U.S. history timeline

By ayden1818

  • 1887 Dawes Severalty Act-denies tribal rights, advances forced assimilation, opens lands to whites

    Grover Cleveland

  • 1890 – Sherman Antitrust Act-outlaws monopolies, price-fixing, other trade restraints

    president was Benjamin Harrison

  • 1896 - **Plessy vs. Ferguson – 'Separate but Equal' is constitutional (overturned by Brown vs. Board of Education)

    president was Grover Cleveland

  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

    'Separate but Equal' is constitutional the president was Grover Cleveland

  • 1898 - Grandfather Clause - voting rights of blacks challenged with literacy tests and poll taxes

    president was William McKinley

  • 1898 - Treaty of Paris - ends the Spanish-American War

    president was William McKinley

  • President McKinley assassinated

    the new president is Teddy Roosevelt

  • Muckraker

    writers who expose big business corruption

  • Pure Food and Drug Act, Meat Inspection

    set food quality standards president is Theodore Roosevelt

  • Panama Canal

    connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans president is Theodore Roosevelt

  • Henry Ford

    Henry Ford introduces the Model T car, assembly lines introduced
    the president was Theodore Roosevelt

  • 16th Amendment

    establishment of income tax, 17th Amend.- direct election of senators the president was Woodrow Wilson

  • World War I

    World War I begins in Europe president was Woodrow Wilson

  • German U-Boat sinks

    German U-Boat sinks British passenger liner Lusitania, Americans killed on board
    president was Woodrow Wilson

  • warning from U.S

    Germany continues unrestricted submarine warfare-gets warning from U.S.
    president was Woodrow Wilson

  • fourteen Points

    Fourteen Points - by Woodrow Wilson, 14th pt most important - calls for League of Nations
    president was Woodrow Wilson

  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment-outlaws purchase, sale, and transport of alcohol

  • Treaty of Versailles

    treaty of Versailles – ends WWI; calls for heavy reparations on Germany, disarmament, and creation of League of Nations; U.S. Senate rejects it
    president was Woodrow Wilson

  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment - women's suffrage (right to vote)

  • Stock Market Crash

    Stock Market Crash -'Black Tuesday' - launches Great Depression

  • Bonus Army

    Bonus Army (wwi vets) march on Washington demanding compensation - forced out

  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected President

  • U.S. unemployment rate

    U.S. unemployment rate reaches 25%, FDR claims Bank Holiday to fix banks

  • Wagner Act

    Wagner Act - supports union rights, protects collective bargaining

  • Social Security Act

    Social Security Act - establishes funds for unemployed and elderly

  • FDR

    FDR elected for unprecedented 3rd Term

  • Propaganda

    Propaganda - motivate U.S. citizens to support war efforts

  • Manhattan Project

    Manhattan Project - creation of the Atomic Bomb

  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway - U.S. defeats Japan, seen as turning point in the war in the Pacific

  • Germany surrenders

    Germany surrenders on V-E-DAY (victory in Europe day)

  • FDR dies

    FDR dies, Harry Truman becomes President; Adolf Hitler commits suicide

  • Harry Truman

    Harry Truman orders desegregation of military

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