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dates 1850-2003 quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1861-1865 | civil war |
| 1869 | first transcontinental railroad |
| 1877 | reconstruction ends Edison's phonograph |
| 1879 | Edison's light bulb |
| 1896 | plessy vs ferguson separate but equal is ok |
| 1898 | Spanish american war |
| 1914-1919 | world war 1 |
| 1920 | 19th amendment |
| 1929 | stock market crash great depression |
| 1933 | FDR takes office |
| 1939-1945 | world war 2 |
| 1947 | marshal plan and truman doctine |
| 1950-1953 | korean war communism |
| 1954 | brown v. board separate but equal not ok |
| 1960-1963 | the Kennedy years. election, bay of pigs, missile crisis, assassination |
| 1963 | black revolution |
| 1964 | Vietnam war golf of tonkin resolution |
| 1969 | USA lands first man on the moon |
| 1974 | Watergate forces richard nixon to resign the presidency |
| 1980 | election of ronald reagan |
| 1981 | modern space age space shuttle |
| 1991 | gulf war |
| 2000 | presidential election |
| 20011 | 9/11 |
| 2003 | second gulf war/ operation iraqi freedom |