Must-Know Dates Flashcards
(49 cards)
1
Q
Jamestown colony established
A
1607
2
Q
African slavery introduced to America
A
1619
3
Q
Mayflower Compact
A
1620
4
Q
Salem Witch Trials
A
1692
5
Q
Great Awakening
A
1739
6
Q
Stamp Act
A
1765
7
Q
Boston Tea Party
A
1773
8
Q
Lexington & Concord
A
1775
9
Q
US Wins American Revolution
A
1783
10
Q
US Constitution ratified
A
1788
11
Q
Cotton Gin invented
A
1793
12
Q
Thomas Jefferson elected president
A
1800
13
Q
Louisiana Purchase
A
1803
14
Q
War of 1812
A
1812
15
Q
Missouri Compromise
A
1820
16
Q
Monroe Doctrine
A
1823
17
Q
Andrew Jackson elected president
A
1828
18
Q
Trail of Tears
A
1838
19
Q
Seneca Falls Convention
A
1848
20
Q
California Gold Rush
A
1849
21
Q
Compromise of 1850
A
1850
22
Q
Fort Sumter attacked; Civil War began
A
1861
23
Q
Appomattox, Civil War ended
A
1865
24
Q
Compromise of 1877, Reconstruction ended
A
1877
25
Standard Oil Trust established
1881
26
Pullman Strike
1894
27
Spanish-American War
1898
28
Niagara Movement established by W.E.B. DuBois
1905
29
US entered World War I
1917
30
Scopes "Monkey" Trial
1925
31
Stock Market crash
1929
32
FDR Inaugurated; started 100 Days/New Deal
1933
33
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor/US entered World War II
1941
34
US used A-bomb on Hiroshima/WWII ended
1945
35
Korean War began/McCarthyism started
1950
36
Brown v. Board of Education decision
1954
37
Montgomery Bus Boycott
1955
38
Baby Boom peaked/Sputnik launched
1957
39
Cuban Missile crisis
1962
40
MLK "I Have a Dream" speech/JFK assassinated
1963
41
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1964
42
Voting Rights Act/LBJ "Great Society"
1965
43
Tet Offensive/MLK Assassinated
1968
44
Nixon resigned over Watergate Scandal
1974
45
Reagan Revolution began
1981
46
Berlin Wall fell/Cold War ended
1989
47
Gulf War I
1991
48
Clinton impeached
1998
49
Terrorists attacked US
2001
