The Dates. Flashcards
21
Q
Exploration of the New World
A
1492
22
Q
Columbian Exchange commences
A
1492
23
Q
Jamestown founding
A
1607
24
Q
Massachusetts Bay Colony founding
A
1630
25
Q
“City Upon a Hill”
A
1630
26
Q
End of French & Indian War
A
1763
27
Q
Proclamation Line
A
1763
28
Q
Pontiac’s Rebellion
A
1763
29
Q
Quartering Act
A
1765
30
Q
Stamp Act
A
1765
31
Q
Stamp Act Congress
A
1765
32
Q
“No taxation without representation”
A
1765
33
Q
Common Sense
A
1776
34
Q
Declaration of Independence
A
1776
35
Q
Start of the American Revolution
A
1776
36
Q
Constitutional Convention
A
1787
37
Q
Invention of the Cotton Gin
A
1793
38
Q
Proclamation of Neutrality
A
1793
39
Q
Washington’s Farewell Address
A
1796
40
Q
Presidential Election - Adams vs. Jefferson
A
1800
41
Q
Marbury v. Madison
A
1803
42
Q
Louisiana Purchase
A
1803
43
Q
Hartford Convention
A
1814
44
Q
Election of Andrew Jackson
A
1828
45
Tariff of Abominations
1828
46
Seneca Falls Convention
1848
47
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
1848
48
Kansas-Nebraska Act
1854
49
Birth of Republican Party
1854
50
Lincoln Inauguration
1861
51
Fort Sumter
1861
52
Appomattox Court House
1865
53
Lincoln’s assassination
1865
54
Reconstruction begins
1865
55
13th Amendment
1865
56
The Compromise of 1877
1877
57
Great Railroad Strike
1877
58
Ocala Platform
1890
59
Sherman Antitrust Act
1890
60
McKinley Tariff
1890
61
How the Other Half Lives published
1890
62
Bryan’s “Cross of Gold” Speech
1896
63
Plessy v. Ferguson
1896
64
De Lôme Letter
1898
65
Spanish-American War
1898
66
Annexation of Hawaii
1898
67
Assassination of McKinley
1901
68
T. Roosevelt becomes President
1901
69
Platt Amendment
1901
70
Big Stick Diplomacy
1901
71
USA enters The Great War
1917
72
Stock Market Crash
1929
73
Start of Great Depression
1929
74
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s inauguration
“nothing to fear
75
New Deal
1933
76
21st Amendment
1933
77
FDR dies
1945
78
Truman becomes president
1945
79
Dropping of two Atomic Bombs
1945
80
End of WWII
1945
81
Start of Baby Boom
1945
82
Start of Cold War
1945
83
Establishment of United Nations
1945
84
Montgomery Bus Boycott
1955
85
Lyndon B. Johnson elected
1964
86
Civil Rights Act of 1964
1964
87
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
1964
88
Tet Offensive
1968
89
My Lai Massacre
1968
90
LBJ doesn’t run
1968
91
Martin Luther King assassination
1968
92
Robert F. Kennedy assassination
1968
93
Chicago riots during Democratic Convention
1968
94
NOW protests Miss America
1968
95
Election of Nixon
1968
96
Star Trek first interracial kiss
1968
97
Apollo 8 mission
1968
98
Roe v. Wade
1973
99
War Powers Act
1973
100
Oil Embargo
1973
101
Reagan elected
1980
102
Conservative resurgence
1980
103
Breakup of Soviet Union
1991
104
End of Cold War
1991
105
START I
1991
106
9/11
2001
107
The PATRIOT Act
2001
108
Affordable Care Act
2010
109
Repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
2010
