Mackay Dates quiz

1588

sinking of the spanish armada

1607

founding of jamestown

1636

founding of harvard unversity

1676

bacon's rebellion

1734-1760

the first great awakening

1739

stono rebellion in south carolina

1754

albany plan

1754-1763

french and indian war

1765

stamp act

1767

townshend acts

1770

boston massacre

1773

boston tea party

1774

intolerable acts

1775

shots heard around the world

1776

"wealth of nations" published

1781-1787

articles of confederation in effect

1783

treaty of paris

1785

land ordinance

1786-1787

shay's rebellion

1787

the northwest ordinance

1788

Constitution ratified

1791

Bill of Rights ratified

1793

Cotton gin invented

1798

Alien and Sedition Acts

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1803

Marbury vs. Madision

1807

Embargo Act

1808

International Slave Trade outlawed

1814

Treaty of Ghent

1815

Battle of New Orleans

1817

American Colonization Society established

1820

Missouri compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1824

Corrupt Bargain

1824

Hudson River School of Painting

1831

Garrison's "The Liberator"

1831

Nat Turner's Rebellion

1832-1833

South Carolina Nullification crisis

1834

Lowell Mill Girls Protest

1840

Margeret Fuller edits "the Dial"

1846-48

Mexican War

1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1849

California Gold Rush

1850

compromise/ California admitted

1851

Sojourner Truth's speech "Ain't I a woman"

1852

"Uncle Toms Cabin" published

1854

Kansas Nebraska Act

1857

Dred Scott Decision

1859

John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry

1860

Election of Lincoln

1861-1865

Civil War

1863

Emancipation Proclamation issued

1865

13th Amendment

1870

15th Amendment

1870

Rockefeller forms Standard Oil

1874

WCTU founded

1877

Hayes Elected

1881

"A century of dishonor" published

1881

Tuskegee Institute founded

1886

American Federation of Labor

1886

Haymarket Square

1887

Dawes Severalty Act

1889

Hull House founded

1890

"Influence of Sea Power Upon History"

1892

Homestead Strike

1894

Pullman Strike

1895

Washington's Atlanta Compromise

1896

Plessy vs. Ferguson

1898

Spanish-American War

1899, 1900

Open Door Notes

1904

Roosevelt Corollary

1904-1914

Panama Canal constructed

1906

"The Jungle" published

1910

NAACP founded

1913

Federal Reserve act

1914-1918

World War I

1916

Margeret Sanger established NY Birth Control League

1917

Zimmerman Note

1917

US enters WWI

1919

Treaty of Versailles

1919

18th Amendment

1920

19th Amendment

1923

Teapot Dome Scandal

1925

Scopes "Monkey" Trial

1929

Stock Market Crash

1930

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

1932

Bonus army dispersed form DC

1933

FDR's hundred days congress

1935

CIO founded

1935-1937

Neutrality acts

1939

WWII began in Europe

1941

Lend-Lease act

1941

Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor

1944

D-Day

1945

Yalta conference

1945

Atomic bombs dropped on Japan

1947

Marshall plan

1947

Truman Doctrine

1947

Jakie Robinson integrates major League baseball

1948-1949

Berlin airlift