US History

  • Columbus lands in the Americas
    1492

    Columbus lands in the Americas

    Christopher Columbus
  • Haudenosaunee Confederacy est.
    1500

    Haudenosaunee Confederacy est.

    Dekanawidah
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    Thomas Paine
  • Articles of Confederation

    Articles of Confederation

    Patrick Henry
  • Constitution Created

    Constitution Created

    James Madison
  • Constitutional Convention

    Constitutional Convention

    Roger Sherman
  • Whiskey Rebellion

    Whiskey Rebellion

    George Washington
  • Proclamation of Neutrality

    Proclamation of Neutrality

    George Washington
  • Thomas Jefferson elected

    Thomas Jefferson elected

    Thomas Jefferson
  • Britain outlaws slave trade

    Britain outlaws slave trade

    John C. Calhoun
  • McCulloch v. Maryland

    McCulloch v. Maryland

    John Marshall
  • Monroe Doctrine

    Monroe Doctrine

    James Monroe
  • Election of Andrew Jackson

    Election of Andrew Jackson

    Andrew Jackson
  • Cherokee Nation v. Georgia

    Cherokee Nation v. Georgia

    John Ross
  • Nullification crisis

    Nullification crisis

    Daniel Webster
  • Lowell mill women strike

    Lowell mill women strike

    Sarah Bagley
  • Fredrick Douglas escapes from slavery

    Fredrick Douglas escapes from slavery

    Fredrick Douglas
  • Trail of Tears

    Trail of Tears

    John Ross
  • Mexican-American War,

    Mexican-American War,

    James K. Polk
  • Ohio Women's Rights Convention

    Ohio Women's Rights Convention

    Sojourner Truth
  • Scott v. Sandford

    Scott v. Sandford

    Roger Taney
  • Attack on Harper's Ferry

    Attack on Harper's Ferry

    John Brown
  • Secession of South Carolina

    Secession of South Carolina

    Jefferson Davis
  • Battle of Gettysburg

    Battle of Gettysburg

    Abraham Lincoln
  • Reconstruction Starts

    Reconstruction Starts

    W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting

    Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting

    Susan B. Anthony
  • Gilded Age

    Gilded Age

    Andrew Carnegie
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act

    Horace Gray
  • Progressive Era

    Progressive Era

    Jacob Riis
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson

    Henry Billings Brown
  • Spanish-American War

    Spanish-American War

    Mark Twain
  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    Pure Food and Drug Act

    Upton Sinclair
  • Assembly line invented

    Assembly line invented

    Henry Ford
  • United States in WW1

    United States in WW1

    Woodrow Wilson
  • Women's Suffrage

    Women's Suffrage

    Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Peak popularity of the Klan

    Peak popularity of the Klan

    Hiram W. Evans
  • Great Depression

    Great Depression

    Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • United States in WWII

    United States in WWII

    Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Creation of the United Nations

    Creation of the United Nations

    Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Cold War Starts

    Cold War Starts

    John F. Kennedy
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    Harry Truman
  • Brown v. Board of Ed.

    Brown v. Board of Ed.

    Thurgood Marshall
  • Civil Rights Movement

    Civil Rights Movement

    Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Little Rock Nine

    Little Rock Nine

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Orval Faubus
  • Organization of Afro-American Unity founded

    Organization of Afro-American Unity founded

    Malcolm-X
  • War on Poverty begins

    War on Poverty begins

    Lyndon Johnson
  • Delano grape strike

    Delano grape strike

    Cesar Chavez
  • Military coup in Chile

    Military coup in Chile

    Henry Kissinger
  • Ronald Reagan elected

    Ronald Reagan elected

    Ronald Reagan
  • Reaganomics launched

    Reaganomics launched

    Ronald Reagan
  • New York v. United States

    New York v. United States

    Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Dayton Peace Accords

    Dayton Peace Accords

    Bill Clinton
  • War on Terror begins

    War on Terror begins

    George W. Bush
  • Barack Obama elected

    Barack Obama elected

    Barack Obama
  • 240th anniversary of the start of the Revolutionary War

    240th anniversary of the start of the Revolutionary War

    Ordinary Americans
  • Supreme Court allows same-sex marriage

    Supreme Court allows same-sex marriage

    Anthony Kennedy
  • NAACP sues North Carolina's governor

    NAACP sues North Carolina's governor

    William J. Barber II
  • Donald Trump elected

    Donald Trump elected

    Donald Trump
  • United States bombs Syria

    United States bombs Syria

    Donald Trump