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Events and Significa
Important Events and Their Significance
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Treaty of Paris | Ended the French and Indian War |
| Declaration of Independance | first time a colony broke away from it's mother country |
| Ratification of the Constitution | created a more perfect nation |
| Revolution of 1800 | first time the Democrat-Republicans won election |
| Louisiana Purchase | gained control of the Missippi River & doubled size of the country |
| Treaty of Ghent | ended war of 1812 |
| Treaty of Guatalupe Hidalgo | ended mexican war |
| Outbreak of the civil war | ended any chance of settling the issue of slaver peacfully |
| End of the Civil war | Reunified the nations |
| Hayes won election of 1776 | he agreed to take union troups out of the South |
| Outbreak of WW1 in Europe | end of an almost peaceful century |
| Treaty of Versailles | end of WW1 |
| Stock Market Crash | ended a long era of American Prosperity |
| Japenese attack on Pearl Harbor | brought america into WW2 |
| End of WW2 | ushered in the Atomic Age |
| Brown vs. Board of Education | overturned the Supreme Court decision of "seperate but equal" |
| Sit in's in Greensbourough | beginging of the Civil Rights Movement |
| Passage of the Civil Rights Act | outlawed segrigation in public facilities |
| Assasination of Martin Luther King Jr. & Robert Kennedy | end of the Civil Rights Movement |
| Paris Peace Agreement | end of the cold war |
| Tearing down of the Berlin Wall | collapse of the Soviet Union |
| Republican Landslide | party's first control of both house and senate |