HIST152 Final Timeline Project By HMICHAELJ 1865 Reconstruction Begins 1865 13th Amendment Abolishes Slavery 1869 Transcontinental Railroad Completed 1870 15th Amendment Grants Black Men Right to Vote 1873 Barbed Wire is Invented 1873 Carnegie Steel is Founded 1876 Battle of Little Big Horn 1894 "Coxey's Army" Marches to Washington 1898 Spanish-American War- Annexation of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Phillipines 1901 McKinley Assassinated- Roosevelt Takes Office 1915 German U-boat Sinks RMS Lusitania 1917 U.S. Enters WWI 1920 19th Amendment Grants Women Right to Vote 1929 Stock Market Crash begins Great Depression 1933 F.D.R.'s "New Deal" Begins 1941 Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor- U.S. enters WWII 1945 U.S. Drops Atomic Bombs on Japan- ends WWII 1947 Truman Doctrine Launches U.S. Interventionism and Cold War 1957 "Little Rock Nine" Escorted into Central Highschool 1957 USSR Launches "Spunik"
