The Dates. Part II

Question 1

1492

Answer 1

Exploration of the New World, Columbian Exchange commences

Question 2

1607

Answer 2

Jamestown founding

Question 3

1630

Answer 3

Massachusetts Bay Colony founding, City Upon a Hill

Question 4

1763

Answer 4

End of French & Indian War, Proclamation Line, Pontiac’s Rebellion

Question 5

1765

Answer 5

Quartering Act, Stamp Act, Stamp Act Congress, No taxation without representation

Question 6

1776

Answer 6

Common Sense, Declaration of Independence, Start of the American Revolution

Question 7

1787

Answer 7

Constitutional Convention

Question 8

1793

Answer 8

Invention of the Cotton Gin, Proclamation of Neutrality

Question 9

1796

Answer 9

Washington’s Farewell Address

Question 10

1800

Answer 10

Presidential Election - Adams vs. Jefferson

Question 11

1803

Answer 11

Marbury v. Madison, Louisiana Purchase

Question 12

1814

Answer 12

Hartford Convention

Question 13

1828

Answer 13

Election of Andrew Jackson, Tariff of Abominations

Question 14

1848

Answer 14

Seneca Falls Convention, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Question 15

1854

Answer 15

Kansas-Nebraska Act, Birth of Republican Party

Question 16

1861

Answer 16

Lincoln Inauguration, Fort Sumter

Question 17

1865

Answer 17

Appomattox Court House, Lincoln’s assassination, Reconstruction begins, 13th Amendment

Question 18

1877

Answer 18

The Compromise of 1877, Great Railroad Strike

Question 19

1890

Answer 19

Ocala Platform, Sherman Antitrust Act, McKinley Tariff, How the Other Half Lives published

Question 20

1896

Answer 20

Bryan’s Cross of Gold Speech, Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 21

1898

Answer 21

De Lôme Letter, Spanish-American War, Annexation of Hawaii

Question 22

1901

Answer 22

Assassination of McKinley, T. Roosevelt becomes President, Platt Amendment, Big Stick Diplomacy

Question 23

1917

Answer 23

USA enters The Great War

Question 24

1929

Answer 24

Stock Market Crash, Start of Great Depression

Question 25

1933

Answer 25

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s inauguration, nothing to fear but fear itself, New Deal, 21st Amendment

Question 26

1945

Answer 26

FDR dies, Truman becomes president, Dropping of two Atomic Bombs, End of WWII, Start of Baby Boom, Start of Cold War, Establishment of United Nations

Question 27

1955

Answer 27

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Question 28

1964

Answer 28

Lyndon B. Johnson elected, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Tonkin Gulf Resolution

Question 29

1968

Answer 29

Tet Offensive, My Lai Massacre, LBJ doesn’t run, Martin Luther King assassination, Robert F. Kennedy assassination, Chicago riots during Democratic Convention, NOW protests Miss America, Election of Nixon, Star Trek first interracial kiss, Apollo 8 mission

Question 30

1973

Answer 30

Roe v. Wade, War Powers Act, Oil Embargo

Question 31

1980

Answer 31

Reagan elected, Conservative resurgence

Question 32

1991

Answer 32

Breakup of Soviet Union, End of Cold War, START I

Question 33

2001

Answer 33

9/11, The PATRIOT Act

Question 34

2010

Answer 34

Affordable Care Act, Repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell