Important Dates

1. Important Dates

2. 1974: • President Kennedy is assassinated. • Richard Nixon resigns as President. • The Beatles arrive in America. • The Korean War begins.

3. B. Richard Nixon resigns as President.

4. July 1776: • Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox. • Columbus lands in the Bahamas. • The Declaration of Independence is signed. • Slavery ends.

5. C. The Declaration of Independence is signed.

6. 1836: • Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox. • The battle of the Alamo leads to Texas independence. • The American Revolution begins. • George Washington becomes the first U.S. President.

7. B. The battle of the Alamo leads to Texas independence

8. 1991: • MTV begins broadcasting. • The Korean War begins. • The first Gulf War begins. • Thomas Edison invents the light bulb.

9. C. The first Gulf War begins.

10. 1898: • Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox. • The Spanish-American War leads to overseas expansion of the U.S. • Cherokees are forced to walk the “Trail of Tears.” • Columbus lands in the Bahamas.

11. B. The Spanish-American War leads to overseas expansion of the U.S.

12. c1000: • Columbus lands in the Bahamas. • The Declaration of Independence is signed. • Vikings establish settlements in New Foundland, Canada. • Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomatox.

13. C. Vikings establish settlements in New Foundland, Canada

14. This is the war where the White House was burned: • The American Revolution • The Vietnam War • The War of 1812 • World War 1

15. C. The War of 1812

16. 1492: • World War 1 begins. • Columbus lands in the Bahamas. • World War 2 begins. • The American Revolution begins.

17. B. Columbus lands in the Bahamas.

18. October 24, 1929: • Pearl Harbor is bombed. • World War 1 begins. • The stock market crash sets off the Great Depression. • Cherokees are forced to walk the “Trail of Tears.”

19. C. The stock market crash sets off the Great Depression.

20. 1964: • American troops are officially fighting the Vietnam War. • World War 2 begins. • Martin Luther King, Jr. is assasinated. • Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox.

21. A. American troops are officially fighting the Vietnam War.

22. 1969: • Armstrong and Aldrin land on the moon and Woodstock takes place. • Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy are assassinated. • The Vietnam War begins. • Schools are ordered desegregated.

23. A. Armstrong and Aldrin land on the moon and Woodstock takes place.

24. 1950: • World War 2 begins. • The Vietnam War begins. • The Korean War begins. • The first atomic bombs are used.

25. C. The Korean War begins.

26. 1789: • George Washington becomes the first President of the United States. • Columbus lands in the Bahamas. • Slavery ends. • The Declaration of Independence is signed.

27. A. George Washington becomes the first President of the United States.

28. April 9, 1865: • World War 1 begins. • World War 2 begins. • Slavery begins. • Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox.

29. D. Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox.

30. August 6, 1945: • The first atomic bomb ever used is dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. • World War 2 begins. • American soldiers fight in the Vietnam War. • American soldiers fight in the Korean War.

31. A. The first atomic bomb ever used is dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.

32. 1607: • The colony at Jamestown, Virginia is settled. • Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox. • The American Revolution begins. • Slavery is abolished.

33. A. The colony at Jamestown, Virginia is settled.

34. 1964: • Columbus lands in the Bahamas. • The Civil Rights Acts are passed. • Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox. • President Kennedy is assassinated.

35. B. The Civil Rights Acts are passed.

36. 1963: • President Kennedy is assassinated. • Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy are assassinated. • Abraham Lincoln is assasinated. • Thomas Edison invents the light bulb.

37. A. President Kennedy is assassinated.

38. 1775: • Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin. • World War 1 begins. • Thomas Edison invents the light bulb. • The American Revolutionary War begins.

39. D. The American Revolutionary War begins.

40. December 7, 1941: • World War 1 begins. • World War 2 begins. • The stock market crash sets off the Great Depression. • Japan bombs the U.S. at Pearl Harbor.

41. D. Japan bombs the U.S. at Pearl Harbor.

42. 1838: • World War 1 begins. • Cherokees and other Indians are removed along the “Trail of Tears.” • Slavery ends. • Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox.

43. B. Cherokees and other Indians are removed along the “Trail of Tears.”

44. 1954: • World War 2 begins. • The Supreme Court orders school desegregation. • Martin Luther King, Jr. is assasinated. • The Vietnam War begins.

45. B. The Supreme Court orders school desegregation.

46. 1848: • The Mexican-American war leads to the annexation of parts of the Southwestern United States. • Vikings settle in New Foundland, Canada. • World War 1 begins. • Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox.

47. A. The Mexican-American war leads to the annexation of parts of the Southwestern United States.

48. 1914: • World War 1 begins. • The Vietnam War begins. • Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox. • The Spanish-American war ends.

49. A. World War 1 begins.

50. 1962: • World War 2 begins. • President Kennedy is assassinated. • The Cuban Missile Crisis occurs. • The Vietnam War begins.