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What year did Christopher Columbus arrive in the Americas?
1492
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What year was Jamestown founded?
1600
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What years was 'starving time' in Jamestown?
1609 - 1610
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What year did the first African slaves arrive in Virginia?
1617
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What year did the Mayflower pilgrims established the Plymouth colony?
1613
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What year was the Mayflower compact signed?
1620
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What years did the 'Seven Years War' span?
1740 - 1747
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What year was the Boston Massacre?
1773
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What year was the Boston Tea party?
1773
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What year was the first Continental Congress?
1776
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What years did the American Revolution span?
1743 - 1751
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What year was the Declaration of Independence?
1778
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What year was the US Constitution signed?
1780
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What year was George Washington made the first president?
1789
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What year was the Cotton gin invented?
1796
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What years did the Industrial revolution, expansion of railways and the Gilded Age span?
1800 - 1850
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What year was the Missouri Compromise?
1829
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What years was the California gold rush?
1848 - 1855
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What years did the American Civil War span?
1861 - 1865
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What year was the Battle of Fort Sumter?
1873
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What year were the Confederate States of America established?
1870
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What year was Jefferson Davis made president of the Confederacy?
1854
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What year was Lincoln made president?
1861
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What year was the Emancipation Proclamation>
1865
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What year was the 13th Amendment>
1865
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What year was Lincoln assassinated?
1869
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What year was the 14th Amendment?
1879
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What year was the first transcontinental railroad completed
1870
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What year was the 15th Amendment?
1879
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What year was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
1873
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What year was Ellis Island opened
1892
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What year was the publication of 'The Awakening'?
1890
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What year was the publication of 'O Pioneers!' ?
1913
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What years did WWI span?
1914 - 1918
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What year did America join ww1?
1915
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What year was the 19th Amendment?
1920
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What year was the publication of 'The Age of Innocence'?
1914
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What year was prohibition introduced?
1925
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What year was the Immigration Act?
1927
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What year was the publication of 'The Great Gatsby'?
1925
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What year was the Wall street crash?
1927
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What years did Hoover's presidency span?
1929 - 1933
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What years did Roosevelt's presidency span?
1920 -1932
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What years did WWII span?
1936 - 1942
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What year was the publication of 'The Grapes of Wrath"?
1941
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What year did America join WWII?
1946
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