American History Timeline

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    Early Republic

  • George Washington

    First President of the United States,No party
  • the second great awakening

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    a period of antebellum social reform and an emphasis on salvation by institutions.
  • Hamilton’s Financial Plan (1790)

    🟩In 1790, Alexander Hamilton, as the first Secretary of the Treasury, proposed a financial plan to stabilize the nation's economy, which included assuming state debts, establishing a national bank, and promoting manufacturing through tariffs and subsidies.
  • John Adams

    2nd president
  • Thomas Jefferson

    3rd president
  • James Madison

    4th president
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    Manifest Destiny/Westward Expansion

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    Era of Good Feelings

  • James Monroe

    5th president
  • temperance movement

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    first urged moderation, then encouraged drinkers to help each other to resist temptation, and ultimately demanded that local, state, and national governments prohibit alcohol outright.
  • John Quincy Adams

    6th president
  • Andrew Jackson

    7th president
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    Jacksonian

  • Indian Removal Act

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    authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders
  • Jackson Vetoes the Second National Bank (1836)

    🟩In 1832, President Andrew Jackson vetoed the bill to recharter the Second Bank of the United States, arguing it was unconstitutional and a tool of the elite, thus sparking a major political and economic struggle known as the "Bank War
  • martin van buren

    8th president
  • martin van buren

    8th president
  • William Henry Harrison

    9th president
  • William Henry harrison

    9th president
  • John tyler

    10th president
  • James k. polk

    11th president
  • The great famine and Irish immigration

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    The 410,000 documented arrivals from Ireland in the database represent about one-third to one-quarter of the up to 1.5 million Irish who arrived in the United States during the broader Famine period of 1845–1855, including some who walked into the country after landing in Canada.
  • Mexican american war

    The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) was caused by a combination of factors, primarily the annexation of Texas by the United States in 1845, which Mexico refused to recognize, and a dispute over the Texas-Mexico border. President James K. Polk's Manifest Destiny ideology, which aimed to expand U.S. territory across the continent, also played a significant role.
  • Seneca falls convention

    🟦launched the women's rights and suffrage movements in the United States.
  • Zachary Taylor

    12th president
  • Millard Fillmore

    13th president
  • Franklin pierce

    14th president
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    Civil War

  • James buchanan

    15th president
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln
    16th president
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    Progressive Era

  • Andrew Johnson

    Andrew Johnson
    17th president
  • Ulysses s. grant

    Ulysses s. grant
    18th president
  • Jim crow

    🟦The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation
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    Gilded Age

  • Rutherford b. Hayes

    Rutherford b. Hayes
    19th president
  • Settlement house movement

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    played a pivotal role in addressing poverty and inequality in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • James a. Garfield

    James a. Garfield
    20th president
  • Chester a. Arthur

    Chester a. Arthur
    21st president
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

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    the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States.
  • Grover Cleveland

    Grover Cleveland
    22nd president
  • grover Cleveland

    grover Cleveland
    24th president
  • Benjamin harrison

    23rd president
  • William McKinley

    25th president
  • Spanish American war

    The Spanish-American War started due to a complex mix of factors, including the Cuban struggle for independence, sensationalized reporting by newspapers, and the explosion of the USS Maine. The Cuban struggle, ongoing since 1895, gained American sympathy due to reports of Spanish atrocities, particularly the "Reconcentration Policy" which forced Cubans into concentration camps. American newspapers, known as "yellow journalism,"
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  • Theodore Roosevelt

    26th president
  • William Howard taft

    27th president
  • Woodrow wilson

    28th president
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    WW1

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    Roaring 20s

  • Warren g. Harding

    29th president
  • Tulsa race massarce

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    The Tulsa race massacre, also known as the Tulsa race riot or the Black Wall Street massacre, was a two-day-long white supremacist terrorist massacre that took place between May 31 and June 1, 1921
  • Calvin collidge

    30th president
  • introduction of the era

    🟦In 1923, on the 75th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, infamous American suffragette Alice Paul held a second national convention to begin campaigning for a new constitutional amendment, one that would guarantee the rights of women. It was then that she proposed the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).
  • Herbert hoover

    31th president
  • Great Depression (1929)

    🟩The Great Depression, a severe global economic downturn, began in 1929 with the stock market crash and lasted until the start of World War II in 1939, marked by high unemployment, poverty, and bank failures.
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    Great Depression

  • The Dust Bowl (1930)

    🟩The Dust Bowl, a period of severe dust storms and drought in the 1930s, devastated the Great Plains region, leading to ecological damage, economic hardship, and widespread migration.
  • Franklin d. Roosevelt

    32nd president
  • The New Deal (1933-1936)

    🟩During Roosevelt's first hundred days in office in 1933 until 1935, he introduced what historians refer to as the "First New Deal", which focused on the "3 R's": relief for the unemployed and for the poor, recovery of the economy back to normal levels, and reforms of the financial system to prevent a repeat depression.
  • Chicago movement

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    The Chicago Freedom Movement, also known as the Chicago open housing movement, was led by Martin Luther King Jr.,
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    WW2

  • Japanese interment

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    During World War II, the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent in ten concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Authority, mostly in the western interior of the country
  • Zoot suit riots

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    The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots that took place June 3–8, 1943, in Los Angeles, California, United States, involving American servicemen stationed in Southern California and young Latino and Mexican American city residents.
  • harry s. Truman

    33rd president
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    Cold War

  • Korean war

    The Korean War, often referred to as "The Forgotten War," was fought from June 25, 1950, to July 27, 1953. This website is dedicated to thanking and honoring all the veterans of the Korean War, their families, and especially those who lost loved ones in that war.
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    34th president
  • Vietnam war

    The Vietnam War was a protracted and divisive conflict that significantly impacted the 20th century
  • Red Power movement

    🟦The Red Power movement was a social movement which was led by Native American youth who demanded self-determination for Native Americans in the United States. .
  • John F. Kennedy

    John F. Kennedy
    35th president
  • the stone wall riots

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    In 1969, a series of riots over police action against The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, changed the landscape of homosexual society quite literally overnight. Since then, the term 'Stonewall' itself has become almost synonymous with the struggle for gay rights.
  • Second National March on washington

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    What was the National March on Washington in 1987?
    Second National March on Washington, 1987 - Main Library ...
    The Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights was a massive political rally in Washington, D.C. The rally took place on October 11, 1987. Due to its large turnout of around 750,000 participants and the focus on AIDS activism, this March on Washington stands as an important part of LGBTQ history.
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    Contemporary History