U.S History Timeline

  • 1882

    1882

    the oil and steel industry start booming with john d Rockefeller taking the oil industry and dander carnage with steel. Chester a aruther was elected as the 21st president
  • 1887

    1887

    Dawes Severalty Act-denies tribal rights, advances forced assimilation, opens lands to whites Grover Cleveland was elected as the 22nd president and later the 24th
  • 1890

    1890

    benjamin harris was elected president and the Wounded Knee - Federal forces massacre 200 Sioux Indians happend
  • 1890

    1890

    Sherman Antitrust Act-outlaws monopolies, price-fixing, other trade restraints
  • 1891

    1891

    Populist Party - formed specifically to give farmers a voice in government
  • 1895

    1895

    Yellow Journalism - journalism that features unethical or unprofessional practices by news media organizations or individual journalists Grover Cleveland will be elected as the 24th president previously the 22nd president
  • 1896

    1896

    Plessy vs. Ferguson – 'Separate but Equal' is constitutional (overturned by Brown vs. Board of Education)
  • 1898

    1898

    Grandfather Clause - voting rights of blacks challenged with literacy tests and poll taxes William McKinley would later become the president of the united states Theodore Roosevelt led the rough riders into the Spanish American war treaty of Paris would later end the war
  • 1901

    1901

    President McKinley assassinated, Teddy Roosevelt now 26th President
  • 1906

    1906

    muckrakers came about a muckrakers were writers who expose big business corruption
  • 1908

    1908

    Henry Ford introduces the Model T car, assembly lines introduced Republican William Howard Taft was elected as the 27th president
  • 1913

    1913

    16th Amendment - establishment of income tax, 17th Amend.- direct election of senators Woodrow Wilson would be elected as the 28th president of the United States
  • 1914

    1914

    World War I begins in Europe known as the bloodiest war of all time
    President Wilson wins reelection campaign in 1917
  • 1917

    1917

    Zimmerman Telegram - intercepted by British, asks for Germany/Mexico alliance against U.S.; US. Enters WWI
  • 1918

    1918

    Fourteen Points - by Woodrow Wilson, 14th pt most important - calls for League of Nations
  • 1919

    1919

    Treaty of Versailles – ends WWI; calls for heavy reparations on Germany, disarmament, and creation of League of Nations; U.S. Senate rejects it. The prohibition movement starts in America after the 18th amendment was passed
  • 1920

    1920

    19th Amendment - women's suffrage (right to vote)
  • 1924

    1924

    The teapot dome scandal came about and would ruin the Harding administration
  • 1929

    1929

    Stock Market Crash -'Black Tuesday' - launches Great Depression Herbert Hoover was elected to the presidency
  • 1932

    1932

    Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected as the 32nd president of the united states New deal plans to try and stop the great depression
  • 1933 –1935

    1933 –1935

    Huey Long - criticizes FDR, “Share Our Wealth" proposes large tax burden on wealthy. Wagner Act - supports union rights, protects collective bargaining. Social Security Act - establishes funds for unemployed and elderly
  • 1939

    1939

    Germany (led by Adolf Hitler) invades Poland; ww2 begins the u.s try's to stay neutral
  • 1941

    1941

    Pearl harbor happens the united states joins the war Axis Powers - Germany, Italy, Japan; Allied Powers – Britain, France, China, U.S., USSR Vers
    Battle of Stalingrad – seen as war's turning point for allied victory
    FDR was elected to a third term
  • 1942

    1942

    Battle of Midway - U.S. defeats Japan, seen as turning point in the war in the Pacific. Internment of Japanese Americans - imprisonment of Japanese in California. Manhattan Project - creation of the Atomic Bomb
  • 1945

    1945

    Allies liberate Nazi concentration camps in Eastern Europe
    FDR dies, Harry Truman becomes President; Adolf Hitler commits suicide
    Germany surrenders on V-E-DAY (victory in Europe day)
    U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima (Aug. 6) and Nagasaki (Aug 9) - Japan surrenders
    United Nations created with 51 founding nations
    Nuremberg Trials - prosecute Nazi war criminals
  • 1947

    1947

    Harry s. Truman orders the marshal plan to contain communism help postwar europe
  • 1948

    1948

    berlin wall was created. President Harry Truman orders desegregation in the military
  • 1950

    1950

    Korean war begins
  • 1954

    1954

    Brown vs. Board of Education - overturns Plessy vs. Ferguson; says separate but equal is unconstitutional and "Containment"- (Truman) must stop spread of all communism; "Domino Theory" (Eisenhower) – fears that Indochina must not go communist or it will spread all over the world
  • 1955

    1955

    Rosa parks arrested Montgomery bus boycott comes starts Eisenhower is the president
  • 1957

    1957

    USSR launches sputnik(the first satellite in space
  • 1960

    1960

    First presidential debate televised Republican Richard Nixon against Democrat John Fitzgerald Kennedy Kennedy narrowly wins the election
  • 1962

    1962

    Cuban Missile Crisis - standoff b/n U.S. and USSR after Soviets placed missiles in Cuba pointed at the United States; no fighting incurs
  • 1963

    1963

    Lee Harvey Oswald assassinates JFK in Dallas, TX
  • 1963

    1963

    Lyndon Baines Johnson is the president launches the great society
  • 1965

    1965

    Malcom X (Nation of Islam) – blamed whites for African American problems; assassinated
  • 1968

    1968

    Tet Offensive launched by North Vietnamese Army-turning point of U.S. in Vietnam
    James Earl Ray assassinated MLK, Jr. - hurts Civil Rights movement
    Richard Nixon voted President
  • 1973

    1973

    withdraw of American troops from Vietnam
  • 1974

    1974

    President Richard Nixon resigns to avoid impeachment; Gerald Ford President - pardons Nixon; Ford is only President never voted into office
  • 1976

    1976

    Democrat Jimmy Carter wins the 1976 election narrowly
  • 1978

    1978

    Camp David Accords - Carter negotiates peace between Egypt and Israel
  • 1980

    1980

    Republican Govoner Ronald Reagan becomes the 40th president
  • 1989

    1989

    Berlin Wall falls (Reagan feels its U.S.'s greatest accomplishment of the era)
  • 1990

    1990

    vice president George H W Bush wins election against democratic Governor Michael Dukakis Saddam Hussein orders invasion of Kuwait; starts Operation Desert Storm
  • 1992

    1992

    Democratic governor bill Clinton becomes the 42nd president
  • 1998

    1998

    Bill Clinton impeached for high crimes later acquitted by the senate
  • 2000

    2000

    Al gore former vice president against republicans governor George w bush recount happens in Florida bush is elected the 43rd president
  • 2001

    2001

    terroist attacks in New York city cause the war on terriosm to begin
  • 2004

    2004

    Bush defeats John Kerry to win the 2004 presidential election
  • 2008

    2008

    democratic Senator Barrack H. Obama Defeats Repbulican Senator John McCain
  • 2011

    2011

    Osama bin laden was found and killed by the American troops
  • 2012

    2012

    Affordable Care Act was signed Obama wins a second term against Massachusetts Republican governor Mitt Romney
  • 2016

    2016

    Donald John Trump shocks the world by winning the 2016 election against sectary Hillary Clinton
  • 2019

    2019

    the first impeachment of president Donald trump on two articles abuse of power and obstruction of congress for trying to grab information about the Biden camping and Hunter Biden´s foreign business deals
  • 2020

    2020

    Joseph Robinette Biden wins the democratic nomination for president Corona Virus shuts down the united states
  • 2020

    2020

    the death of George Floyd starts black lives matter protest and riots across the nation Derrick Chauvin arrested later found guilty for three counts of murder on April 20th 2021
  • 2020

    2020

    In a 4 day election Joe Biden wins the presidency against incumbent Donald trump
  • 2021

    2021

    president trump wants election overturned vice president mike pence and senate majority leader Mitch McConnell do not overturn the election second impeachment of president trump and Biden inaugurated
  • 2021

    2021

    President Donald J Trump is acquitted even though found guilty because the did not have a two thirds vote in the senate and the house
  • 2021

    2021

    children's author Dr. suess is canceled for racial undertones in children books

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