APUSH Dates Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
1607 | Jamestown founded |
1612 | New process for curing tobacco leads to success of Jamestown |
1619 | First group of African slaves arrives in Jamestown/first legislative assembly meets in Virginia |
1620 | First pilgrims arrive in Plymouth |
1676 | Bacon's Rebellion |
1739-1744 | First Great Awakening |
1754-1763 | French and Indian War |
1764-1765 | Sugar and Stamp Acts |
1766 | Declaratory Act |
1767 | Townshend Act |
1770 | Boston Massacre |
1773 | Boston Tea Party |
1774 | First Continental Congress |
1775 | Fighting begins at Lexington and Concord |
1776 | Declaration of Independence signed |
1777 | British defeated at Saratoga |
1778 | French join the Revolutionary War |
1781 | Battle of Yorktown/Articles of Confederation |
1783 | Treaty of Paris ends the Revolutionary War |
1787 | Constitutional Convention |
1788 | Federalist Papers published/Constitution ratified |
1789 | George Washington becomes president |
1794 | Whiskey Rebellion |
1795 | Jay Treaty/Pinckney Treaty |
1798 | Alien and Sedition Acts/Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions |
1803 | Louisiana Purchase |
1808 | Slave trade outlawed |
1809 | Non-Intercourse Act |
1812 | War with England |
1814 | Treaty of Ghent |
1820 | Missouri Compromise |
1823 | Monroe Doctrine |
1828 | Andrew Jackson elected |
1831 | Nat Turner's Rebellion |
1834 | Whig Party created |
1835 | Texas Revolution |
1840's | Manifest Destiny |
1846 | Mexican War begins |
1848 | Treaty of Guadelope Hidalgo/U.S. acquires California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado |
1849 | Gold discovered in California |
1850 | Compromise of 1850 = California admitted as a Free State and Fugitive Slave Law strengthened |
1854 | Kansas-Nebraska Act/Republican Party formed |
1858 | Lincoln Douglas Debates |
1859 | John Brown's Raid |
1860 | Democratic Party Splits/Abraham Lincoln elected/Lower states secede |
1861 | Confederate States of America is formed/Civil War begins/Upper South secedes/North is defeated at Bull Run |
1862 | Battle of Antietam/Emancipation Proclamation |
1864 | Sherman's March to the Sea |
1865 | Sherman takes North and South Carolina/Lee surrenders/13th ammendment/Lincoln assasinated/Andrew Johnson becomes president/KKK formed |
1867 | Reconstruction begins/Alaska purchased |
1868 | 14th ammendment |
1870 | 15th ammendment |
1876 | End of Reconstruction/Battle of Little Big Horn |
1886 | Haymarket Riots |
1890 | Sherman Anti-Trust Act passed |
1890-1920 | 15 million immigrants arrive in U.S. |
1898 | War with Spain/Hawaii annexed |
1899 | Peace with Spain/U.S. receives Philippines, Samoa, Guam, and Puerto Rico |
1901 | Theodore Roosevelt becomes president |
1904-1914 | Panama Canal Built |
1912 | Election of Woodrow Wilson |
1913 | 16th and 17th ammendment |
1914 | World War I begins |
1915 | Lusitania sunk/KKK revived |
1916 | Sussex pledge |
1917 | U.S. enters World War I |
1918 | Treaty of Versailles/World War I ends |
1919 | 18th ammendment/Red Scare |
1920 | 19th ammendment/First Radio Station-KDKA |
1929 | Stock Market Crashes |
1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt elected |
1933 | Hundred Days session/NRA,AAA,FDIC,FERA,CCC/20th ammendment/21st ammendment/Hitler comes to power |
1934 | Gold Standard terminated |
1935 | Social Security Act/WP,NLRA,CIO/Neutrality Legislation |
1937 | Japan invades China |
1938 | Hitler takes Austria |
1939 | World War II begins |
1940 | France falls/first peace time American draft |
1941 | Lend-Lease Act/Battle of Britain/Hitler takes U.S.S.R./Pearl Harbor |
1942 | Japanese Internment Camps/Battles of Coral Sea and Midway |
1943 | Italy invaded |
1944 | France invaded/Japan bombed |
1945 | FDR dies/Germany surrenders/Atom bombs/End of World War II |
1946 | Iron Curtain |
1947 | Cold War begins/Marshall Plan/Containment policy |
1948-1949 | Berlin Airlift/Military integrated |
1949 | NATO formed/Communists control China |
1950 | Korean War |
1951 | 22nd Ammendment |
1952 | Dwight Eisenhower elected |
1954 | Brown v. Board of Education/Vietnam divided |
1955 | Martin Luther King Junior begins protesting |
1957 | Sputnik/Little Rock Crisis |
1958 | 1st U.S. satellite/NASA formed |
1960 | U2 shot down over Russia/John F. Kennedy |
1961 | 23rd ammendment/Berlin Crisis/Bay of Pigs |
1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis |
1963 | JFK assasinated |
1964 | 24th ammendment/Gulf of Tonkin |
1968 | Nixon elected |
1969 | Vietnamization/1st man to walk on the moon |
1971 | Pentagon Papers published |
1972 | Bombing of North Vietnam/Watergate |
1973 | U.S. troops withdraw from Vietnam/Spiro Agnew resigns |
1974 | Watergate tapes exposed/Nixon resigns |
1980 | Reagan elected |
1989 | Berlin Wall falls |
1992 | Roe v. Wade |
2001 | Terrorist attacks on U.S./Enduring Freedom and War against terrorism |
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