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American Cultural Literacy

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1492- 2things "Columbus sailed the ocean blue"- Moors defeated by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
1607 settlement at Jamestown, VA
1620 Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, MA
1776 American colonists declared independence from Britain
1789 French Revolution
1803- 3things Louisiana Purchase from Napoleon's France the effectively doubled the size of the US. World reached 1 billion people. Thomas Jefferson was president at the time.
1830's- 3things Mccormack invented the reaper, trains made transportation and communication easier. Morse invented the telegraph
1860's- 3things Civil War. Lincoln was 16th president of US; Industrial Revolution
1869- 2things Transcontinental Railroad finished(Golden Spike- Promontory, Utah), Suez Canal opened for traffic by way of 3 natural lakes, the Gulf of Suez, and the Indian Ocean
1914- 1918 The Great War/ World War 1
1917 Bolshevik Revolution led by Lenin to overthrow the Romanov Dynasty. Beginning of Communism which ended in Russia in 1991
1920 Women in America received suffrage
1929 October Stock market crashed on Black Thursday starting worldwide Depression
1939- 1945 World War II
1950- 1953 Korean War
1954 Brown vs. Board of Education-Supreme Court ruling that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and began integration in the US
1960's- 2things Vietnam War, civil rights in US
1989 Berlin Wall fell
1991 USSR fell, Desert Storm (first Gulf War)
2001 Declared war on Terrorism
2003 Invasions of Iraq (beginning of Second Gulf War)
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