Timeline Flashcards
Columbus
1492
Native Americans
20,000 B.C
Spanish Armada
1588
Jamestown
1607
Plymouth
1620
Declaration of Independence
1776 (Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin)
Articles of Confederation
1777
The Constitution
1789 (James Madison, Alexander Hamilton)
Bill of Rights
1791
Louisiana Purchase
1803 (Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark)
The War of 1812
1812 (Andrew Jackson)
Missouri Compromise
1820
Monroe Doctrine
1823
Oregon Trail begins
1841
US/Mexican War
1846-1848
California Gold Rush
1849
Compromise of 1850
1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
1854
Civil War
1861-65 (Abraham Lincoln)
Reconstruction
1865-77
Spanish American War
1898 (Theodore Roosevelt)
World War I
1914-18 (Woodrow Wilson)
19th Amendment
1920 (Woman’s Suffrage)
Jazz Age
1920’s Jazz Age
The Great Depression
1929-39 (Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal)
World War II
1939-45
Cold War
1947-91 (Harry Truman)
1955-65
Civil Rights Movement (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)
Vietnam War
1960-73 (Lyndon Johnson)
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962 (John Kennedy)
JFK assassinated
1963
MLK Jr. and Robert Kennedy assassinated
1968
Watergate
1972-74 (Richard Nixon)
Iran Hostage Crisis
1979 (Jimmy Carter)