Dates

Question 1

1492

Answer 1

Christopher Columbus discovers America

Question 2

1521

Answer 2

Hernan Cortez conquered the aztecs

Question 3

1587

Answer 3

Roanoke colony was founded

Question 4

1754-1763

Answer 4

French and Indian war

Question 5

1803

Answer 5

Louisiana Purchase

Question 6

1812

Answer 6

War of 1812, causes the federalists to fall

Question 7

1816

Answer 7

Second bank of the US

Question 8

1820

Answer 8

Missouri Compromise

Question 9

1832

Answer 9

Second bank chartered in 1836

Question 10

1833

Answer 10

Whig party is created

Question 11

1819

Answer 11

Maryland v McCulloch (Federal law overrides state law)

Question 12

1828

Answer 12

Tariff of abomination

Question 13

1831

Answer 13

Nat turner rebellion

Question 14

1831

Answer 14

The liberator by William Loyd Garrison

Question 15

1837

Answer 15

John C Calhoun says slavery is positively good

Question 16

1844

Answer 16

James K Polk elected exansionist

Question 17

1845

Answer 17

John O’ Sullivan coined term Manifest destiny

Question 18

1846

Answer 18

Wilmot Proviso

Question 19

1846-1848

Answer 19

Mexican American war, 150000 war

Question 20

1848

Answer 20

Treaty of Guadalupe, ending Mexican American war, increases US size by 1/3

Question 21

1850

Answer 21

compromise of 1850

Question 22

1852

Answer 22

Uncle Tom’s cabin, by harriet

Question 23

1854

Answer 23

Kansas Nebraska act, causes whig party to fall

Question 24

1855

Answer 24

Know nothing party is formed
nativism = against immigration

Question 25

1856

Answer 25

Bessemer process increased production of steel

Question 26

1861

Answer 26

civil war (600,000 - 700,000)

Question 27

1862

Answer 27

Homestead act

Question 28

1863

Answer 28

emancipation proclamation

Question 29

1865

Answer 29

13th amendment, abolishment of slavery, frees 4 million

Question 30

1866

Answer 30

14th amendment gave citizenship back to those born in US

Question 31

1866

Answer 31

KKK is formed

Question 32

1867

Answer 32

Reconstruction act, terms to readmission with northerners not happy, South is placed under military from republicans

Question 33

1869

Answer 33

First transcontinental railroad made

Question 34

1870

Answer 34

15th amendment gave black people the right to vote

Question 35

1871

Answer 35

KKK act

Question 36

1873

Answer 36

Third Great Awakening

Question 37

1873

Answer 37

Panic of 1873, due to losing confidence

Question 38

1873

Answer 38

Credit Mobilier Scandal

Question 39

1876

Answer 39

Telephone created by Alexander Graham Bell

Question 40

1877

Answer 40

Compromise of 1877