 1969

Question 30

Ros vs Wade: this Supreme Court decision legalized abortion

Answer 30

1973

Question 31

Save Our Children compain

Answer 31

1977

Question 32

Harvery Milk became the first openly-gay man to be elected for public office

Answer 32

1978

Question 33

Emergence of the American New Right AIDS epidemic

Answer 33

1980s

Question 34

Ronald Reagon was elected

Answer 34

1981

Question 35

The "Handmaid's Tale" was published

Answer 35

1985