U.S. HISTORY

JAMESTOWN

May 14, 1607

JAMESTOWN WAS THE FIRST ENGLISH SETTLEMENT

revolutionary war

Period: Apr 19, 1775 to Sep 3, 1783

George Washington

Period: Nov 18, 1789 to Nov 18, 1797

Federalist from Virginia

George Washington

Period: Nov 29, 1789 to Nov 29, 1797

Bill of Rights

Dec 3, 1789

Bill of Rights adopted

John Adams

Period: Nov 29, 1797 to Nov 29, 1801

Thomas Jefferson

Period: Nov 29, 1801 to Nov 29, 1809

James Madison

Period: Nov 29, 1809 to Nov 29, 1817

James Monroe

Period: Nov 29, 1817 to Nov 29, 1825

Stephen Austin founds colony in Texas

Nov 18, 1822

MonroeDoctrine

Dec 2, 1823

John Quincy Adams

Period: Nov 29, 1825 to Nov 29, 1829

Andrew Jackson

Period: Nov 29, 1829 to Nov 29, 1837

Martin Van Buren

Period: Nov 29, 1837 to Nov 29, 1841

James Polk

Period: Nov 29, 1845 to Nov 29, 1849

texas joins usa

Dec 1, 1845

texas was admitted yo usa

Zachary Taylor

Period: Nov 29, 1849 to Nov 29, 1850

Millard Fillmore

Period: Nov 29, 1850 to Nov 29, 1853

Franklin Pierce

Period: Nov 29, 1853 to Nov 29, 1857

James Buchanan

Period: Nov 29, 1857 to Nov 29, 1861

Abraham Lincoln

Period: Nov 29, 1861 to Nov 29, 1865

EmancipationProclamation

Dec 1, 1863

the EmancipationProclamation freed slaves

World War One begins

Aug 13, 1914

Japan surprise attack on Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

hiroshima

Dec 3, 1945

U.S. A-bombs Japan

Civil Rights movement

Period: Nov 18, 1960 to Nov 18, 1965

John Kennedy

Period: Nov 29, 1961 to Nov 29, 1963

Kennedy assassinated

Nov 22, 1963

Richard Nixon

Period: Nov 29, 1969 to Nov 29, 1973

Richard Nixon

Period: Nov 29, 1973 to Nov 29, 1974

"War on Drugs"

Period: Nov 29, 1980 to Nov 29, 1990

jails1/5 of young black men

9/11

Sep 11, 2001

Barack Obama

Period: Nov 18, 2009 to Nov 18, 2013

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Nixon resigns

Dec 3, 2010

Nixon resigns over watergate