history timeline

  • Declaration of independence

    Declaration of independence

    Goals were to rally the troops, win foreign allies and announce a new country
  • "E pluribus unum"

    "E pluribus unum"

    American determination to form a single nation from a collection of states
  • U.S Constitution

    U.S Constitution

    A preamble for the united states to come together as one country
  • Bill of Rights

    Bill of Rights

    A transcription of the first 10 amendments
  • Alex de Tocqueville and his five principles

    Alex de Tocqueville and his five principles

    Equality was the great political and social idea of his era
  • Sanford B. Dole

    Sanford B. Dole

    A lawyer and jurist from the Hawaiian Islands
  • Alfred Thayer Mahan

    Alfred Thayer Mahan

    A U.S Naval officer
  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act

    Any adult who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land
  • Henry Ford

    Henry Ford

    American Industrialist
  • Social Darwinism

    Social Darwinism

    Human Groups and races are subject to the same law
  • Settlement House movement

    Settlement House movement

    Reformist social movement
  • Douglas MacArthur

    Douglas MacArthur

    American military leader who served as General of the Army for the US as well as a field marshal to the Philippine Army
  • Eugenics

    Eugenics

    theory of "racial improvement" and "planned breeding"
  • Tin Pan Alley

    Tin Pan Alley

    collection of music publishers and songwrited in New York City which dominated the popular music in the 19th and early 20th century. 1885-1920s.
  • George S Patton

    George S Patton

    General in the US Army who commanded the seventh US army in the Mediterranean theater of WWII and the 3rd US army in France and Germany
  • General John J Pershing

    General John J Pershing

    General of the Armies
  • Marcus Garvey

    Marcus Garvey

    Leader of the Pan-Africanism Movement
  • Muckraker

    Muckraker

    Group of American writers identified with pre-world war one reform
  • Homestead strike 1892

    Homestead strike 1892

    Violent labour dispute between carnegie steel company and workers
  • Omar Bradley

    Omar Bradley

    Senior officer of the US Army during and after WWII, rising to the rank of of General of the Army. First chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff oversaw the US military policy.
  • Klondike Gold rush

    Klondike Gold rush

    Skookum Jim and his family found gold near Klondike river in Canada's Yukon territory
  • Spanish-American War

    Spanish-American War

    Armed conflict between Spain and the US
  • Panama Canal

    Panama Canal

    Lower the distance and the cost and time it took for ships to get across the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean
  • 16th Amendments

    16th Amendments

    Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes
  • 17th Amendments

    17th Amendments

    U.s Senate should be made up of 2 senators out of each state
  • Causes of WWI

    Causes of WWI

    Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary
  • Expansionism and Imperialism

    Expansionism and Imperialism

    A policy to increase a country's size and extending a country's power.
  • Reasons for US entry into WWI

    Reasons for US entry into WWI

    Lusitania German invasion, American loans, submarine warfare, Zimmerman telegram
  • Alvin York

    Alvin York

    US Army Solider
  • 18th Amendments

    18th Amendments

    Outlawed the production,sale,and transportation of alcoholic beverages
  • 19th Amendments

    19th Amendments

    granted women the right to vote
  • Vernon Baker

    Vernon Baker

    US army first lieutenant who was an infantry company platoon leader during WWII and a paratrooper during Korean War.
  • Teapot Dome Scandal

    Teapot Dome Scandal

    Involving the administration of U.S president Warren G. Harding
  • Immigration Act of 1924

    Immigration Act of 1924

    limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the US through a national orginis quota. Quotas provided immigration up by 2 percent.
  • Audie Murphy

    Audie Murphy

    American solider, actor, songwriter and rancher. Most decorated American combat soldiers of WWII. Medal of Honor at the age of 19 for holding off a company of German Soldiers.
  • Dust Bowl

    Dust Bowl

    Period of severe dust storms that greatly damanged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian praires during the 1930s
  • Tennesse Valley Authority (TVA)

    Tennesse Valley Authority (TVA)

    Federally owned electric utility corporation in the US TVS's service area covers all of Tennesse, portions of Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, small areas of Georgia and North Carolina.
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

    Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

    One of the two agencies that supply insurance to depositors in American depository institutions.
  • Social Security Administration (SSA)

    Social Security Administration (SSA)

    Independent agency of the US federal government that administer Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivor benefits.
  • Nuremburg Trails

    Nuremburg Trails

    Held by the allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries and other crimes in WWII.
  • Flying Tigers

    Flying Tigers

    Group of American military pilots who flew for the Republic of China. Air force in 1941-42. Formed to help oppose the Japanese invasion of China. First volunteer Group (AVG)
  • Bataan Death March

    Bataan Death March

    Forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000-80,000 American and Flipino prisoners of war from Saysain Point.
  • Navajo Code Talkers

    Navajo Code Talkers

    Regiment of Navajo language speakers who served WWII
  • Tuskegee Airman

    Tuskegee Airman

    Group of African American military pilots and airman who fought in WWII
  • " In god we trust"

    " In god we trust"

    official motto of the United States
  • Eminent Domain

    Eminent Domain

    The right of a government or its agent to private property for public use