Presidents & Magic Years Quiz

1607

Jamestown founded

1619

First African Americans brought to British North America

1754

French & Indian War begins

1763

Treaty of Paris

1775

Battles of Lexington & Concord

1776

Declaration of Independence

1783

Revolution Ends

1787

Constitution written

1791

Bill of Rights

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1846

War with Mexico

1861

Civil War Begins

1865

Civil War Ends

1868

14th Amendment

1869

1st Transcontinental Railroad

1877

Reconstruction Ends

1890

Closing of the Frontier

1898

Spanish-American War

1914

World War I begins

1917

US enters WWI

1918

WWI ends

1920

19th Amendment

1929

Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday: Oct 29)

1933

New Deal begins

1939

World War II begins

1941

US enters WWII (Pearl Harbor)

1945

WWII ends / United Nations forms

1950

Korean War begins

1954

Brown v. Board of Education

1964

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

1974

Nixon’s Resignation

1975

Fall of Saigon

1989

Berlin Wall “falls” (symbolic ending of Cold War)

George Washington

1789-1797

Thomas Jefferson

1801-1809

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837

Abraham Lincoln

1861-1865

Theodore Roosevelt

1901-1909

Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)

1933-1945

Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ)

1963-1969