Cycle 3 History Sentences fill in Dates (WK1-22) Flashcards
Fill in the date of the history sentence
In _______, Columbus made the first of four trips to the Caribbean on three Spanish ships named the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
1492
In ______, the Pilgrims sailed from Plymouth, England, and signed the Mayflower compact before founding Plymouth colony in North America.
1620
In _____, colonists disguised as Mohawks dumped tea from the British East India Company into the Boston Harbor.
1773
In _____, the Continental Congress published the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia announcing the colonists’ intent to separate from England.
1776
In _______, in New York, George Washington was granted the full powers and responsibilities of the presidency by the U.S. Constitution.
1789
In ______, the purchase of Louisiana from France prompted westward exploration by pioneers such as Lewis and Clark and Congressman Davy Crockett.
1803
After victory in the War of _____-, the United States wrote the Monroe Doctrine, which warned Europeans not to attempt to colonize the Americas.
1812
In _____, Henry Clay worked out the Missouri Compromise, allowing Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
1820
The Compromise of _______, the Fugitive Slave Act, and the Dred Scott decision, preceded the secession of the Southern States.
1850
President Polk believed that the Mexican War and the Gadsen Purchase in the ______-_- affirmed America’s manifest destiny to spread across the continent.
mid-1800s
In _____, the Civil War began when President Abraham Lincoln went to war with the Southern States that had seceded from the Union.
1861
In _____, General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
1865
In _______, the Fourteenth Amendment made all former slaves U.S. citizens and paved the way for the Civil Rights Movement.
1868
During the _______, tycoons like Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Swift fueled the nation’s Industrial Age by developing American resources.
late 1800s
From ________, more than 37 million immigrants came to America, seeking freedom and the opportunity to increase their personal wealth.
1820 to 1930