Unit 2 Dates ✔️ Flashcards
1
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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
Whiskey Rebellion; First bank of the US
A
1791
6
Q
Cotton Gin
A
1794
7
Q
Henry Clay proposed the American System
A
1816
8
Q
Passage of Homestead Act, Morrill lang grant acts, Pacific Railway Act
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1862
9
Q
Reconstruction Begins; sharecropping, peonage, convict labor
A
1865
10
Q
Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
A
1869
11
Q
Reconstruction Ends; economy of the “New South”
A
1877
12
Q
Panic of 1893
A
1893
13
Q
Census reveals more urban than rural residents; roaring 20s
A
1920
14
Q
Stock market crashes ->Great Depression
A
1929
15
Q
New Deal begins
A
1932
