American History Timetine

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    Early Republic

  • 🟧 George Washington

    🟧 George Washington
    1789-1797
  • The second great awakening

    The second great awakening
    The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival during the late 18th to early 19th century in the United States. It spread religion through revivals and emotional preaching and sparked a number of reform movements
  • 🟦The Second Great Awakening

    🟦The Second Great Awakening
    1790s-1830s The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival during the late 18th to early 19th century in the United States. It spread religion through revivals and emotional preaching and sparked a number of reform movements. Revivals were a key part of the movement and attracted hundreds of converts to new Protestant denominations. The Methodist Church used circuit riders to reach people in frontier locations
  • 🟩Hamiltons Financial Plan

  • hamiltons financial plan

    hamiltons financial plan
    Alexander Hamilton's financial plan was implemented primarily in the early years of the 1790s, specifically during George Washington's first term. The core of the plan was proposed in four notable reports to Congress between 1790 and 1791. These reports addressed issues like national debt, state debt, and the establishment of a national bank
  • 🟧 John Adams

    🟧 John Adams
    1797-1801
  • 🟧 Thomas Jefferson

    🟧 Thomas Jefferson
    1801-1809
  • 🟧 James Madison

    🟧 James Madison
    1809-1817
  • The war of 1812

    The war of 1812
    a conflict between the United States and Great Britain, primarily over impressment of American sailors, trade restrictions, and disagreements over Native American policy. The war saw several key events, including British attacks on American soil, a naval blockade of the U.S. coastline, and significant victories by both sides
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    🟪 Manifest Destiny/Westward Expansion

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    Era of good Feelings

  • 🟧 James Monroe

    🟧 James Monroe
    1817-1825
  • 🟦 Temperance movement

    🟦 Temperance movement
    The temperance movement, rooted in America's Protestant churches, 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

    🟧 John Quincy Adams
    1825-1829
  • 🟧 Andrew Jackson

    🟧 Andrew Jackson
    1829-1837
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    Jacksonian

  • Indian removal act

    Indian removal act
    President Andrew Jackson signed it into law that same day, authorizing the relocation of Native American tribes west of the Mississippi River
  • Indian Removal Act

    Indian Removal Act
    The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy.
  • Jackson vetoes the second national bank

    Jackson vetoes the second national bank
    President Andrew Jackson vetoed the bill to recharter the Second Bank of the United States on July 10, 1832. This veto was a significant event in Jackson's presidency and became a central point in the "Bank War"
  • 🟩Jackson vetoes the second national bank

  • 🟧 Martin Van Buren

    🟧 Martin Van Buren
    1837-1841
  • 🟧 John Tyer

    🟧 John Tyer
    1841-1845
  • 🟧 William Henry Harrison

    🟧 William Henry Harrison
    1841-1841
  • 🟧 James K. Polk

    🟧 James K. Polk
    1845-1849
  • 🟦The Great Famine and Irish Immigration

    🟦The Great Famine and Irish Immigration
    Although estimates vary, it is believed as many as 1 million Irish men, women and children perished during the Famine, and another 1 to 2 million emigrated from the island to escape poverty and starvation, with many landing in various cities throughout North America and Great Britain.
  • The great famine and Irish Immigration

    The great famine and Irish Immigration
    This period of mass starvation and disease was primarily caused by a potato blight that destroyed a third of Ireland's population's primary food source. As a result, a large number of Irish people emigrated to other countries, including the United States, seeking refuge and better opportunities
  • The Mexican American War

    The Mexican American War
    invasion of Mexico by the United States Army. It followed the 1845 American annexation of Texas.
  • 🟦 Seneca Falls Convention

    🟦 Seneca Falls Convention
    The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. Its organizers advertised it as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman".
  • Seneca falls convention

    Seneca falls convention
    Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, that launched the women's suffrage movement in the United States. Seneca Falls was the home of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who, along with Lucretia Mott, conceived of and directed the convention.
  • 🟧 Zachory Taylor

    🟧 Zachory Taylor
    1849-1850
  • 🟧 Millard Fillmore

    🟧 Millard Fillmore
    1850-1853
  • The temperance movement

    The temperance movement
    The Temperance Movement primarily took hold during the 1820s through the 1850s. While it began in the early 1800s, it gained significant momentum and broad influence in the following decades. The movement aimed to discourage the consumption of alcohol, often through moral persuasion and later, through advocating for legislative changes like local option and statewide prohibition
  • 🟧 Franklin Pierce

    🟧 Franklin Pierce
    1853-1857
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act
    The act's key provision was the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the establishment of popular sovereignty in the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska, allowing residents to decide on the issue of slavery
  • 🟧 James Buchanan

    🟧 James Buchanan
    1857-1861
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    Progressive Era

  • 🟧 Abraham Lincoln

    🟧 Abraham Lincoln
    1861-1865
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    🟥 Civil War

  • The civil war

    The civil war
    The war began when the Confederates bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861. The war ended in Spring, 1865. Robert E. Lee surrendered the last major Confederate army to Ulysses S.
  • 🟧 Andrew Johnson

    🟧 Andrew Johnson
    1865-1869
  • 13th Amendment Passed

    13th Amendment Passed
    This amendment officially abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States.
  • Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

    Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
    John Wilkes Booth, a prominent American actor, snuck up behind President Abraham Lincoln as he watched a play at Ford's Theater, and shot him in the back of the head at point-blank range
  • 14th amendment passed

    14th amendment passed
    This makes it one of the Reconstruction Amendments, designed to address the rights of formerly enslaved people following the Civil War
  • reconstruction acts

    reconstruction acts
    The amendment guarantees the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
  • 🟧 Ulysses S. Grant

    🟧 Ulysses S. Grant
    1869-1877
  • 15th amendment passed

    15th amendment passed
    The amendment guarantees the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
  • 🟦 Jim Crow

    🟦 Jim Crow
    1870s-1965 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, "Jim Crow" being a pejorative term for an African American. The last of the Jim Crow laws were generally overturned in 1965.
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    Gilded Age

  • 🟧 Rutherford B. Hayes

    🟧 Rutherford B. Hayes
    1877-1881
  • 🟦Settlement house movement

    🟦Settlement house movement
    Between the 1880s and 1920s, hundreds of settlement houses were established in American cities in response to an influx of European immigrants as well as the urban poverty brought about by industrialization and exploitative labor practices.
  • 🟧 Chester A. Aurthur

    🟧 Chester A. Aurthur
    1881-1885
  • 🟧 James A. Garfield

    🟧 James A. Garfield
    1881-1881
  • 🟦 Chinese Exclusion Act

    🟦 Chinese Exclusion Act
    It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. In the spring of 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States
  • chinese exclusion act

    chinese exclusion act
    This act prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers for a period of ten years and declared Chinese immigrants ineligible for naturalization.
  • 🟧 Grover Cleveland

    🟧 Grover Cleveland
    1885-1889
  • 🟧 Benjamin Harrison

    🟧 Benjamin Harrison
    1889-1893
  • 🟧 Glover Cleveland

    🟧 Glover Cleveland
    1893-1897
  • 🟧 William McKinley

    🟧 William McKinley
    1897-1901
  • The spansh american war

    The spansh american war
    was fought between Spain and the United States in 1898. It began with the sinking of the USS Maine
  • Settlement house movement

    Settlement house movement
    Its goal was to bring the rich and the poor of society together in both physical proximity and social connection.
  • 🟧 Theodore Roosevelt

    🟧 Theodore Roosevelt
    1901-1909
  • 🟧 William Howard Taft

    🟧 William Howard Taft
    1909-1913
  • 🟧 Woodrow Wilson

    🟧 Woodrow Wilson
    1913-1921
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    🟥 WWI

  • WW1

    WW1
    World War I or the First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Central Powers.
  • 🟩Virgin Islands purchase

    🟩Virgin Islands purchase
    U.S. agrees to purchase Danish West Indies (Virgin Islands) for $25 million (treaty
    signed
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    Roaring 20's

  • 🟦 Tulsa Race Massacre

    🟦 Tulsa Race Massacre
    During the course of eighteen terrible hours on May 31 and June 1, 1921, more than one thousand homes and businesses were destroyed, while credible estimates of deaths range from fifty to three hundred. By the time the violence ended, the city had been placed under martial law, thousands of Tulsans were being held under armed guard, and the state's second-largest African American community had been burned to the ground.
  • 🟧 Warren G. Harding

    🟧 Warren G. Harding
    1921-1923
  • 🟧Inauguration of Warren Harding

    🟧Inauguration of Warren Harding
    Warren G. Harding is inaugurated as the 29th president (March 4). He signs resolution declaring peace with Austria and Germany
  • Tulsa race massacre

    Tulsa race massacre
    The Tulsa Race Massacre was a devastating event that occurred in Tulsa, Oklahoma, from May 31 to June 1, 1921. It was a large-scale attack by a white mob on the Greenwood District, a predominantly African American neighborhood often referred to as "Black Wall Street" due to its economic prosperity
  • The introduction of the ERA

    The introduction of the ERA
    It was first proposed to Congress in 1923 by Senator Curtis and Representative Anthony. The ERA's core purpose was to guarantee equal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex
  • 🟦Introduction of the ERA

    🟦Introduction of the ERA
    Three years after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was initially proposed in Congress in 1923 in an effort to secure full equality for women. It seeks to end the legal distinctions between men and women in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other matters.
  • 🟧 Calvin Coolidge

    🟧 Calvin Coolidge
    1923-1929
  • 🟪 Charles Lindbergh Solo flight

    🟪 Charles Lindbergh Solo flight
  • The great depression

    The great depression
    The longest and deepest downturn in the history of the United States and the modern industrial economy lasted more than a decade, beginning in 1929 and ending during World War II in 1941
  • 🟧 Herbert Hoover

    🟧 Herbert Hoover
    1929-1933
  • 🟩Great Depression

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    🟩 Great Depression

  • 🟥 Great Depression

    🟥 Great Depression
    The stock market crashed and quickly led to he Great Depression
  • 🟩The Dust Bowl

  • the dust bowl

    the dust bowl
    The Dust Bowl is considered the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history. In the 1930s, a severe drought combined with poor farming practices and economic depression, led to severe wind erosion of the topsoil, affecting portions of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico.
  • 🟧 Franklin D. Roosevelt

    🟧 Franklin D. Roosevelt
    1933-1945
  • 🟩The New deal

    1933-1936
  • The new deal

    The new deal
    The New Deal was a series of economic and social programs implemented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1938 in response to the Great Depression. It is often divided into two phases: the First New Deal (1933-1934) and the Second New Deal (1935-1938). The New Deal aimed to provide relief for the unemployed, facilitate economic recovery, and reform the financial system
  • WW11

    WW11
    World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war
  • 🟦 Chicano Movement

    🟦 Chicano Movement
    1940s-1970s The Hispanic community embarked on a social movement aimed at combating institutional racism, increasing cultural hegemony, and guaranteeing equal labor and political rights. The Chicano Movement sparked national conversations on the political and social autonomy of Hispanic groups everywhere in the United States.
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    🟥 WWII

  • 🟦 Japanese Internment

    🟦 Japanese Internment
  • Japanese Internment

    Japanese Internment
    The attack on Pearl Harbor also launched a rash of fear about national security, especially on the West Coast. In February 1942, just two months later, President Roosevelt, as commander-in-chief, issued Executive Order 9066 that resulted in the internment of Japanese Americans
  • 🟦 Zoot Suit Riots

    🟦 Zoot Suit Riots
  • Zoot suit riots

    Zoot suit riots
    white U.S. servicemen and police officers descended upon a majority-Mexican American neighborhood in East Los Angeles, California, and harassed, beat, and detained hundreds of Mexican American youth.
  • 🟧 Harry S. Truman

    🟧 Harry S. Truman
    1945-1953
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    🟥 Cold War

  • Cold war

    Cold war
    The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991
  • jim crow laws

    jim crow laws
    Jim Crow laws, which enforced racial segregation, were implemented in the Southern United States starting in the late 1870s and remained in place until the mid-20th century. These laws segregated African Americans from whites in public facilities, such as schools, restrooms, restaurants, and transportation. While the term "Jim Crow" is often used to describe the period of segregation in the South, it's important to note that segregation existed in many other parts of the United States as well
  • Korean war

    Korean war
    The Korean War started on 25 June 1950 and ended on 27 July 1953, after the signing of an armistice agreeing that the country would remain divided.
  • 🟧 Dwight D. Eisenhower

    🟧 Dwight D. Eisenhower
    1953-1961
  • The Vietnam war

    The Vietnam war
    The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies.
  • 🟦 Red Power Movement

    🟦 Red Power Movement
    1960s-1970s The Red Power Movement was able to deliver many rights to Indians throughout the nation. Tribes were able to gain some autonomy on their own lands, gain more rights, and earn funding for their communities and schools.
  • 🟧 John F. Kennedy

    🟧 John F. Kennedy
    1961-1963
  • 🟧 Lyndon B. Johnson

    🟧 Lyndon B. Johnson
    1963-1969
  • Chicano movements

    Chicano movements
    While some roots of the movement can be traced back to the 1940s and 1950s, it gained significant momentum during this period. Key events like the Delano grape strike (1965) and the East L.A. walkouts (1968) are often cited as catalysts
  • 🟦 The Stonewall Riots

    🟦 The Stonewall Riots
    The Stonewall riots (also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, Stonewall revolution, or simply Stonewall) were a series of spontaneous riots and demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City.
  • 🟧 Richard Nixon

    🟧 Richard Nixon
    1969-1974
  • the stonewall riots

    the stonewall riots
    Stonewall riots, series of violent confrontations that began in the early hours of June 28, 1969, between police and gay rights activists outside the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City. As the riots progressed, an international gay rights movement was born
  • Red power movement

    Red power movement
    It emerged from a growing awareness of Indigenous identity and activism, fueled by long-standing grievances over treaty rights and the Termination Policy
  • 🟧 Gerald Ford

    🟧 Gerald Ford
    1974-1977
  • 🟧 Jimmy Carter

    🟧 Jimmy Carter
    1977-1981
  • 🟧 Ronald Reagan

    🟧 Ronald Reagan
    1981-1989
  • 🟦 Second National March on Washington

    🟦  Second National March on Washington
    The Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights was a large political rally that took place in Washington, D.C., on October 11, 1987. Around 750,000 people participated. Its success, size, scope, and historical importance have led to it being called, "The Great March".
  • second national march on washington

    second national march on washington
    he 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.
  • 🟧 George H. W. Bush

    🟧 George H. W. Bush
    1989-1993
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    Contemporary History

  • 🟥 Persian Gulf War

    🟥 Persian Gulf War
    Jan. 16-Feb 28
  • 🟧 Bill Clinton

    🟧 Bill Clinton
    1993-2001
  • 🟥 Oklahoma City bombing

    🟥 Oklahoma City bombing
    Bombing of federal office building in Oklahoma City kills 168 people (April 19). U.S. establishes full diplomatic relations with Vietnam (July 11). President Clinton sends first 8,000 of 20,000 U.S. troops to Bosnia for 12-month peacekeeping mission (Dec.). Budget standoff between President Clinton and Congress results in partial shutdown of U.S. government (Dec. 16–Jan. 6).
  • 🟧 George W. Bush

    🟧 George W. Bush
    2001-2009
  • 🟥 9/11

    🟥 9/11
    On the morning of 11 September 2001, 19 Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger planes in the United States. Two planes were flown into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, causing both towers to collapse. A third plane was crashed into the Pentagon, just outside Washington, DC.
  • 🟧 Barack Obama

    🟧 Barack Obama
    2009-2017
  • 🟧 Donald Trump

    🟧 Donald Trump
    2017-2021
  • 🟧 Joe Biden

    🟧 Joe Biden
    2021-2025
  • 🟧 Donald Trump

    🟧 Donald Trump
    2025-2029