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US History Dates 3
US History Dates - 1850-1935
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin | 1852 |
| Civil War began with the firing on Fort Sumpter | 1861 |
| Emancipation Proclamation & Gettysburg | 1863 |
| General Lee surrenders | 1865 |
| Custer's Last Stand | 1876 - Custer |
| France gives Statue of Liberty to USA | 1876 - France |
| Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone | 1876 - invention |
| Thomas Edison invents the light bulb | 1879 |
| Spanish-American War | 1898 |
| Orville & Wilbur Wright take their flight | 1903 |
| Great earthquakes & fires level 4 miles of San Francisco | 1906 |
| Henry Ford's Model T | 1908 |
| World War I | 1914 - 1918 |
| Panama Canal is finished | 1914 |
| Treaty of Versailles ends WW I | 1918 |
| Charles Lindbergh took his flight from NY to Paris (3600 miles) | 1927 |
| Stock market crashes - Great Depression follows | 1929 |
| Roosevelt introduces "The New Deal" | 1933 |
| The Great Dust Bowl | 1934 |