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Years between events: timeline practice

U.S. History. Try each one, then open the answer. The Credit Sprint app generates unlimited new versions.

Item 1.

How many years passed between the Missouri Compromise (1820) and the Seneca Falls Convention (1848)?

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1848 − 1820 = 28 years.

Item 2.

How many years passed between the opening of the Erie Canal (1825) and the Nineteenth Amendment (1920)?

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1920 − 1825 = 95 years.

Item 3.

How many years passed between the Homestead Act (1862) and the March on Washington (1963)?

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1963 − 1862 = 101 years.

Item 4.

How many years passed between the Treaty of Paris ending the Revolution (1783) and the Reagan tax cuts (1981)?

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1981 − 1783 = 198 years.

Item 5.

How many years passed between the Voting Rights Act (1965) and the Iran-Contra affair (1986)?

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1986 − 1965 = 21 years.

Item 6.

How many years passed between Nat Turner's rebellion (1831) and the completion of the transcontinental railroad (1869)?

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1869 − 1831 = 38 years.