Term 2 dates test

First humans cross Beringia

20,000-40,000 years ago

Columbus' first trip to America

1492

Jamestown founded

1607

Mayflower arrival at Cape Cod

1620

French and Indian War

1754-1763

Revolutionary War

1775-1783

US Constitution ratified

1788

Missouri Compromise

1820

Monroe Doctrine

1823

Jacksonian Era

1828-1840

Mexican war

1846-1848

Seneca Falls Convention

1848

Civil War

1861-1865

Reconstruction of the South

1865-1877

Gilded Age

1877-1900

Frontier closed

1890

Spanish-American War

1898

Progressive period

1896-1917

World War I

1914-1918

Jazz age

1920s

Great Depression

1929-1942

World War II

1939-1945

Brown v. Board of Education

1954

Korean War

1950-1953

US fought in Vietnam

1964-1973

Eli Whitney invented cotton gin

1793

U.S. ended international slave trade

1808

Erie Canal completed

1825

Dred Scot v. Sandford (Dred Scot Decision)

1857

First Transcontinental Railroad Completed

1869

Chinese Exclusion act

1882

Pendleton Civil Service Act

1883

Sherman Antitrust Act

1890

Plessy v. Ferguson ("separate but equal")

1896

19th Amendment ratified (women's right to vote)

1920

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962