US History Review Timeline

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  • Homestead Act

  • Civil War Ends

  • 13th Amendment

  • 14th Amendment

  • 15th Amendment

  • First Transcontinental Railroad

  • Chisholm Trail

  • Tammany Hall scandal

  • Knights of Labor

  • Battle of Little Big Horn

  • Compromise of 1877

  • Electric light invented

  • Jim Crow laws enacted

  • Tuskegee Institute

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Rockefeller forms Standard Oil

  • Pendleton Civil Service Act

  • Atlanta Compromise

  • American Federation of Labor formed

  • Interstate Commerce Act

  • Hull House establised

  • Immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

  • Southern states require poll tax, literacy test

  • Sherman Anitrust Act

  • Populist Part form

  • Homestead Strike

  • Plessy v Ferguson

  • Cross of Gold speech

  • Hawaii annexed

  • USS Maine sinks

  • Spanish-American War

  • Puerto Rico annexed

  • Open Door Policy

  • Muckraker era begins

  • US Steel formed

  • Philippines annexed

  • Theodore Roosevelt assumes presidency

  • Roosevelt Corollary

  • Panama Canal begun

  • WEB DeBois forms Niagra movement

  • Pure Food and Drug Act

  • Dollar Diplomacy

  • NAACP founded

  • Triangle Fire

  • Bull Moose Party formed

  • Woodrow WIlson president

  • Federal Reserve System formed

  • 16th Amendment

  • 17th Amendment

  • WWI begins in Europe

  • US troops in Haiti

  • Sussex pledge

  • US intervenes in Mexican Revolution

  • Zimmerman telegram

  • Bolshevik Revolution in RUssia

  • US enters WWI

  • Germany signs an armistice

  • 18th Amendment

  • League of Nations form

  • US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles

  • First Red Scare

  • KuKluxKlan re-emerges

  • 19th Amendment

  • Ford's Assembly-line production

  • Harlem Renaussance begins

  • Immigration Quota Laws

  • Radio broadcasts coast-to-coast

  • Herbert Hoover elected

  • Stock Market crash

  • Bonus Army protest

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for first term

  • First Hundred Days

  • New Deal programs begin

  • 21st Amendment

  • Neutrality Acts

  • Great Plains a Dust Bowl

  • Court-packing controversy

  • WWII begins

  • Axis Alliance form

  • Lend-Lease Act

  • Pearl Harbor Attack

  • Japanese American iternment

  • Normandy invasion (D-Day)

  • Battle of Iwo Jima

  • FDR dies

  • Atomic bomb on Hirshima

  • United Nations form

  • National Security Act

  • Truman Doctrine announced

  • Marshall Plan enacted

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Nation of Israel created

  • NATO formed

  • Second Red Scare

  • Korean War

  • 22nd Amendment

  • Dwight Eisenhower elected

  • Vietnam divided

  • Army-McCarthy hearings

  • Brown v Topeka Board of Education

  • TV in 65% of American homes

  • Warsaw Pact formed

  • Montgomery bus boycott

  • Federal Highways Act

  • Sputnik launched

  • Little Rock HS integration

  • U-2 fiasco

  • First sit-ins

  • John F. Kennedy elected

  • Bay of Pigs

  • Peace Corps established

  • Berlin Wall built

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Lyndon B. Johnson assumes presidency

  • Civil Rights Act

  • Freedom Summer

  • 24th Ammendment

  • Economic Opportunity Act

  • Tonkin Gulf Resolution

  • Voting Rights Act

  • Medicare established

  • Black Power movement

  • United Farm Workers organized

  • Tet Offensive

  • Kent State

  • 26th Ammendment

  • Nixon visits China

  • SALT Treaty

  • Equals Rights Amendment submitted

  • War Powers Act

  • Roe v Wade decision

  • Last American troops leave Vietnam

  • OPEC embargo

  • Nixon resigns

  • Deep economic recession

  • Affirmative action policies

  • Growing Immigration

  • Jimmy Carter elected

  • Energy crisis

  • Camp David Accords

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Ronald Reagan elected

  • AIDS first recognized

  • Increased defense spending

  • Yuppies live expensively

  • Iran-Contra hearings

  • Berlin Wall falls

  • USSR collapses