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Basic American History Timeline Flashcards

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~14,000 B.C.

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Nomadic hunters from Siberia cross the Bering Strait into North America.

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~1000 A.D.

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Viking explorer Leif Erikson visits what is now Northeastern Canada.

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Oct. 12, 1492

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Christopher Columbus lands on an island in what is now the Bahamas, “discovering” the New World.

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May 14, 1607

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English settlers establish colony at Jamestown (1607-1699) located in what is today the state of Virginia.

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Aug. 1619

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A Dutch ship delivers 20 Africans as slaves to Jamestown.

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Dec. 21, 1620

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Puritan Separatists from England land in Plymouth (1620-1691) in what is today the state of MA, and begin settlement.

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1754

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The nine-year French and Indian War (1754-1763) begins. When it’s over, the English control much of North America.

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Dec. 16, 1773

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Boston Tea Party: Massachusetts colonists costumed as Indians dump tea into Boston Harbor to protest British taxes on it.

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April 19, 1775

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British soldiers and colonial militia exchange shots at Lexington and Concord, Mass., beginning the Revolutionary War (1775-1783).

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July 4, 1776

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The Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence.

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Oct. 17, 1777

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A British army of nearly 6,000 surrenders near Saratoga, NY. The American victory helps convince France to enter the war on the side of the Americans.

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Oct. 19, 1781

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A large British army surrenders at Yorktown, VA, effectively ending the Revolutionary War.

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Sep. 17, 1787

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A convention of delegates in Philadelphia approves what will become the U.S. Constitution.

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April 1789

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George Washington is elected the first U.S. president.

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March 4, 1801

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Thomas Jefferson becomes the third U.S. president.

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1803

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The U.S. buys 828,000 miles west of the Mississippi River from France. The “Louisiana Purchase” costs about $15 million, or 3 cents an acre.

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June 18, 1812

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Congress declares war on Britain, beginning the War of 1812 (1812-1815).

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Jan. 8, 1815

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U.S. forces under Andrew Jackson rout a larger British force at New Orleans, two weeks after a peace treaty ending the War of 1812 was signed in Europe.

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March 1820

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Congress approves the “Missouri Compromise” designed to keep balance between free and slave states.

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March 4, 1829

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Andrew Jackson is inaugurated as the seventh U.S. president.

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Jan. 26, 1830

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Massachusetts Sen. Daniel Webster gives a speech in favor of preserving the Union that galvanizes support for keeping the U.S. in one piece.

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March 24, 1844

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The first telegraph message is sent between Washington and Baltimore.

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April 24-26, 1846

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The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) begins.

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March 6, 1852

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The U.S. Supreme Court hands down the Dred Scott decision, ruling that slaves are property and have no more rights than other property.

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Nov. 6, 1860

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Abraham Lincoln is elected the sixteenth U.S. president.

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April 12, 1861

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Southern forces fire on the federal Fort Sumter at Charleston, SC, beginning the Civil War (1861-1865).

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July 2-4, 1863

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In a massive battle near Gettysburg, PA, Union forces defeat a Confederate army in perhaps the most pivotal battle of the Civil War.

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April 14, 1865

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Abraham Lincoln shot while attending a play in Washington, D.C. He dies the next day.

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May 16, 1868

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The Senate votes 35-19 to remove President Andrew Johnson from office, one vote short of the two-thirds needed to do so.

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July 1868

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The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified, entitling all people born in the United States to U.S. citizenship and equal rights under the law.

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June 25, 1876

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A force of U.S. cavalry under Col. George A. Custer is wiped out by American Indian forces at the Little Big Horn River in Montana.

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May 6, 1896

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The U.S. Supreme Court, in Plessy v. Ferguson, rules that states have the right to legally segregate public facilities if they are “equal” in quality.

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Feb. 15, 1898

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The U.S. battleship Maine mysteriously explodes in Havana Harbor, triggering the Spanish-American War (1898).

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Dec. 17, 1903

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Wilbur and Orville Wright complete the first successful flights in a heavier-than-air machine at Kitty Hawk, NC.

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April 6, 1917

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The U.S. enters World War I (1914-1918).

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1920

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The first U.S. commercial radio station is established in Pittsburgh, PA.

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Oct. 24, 1929

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The New York Stock Exchange collapses on what becomes know as “Black Thursday”.

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Aug. 14, 1935

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Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a federal pension system.

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Dec. 7, 1941

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U.S. forces are attacked by a Japanese armada at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, drawing the U.S. into World War II.

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Aug. 6, 1945

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A U.S. plane drops an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan, effectively ending World War II.

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June 24, 1950

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North Korean troops invade South Korea. Within a week, U.S. troops are involved in the fighting beginning the Korean War (1950-1953).

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Nov. 22, 1963

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President John F. Kennedy is assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas.

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April 4, 1968

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Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated while on a motel balcony in Memphis, TN.

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1969

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More than 500,000 U.S. military personnel stationed in Vietnam during the Vietnam War (~1954/1965-1973/1975). AND in July 1969 American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Apollo 11 Lunar Module pilot Buzz Aldrin performed the first manned Moon landing.

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Aug. 8, 1974

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President Richard M. Nixon resigns the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal.

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Nov. 8, 1980

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Ronald Reagan is elected the fortieth U.S. president.

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Jan. 16, 1991

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U.S. and called forces launch giant aerial attack on Iraq beginning the Gulf War (1990-1991), four months after Iraq invaded neighboring Kuwait.

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Sep. 11, 2001

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Terrorist airplane hijackers destroy the World Trade Center in New York City.

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Oct. 7, 2001

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U.S. invades Afghanistan in response to 9/11 beginning the Afghanistan War (2001-Present).

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March 20, 2003

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Second invasion of Iraq begins with the U.S. launching a “shock and awe” bombing campaign beginning the Iraq War (2003-2011).

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Nov. 4, 2008

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Barack Obama is elected the 44th U.S. president.

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