American History

Missouri Compromise

Jan 1, 1820

Mexican War

Period: Jan 1, 1846 to Dec 31, 1848

Compromise of 1850

Jan 1, 1850

Civil War

Period: Jan 1, 1861 to Dec 31, 1865

Homestead Act

Jan 1, 1862

Typewriter Invented

Jan 1, 1867

Transcontinental Railroad Completed

Jan 1, 1869

Graham Bell Telephone

Jan 1, 1876

ICC

Jan 1, 1877

Compromise of 1977

Jan 1, 1877

LIght Bulb Invented

Jan 1, 1879

Bessemer Process Used Widely

Jan 1, 1880

Chinese Exclusion Act

Jan 1, 1882

Pendleton Civil Service Act

Jan 1, 1883

Grover Cleveland

Period: Jan 1, 1885 to Dec 31, 1889

Dawes Act

Jan 1, 1887

Benjamin Harrison

Period: Jan 1, 1889 to Dec 31, 1893

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Jan 1, 1890

Battle of Wounded Knee

Dec 29, 1890

Grover Cleveland

Period: Jan 1, 1893 to Dec 31, 1897

Pullman Strike

Jan 1, 1894

Plessy v. Ferguson

Jan 1, 1896

William McKinley

Period: Jan 1, 1897 to Dec 31, 1901

Spanish American Cuban War

Period: Apr 25, 1898 to Aug 12, 1898

Annexation of Hawaii

Jul 7, 1898

Theodore Roosevelt

Period: Jan 1, 1901 to Dec 31, 1909

Coal Strike of 1902

Jan 1, 1902

Pure Food and Drug Act

Jan 1, 1906

William H. Taft

Period: Jan 1, 1909 to Dec 31, 1913

Woodrow Wilson

Period: Jan 1, 1913 to Dec 31, 1921

WWI

Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918

U.S. Enter WWI

Jan 1, 1917

Espionage and Sedition Acts

Jan 1, 1917

Warren G. Harding

Period: Jan 1, 1921 to Dec 31, 1923

Calvin Coolidge

Period: Jan 1, 1923 to Dec 31, 1929

National Origins Act

Jan 1, 1924

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Jan 1, 1928

Herbert C. Hoover

Period: Jan 1, 1929 to Dec 31, 1933

Black Tuesday Stock Market Crash

Oct 29, 1929

Frankin D. Roosevelt

Period: Jan 1, 1933 to Dec 31, 1945

Wagner Act

Jan 1, 1935

WWII

Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Sep 2, 1945

U.S. Enters WWII

Jan 1, 1941

Lend Lease Act

Jan 1, 1941

Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

Korematsu v. U.S.

Jan 1, 1944

D-Day

Jun 6, 1944

Cold War

Period: Jan 1, 1945 to Dec 31, 1991

Harry S. Truman

Period: Jan 1, 1945 to Dec 31, 1953

Korean War

Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 17, 1953

Dwight D. EIsenhower

Period: Jan 1, 1953 to Dec 31, 1961

Brown v. Board of Education

Jan 1, 1954

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Period: Dec 25, 1955 to May 25, 1956

Civil Rights Act of 1957

Jan 1, 1957

Little Rock School Desegregation

Jan 1, 1957

John F. Kennedy

Period: Jan 1, 1961 to Dec 31, 1963

Cuban Missile Crisis

Jan 1, 1962

Lyndon B. Johnson

Period: Jan 1, 1963 to Dec 31, 1969

March on Washington

Aug 28, 1963

JFK's Assassination

Nov 22, 1963

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Jan 1, 1964

Selma March

Jan 1, 1965

1st Combat Troops to Vietnam

Mar 8, 1965

Civil Rights Act of 1968

Jan 1, 1968

Kerner Commission

Jan 1, 1968

Bobby Kennedy Assassination

Jan 1, 1968

My Lai Massacre

Mar 16, 1968

MLK Assassination

Apr 4, 1968

RIchard M. Nixon

Period: Jan 1, 1969 to Dec 31, 1974

Roe v. Wade

Jan 1, 1973

Gerald R. Ford

Period: Jan 1, 1974 to Dec 31, 1977

Nixon's Resignation

Aug 8, 1974

James E. Carter, Jr.

Period: Jan 1, 1977 to Dec 31, 1981

Bakke v. University of California

Jan 1, 1978

Ronald W. Reagan

Period: Jan 1, 1981 to Dec 31, 1989

Lockerbie Scotland Pan Am 103

Jan 1, 1988

George H.W. Bush

Period: Jan 1, 1989 to Dec 31, 1993

Persian Gulf War

Period: Aug 2, 1990 to Feb 28, 1991

Persian Gulf War

Jan 1, 1991

WTC Bombing

Jan 1, 1993

William J. Clinton

Period: Jan 1, 1993 to Dec 31, 2001

Oklahoma Bombing

Jan 1, 1995

Bombing of American Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya

Jan 1, 1998

Operation Enduring Freedom

Jan 1, 2001

George W. Bush

Period: Jan 1, 2001 to Dec 31, 2009

9/11

Sep 11, 2001

Iraq War (Operation Iraqi Freedom)

Period: Jan 1, 2003 to Dec 31, 2010

Barack Obama

Period: Jan 1, 2009 to Dec 31, 2013

Voting Act of 1965

Jan 1, 2010