History152 By HistoryGroup2 Period: Jan 1, 1860 to Jan 1, 1970 American History Jan 1, 1862 The Morrill Land Grant Act Mar 10, 1876 Invention of the Telephone Jan 1, 1878 First Motion Picture May 1, 1886 Haymarket Square Strike Jan 1, 1889 Hull House Jul 6, 1892 The Homestead Strike Mar 1, 1893 The Panic of 1893 Jan 1, 1901 The New President Jan 1, 1903 Creation of Coney Island Oct 1, 1903 First Modern World Series Jan 1, 1907 Financial Panic and Recession Mar 25, 1911 The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Jan 1, 1912 The Progressive Party Jan 1, 1914 World War I Jan 1, 1919 The Great Migration Jan 16, 1919 Eighteenth Amendment Sep 22, 1919 Steel Strike and other Labor Actions Aug 18, 1920 The Nineteenth Amendment Jan 1, 1924 The Dawes Plan Jan 1, 1924 National Origins Act Mar 1, 1925 The Scopes Trial Oct 1, 1929 Stock Market Crash Jan 1, 1930 Argicultural Marketing Act Mar 1, 1931 Scottsboro Defendants Arrested Jan 1, 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt Elected President Jan 1, 1933 "First New Deal" Legislation Jan 1, 1937 Roosevelts "Court-packing" Plan Jan 1, 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act Jan 1, 1939 World War II Begins Jan 1, 1941 Lend-Lease Plan May 7, 1942 Battle of Midway Nov 21, 1944 Roosevelt Reelected Aug 5, 1945 Hiroshima Destroyed Aug 14, 1945 Surrender of Japan Jan 1, 1947 The National Security Act Jun 1, 1947 Rebuilding Europe Jun 24, 1948 Berlin Airlift Jan 1, 1954 Salk Vaccine Jan 1, 1955 Booming Economic Growth Jan 1, 1960 William Levitt House Program Jan 1, 1960 Kennedy Elected Apr 7, 1961 Bay of Pigs Apr 28, 1971 Occupational Safety and Health Administration May 11, 1984 The Pullman Strike
