US History EOC Timeline

By ShaneMellon

  • George Washington elected president

  • Alexander Hamilton creates Bank of the United States (opposed by Thomas Jefferson)

  • Whiskey Rebellion

    1st time U.S Government uses Federal troops to subdue domestic issues

  • Alien & Sedition Acts

    expands Gov't power, limit discent and weakening of Gov't ruled unconstitutional

  • U.S Capital moved to Washington D.C

  • John Marshall becomes first chief justice of the Supreme Court

  • Louisana Purchase

    doubles the size of U.S

  • War of 1812

    Britain provide Native Americans with weapons to attack U.S setters

  • Spain cedes Florida to the U.S

  • Missouri Compromise

    sets dividing line between free and slave states at latitude 36'30

  • Monroe Doctrine

    Claims western hemisphere closed to European intervention

  • Indian Removal Act

    authorizes forcible westward relocation of Native Americans

  • First Jim Crow Laws established legal segregation

  • Manifest Destiny

    U.S destiny and duty to expand and conquer the west

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    ends Mexican War and Mexico cedes Texas to U.S

  • Compromise of 1850

    North gets California as free states, ban of sale of slaves in D.C and the South gets stricter enforcement of Fugitive Slave Act

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    repeals Missouri Compromise popular sovereignty to determine slave/free states

  • Bleeding Kansas

    John Brown leads antislavery massacre at Pottawatomie Creek, fight over slavery in Kansas

  • Abraham Lincoln elected 16th present and South Carolina secedes the Union and the Civil War begins

  • Confederate States form and elect Jefferson Davis as their first and only president

  • Battle of Antietam

    Bloodiest battle of the Civil War

  • Battle of Gettysburg

    Turning point of the Civil War as the South never recovered

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    frees slaves in only Confederate States

  • Sherman's March to Sea

    Atlanta to Savannah and destroys everything in his path

  • 13th Amendment

    abolishes slavery

  • Robert E Lee surrenders and ends the Civil War

  • Abraham Lincoln assassinated by John Wilkes Booth

  • Civil Rights Act of 1866

    grants citizenship to all people born in the U.S

  • Transcontinental Railroad

    connects the coasts of the United States

  • 15th Amendment

    grants protection of voting rights to black males

  • Susan B. Anthony

    gets women suffrage vote to Congress

  • Booker T Washington

    gradual approach to equal right and W.E.B founds the NAACP

  • Battle at Wounded Knee

    Federal forces massacre 200 Sioux Indians

  • Plessy vs Ferguson

    "Separate but Equal" ruled constitutional

  • Spanish American War

    Teddy Roosevelt leads Rough Riders, U.S crushes Spain's Navy

  • Treaty of Paris

    ends the Spanish-American War

  • Henry Ford introduces the Model T car, assembly lines introduced

  • World War I begins in Europe

  • German U-Boast sinks Lusitania and kills Americans

  • Zimmerman Telegram

    U.S enters WWII

  • Treaty of Versailles

    ends WWII

  • Black Tuesday

    Stock market crashes and Great Depression begins

  • FDR elected president

  • CCC established

    to employ public works

  • Social Security Act

    establishes funds for unemployed and elderly

  • Germany invades Poland

    WWII begins

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

    U.S enters the war

  • Manhattan Project

    creation of the Atomic bomb

  • U.S drops atomic bombs on Japan

    They surrender WWII ends

  • USSR emerges as only major U.S rival

    cold war begins

  • Korean War begins

    U.S aids South Korea against communist North Korea

  • Brown v Board of education

    overturn Plessy v Ferguson separate but equal unconstitutional

  • 1st televised Presidential debate

    JFK beats Nixon

  • Bay of Pigs

    failed invasion of cuba by U.S

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • JFK assassinated

  • Miranda v Arizona

    police must read suspects their rights

  • Tet offensive

    turning point of U.S in Vietnam

  • Watergate Scandal

  • Richard Nixon resigns to aviod impeachment

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Osama Bin Laden found Islamist group Al Qaeda

  • Berlin wall falls

  • Bill Clinton elected president