Us history: 1887-2008 By Kael Stafford Period: 1776 to 1860 Early American History Jul 4, 1776 Declaration of independence signed Sep 17, 1787 constitution written Dec 15, 1791 Bill of rights ratified Period: 1860 to 1877 Civil War/Reconstruction 1862 Homestead act Jan 31, 1865 13th amendment ratified Jun 8, 1866 14th amendment ratified 1870 15th amendment ratified 1876 Telephone invented Period: 1877 to 1900 The gilded age 1882 Chinese exclusion act 1883 Pendleton Civil Service Act 1887 Interstate Commerce Act 1887 Dawes Act 1889 Hull House Founded 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act Period: 1890 to 1920 The Progressive era 1896 Transcontinental Railroad compete 1896 Klondike Gold rush May 18, 1896 Plessy v Ferguson 1898 Uss Maine explodes Period: 1898 to 1910 Imperialism 1899 Open door Policy 1904 Panama Canal Built 1904 Roosevelt Corollary 1906 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is published 1906 Meat inspection act 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act 1909 NAACP Founded 1909 Dollar Diplomacy 1913 16th amendment Apr 8, 1913 17 amendment 1914 Federal Reserve Act 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand Period: 1914 to 1918 WW1 1915 Sinking of the Lusitania 1916 National Parks System Creathed 1917 Zimmerman Telegram intercepted 1917 USA enters WW1 1917 Bolshevik Revolution 1918 Battle of Argonne Forest 1918 Germany surrenders 1918 Woodrow Wilson 14 points 1919 Treaty of Versailles Jan 16, 1919 18th amendment May 21, 1919 19th amendment Period: 1920 to 1929 Roaring 20's 1922 Teapot Dome scandal 1924 American Indian citizenship act 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial 1927 Nonstop solo flight from New York to paris 1929 stock market crash Period: 1929 to 1939 Great depression 1930 Dust Bowl 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt Elected 1932 Civilian Conservation Corps Mar 2, 1932 20th amendment 1933 21st amendment 1933 Federal Deposit Insurance Coporation 1934 Security and Exchange Commission 1935 World Progress administration 1935 Social Security Act 1939 Adolf invades Poland Period: 1939 to 1945 WW2 1941 Pearl Harbor attacked 1942 Bataan Death March 1942 Battle of midway 1942 Executive order 9066 1944 D-Day 1944 GI Bill 1945 Atomic Bomb 1945 Atomic bomb part 2 1945 United Nations Period: 1945 to 1960 Early Cold War 1947 Truman Doctrine 1948 Berlin Airlift 1948 Marshall Plan 1949 Nato Established 1950 Sweatt v Painter Period: 1950 to 1970 Civil Rights era Period: 1950 to 1953 Korean War 1951 22nd amendment 1951 Rosenberg Trials 1952 First H Bomb 1954 Hernandez v texas Period: 1954 to 1976 Vietnam War May 17, 1954 Brown v Board of education 1955 Jonas Salk Invents polio vaccine 1955 USSR launches Sputnik Period: 1955 to 1956 Montgomery bus Boycott 1956 Interstate Highway Act 1957 Little Rock Nine 1961 Bay of pigs 1961 Berlin Wall 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 24th amendment 1963 I have a dream speach 1963 JFK assassination 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 1964 Civil rights act of 1964 1965 Medicare and Medicaid 1968 Tet Offensive 1968 MLK Assassinated 1968 Voting Rights act of 1968 1969 First man on moon Feb 24, 1969 Tinker v Des Moines 1970 Kent state shooting Period: 1970 to 1991 End of Cold War 1971 Pentagon Papers Leaked Apr 23, 1971 26th amendment Jun 23, 1972 Title IX 1973 War powers act 1974 Watergate Scandal 1975 Fall of Saigon 1978 Camp David Accords 1979 Three Mile Island Disaster Period: 1979 to 1981 Iran Hostage Crissis Period: 1985 to 1987 Iran Contra Affair Period: 1990 to 2008 1990s-21st century