Hub Dates - All

Question 1

1492

Answer 1

Columbus sails to America; end of Native American isolation

Question 2

1607

Answer 2

Jamestown becomes the first British colony in N. America

Question 3

1754

Answer 3

French and Indian War/Seven Years War begins

Question 4

1783

Answer 4

American Revolution ends with the Treaty of Paris

Question 5

1787

Answer 5

Northwest Ordinance est.; US Constitution

Question 6

1790s

Answer 6

Federalist and Anti-Federalists form

Question 7

1800

Answer 7

Jefferson elected (Revolution of 1800)

Question 8

1828

Answer 8

Andrew Jackson elected

Question 9

1820-1830s

Answer 9

Democrats and Whigs form

Question 10

1844

Answer 10

James Polk elected; symbolic of Manifest Destiny

Question 11

1848

Answer 11

Mexican-American War ends with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Question 12

1850

Answer 12

Compromise of 1850 attempts to resolve the issue of slavery

Question 13

1860

Answer 13

Lincoln elected without any electoral votes

Question 14

1865

Answer 14

Civil War ends, Reconstruction begins

Question 15

1877

Answer 15

Reconstruction ends

Question 16

1890

Answer 16

Gilded Age ends, Progressive era begins, “American Frontier” closed

Question 17

1896

Answer 17

Plessy v Ferguson

Question 18

1898

Answer 18

Spanish American War ends with Treaty of Paris

Question 19

1905

Answer 19

Upton Sinclair’s ‘The Jungle’ published

Question 20

1917/18

Answer 20

1st Red Scare, Wilson’s 14 Points, WW1 ends, Treaty of Versailles

Question 21

1929

Answer 21

Stock market crashes, Great Depression begins

Question 22

1930s

Answer 22

FDR’s New Deal

Question 23

1941

Answer 23

Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, US enters WW2

Question 24

1945

Answer 24

WWII ends with atom bomb, Cold War begins

Question 25

1954

Answer 25

Brown v Board of Education; Civil Rights movement begins

Question 26

1964

Answer 26

Civil Rights Act of 1964; Gulf of Tolkien incident

Question 27

1973

Answer 27

US exits Vietnam; OPEC embargo; Roe v Wade

Question 28

1980

Answer 28

Reagan elected

Question 29

1989

Answer 29

Fall of Berlin Wall

Question 30

2001

Answer 30

9/11 attacks and Patriot Acts