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1-9 Dates/Presidents
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1492 | Columbus, Spanish, Columbian Exchange |
| 1607 | First permanent English colony: Jamestown |
| 1619 | First slaves in Jamestown & House of Burgesses |
| 1620 | Plymouth founded (Puritans) in New England |
| 1676 | Bacon's Rebellion |
| 1680 | Pueblo Revolt |
| 1754 | French and Indian War begins (7 Years' War) |
| 1763 | Treaty of Paris ends the 7 Years' War, Pontiac's Rebellion, & Proclamation Line |
| 1765 | Stamp Act, first direct tax, "no taxation without representation" |
| 1775 | American Revolution begins; Lexington and Concord, Second Continental Congress; Articles of Confederation |
| 1776 | Thomas Paine's Common Sense & the Declaration of Independence |
| 1783 | Treaty of Paris: end of American Revolution & beginning of U.S. under Articles of Confederation |
| 1787 | Northwest Ordinance & Constitution |
| 1788 | Constitution ratified by 9 states & takes effect |
| 1791 | Bill of Rights added to Constitution |
| 1790s | First Two-Party System, Hamilton vs. Jefferson |
| 1800 | Election of Thomas Jefferson |
| 1803 | Louisiana Purchase, Marbury v. Madison |
| 1808 | Slave importation ends (Slavery Compromise 1789) |
| 1812 | War of 1812 begins |
| 1815 | Treaty of Ghent ends the War of 1812; Hartford Resolutions arrive in D.C., end of Federalist Party, beginning of Era of Good Feelings |
| 1820 | Missouri Compromise |
| 1823 | Monroe Doctrine |
| 1824 | "Corrupt Bargain" election, beginning of Democratic Party (pro-Jackson movement) |
| 1828 | Andrew Jackson elected, Era of the Common Man |
| 1820s-1830s | Second Two-Party System, Jackson vs. Clay |
| 1844 | Election of Polk; Manifest Destiny |
| 1846 | Mexican-American War begins |
| 1848 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexican Cession, end of Mexican-American War; Seneca Falls Convention |
| 1850 | Compromise of 1850 |
| 1854 | Kansas Nebraska Act; Republican Party |
| 1857 | Dred Scott v. Sanford |
| 1860 | Election of Abraham Lincoln, secession begins |
| 1861 | Beginning of Civil War, Battle of Fort Sumter |
| 1862 | Homestead Act, Pacific Railway Act, Treasury System, Morrill Act; Antietam |
| 1863 | Battle of Gettysburg, Gettysburg Address, Battle of Vicksburg, Emancipation Proclamation |
| 1865 | Civil War ends; assassination of Lincoln; 13th Amendment |
| 1877 | End of Radical Reconstruction; Compromise of 1877; Jim Crow begins |
| 1890 | Wounded Knee; Closure of the West (frontier "closed"); Sherman Antitrust Act |
| 1892 | People's Party (Populist Third Party) nationwide |
| 1896 | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| 1898 | Spanish American War/beginning of imperialism |
| 1917 | U.S. enters W.W.I; Fourteen Points |
| 1918 | W.W.I ends |
| 1919 | First Red Scare; Red Summer |
| 1920 | 19th Amendment; Treaty of Versailles not ratified |
| 1920s | More urban than rural; culture conflicts |
| 1929 | Stock Market Crash; beginning of Great Depression |
| 1933 | FDR's New Deal begins |
| 1941 | Pearl Harbor, U.S. enters W.W.II; Depression ends |
| 1945 | End of W.W.II; atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; beginning of Cold War ("iron curtain" descends) |
| 1949 | NATO; USSR atomic bomb; China=communist |
| 1950 | Korean War begins |
| 1953 | Korean War ends; armistice and DMZ |
| 1954 | Brown v. Board of Education |
| 1957 | Sputnik; beginning of space race |
| 1963 | March on Washington; JFK assassinated |
| 1964 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; LBJ's Great Society, Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| 1965 | Voting Rights Act; Immigration Act |
| 1968 | MLK and RFK assassinated, Tet Offensive, Chicago Riot, silent majority, race riots, anti-war escalates |
| 1973 | Vietnam War ends with armistice |
| 1974 | Watergate Scandal |
| 1975 | Fall of Saigon |
| 1980 | Election of Ronald Reagan; conservative resurgence |
| 1989 | Berlin Wall falls, end of Cold War with USSR |
| 2000 | Bush v. Gore |
| 2001 | 9/11; Patriot Acts: DHS, NSA |
| 2008 | Great Recession; election of Barack Obama |
| George Washington | 1789-1797 |
| John Adams | 1797-1801 |
| Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 |
| James Madison | 1809-1817 |
| James Monroe | 1817-1825 |
| John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 |
| Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 |
| James K. Polk | 1845-1849 |
| Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 |
| Andrew Johnson | 1865-1869 |
| Ulysses S. Grant | 1869-1877 |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | 1877-1881 |
| William McKinley | 1897-1901 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | 1901-1909 |
| William Howard Taft | 1909-1913 |
| Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 |
| Warren G. Harding | 1921-1923 |
| Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 |
| Herbert Hoover | 1929-1933 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1933-1945 |
| Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 |
| Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 |
| John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 |
| Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 |
| Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 |
| Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 |
| Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 |
| George H.W. Bush | 1989-1993 |
| Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 |
| George W. Bush | 2001-2009 |
| Barack Obama | 2009-2017 |
| Donald Trump | 2017-2021 |
| Joe Biden | 2021-Currently in Office |
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