American History By 11ayanos Jan 1, 1820 Missouri Compromise Period: Jan 1, 1846 to Dec 31, 1848 Mexican War Jan 1, 1850 Compromise of 1850 Period: Jan 1, 1861 to Dec 31, 1865 Civil War Jan 1, 1862 Homestead Act Jan 1, 1867 Typewriter Invented Jan 1, 1869 Transcontinental Railroad Completed Jan 1, 1876 Graham Bell Telephone Jan 1, 1877 ICC Jan 1, 1877 Compromise of 1977 Jan 1, 1879 LIght Bulb Invented Jan 1, 1880 Bessemer Process Used Widely Jan 1, 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act Jan 1, 1883 Pendleton Civil Service Act Period: Jan 1, 1885 to Dec 31, 1889 Grover Cleveland Jan 1, 1887 Dawes Act Period: Jan 1, 1889 to Dec 31, 1893 Benjamin Harrison Jan 1, 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Act Dec 29, 1890 Battle of Wounded Knee Period: Jan 1, 1893 to Dec 31, 1897 Grover Cleveland Jan 1, 1894 Pullman Strike Jan 1, 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson Period: Jan 1, 1897 to Dec 31, 1901 William McKinley Period: Apr 25, 1898 to Aug 12, 1898 Spanish American Cuban War Jul 7, 1898 Annexation of Hawaii Period: Jan 1, 1901 to Dec 31, 1909 Theodore Roosevelt Jan 1, 1902 Coal Strike of 1902 Jan 1, 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act Period: Jan 1, 1909 to Dec 31, 1913 William H. Taft Period: Jan 1, 1913 to Dec 31, 1921 Woodrow Wilson Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918 WWI Jan 1, 1917 U.S. Enter WWI Jan 1, 1917 Espionage and Sedition Acts Period: Jan 1, 1921 to Dec 31, 1923 Warren G. Harding Period: Jan 1, 1923 to Dec 31, 1929 Calvin Coolidge Jan 1, 1924 National Origins Act Jan 1, 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact Period: Jan 1, 1929 to Dec 31, 1933 Herbert C. Hoover Oct 29, 1929 Black Tuesday Stock Market Crash Period: Jan 1, 1933 to Dec 31, 1945 Frankin D. Roosevelt Jan 1, 1935 Wagner Act Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Sep 2, 1945 WWII Jan 1, 1941 U.S. Enters WWII Jan 1, 1941 Lend Lease Act Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor Jan 1, 1944 Korematsu v. U.S. Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Period: Jan 1, 1945 to Dec 31, 1991 Cold War Period: Jan 1, 1945 to Dec 31, 1953 Harry S. Truman Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 17, 1953 Korean War Period: Jan 1, 1953 to Dec 31, 1961 Dwight D. EIsenhower Jan 1, 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Period: Dec 25, 1955 to May 25, 1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott Jan 1, 1957 Civil Rights Act of 1957 Jan 1, 1957 Little Rock School Desegregation Period: Jan 1, 1961 to Dec 31, 1963 John F. Kennedy Jan 1, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Period: Jan 1, 1963 to Dec 31, 1969 Lyndon B. Johnson Aug 28, 1963 March on Washington Nov 22, 1963 JFK's Assassination Jan 1, 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 Jan 1, 1965 Selma March Mar 8, 1965 1st Combat Troops to Vietnam Jan 1, 1968 Civil Rights Act of 1968 Jan 1, 1968 Kerner Commission Jan 1, 1968 Bobby Kennedy Assassination Mar 16, 1968 My Lai Massacre Apr 4, 1968 MLK Assassination Period: Jan 1, 1969 to Dec 31, 1974 RIchard M. Nixon Jan 1, 1973 Roe v. Wade Period: Jan 1, 1974 to Dec 31, 1977 Gerald R. Ford Aug 8, 1974 Nixon's Resignation Period: Jan 1, 1977 to Dec 31, 1981 James E. Carter, Jr. Jan 1, 1978 Bakke v. University of California Period: Jan 1, 1981 to Dec 31, 1989 Ronald W. Reagan Jan 1, 1988 Lockerbie Scotland Pan Am 103 Period: Jan 1, 1989 to Dec 31, 1993 George H.W. Bush Period: Aug 2, 1990 to Feb 28, 1991 Persian Gulf War Jan 1, 1991 Persian Gulf War Jan 1, 1993 WTC Bombing Period: Jan 1, 1993 to Dec 31, 2001 William J. Clinton Jan 1, 1995 Oklahoma Bombing Jan 1, 1998 Bombing of American Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya Jan 1, 2001 Operation Enduring Freedom Period: Jan 1, 2001 to Dec 31, 2009 George W. Bush Sep 11, 2001 9/11 Period: Jan 1, 2003 to Dec 31, 2010 Iraq War (Operation Iraqi Freedom) Period: Jan 1, 2009 to Dec 31, 2013 Barack Obama Jan 1, 2010 Voting Act of 1965