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