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Timeline quiz #2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Compromise of 1850 | 1850 |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | 1854 |
| Civil War | 1861-1865 |
| Radical Reconstruction | 1867-1877 |
| cattle drives | 1880s |
| Dawes Act | 1887 |
| Homestead Strike at Carnegie Steel | 1892 |
| Atlanta Compromise of Booker T. Washington | 1895 |
| Plessy v Ferguson | 1896 |
| Spanish-American War begins | 1898 |
| US enters World War I | 1917 |
| women vote for Prez for 1st time (19th Amendment) | 1920 |
| Immigration Quota Act (limited SE immigration; racist) | 1924 |
| stock market crash starts Great Depression | 1929 |
| FDR elected and starts New Deal | 1933 |
| Pearl Harbor pulls US into World War II | 1941 |
| Korean War begins | 1950 |
| Brown v Board of Education | 1954 |
| Kennedy-Nixon Debates | 1960 |
| Bay of Pigs Invasion and Cuban Missile Crisis | 1961-62 |
| Vietnam War | 1965-1973 |
| Richard Nixon resigns as a result of Watergate | 1974 |
| Iran-Hostage Crisis | 1979 |
| Ronald Regan elected President | 1980 |