{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/us-history-key-dates",
 "id": "us-history-key-dates",
 "title": "US History: Key Dates",
 "category": "history",
 "subject": "US History",
 "levels": [
  "3-5",
  "6-8",
  "9-12"
 ],
 "description": "The year (or date) when the big events in American history happened.",
 "tags": [
  "dates",
  "timeline",
  "us history"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Event",
 "backLabel": "Year",
 "cards": [
  [
   "Columbus reaches the Americas",
   "1492"
  ],
  [
   "Jamestown founded",
   "1607"
  ],
  [
   "Pilgrims land at Plymouth",
   "1620"
  ],
  [
   "First enslaved Africans arrive in Virginia",
   "1619"
  ],
  [
   "Salem witch trials",
   "1692"
  ],
  [
   "French and Indian War begins",
   "1754"
  ],
  [
   "Stamp Act",
   "1765"
  ],
  [
   "Boston Massacre",
   "1770"
  ],
  [
   "Boston Tea Party",
   "1773"
  ],
  [
   "Battles of Lexington and Concord",
   "1775"
  ],
  [
   "Declaration of Independence adopted",
   "July 4, 1776"
  ],
  [
   "Battle of Saratoga",
   "1777"
  ],
  [
   "Winter at Valley Forge",
   "1777-1778"
  ],
  [
   "British surrender at Yorktown",
   "1781"
  ],
  [
   "Treaty of Paris ends the Revolution",
   "1783"
  ],
  [
   "Constitutional Convention",
   "1787"
  ],
  [
   "George Washington becomes president",
   "1789"
  ],
  [
   "Bill of Rights ratified",
   "1791"
  ],
  [
   "Louisiana Purchase",
   "1803"
  ],
  [
   "Lewis and Clark expedition",
   "1804-1806"
  ],
  [
   "War of 1812 begins",
   "1812"
  ],
  [
   "Star-Spangled Banner written",
   "1814"
  ],
  [
   "Missouri Compromise",
   "1820"
  ],
  [
   "Monroe Doctrine",
   "1823"
  ],
  [
   "Erie Canal opens",
   "1825"
  ],
  [
   "Indian Removal Act",
   "1830"
  ],
  [
   "Battle of the Alamo",
   "1836"
  ],
  [
   "Seneca Falls Convention",
   "1848"
  ],
  [
   "California Gold Rush begins",
   "1848"
  ],
  [
   "Mexican-American War ends",
   "1848"
  ],
  [
   "Compromise of 1850",
   "1850"
  ],
  [
   "Dred Scott decision",
   "1857"
  ],
  [
   "Lincoln elected president",
   "1860"
  ],
  [
   "Fort Sumter attacked",
   "1861"
  ],
  [
   "Emancipation Proclamation",
   "1863"
  ],
  [
   "Battle of Gettysburg",
   "1863"
  ],
  [
   "Lee surrenders at Appomattox",
   "1865"
  ],
  [
   "Lincoln assassinated",
   "1865"
  ],
  [
   "13th Amendment ratified",
   "1865"
  ],
  [
   "Alaska purchased from Russia",
   "1867"
  ],
  [
   "Transcontinental railroad completed",
   "1869"
  ],
  [
   "Telephone patented",
   "1876"
  ],
  [
   "Battle of Little Bighorn",
   "1876"
  ],
  [
   "Light bulb perfected by Edison",
   "1879"
  ],
  [
   "Statue of Liberty dedicated",
   "1886"
  ],
  [
   "Ellis Island opens",
   "1892"
  ],
  [
   "Plessy v. Ferguson",
   "1896"
  ],
  [
   "Spanish-American War",
   "1898"
  ],
  [
   "Wright brothers' first flight",
   "1903"
  ],
  [
   "World War I begins in Europe",
   "1914"
  ],
  [
   "US enters World War I",
   "1917"
  ],
  [
   "19th Amendment (women's suffrage)",
   "1920"
  ],
  [
   "Stock market crash",
   "1929"
  ],
  [
   "Franklin Roosevelt elected; New Deal begins",
   "1932-1933"
  ],
  [
   "Social Security Act",
   "1935"
  ],
  [
   "Pearl Harbor attacked",
   "December 7, 1941"
  ],
  [
   "D-Day",
   "June 6, 1944"
  ],
  [
   "World War II ends",
   "1945"
  ],
  [
   "Marshall Plan",
   "1948"
  ],
  [
   "Korean War begins",
   "1950"
  ],
  [
   "Brown v. Board of Education",
   "1954"
  ],
  [
   "Montgomery Bus Boycott",
   "1955-1956"
  ],
  [
   "Sputnik launched",
   "1957"
  ],
  [
   "Cuban Missile Crisis",
   "1962"
  ],
  [
   "March on Washington",
   "1963"
  ],
  [
   "JFK assassinated",
   "1963"
  ],
  [
   "Civil Rights Act",
   "1964"
  ],
  [
   "Voting Rights Act",
   "1965"
  ],
  [
   "Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated",
   "1968"
  ],
  [
   "First Moon landing",
   "1969"
  ],
  [
   "Nixon resigns",
   "1974"
  ],
  [
   "Fall of Saigon",
   "1975"
  ],
  [
   "Berlin Wall falls",
   "1989"
  ],
  [
   "Soviet Union dissolves",
   "1991"
  ],
  [
   "September 11 attacks",
   "2001"
  ],
  [
   "Barack Obama elected",
   "2008"
  ]
 ]
}