US history dates 1903–2008
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Write the year the event happened.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Wright brothers make the first powered flight | 1903 |
| The United States enters World War I | 1917 |
| The 19th Amendment gives women the right to vote | 1920 |
| The stock market crash starts the Great Depression | 1929 |
| Japan attacks Pearl Harbor | 1941 |
| The Supreme Court decides Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 |
| Rosa Parks starts the Montgomery bus boycott | 1955 |
| Martin Luther King Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech | 1963 |
| The Civil Rights Act is signed | 1964 |
| Apollo 11 lands on the Moon | 1969 |
| President Nixon resigns | 1974 |
| The September 11 attacks | 2001 |
| Barack Obama is elected the first Black president | 2008 |
Sources (13)
We checked the answers against these references.
- Wikipedia: Wright Flyer
- Wikipedia: American entry into World War I
- Wikipedia: Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Wikipedia: Wall Street crash of 1929
- Wikipedia: Attack on Pearl Harbor
- Wikipedia: Brown v. Board of Education
- Wikipedia: Montgomery bus boycott
- Wikipedia: I Have a Dream
- Wikipedia: Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Wikipedia: Apollo 11
- Wikipedia: Watergate scandal
- Wikipedia: September 11 attacks
- Wikipedia: 2008 United States presidential election