Unit 2 Dates ✔️ Flashcards
1
Q
Columbian Exchange begins; Triangular trade; mercantilism
A
1492
2
Q
First permanent English settlement at Jamestown
A
1607
3
Q
House of Burgesses founded; first enslaved Africans sold in the colonies
A
1619
4
Q
Bacon’s Rebellion; slavery over indentured servitude
A
1676
5
Q
Cotton Gin
A
1794
6
Q
Reconstruction Begins; sharecropping, peonage, convict labor
A
1865
7
Q
Reconstruction Ends; economy of the “New South”
A
1877
8
Q
Panic of 1893
A
1893
9
Q
Census reveals more urban than rural residents; roaring 20s
A
1920
10
Q
Stock market crashes ->Great Depression
A
1929
11
Q
New Deal begins
A
1932
12
Q
Start of the Baby Boom
A
1946
13
Q
Great Society Begins
A
1964
14
Q
Stagflation
A
1974
15
Q
Reagen Elected President/Reaganomics
A
1980
