U.S. Government Timeline R.B. By tbeckner Jun 15, 1215 Magna Carta 1619 Jamestown's House of Burgesses 1620 Mayflower Compact Jul 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence = 1786 Shay's Rebellion 1787 Northwest Ordinance 1787 The Constitutional Convention Sep 17, 1787 Constitution 1789 Judiciary Act Jan 10, 1789 First President Dec 15, 1791 Bill of Right Jul 17, 1794 Whiskey Rebellion 1803 Marbury v Madison Apr 30, 1803 Louisiana Purchase 1804 12th Amendment 1819 McCulloch v Maryland Dec 2, 1823 Monroe Doctrine 1824 Gibbsons v. Ogden 1848 Seneca Falls Convention 1857 Dred Scott v Sandford Dec 20, 1860 Southern States Secede 1862 Morill Act Jan 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation Jul 1, 1863 Battle of Gettysburg Apr 15, 1865 Lincoln Assassination 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act Apr 13, 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson 1913 16th Amendment 1913 17th Amendment May 7, 1915 Sinking of the Lusitania 1920 19th Amendment 1928 Petition of Right 1930 Dual Federalism 1939 United States v Miller 1940 Minersville School District v. Gobitis 1941 National Security Council 1941 United States v Darby Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor Attack 1942 Executive Order 9006 1944 Koremastu v. the United States Aug 6, 1945 Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education 1954 Hernandez v Texas Nov 1, 1955 Vietnam War 1960 Civil Rights Act of 1960 1960 Great Society 1960 Creative Federalism 1960 Americans w Disabilities Act 1963 Edwards v South Carolina 1963 Equal Pay Act Nov 22, 1963 JFK Assassination 1966 Miranda v Arizona 1967 Loving v. Virginia 1967 Age Discrimination in Employment Act 1969 Tinker v. Des Moines Jul 20, 1969 Moon Landing Jun 17, 1972 Watergate Scandal 1973 War Power Resolution 1980 New Federalism 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform Sep 11, 2001 9/11 Attacks 2008 D.C. v. Heller Jan 20, 2009 First Black President Elected 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges 2018 Trump v. Hawaii 2019 McDonald v. Chicago 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests
