US History Review Flashcards

Flashcards based on US History Lecture Notes

What year did Columbus arrive in the New World?

1492

In what year did England first attempt to settle in North America?

1587

In what year did the English defeat the Spanish Armada?

1588

What year was Jamestown established?

1607

What year did the Mayflower arrive in Plymouth?

1620

What year was the Toleration Act passed in Maryland?

1649

What year did the Glorious Revolution take place?

1688

What year did the Salem Witch Trials occur?

1692

What were the years of the Seven Years’ War?

1754-1763

What year was the Proclamation of 1763 issued?

1763

What year was the Stamp Act passed?

1765

What year did the Boston Massacre occur?

1770

What year did the Boston Tea Party take place?

1773

What year did the Battles of Lexington and Concord occur?

1775

What year was the Declaration of Independence signed?

1776

What year was the Battle of Saratoga?

1777

What year was the Franco-American Alliance?

1778

What year was the Battle of Yorktown?

1781

What year was the Treaty of Paris signed, officially ending the Revolutionary War?

1783

What year was the Constitutional Convention held?

1787

What year was George Washington elected as president?

1788

What year was the Bill Of Rights Added?

1791

What year was the XYZ Affair?

1798

What year did the Alien & Sedition Acts take place?

1798

What year was the Louisiana Purchase?

1803

What were the years of the War of 1812?

1812-1815

What year was the Battle of New Orleans

1815

What were the years of the Era of Good Feelings?

1816-1824

What year was the Missouri Compromise?

1820

What year was the Monroe Doctrine?

1823

What years did sectionalism take place?

1820s

What year was Jackson's Election?

1828

What year was the Indian Removal Act?

1830

What year was Nat Turner's Rebellion?

1832

What year was the Manifest Destiny?

1830 - 1850

What year was the Battle of the Alamo?

1836

What year was the Annexation of Texas?

1845

What were the years for the Mexican-American War?

1845-1848

What year was the Seneca Falls Convention?

1848

What year was the Fugitive Slave Law?

1850

What year was Uncle Tom's Cabin published?

1852

What year was Bleeding Kansas?

1854

What year was the Dred Scott Decision?

1857

What year was Lincoln's Election?

1860

What year was Gettysburg?

1863

What year was Lincoln Assassinated?

1865

What year was the Military Reconstruction Act?

1867

What year was the Purchase of Alaska occurred?

1867

What year was the Compromise of 1877?

1877

What occurred in 1876?

1876

What year did the Haymarket Square Riot occur?

1886

What year was the Dawes Act?

1887

What year was Interstate Commerce?

1887

What year was Wounded Knee?

1890

What year did the Pullman Strike occur?

1894

What occurred in 1896

1896

What year was Plessy v. Ferguson?

1896

What year was the Annexation of Hawaii?

1898

What year was the Platt Amendment?

1902

What year did the Wright Brothers invent their plan?

1903

What year was the Roosevelt Corollary?

1904

What act, passed in 1917, opposed to U.S. involvement in the war?

1917

What year was the Fourteen Points?

1918

What supreme court case toom place in 1919?

1919

What year did Women’s Suffrage come into effect?

1920

What occurred in the 1920s?

1920s

What year was the Stock Market Crash?

1929

What year was FDR elected?

1932

What year was the Social Security Act?

1935

What year did WWII starts in Europe?

1939

What year was the Attack on Pearl Harbor?

1941

What year was D-Day?

1944

What were the years for the Korean War?

1950-1953

What year was Brown v. Board of Ed?

1954

What year was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

1955

What year did Sputnik occur?

1957

What year did the Cuban Missile Crisis occur?

1962

What year was the March on Washington?

1963

What year was JFK assassinated?

1963

What year was the Civil Rights Act?

1964

What year were MLK and RFK assassinated?

1968

What year was Roe v. Wade?

1973

What year was the Iranian hostage crisis?

1979

What year was Reagan elected?

1980

What year did the Cold War end?

1989

What year was the Persian Gulf War?

1991

What year was the Oklahoma City Bombing?

1995

What year was

2000