U.S. Government Timeline-LW By lwooten45 Mar 22, 1765 American Revolution started Apr 1, 1775 Battle of Lexington and Concord May 10, 1775 Second Continental Congress Jun 16, 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill Jul 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence signed Sep 11, 1777 Battle of Brandywine Oct 17, 1777 Battle of Saratoga Sep 15, 1781 Battle of Yorktown Sep 17, 1787 Constitution signed Dec 15, 1791 American Revolution ended 1803 Marbury v. Madison Apr 30, 1803 Louisiana Purchase Mar 6, 1819 McCulloch v Maryland 1824 Gibbons v. Ogden Mar 6, 1857 Dred Scott v Sandford Jan 1, 1861 Civil War started Jan 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation Apr 9, 1865 Civil War ends May 18, 1896 Plessy v Ferguson 1908 Muller v Oregon 1925 Gitlow v New York Oct 24, 1929 Start of the Great Depression Oct 28, 1929 Wall Street Crash Jan 1, 1930 Start of the Dust Bowl 1939 End of the Great Depression Mar 30, 1939 United States v Miller Dec 31, 1940 End of the Dust Bowl Feb 3, 1941 United States v Darby Dec 7, 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Dec 18, 1944 Korematsu v. the United States Mar 12, 1947 Start of the Cold War 1954 Civil Rights Movement May 17, 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Nov 1, 1955 Start of Vietnam War Jun 19, 1961 Mapp v Ohio 1963 Gideon v Wainwright Aug 28, 1963 March on Washington Oct 31, 1963 Terry v Ohio Nov 22, 1963 JFK Assassination 1965 Griswold v Connecticut Jun 13, 1966 Miranda v Arizona Jun 12, 1967 Loving v Virginia 1968 End of Civil Rights Movement Feb 24, 1969 Tinker v Des Moines Jul 16, 1969 Apollo 11 1971 Cohen v California Jun 17, 1972 Watergate Scandal Jan 22, 1973 Roe v Wade May 30, 1975 End of Vietnam War Aug 2, 1990 Gulf War Dec 26, 1991 End of Cold War Apr 19, 1995 Oklahome City bombing Apr 26, 1995 United States v Lopez Dec 12, 2000 Bush v Gore Sep 11, 2001 9/11 terrorist attack on the US Jun 26, 2003 Lawrence v Texas Jun 26, 2008 District of Columbia v Heller Jun 26, 2008 DC v Heller 2010 McDonald v Chicago Jan 21, 2010 Citizens United v Federal Election Commission Jun 26, 2015 Obergefell v Hodges Jun 21, 2019 Flowers v Mississippi
