dates to know quiz (whole year)

Columbus “discovers” America

1492

Jamestown

1607

Pilgrims and the Mayflower

1620

Great Awakening

1730-1749

French and Indian War (7 years war)

1756-1763

Declaration of Independence

1776

Revolutionary War

1775-1783

Constitutional Convention

1787

Louisiana Purchase

1803

Missouri Compromise

1820

Market Revolution

1820-1850

Second Great Awakening

1790-1840

Manifest Destiny

1845

Mexican American War

1846-1848

Homestead Act

1862

Civil War

1861-1865

Alaska Purchase

1867

Reconstruction

1865-1877

Dawes Severalty Act

1887

Wounded Knee

1890

Plessy v. Furguson

1896

Gilded Age

1870-1900

Ellis Island

1892

Progressive Era

1896-1916

Spanish American War

1898

World War 1

1917-1918

Prohibition/18th Amendment

1919-1933

19th Amendment

1920

Stock Market Crash

1929

Great Depression

1929-1939

Isolationism/Neutrality

1920-1940

FDR Elected

1932

World War 2

1941-1945

Cold War

1945-1991

Truman Doctrine/Marshall Plan

1948

NATO

1949

Korean War

1950-1953

McCarthy Hearings

1954

Rosa Parks

1955

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962

I Have a Dream Speech/March on Washington

1963

Vietnam War

1965-1973

Great Society

1964

Nixon Resigns

1974

Iran Hostage Crisis

1979

Ronald Reagan Election and Beginning of Modern Conservative Movement

1980

Fall of Berlin Wall

1989

Soviet Union Collapses

1991

Bush v. Gore

2000

9/11

2001