US History Dates

Question 1

Christopher Columbus lands in the Bahamas

Answer 1

1492

Question 2

Slave trade begins as millions of Africans are shipped to America

Answer 2

1580

Question 3

English build a settlement in Jamestown, VA

Answer 3

1607

Question 4

The Mayflower arrives in MA

Answer 4

1620

Question 5

French and Indian War

Answer 5

1754

Question 6

British Parliament passes the Stamp Act, taxing the colonists

Answer 6

1765

Question 7

Boston Tea Party

Answer 7

1773

Question 8

American Revolution

Answer 8

1775-1783

Question 9

Declaration of Independence

Answer 9

July 1776

Question 10

US Constitution Written

Answer 10

1787

Question 11

US buys 800,000 square miles from Napoleon for $15 mill in what?

Answer 11

Louisiana Purchase, 1803

Question 12

Battle of the Alamo

Answer 12

1836

Question 13

Trail of Tears

Answer 13

1838-1839

Question 14

Gold Rush

Answer 14

1848

Question 15

Civil War starts

Answer 15

1861

Question 16

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 16

1863

Question 17

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 17

1865

Question 18

Alexander Graham Bell invents telephone

Answer 18

1876

Question 19

Wright Brothers invent the airplane

Answer 19

1903

Question 20

World War I

Answer 20

1914

Question 21

US joins WW1

Answer 21

1917

Question 22

WW1 ends with this treaty

Answer 22

Treaty of Versailles, 1918

Question 23

Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic

Answer 23

1927

Question 24

New Deal

Answer 24

1933

Question 25

WW2 Begins

Answer 25

September 3, 1939

Question 26

Pearl Harbor

Answer 26

December 7, 1941

Question 27

Japanese to internment camps

Answer 27

1942

Question 28

D-Day

Answer 28

June 6, 1944

Question 29

Germany surrenders

Answer 29

May 7, 1945

Question 30

Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

Answer 30

Aug 6, 1945

Question 31

Japan surrenders, ending WW2

Answer 31

Aug 14, 1945

Question 32

UN established

Answer 32

1945

Question 33

Jackie Robinson plays in his first MLB game

Answer 33

1947

Question 34

Israel is created

Answer 34

1948

Question 35

Germany divided to West and East

Answer 35

1949

Question 36

NATO is formed with twelve charter nations

Answer 36

1949

Question 37

Korean War begins

Answer 37

1950

Question 38

Supreme court orders desegregation

Answer 38

1954

Question 39

Rosa Parks

Answer 39

1955

Question 40

Soviets launch Sputnik 1

Answer 40

1957

Question 41

Yuri Gagarin first man in space

Answer 41

1961

Question 42

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 42

1962

Question 43

MLK Jr Assassinated

Answer 43

1968

Question 44

Apolo 11 reaches the moon, Buzz Aldrin + Neil Armstrong first men on the phone

Answer 44

July 20, 1969

Question 45

Space shuttle Challenger explodes

Answer 45

1986

Question 46

Cold War ends

Answer 46

1989

Question 47

First gulf war

Answer 47

1991

Question 48

Columbine shooting

Answer 48

1999