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Dates
American Cultural Literacy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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) |