American History Timeline

By Cheyenne Millsaps
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    Early Republic

  • George Washington🟧

    George Washington🟧

    First US president.
    1789-1797
    Not affiliated

  • The second Great awakening

    1790-1830
  • John Adams 🟧

    John Adams 🟧

    1797-1801
    Federalist party
  • Thomas Jefferson 🟧

    Thomas Jefferson 🟧

    1801-1809
    Democratic-Republican party
  • James Madison 🟧

    James Madison 🟧

    1809-1817
    Democratic-Republican party
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    Manifest Destiny/Westward Expansion

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    Era of Good Feelings

  • James Monroe 🟧

    James Monroe 🟧

    1817-1825
    Democratic-Republican party

  • Temperance Movement

  • Indian Removall act

  • John Quincy Adams 🟧

    John Quincy Adams 🟧

    Democratic-Republican
    1825-1829
  • Andrew Jackson 🟧

    Andrew Jackson 🟧

    Democratic
    1829-1837
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    Jacksonain

  • Martin Van Buren 🟧

    Martin Van Buren 🟧

    democratic party
    1837-1841
  • John Tyler 🟧

    John Tyler 🟧

    Democrat
    1841-1845
  • William Henry Harrison 🟧

    William Henry Harrison 🟧

    Democratic-Republican
    1841

  • The great famine and Irish immigration

  • James K. Polk 🟧

    James K. Polk 🟧

    Democratic
    1845-1849

  • Sencea Falls convention

  • Zachary Taylor 🟧

    Zachary Taylor 🟧

    Democratic-republican
    1849-1850
  • Franklin Pierce 🟧

    Franklin Pierce 🟧

    Democratic
    1853-1857
  • Millard Fillmore 🟧

    Millard Fillmore 🟧

    Democratic-Republican
    1850-1853
  • James Buchanan 🟧

    James Buchanan 🟧

    Democratic
    1857-1861
  • Abraham Lincoln 🟧

    Abraham Lincoln 🟧

    Republican
    1861-1865
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    Civil War

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    Progressive Era

  • Andrew Johnson 🟧

    Andrew Johnson 🟧

    Democratic
    1865-1869
  • Ulysses S. Grant 🟧

    Ulysses S. Grant 🟧

    Republican
    1869-1977

  • Jim Crow

    1870-1965
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    Gilded Age

  • Rutherford B. Hayes 🟧

    Rutherford B. Hayes 🟧

    1877-1881
    Republican

  • Settlement House Movement

  • James A. Garfield 🟧

    James A. Garfield 🟧

    Republican
    1881
  • Chester A. Arthur 🟧

    Chester A. Arthur 🟧

    Republican
    1881-1885

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Grover Cleveland 🟧

    Grover Cleveland 🟧

    Democratic
    1885-1889 and 1893-1897
  • Benjamin Harrison 🟧

    Benjamin Harrison 🟧

    Republican
    1889-1893
  • William McKinley 🟧

    William McKinley 🟧

    Republican
    1897-1901
  • Theodore Roosevelt 🟧

    Theodore Roosevelt 🟧

    Republican
    1901-1909
  • William Howard Taft 🟧

    William Howard Taft 🟧

    Republican
    1909-1913
  • Woodrow Wilson 🟧

    Woodrow Wilson 🟧

    Democratic
    1913-1921
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    WWI

  • Warren G. Harding 🟧

    Warren G. Harding 🟧

    Republican
    1921-1923
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    Roaring 20s

  • Tulsa Race Massacre

  • Introduction to the Era

  • Calvin Coolidge 🟧

    Calvin Coolidge 🟧

    1923-1929
    Republican
  • Herbert Hoover 🟧

    Herbert Hoover 🟧

    1929-1933
    Republican
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    Great Depression

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt 🟧

    Franklin D. Roosevelt 🟧

    1933-1945
    Democratic

  • Chicano Movement

    1940-1970
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    WWII

  • Japanese Internment

  • Zoot suit Riots

  • Harry S. Truman 🟧

    Harry S. Truman 🟧

    1945-1963
    Democratic
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    Cold War

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower 🟧

    Dwight D. Eisenhower 🟧

    1953-1961
    Republican

  • Red power Movement

    1960-1970
  • John F. Kennedy 🟧

    John F. Kennedy 🟧

    1961-1963
    Democratic
  • Lyndon B. Johnson 🟧

    Lyndon B. Johnson 🟧

    1963-1969
    Democratic

  • The stonewall riots

  • Richard M. Nixon 🟧

    Richard M. Nixon 🟧

    1969-1974
    Republican
  • Gerald R. Ford 🟧

    Gerald R. Ford 🟧

    1974-1977
    Republican
  • Jimmy Carter 🟧

    Jimmy Carter 🟧

    1977-1981
    Democratic
  • Ronald Reagan 🟧

    Ronald Reagan 🟧

    1981-1989
    Republican

  • Second National March on Washington

  • George H. W. Bush 🟧

    George H. W. Bush 🟧

    1989-1993
    Republican
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    Contemporary History

  • William J. Clinton 🟧

    William J. Clinton 🟧

    1993-2001
    Democratic
  • George W. Bush 🟧

    George W. Bush 🟧

    2001-2009
    Republican
  • Barack Obama 🟧

    Barack Obama 🟧

    2009-2017
    Democratic
  • Joseph R. Biden Jr. 🟧

    Joseph R. Biden Jr. 🟧

    2021-2025
    Democratic
  • Donald J. Trump 🟧

    Donald J. Trump 🟧

    2017-2021, 2025
    Republican