Cycle 3 History Sentences fill in Dates (WK1-22) Flashcards

Fill in the date of the history sentence

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In _______, Columbus made the first of four trips to the Caribbean on three Spanish ships named the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.

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1492

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In ______, the Pilgrims sailed from Plymouth, England, and signed the Mayflower compact before founding Plymouth colony in North America.

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1620

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In _____, colonists disguised as Mohawks dumped tea from the British East India Company into the Boston Harbor.

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1773

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In _____, the Continental Congress published the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia announcing the colonists’ intent to separate from England.

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1776

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In _______, in New York, George Washington was granted the full powers and responsibilities of the presidency by the U.S. Constitution.

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1789

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In ______, the purchase of Louisiana from France prompted westward exploration by pioneers such as Lewis and Clark and Congressman Davy Crockett.

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1803

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After victory in the War of _____-, the United States wrote the Monroe Doctrine, which warned Europeans not to attempt to colonize the Americas.

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1812

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In _____, Henry Clay worked out the Missouri Compromise, allowing Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.

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1820

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The Compromise of _______, the Fugitive Slave Act, and the Dred Scott decision, preceded the secession of the Southern States.

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1850

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President Polk believed that the Mexican War and the Gadsen Purchase in the ______-_- affirmed America’s manifest destiny to spread across the continent.

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mid-1800s

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In _____, the Civil War began when President Abraham Lincoln went to war with the Southern States that had seceded from the Union.

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1861

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In _____, General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.

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1865

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In _______, the Fourteenth Amendment made all former slaves U.S. citizens and paved the way for the Civil Rights Movement.

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1868

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During the _______, tycoons like Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Swift fueled the nation’s Industrial Age by developing American resources.

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late 1800s

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From ________, more than 37 million immigrants came to America, seeking freedom and the opportunity to increase their personal wealth.

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1820 to 1930

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In ______, President Wilson asked Congress to enter World War I against the Central Powers two years after German U-boats sank the Lusitania, killing American citizens.

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1917

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony led the women’s suffrage movement in teh United States, resulting in teh Nineteenth Amendment in ______ that granted women the right to vote.

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1920

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On ______________, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, causing the United States to join the Allies in World War II.

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December 7, 1941

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In _____-, the United States and its allies formed NATO to resist the spread of Soviet communism.

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1949

20
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In _____, in Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the segregation of public schools by race is unconstitutional.

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1954

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In ______, U.S. astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin were the first men to walk on the moon.

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1969

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On ________, terrorists hijacked four airplanes. They flew two into the World Trade Center in New York city and one into the Pentagon in Washington, DC. The fourth plane crashed into a Pennsylvania field.

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September 11, 2001

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We the People of the United States in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

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Tell me the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution.

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  1. Freedoms
  2. Own guns
  3. Quartering soldiers
  4. Warrants
  5. Cannot testify against self
  6. Right to speedy trial
  7. Right to a jury
  8. Cruel, unusual punishment
  9. People’s rights
  10. State’s rights
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Tell me about the Bill of the Rights.