HIST152.EF2 Timeline By ENavitsky Apr 14, 1865 President Abraham Lincoln Assassinted 1869 Transcontinental Railroad Completed Oct 27, 1873 Invention of Barbed Wire Jul 14, 1877 The Great Railroad Strike May 4, 1886 The Haymarket Square Riot 1903 U.S. obtains rights to build Panama Canal 1909 Interracial Coalition forms NAACP Jul 28, 1914 World War I May 18, 1917 Selective Service Act Jun 28, 1919 Treaty of Versailles Jul 21, 1925 John Scopes Trial Sep 4, 1929 The Great Depression Oct 28, 1929 The Wall Street Crash of 1929 1933 The New Deal Sep 1, 1939 World War II 1954 Civil Rights Movement May 17, 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Nov 22, 1963 President John F. Kennedy Assassinated Apr 4, 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated Jan 22, 1973 Roe v. Wade
