32 American Events Worth Knowing

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  1. 4. In 1896, in the case of Plessy vs. ___________________________, the U.S. Supreme Court established the idea of the “separate but equal” education of black and white children.
  2. 6. In 1892, _________________________________opened in New York Harbor as a processing point for immigrants. Over the next 60 years, 12 million immigrants would pass through its doors.
  3. 7. _______________________________________escaped from slavery in 1849 and made nineteen trips back to the South to rescue more than 300 slaves.
  4. 9. On April 4, 1968, ___________________________________, leader of the Civil Rights Movement, was assassinated on the balcony of a Memphis hotel.
  5. 12. In 1862, President Lincoln drafted the _______________________________ Proclamation. It was the first step toward ending slavery.
  6. 13. In 1838, the Cherokees were driven out of Georgia and forced west (at gunpoint) to Oklahoma. Their journey, in which many of them died, became known as the Trail of _____________________.
  7. 14. On May 8, 1945, the Germans surrendered to the Allies. ________________________ camps, in which _______________million Jews had been murdered were finally liberated.
  8. 15. On November 22, ________________ John F. Kennedy(JFK) was assassinated by Lee Harvey___________________ in Dallas.
  9. 16. On __________________________, 1941, Japan bombed U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. As a result, the U.S. entered the World War II which had begun in 1939 and lasted until 1945.
  10. 17. In ________________________ the first Africans were brought as slaves to what is now Virginia.
  11. 20. On October 29, _______________the stock market crashed and the Great Depression began.
  12. 21. Between _______________ and _________________ the U.S. fought in the Korean War, a civil war between North and South Korea. The U.S. backed the South Koreans while China and the Soviet Union backed North Korea.
  13. 23. On August _____, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on _____________________ Japan. Three days later, another bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.
  14. 24. On July 4, __________________ the Declaration of Independence was issued by the Continental Congress. The War for Independence had already begun (but was going poorly). The war would last until 1783.
  15. 25. Between 1955 and ___________________ the U.S. was involved in the Vietnam War, a civil war between North and South Vietnam. The U.S. backed the South while the Soviets and Chinese backed the North.
  16. 26. The War of _______________________was fought with Britain over shipping rights, land and the impressment of American soldiers.
  17. 28. _______________________________ was elected as the 44th President of the United States on November 4, 2008. He was the first African American to hold the office.
  18. 29. In 1846, the Mexican-American War erupted. This controversial war expanded the United States into the Southwest by taking and purchasing some land from ___________________________.
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  1. 1. In 1803, Jefferson “purchased” __________________________ from the French. The native peoples had no say in the purchase.
  2. 2. In 1777, Richard_____________________________, a Thetford native swam through a British flotilla of ships on Lake Champlain to get a message to colonial troops on the opposite shore.
  3. 3. The ________________________ Amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920.
  4. 4. Between 1754 and 1763, the English and French fought a war over land that they both claimed. Different native peoples, whose land it had always been, fought on both sides. This was known as the ______________________ and _____________________War.
  5. 5. In 1787, the Founding Fathers wrote and issued the ____________________________________. Setting up the laws and rules of our country, it is still the document by which we are governed today.
  6. 8. Because of Pearl Harbor, some Americans grew suspicious of __________________________-Americans. As a result, they were interned in prison camps.
  7. 10. In 1954, the Brown vs. _________________________________________ supreme court decision ordered the desegregation of schools. “Separate but equal” was no longer the law of the land.
  8. 11. On ________________________ 1492, Columbus landed in the Caribbean and met the Arawak Indians.
  9. 18. Between________________ and __________________ the Civil War was fought between the North and the South.
  10. 19. In ___________________, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the moon.
  11. 22. On September 11, 2001, four planes were hijacked by members of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network. The planes struck the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania. Nearly _____________________ people were killed.
  12. 24. In ____________ the U.S. entered World War I, which had started in 1914 and lasted until 1918.
  13. 25. In ______________________ the Berlin Wall, which divided East and West Berlin fell. Its fall was the symbolic end to communism.
  14. 27. At _____________________________________ Knee in 1890, 150 Sioux were massacred by the U.S. Army. This massacre marked the end of 400 years of conflict between the white and native peoples.