Dates #1
1776
What is the Declaration of Independence/Official start of the American Revolution
The attack on September 11
What is 2001?
This country ruled the 13 colonies that would become the United States
What is England?
This amendment effectively ended slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th Amendment?
True or False: France and Spain also had colonies in North America
What is True?
1492
What is Christopher Columbus sails to the Americas?
1929
What is the Great Depression begins?
True or False: One way America gained land in the 1800s is by purchasing islands in the Caribbean
What is False?
The U.S. Army was removed from southern states which caused the end of this era
What is Reconstruction?
True or False: Native American housing, clothing, and food was influenced by their geography and culture
What is True?
The year the Civil War began
What is 1861?
The year women gained the right to vote
What is 1920?
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments are collectively known as these
What are the Reconstruction Amendments?
Expanding U.S. territory westward because it was America's divine right was an idea known as this
What is Manifest Destiny?
This was the primary reason that the Civil War was fought between northern and southern states
What is slavery?
The Mexican-American War begins
What is 1845?
1868
What is the year the 14th Amendment is ratified?
At the peak of the Great Depression, this percentage of Americans were unemployed
What is 25%?
Women used this form of protest in the 1960s to show the difficulty of being a working woman and a mother
What are Baby-ins?
Germany, Italy, and Japan were collectively known as this during World War II
What are the Axis Powers?
1991
What is the end of the Cold War?
This is when the Constitution was adopted
The United States dropped two of these on Japanese towns and ended World War II
This series of government programs created by President Lyndon B. Johnson were designed to help Americans lift themselves out of poverty
What is the Great Society?
This was the primary reason the Great Depression began in the United States in 1929
What is the stock market crashing?