Timeline Quiz 2
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- 1492
- Colombus
- 1607
- First permanent colony at Jamestown
- 1776
- American Revolution
- 1861-1865
- American civil war
- 1870
- 13th, 14th, 15th amendments are passed
- 1877
- President Hayes withdraws federal troops from the South, which ends Reconstruction
- 1890
- Sherman Antitrust, allows federal government to regulare and invest in big business
- 1892
- Ellis Island opens, goes on to screen 20 million immigrants before closing in 1954
- 1896
- Plessy v. Ferguson, separate but equal
- 1898
- Spanish-American War-US gets Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam
- 1906
- The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
- 1913
- Federal Reserve Act creates a central banking system
- 1914-1918
- WWI
- 1919
- 18th Amendment, ilegalizes Alcohol
- 1919-1920
- Red Scare spreads through US
- 1920
- 19th Amendment passed, gives women the right to vote
- 1929
- Stock market crashes, great depression starts
- 1933
- FDR passes new deal
- 1939-1945
- WWII
- 1947
- Truman Doctrine
- 1954
- Brown v. Board of Education, segregation in schools is unconstitutional
- 1962
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- 1968
- US war in Vietman, Civil Rights movement
- 1989
- Berlin Wall falls