United States History Timeline Quiz

1860s

• Civil War

• Abraham Lincoln assasination

• KKK

• Alaska

• Andrew Johnson Impeached

1870s

• 15th Amendment Ratified

• Battle of Little Bighorn

• Last troops are removed from the South

• Thomas Edison invents the lightbulb

1880s

• Garfield Assasinated

• Mark Twain writes Huckleberry Finn

• Geronimo surrenders to US after 15 years on the run

• Oklahoma opened to white settlement

1890s

• Spanish American War

• Hawaii anexed

1900s

• McKinley Assasination

• Wright brothers/first aviation

• Great Fire and Earthquake in SF

• Income Tax Amendment (16th)

1910s

• World War 1

• US gets involved in WW1

• Prohibition

1920s

• Women’s Right to vote

• First Transatlantic Flight

• Stock Market Crash

1930s

• Prohibition Repealed

• Adolf Hitler

• World War 2

1940s

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt third term

• Pearl Harbor

• Franklin Delano roosevelt fourth term

• Atomic Bomb

• Winston Churchill iron curtain/cold war

1950s

• Korean War

• Brown vs. Board of educaiton

1960s

• Civil rights Movement

• John f. Kennedy Assasination

• Vietnam War

• Martin Luther King jr. Assasination

• Moon Landing

1970s

• 26th Amendment

• Roe v Wade

• Nixon Resigns (only president)

• Fall of Saigon (end of Vietnam war)

1980s

• 52 Hostages

• Reagan shot

• Berlin Wall Dismantled

1990s

• Desert Storm

• USSR dissolves

• Clinton Impeached (second one)

2000s

• 9/11

• First Black President (obama)

Andrew Johnson was whose VP?

Abraham Lincoln’s

He was VP for how long before becoming President?

5 weeks

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

Tenure of Office Act

How many votes was his impeachment based on?

ONE