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Important dates in US history
Question | Answer |
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Columbus lands in America | 1492 |
Founding of Jamestown VA | 1607 |
French and Indian War | 1754-1763 |
Declaration of Independence | 1776 |
Articles of Confederation | 1781 |
US Constitution signed | 1787 |
Louisiana Purchase | 1803 |
War of 1812 with Britain | 1812-1814 |
Nullification Crisis | 1831-1833 |
Indian Removal - Trail of Tears | 1830s |
Texas breaks from Mexico | 1836 |
War with Mexico | 1846-1848 |
Civil War | 1861-1865 |
First transcontinental railroad | 1869 |
End of reconstruction | 1877 |
Battle of Wounded Knee | 1890 |
Populist party formed | 1892 |
USS Maine sinks in Havana | 1898 |
Spanish-American war | 1898 |
Annexation of Hawaii | 1898 |
NAACP formed | 1909 |
Panama Canal completed | 1914 |
World War I | 1914-1918 |
US enters WW I | 1917 |
Prohibition | 1919-1933 |
Red Scare | 1920 |
Stock market crashes | 1929 |
Dust Bowl | 1933-1936 |
New Deal begins | 1933 |
Hitler Invades Poland | 1939 |
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor | 1941 |
US Involvement in WWII | 1941-1945 |
Atomic bombs devastate Japan | August 1945 |
Korean War | 1950-1953 |
McCarthyism | 1950-1954 |
American Involvement in Vietnam | 1954-1973 |
Brown v Board of Education | 1954 |
Sputnik | 1957 |
Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba | 1961 |
Berlin Wall built | 1961 |
Cuban Missile crisis | 1962 |
March on Washing; King's speech | 1963 |
Kennedy assassinated | 1963 |
Tonkin Gulf Resolution | 1964 |
Tet offensive | 1968 |
Equal rights amendment | 1972 |
Watergate scandal; Nixon resigns | 1974 |
Iran holds Americans hostage | 1979-1981 |
Fall of Berlin Wall, breakup of Soviet Union | 1989-1991 |
Persian Gulf War | 1990-1991 |