Set: U.S. Important Dates

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12000 B.C. North American Indian Cultures flourish.
1000 Leif Ericsson lands in Newfoundland.
1492 Columbus lands on Santo Domingo in the Caribbean.
1513 Juan Ponce’ De Leon lands in Florida.
1565 St. Augustine Florida 1st European settlement in North America.
1607 Jamestown 1st English colony in America.
1619 House of Burgesses meets. First African slaves brought to Jamestown.
1620 Pilgrims land on Plymouth Rock.
1664 New Amsterdam becomes New York.
1763 French and Indian War ends. England gains Canada and lands east of the Mississippi.
1770 Boston Massacre. British kill protesting colonists.
1773 Boston Tea Party. Colonists protesting British taxes dump tea into Boston Harbor.
1775 Battle of Lexington and Concord begins American Revolution.
1776 Declaration of Independence is signed.
1781 British surrender at Yorktown.
1783 Treaty of Paris is signed.
1786 Shays’ Rebellion.
1787 U.S. Constitution is written.
1789 Washington becomes first President under current constitution
1791 Bill of Rights is ratified.
1800 Capital moves from Philadelphia to Washington D.C.
1801 Jefferson becomes president in peaceful transition of power.
1803 Marbury Vs. Madison establishes precedent of Judicial Review. Louisiana purchase.
1804 Lewis and Clark expedition begins.
1812 U.S. declares war on Britain.
1815 Andrew Jackson defeats British at New Orleans. War of 1812 ends.
1819 Spain cedes Florida to U.S. McColloch v. Maryland upholds the national bank’s right to exist.
1820 Maine (formerly part of Massachusetts) is admitted as a free state so that Missouri can be admitted as a slave state; except for Missouri, slavery is prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase lands north of latitude 36°30'
1823 President Monroe declares that the American continents are henceforth off-limits for further colonization by European powers
1824 Gibbons v. Ogden broadly defines Congress's right to regulate interstate commerce
1825 Erie Canal, linking the Hudson River to Lake Erie, is opened for traffic
1830 President Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act, which authorizes the forced removal of Native Americans living in the eastern part of the country to lands west of the Mississippi River
1831 Nat Turner, an enslaved African American preacher, leads the most significant slave uprising in American history.
1836 Texas declares its independence from Mexico
1838 More than 15,000 Cherokee Indians are forced to march from Georgia to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma. Approximately 4,000 die from starvation and disease along the “Trail of Tears.”
1845 U.S. annexes Texas by joint resolution of Congress The term “manifest destiny” appears for the first time. It expresses the belief held by many white Americans that the United States is destined to expand across the continent.
1846 U.S. declares war on Mexico in effort to gain California and other territory in Southwest
1848 Gold is discovered at Sutter's Mill in California
1850 Compromise of ____: California is admitted as a free state, Utah and New Mexico territories are left to be decided by popular sovereignty, and the slave trade in Washington, DC, is prohibited.
1854 Congress passes the Kansas-Nebraska Act, establishing the territories of Kansas and Nebraska (May 30). The legislation repeals the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and renews tensions between anti- and proslavery factions.
1857 Dred Scott v. Sanford: Landmark Supreme Court decision holds that Congress does not have the right to ban slavery in states and, furthermore, that slaves are not citizens.
1859 Abolitionist John Brown and 21 followers capture federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Va. (now W. Va.), in an attempt to spark a slave revolt (Oct. 16).
1860 South Carolina secedes from the Union
1861 Confederates attack Ft. Sumter in Charleston, S.C., marking the start of the Civil War.
1863 Emancipation Proclamation is issued, freeing slaves in the Confederate states
1865 Lincoln is assassinated (April 14) by John Wilkes Booth in Washington, DC.
1867 U.S. acquires Alaska from Russia for the sum of $7.2 million
1869 Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads are joined at Promontory, Utah, creating first transcontinental railroad
1870 Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, giving blacks the right to vote
1871 Chicago fire kills 300 and leaves 90,000 people homeless
1876 Lt. Col. George A. Custer's regiment is wiped out by Sioux Indians under Sitting Bull at the Little Big Horn River, Mont.
1886 Statue of Liberty is dedicated (Oct. 28). American Federation of Labor is organized
1890 Last major battle of the Indian Wars occurs at Wounded Knee in South Dakota The frontier is closed.
1896 Plessy v. Ferguson: Landmark Supreme Court decision holds that racial segregation is constitutional, paving the way for the repressive Jim Crow laws in the South
1898 Spanish-American War: USS Maine is blown up in Havana harbor. U.S. declares war on Spain (Spain gives up control of Cuba, which becomes an independent republic, and cedes Puerto Rico, Guam, and (for $20 million) the Philippines to the U.S.
1903 U.S. acquires Panama Canal Zone (treaty signed Nov. 17). Wright brothers make the first controlled, sustained flight in heavier-than-air aircraft at Kitty Hawk, N.C.
1914 World War I: begins in ____, U.S. enters World War I in 1917. War ends in 1919
1916 Jeannette Rankin of Montana is the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
1918 Worldwide influenza epidemic strikes; by 1920, nearly 20 million are dead. In U.S., 500,000 perish.
1919 Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, granting women the right to vote
1925 Tennessee passes a law against the teaching of evolution in public schools (March 23), setting the stage for the Scopes Monkey Trial
1927 Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis
1929 Stock market crash precipitates the Great Depression
1931 The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem
1935 Social Security Act is passed
1938 First minimum wage in the U.S. at 25 cents per hour
1941 Japan attacks Hawaii, Guam, and the Philippines (Dec. 7, 1941). U.S. declares war on Japan (Dec. 8). Germany and Italy declare war on the United States; U.S. reciprocates by declaring war on both countries
1945 U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan (Aug. 6). U.S. drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan (Aug. 9). Japan agrees to unconditional surrender
1948 The Marshall Plan, which provides for European postwar recovery (April 2). Soviets begin blockade of Berlin in the first major crisis of the cold war (June 24). In response, U.S. and Great Britain begin airlift of food and fuel to West Berlin (June 26).
1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is established

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Creator KingK
Created March 1, 2007
Groups Miss Mowry's Class & other ppl, randomness, meheehee, Pie lovers, Weesnaw, 5th Grade Nerds, the lemon chunks, Magee's group, King's Group, Sami's Group, JAM and BLAH, sage canyons awesome chitter chatters!!!!!!!!!!, Ms. Brashears' Amazingly Great class!, studying sucks chat chat, Frank's awesome group, cHATcENTRAL101
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This is helpful for learning important U.S. history dates. Note that only for B.C. dates that you need to put B.C. (with periods.

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  1. 1870 → Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, giving blacks the right to vote - 4 misses
  2. 1565 → St. Augustine Florida 1st European settlement in North America. - 3 misses
  3. 1763 → French and Indian War ends. England gains Canada and lands east of the Mississippi. - 3 misses
  4. 1836 → Texas declares its independence from Mexico - 3 misses
  5. 1845 → U.S. annexes Texas by joint resolution of Congress The term “manifest destiny” appears for the first time. It expresses the belief held by many white Americans that the United States is destined to expand across the continent. - 3 misses
  6. 1857 → Dred Scott v. Sanford: Landmark Supreme Court decision holds that Congress does not have the right to ban slavery in states and, furthermore, that slaves are not citizens. - 3 misses
  7. 1867 → U.S. acquires Alaska from Russia for the sum of $7.2 million - 3 misses