American Events Dates for test 2

The new dates are in bold. the other ones are not.

1775A - April 16-18 Battle of Lexington and Concord
1776A - July 4 - Second Continential Congress Adopts Declaration of Independence
1798A - George Washington sworn in as first president
1800A - Washington DC becomes nation's new capital
1802A - Military Academy at West Point established
1803A - April 30 - Louisiana Purchuse takes place
1804A - May - Lewis and Clark begin exploring lands west of the Mississippi
1814A - September 14 - Writing of the "Star Spangled Banner" by Francis Scott Key
1820A - March 3 - Congress passes the Missouri Compromise
1823A - December 2 - Monroe Docrine established
1827A - 1st African-American newspaper, "Freedom's Journal," published in New York
1835A - Texas Revolution breaks out against Mexican rule
1836A - March 2 - Texas declares its independence from Mexico
1836B - Battle of the Alamo
1838A - Underground railroad escape routes developed
1843A - Settlers begin migration over the Oregon Trail to Oregon territory
1844A - May 24 - Mores sends the first telegram message, "What hath god wrought?"
1846A - Mexican War begins
1850A - September 9 - California admitted to the Union
1857A - March 6 - Dred Scott decision
1860A - November - Abraham Lincoln elected President
1861A - April 12 - Confederates fire on Fort Sumter - Start of the Civil War
1862A - July 2 - Morrill Land-Grant College Act
1862B - September 17 - Battle of Antietam
1863A - January 1 - Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation
1893B - July 1-3 - Battle of Gettysburg
1869A - May 10 (ellie's bday) - World's first transcontinental railroad is finished
1870A - February 3 - 15th Amendment adopted - Right to vote
1876A - March 7 - Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
1876B - Battle of the Little Big Horn
1882A - May 6 - Chinese exclusion act passed
1885A - February 21 - Washington Monument is dedicated
1896A - "Plessy V. Ferguson" Supreme Court decision legalizes segregation
1898A - Spanish-American War
1903A - Wright brothers launch first successful flight in an airplane
1908A - October 1 - The first model T Ford put on the market
1915A - May 7 - "Lusitania" sunk by German submarine - American lives lost
1917A - April 6 - America declares war on Germany and enters World War 1
1918A - November 11 - World War I ends
1920A - August 26 - 19th Amendment granting women right to vote is ratified
1927A - May 20-21 - Charles Lindbergh makes first solo flight across the Atlantic
1929A - October 28 - Stock Market crash brings on the Great Depression
1931A - March 3 - "Star Spangled Banner" is officially made U.S. anthem
1932A - November - Franklin Roosevelt elected president for 1st of 4 terms
1939A - August 2 - Einstein urges Roosevelt to develope an atomic bomb
1941A - December 7 - Japanese attack Pear Harbor, Hawaii - Pushes America into World War II
1944A - June 6 - D-Day - The invasion of Europe
1945A - August 6&9 - U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1954A - May 17 - "Brown vs. Board of Education" ends segregation in public schools
1954A - Jonas Salk develops vaccine for Polio
1955A - Montgomery Bus Boycotts - Led by Martin Luther King Jr.
1959A - April 1 - NASA selects the first seven American astronauts
1961A - May 5 - Alan Shepard is America's first man in space
1963A - November 22 - President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas
1971A - July 5 - 26th Amendment lowers voting age to 18
1973A - January 27 - U.S. and S. Vietnam sign cease-fire with N. Vietnam ending Vietnam War
1980A - November - Ronald Reagan elected president
1983A - Sally Ride [Westlake School] - becomes first women in space
1991A - 1st Gulf War with Iraq

That took a while, it's all the dates, if you lost the sheet with the dates hope you use this! When the we get the dates for the next test, I'll add them on.
Peace and Love,
Ellie