US History EOC Timeline By rohanedara 1789 George Washington elected president 1789 Judiciary Act of 1789 1789 French Revolution 1790 Rhode Island ratifies the Constitution 1790 Alexander Hamilton creates bank 1793 Proclamation of American Neutrality 1794 Whiskey Rebellion 1795 Treaty of Greenville 1796 John Adams wins the election 1797 XYZ affair 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts 1799 Second Great Awakening 1800 Thomas Jefferson wins president 1801 John Marshall becomes first chief justice 1803 Marbury vs Madison 1803 Louisiana Purchase 1807 Embargo Act 1808 James Madison elected President 1809 Tecumseh establishes Native American Union 1811 William Henry Harrison leads an attack against Tecumseh 1812 War of 1812 1816 Underground Railroad provides escape 1817 James Monroe elected 5th president 1817 Erie Canal 1819 McCulloch v Maryland 1819 Spain secedes Florida 1821 Stephen F Austin establishes first US settlement 1823 Monroe Doctrine 1824 Gibbons vs Ogden 1826 Death of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams 1828 Andrew Jackson elected president 1841 Jim Crow Laws established 1845 Manifest Destiny 1847 Garrison pleads immediate emancipation 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe - Hidalgo 1852 Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin 1856 Bleeding Kansas 1857 Dred Scott vs Sanford 1859 Lincoln-Douglas debates 1859 John Brown leads attack on Harper's Ferry 1860 Abraham Lincoln elected 16th president 1861 Confederate States formed 1861 Fort Sumter 1862 Homestead Act 1862 Battle of Antietam 1862 Battle of Gettysburg 1863 Emancipation Proclamation 1864 William Sherman March to Sea 1865 13th Amendment 1865 Lee surrenders 1865 Lincoln assassinated 1865 South established Black Codes 1866 Civil Rights Act of 1866 1867 Tenure of Office Acts 1867 US purchase Alaska 1869 Transcontinental Railroad 1870 Fifteenth Amendment 1870 Hiram Revels 1871 William Tweed Political Machine 1873 Slaughter House Cases 1875 Whiskey Ring Scandal 1876 Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse lead Sioux to win 1876 Bell invents telephone 1879 Susan B Anthony gets women suffrage 1879 Edison creates the electric light 1881 Garfield assassinated 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 Rockefeller Carnegie Companies 1887 Dawes Severalty Act 1890 Wounded Knee 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act 1891 Populist Party 1895 Yellow Journalism 1896 Plessy vs Ferguson 1898 Treaty of Paris 1898 Grandfather Clause 1898 Spanish-American War 1899 Open Door Policy 1901 President McKinley assassinated 1904 Roosevelt Corrollary to Monroe Doctrine 1905 Muckraker 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act 1908 Henry Ford Model T car 1913 16th Amendment 1914 World War I begins in Europe 1915 German U-Boat Sinks 1917 Germany continues unrestricted submarine warfare 1917 Zimmerman Telegram 1917 Selective Service Act 1918 Fourteen Points 1919 Treaty of Versailles 1919 18th Amendment 1920 19th Amendment 1924 Teapot Dome Scandal 1925 Dawes Plan 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial 1927 First Solo flight 1927 Sacco and Vanzetti executed for murder 1929 Stock Market Crash 1932 Bonus Army 1932 FDR elected president 1933 US Unemployment rates increase 1933 Fireside Chats 1933 First 100 Days 1934 Huey Long criticizes FDR 1935 Wagner Act 1935 Social Security Act 1940 FDR elected third term 1940 Lend-lease Act 1940 Atlantic Charter 1941 Propaganda 1942 Battle of Midway 1942 Internment of Japanese Americans 1942 Manhattan Project 1944 Allies invade Normandy 1944 Battle of the Bulge 1945 Allies liberate Nazi Concentration Camps 1945 FDR Dies, Truman becomes President 1945 Germany Surrenders on V-E- Days 1945 US drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945 United Nations founded with 51 nations 1945 Nuremburg Trials 1946 "Iron Curtain" 1947 Truman Doctrine 1948 Marshall Plan 1948 Berlin Blockade 1948 Truman Orders desegregation of military 1949 NATO 1950 Korean War begins 1950 McCarthy begins Anti-communist force 1950 Communist fear in US 1954 Brown v Board of Education 1954 Containment 1954 Geneva Peace Accords 1955 Rosa Parks arrested 1955 Jonas Salks creates polio vaccine 1957 USSR launches Sputnik 1960 JFK vs Nixon First televised debate 1960 JFK launches New Frontier platform to help America 1960 Lunch Counter sit-ins 1961 Berlin WAll 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 1963 I have a Dream Speech 1963 Oswald assassinates JFK 1963 Lyndon B Johnson launches Great Society 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 1965 Voting Rights Act of 1965 1965 Malcolm X 1966 Miranda vs Arizona 1967 Thurgood Marshall Court member 1968 Tet Offensive 1968 Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Robert Kennedy 1969 Apollo 11 lands on the moon 1969 My Lai Massacre 1971 Pentagon Papers 1972 Watergate Scandal 1973 Roe vs Wade 1973 US Energy Crisis 1973 US withdraws from Vietnam 1974 Richard Nixon resigns to avoid impeachment 1976 Jimmy Carter elected President 1978 Camp David Accords 1979 Three Mile Island 1980 Ronald Reagan elected President 1981 Iran releases US hostages 1983 Strategic Defense Initiative 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger 1986 US Bombs Lybia 1988 Osama Bin Laden forms Al Qaueda 1989 Chinese democracy crushes pro-democracy revolt 1989 Berlin Wall falls 1990 Saddam Hussein orders invasion of Kuwait 1992 Bill Clinton elected president