United States History Timeline Quiz

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1860s

  • Civil War

  • Abraham Lincoln assasination

  • KKK

  • Alaska

  • Andrew Johnson Impeached

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1870s

  • 15th Amendment Ratified

  • Battle of Little Bighorn

  • Last troops are removed from the South

  • Thomas Edison invents the lightbulb

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1880s

  • Garfield Assasinated

  • Mark Twain writes Huckleberry Finn

  • Geronimo surrenders to US after 15 years on the run

  • Oklahoma opened to white settlement

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4

1890s

  • Spanish American War

  • Hawaii anexed

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5

1900s

  • McKinley Assasination

  • Wright brothers/first aviation

  • Great Fire and Earthquake in SF

  • Income Tax Amendment (16th)

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6

1910s

  • World War 1

  • US gets involved in WW1

  • Prohibition

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7

1920s

  • Women’s Right to vote

  • First Transatlantic Flight

  • Stock Market Crash

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8

1930s

  • Prohibition Repealed

  • Adolf Hitler

  • World War 2

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9

1940s

  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt third term

  • Pearl Harbor

  • Franklin Delano roosevelt fourth term

  • Atomic Bomb

  • Winston Churchill iron curtain/cold war

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10

1950s

  • Korean War

  • Brown vs. Board of educaiton

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11

1960s

  • Civil rights Movement

  • John f. Kennedy Assasination

  • Vietnam War

  • Martin Luther King jr. Assasination

  • Moon Landing

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12

1970s

  • 26th Amendment

  • Roe v Wade

  • Nixon Resigns (only president)

  • Fall of Saigon (end of Vietnam war)

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13

1980s

  • 52 Hostages

  • Reagan shot

  • Berlin Wall Dismantled

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14

1990s

  • Desert Storm

  • USSR dissolves

  • Clinton Impeached (second one)

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15

2000s

  • 9/11

  • First Black President (obama)

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16

Andrew Johnson was whose VP?

Abraham Lincoln’s

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17

He was VP for how long before becoming President?

5 weeks

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18

A president cannot fire a member of his cabinet without the Sennate’s approval

Tenure of Office Act

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19

How many votes was his impeachment based on?

ONE

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