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America Timeline

Scholar Bowl Practice

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Christopher Columbus "discovers" America (reaches the Bahamas) 1492
The founding of Jamestown, America’s first permanent English colony, in Virginia 1607
American Revolution 1775-1783 (First shots fired at Lexington & Concord Massachusetts. Ended when Treaty of Paris signed.)
Declaration of Independence 1776
Constitution in operation 1789 (written in 1787, ratified in 1788)
George Washington inaugurated as President 1789
Louisiana Purchase 1803 (530 million acres for $15 million)
War of 1812 1812-1815 (US fought with Britain over impressment of sailors, trade issues, and western expansion)
Mexican-American War 1846-1848 (stemmed from US annexing Texas)
California Gold Rush 1848-1855 (gold discovered at Sutter's Mill)
Civil War Apr 12, 1861 – Apr 9, 1865
Gilded Age 1869–1896 (rapid economic growth)
Spanish American War 1898 (Remember the Maine! - US ship sunk off coast of Cuba lead to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.)
Progressive Era 1896–1917 widespread social activism and political reform to defeat corruption, monopoly, waste, and inefficiency
World War I (the Great War) 1914-1918 (Began with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, ended 11th hour of 11th day of 11th month. Treaty of Versailles was official end 1919.)
US entered WW I 1917
Prohibition 1920-1933
Stock Market Crash 1929
Great Depression 1929-1939
World War II 1939-1945
US entered WW II 1941 (After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor Dec 7, 1941 -"a date which will live in infamy." -FDR
D-Day (Turning point in WW II) June 6, 1944 (Allied Forces stormed beaches of Normandy, France- liberated France)
Korean War 1950-1953
Vietnam War (US involvement) 1965-1973
US landing on the moon 1969
Watergate scandal 1972
Gulf War 1990-1991
War in Afganistan 2001-2021
Iraq War 2003-2011
9-11: Al-Qaeda terrorist attacks using hijacked airliners (World Trade Center, Pentagon, plane crash in Pennsylvania) 2001
Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989
Passing of 19th amendment (women right to vote) 1920
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