Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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Columbus, Spanish, Columbian Exchange | 1492 | 100%
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First permanent English colony: Jamestown | 1607 | 88%
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Thomas Paine's Common Sense & the Declaration of Independence | 1776 | 82%
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Treaty of Paris: end of American Revolution & beginning of U.S. under Articles of Confederation | 1783 | 82%
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War of 1812 begins | 1812 | 82%
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Compromise of 1850 | 1850 | 82%
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U.S. enters W.W.I; Fourteen Points | 1917 | 82%
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End of W.W.II; atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; beginning of Cold War ("iron curtain" descends) | 1945 | 82%
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French and Indian War begins (7 Years' War) | 1754 | 76%
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Stamp Act, first direct tax, "no taxation without representation" | 1765 | 76%
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American Revolution begins; Lexington and Concord, Second Continental Congress; Articles of Confederation | 1775 | 76%
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Northwest Ordinance & Constitution | 1787 | 76%
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Constitution ratified by 9 states & takes effect | 1788 | 76%
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Bill of Rights added to Constitution | 1791 | 76%
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Louisiana Purchase, Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | 76%
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Missouri Compromise | 1820 | 76%
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Monroe Doctrine | 1823 | 76%
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Andrew Jackson elected, Era of the Common Man | 1828 | 76%
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Election of Abraham Lincoln, secession begins | 1860 | 76%
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Beginning of Civil War, Battle of Fort Sumter | 1861 | 76%
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Homestead Act, Pacific Railway Act, Treasury System, Morrill Act; Antietam | 1862 | 76%
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Battle of Gettysburg, Gettysburg Address, Battle of Vicksburg, Emancipation Proclamation | 1863 | 76%
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Civil War ends; assassination of Lincoln; 13th Amendment | 1865 | 76%
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W.W.I ends | 1918 | 76%
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First Red Scare; Red Summer | 1919 | 76%
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19th Amendment; Treaty of Versailles not ratified | 1920 | 76%
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Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | 76%
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Treaty of Paris ends the 7 Years' War, Pontiac's Rebellion, & Proclamation Line | 1763 | 71%
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Election of Thomas Jefferson | 1800 | 71%
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Treaty of Ghent ends the War of 1812; Hartford Resolutions arrive in D.C., end of Federalist Party, beginning of Era of Good Feelings | 1815 | 71%
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Mexican-American War begins | 1846 | 71%
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexican Cession, end of Mexican-American War; Seneca Falls Convention | 1848 | 71%
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Kansas Nebraska Act; Republican Party | 1854 | 71%
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Dred Scott v. Sanford | 1857 | 71%
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End of Radical Reconstruction; Compromise of 1877; Jim Crow begins | 1877 | 71%
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Wounded Knee; Closure of the West (frontier "closed"); Sherman Antitrust Act | 1890 | 71%
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Plessy v. Ferguson | 1896 | 71%
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Spanish American War/beginning of imperialism | 1898 | 71%
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Stock Market Crash; beginning of Great Depression | 1929 | 71%
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FDR's New Deal begins | 1933 | 71%
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Pearl Harbor, U.S. enters W.W.II; Depression ends | 1941 | 71%
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NATO; USSR atomic bomb; China=communist | 1949 | 71%
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Korean War begins | 1950 | 71%
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Korean War ends; armistice and DMZ | 1953 | 71%
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March on Washington; JFK assassinated | 1963 | 71%
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; LBJ's Great Society, Civil Rights Act of 1964 | 1964 | 71%
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Voting Rights Act; Immigration Act | 1965 | 71%
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MLK and RFK assassinated, Tet Offensive, Chicago Riot, silent majority, race riots, anti-war escalates | 1968 | 71%
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Vietnam War ends with armistice | 1973 | 71%
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Watergate Scandal | 1974 | 71%
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Election of Ronald Reagan; conservative resurgence | 1980 | 71%
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9/11; Patriot Acts: DHS, NSA | 2001 | 71%
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Great Recession; election of Barack Obama | 2008 | 71%
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First slaves in Jamestown & House of Burgesses | 1619 | 65%
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Plymouth founded (Puritans) in New England | 1620 | 65%
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Slave importation ends (Slavery Compromise 1789) | 1808 | 65%
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"Corrupt Bargain" election, beginning of Democratic Party (pro-Jackson movement) | 1824 | 65%
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Election of Polk; Manifest Destiny | 1844 | 65%
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Sputnik; beginning of space race | 1957 | 65%
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Berlin Wall falls; end of Cold War with USSR | 1989 | 65%
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Bush v. Gore | 2000 | 65%
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People's Party (Populist Third Party) nationwide | 1892 | 59%
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Fall of Saigon | 1975 | 59%
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Bacon's Rebellion | 1676 | 53%
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Pueblo Revolt | 1680 | 41%
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First Two-Party System, Hamilton vs. Jefferson | 1790s | 18%
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More urban than rural; culture conflicts | 1920s | 18%
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Second Two-Party System, Jackson vs. Clay | 1820s-1830s | 12%
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