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U.S. History FWTL
FWTL Dates for the FINAL!
Term | Definition |
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1492 | Columbus Arrives |
1607 | Jamestown established |
1620 | Pilgrims Found Plymouth Colony |
1775-81 | Revolutionary War |
1776 | Declaration of Independence Signed |
1787-88 | U.S. Constitution Drafted and Ratified |
1791 | Bill of Rights Ratified |
1803-05 | Louisiana Purchase & Lewis & Clark Expedition |
1838 | Trail of Tears |
1843-90 | Oregon Trail & Settlement of the West |
1858-86 | Plains Indian Wars |
1861-65 | Civil War |
1865-77 | Reconstruction |
1868 | Black Citizenship (14th Amendment) |
1870 | Right to Vote (15th Amendment) |
1869 | Transcontinental Railroad Completed |
1890 | Massacre at Wounded Knee |
1896 | Plessy v. Ferguson |
1900-20 | Progressive Era |
1903 | Wright Brothers Fly an Airplane |
1913 | Henry Ford Mass Produces the Model T |
1914-18 | World War I |
1918-29 | Roaring '20s |
1920 | Women Gain Right to Vote (19th Amendment) |
1929 | Stock Market Crash |
1929-42 | Great Depression |
1933-38 | New Deal |
1939-45 | World War II |
1945 | Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima |
1945-89 | Cold War |
1950-54 | McCarthyism |
1954 | Brown v. Board of Education |
1955-1968(?) | Civil Rights Movement |
1963 | Assassination of President Kennedy |
1964-73 | Vietnam War |
1972-74 | Watergate |
1980-89 | Reagan Revolution |
1991 | World Wide Web Goes Public |
2001 | 9/11 |
2003-11 | Iraq War |
2008 | Election of President Obama |