US History Review Timeline By facebooker_100000465397641 Apr 30, 1862 Homestead Act Apr 30, 1865 Civil War Ends Apr 30, 1865 13th Amendment Apr 30, 1867 14th Amendment Apr 30, 1867 15th Amendment Apr 30, 1869 First Transcontinental Railroad Apr 30, 1870 Chisholm Trail Apr 30, 1871 Tammany Hall scandal Apr 30, 1871 Knights of Labor Apr 30, 1876 Battle of Little Big Horn Apr 30, 1877 Compromise of 1877 Apr 30, 1879 Electric light invented Apr 30, 1881 Jim Crow laws enacted Apr 30, 1881 Tuskegee Institute Apr 30, 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act Apr 30, 1882 Rockefeller forms Standard Oil Apr 30, 1883 Pendleton Civil Service Act Apr 30, 1885 Atlanta Compromise Apr 30, 1886 American Federation of Labor formed Apr 30, 1887 Interstate Commerce Act Apr 30, 1889 Hull House establised Apr 30, 1890 Immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe Apr 30, 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act Apr 30, 1890 Southern states require poll tax, literacy test Apr 30, 1890 Sherman Anitrust Act Apr 30, 1892 Populist Part form Apr 30, 1892 Homestead Strike Apr 30, 1896 Plessy v Ferguson Apr 30, 1896 Cross of Gold speech Apr 30, 1898 Hawaii annexed Apr 30, 1898 USS Maine sinks Apr 30, 1898 Spanish-American War Apr 30, 1898 Puerto Rico annexed Apr 30, 1900 Open Door Policy Apr 30, 1900 Muckraker era begins Apr 30, 1901 US Steel formed Apr 30, 1901 Philippines annexed Apr 30, 1901 Theodore Roosevelt assumes presidency Apr 30, 1904 Roosevelt Corollary Apr 30, 1904 Panama Canal begun Apr 30, 1905 WEB DeBois forms Niagra movement Apr 30, 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act Apr 30, 1909 Dollar Diplomacy Apr 30, 1909 NAACP founded Apr 30, 1911 Triangle Fire Apr 30, 1912 Bull Moose Party formed Apr 30, 1912 Woodrow WIlson president Apr 30, 1913 Federal Reserve System formed Apr 30, 1913 16th Amendment Apr 30, 1913 17th Amendment Apr 30, 1914 WWI begins in Europe Apr 30, 1915 US troops in Haiti Apr 30, 1916 Sussex pledge Apr 30, 1916 US intervenes in Mexican Revolution Apr 30, 1917 Zimmerman telegram Apr 30, 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in RUssia Apr 30, 1917 US enters WWI Apr 30, 1918 Germany signs an armistice Apr 30, 1919 18th Amendment Apr 30, 1919 League of Nations form Apr 30, 1919 US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles Apr 30, 1919 First Red Scare Apr 30, 1919 KuKluxKlan re-emerges Apr 30, 1920 19th Amendment Apr 30, 1920 Ford's Assembly-line production Apr 30, 1921 Harlem Renaussance begins Apr 30, 1924 Immigration Quota Laws Apr 30, 1926 Radio broadcasts coast-to-coast Apr 30, 1929 Herbert Hoover elected Apr 30, 1929 Stock Market crash Apr 30, 1932 Bonus Army protest Apr 30, 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for first term Apr 30, 1933 First Hundred Days Apr 30, 1933 New Deal programs begin Apr 30, 1933 21st Amendment Apr 30, 1935 Neutrality Acts Apr 30, 1935 Great Plains a Dust Bowl Apr 30, 1936 Court-packing controversy Apr 30, 1939 WWII begins Apr 30, 1940 Axis Alliance form Apr 30, 1941 Lend-Lease Act Apr 30, 1941 Pearl Harbor Attack Apr 30, 1942 Japanese American iternment Apr 30, 1944 Normandy invasion (D-Day) Apr 30, 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima Apr 30, 1945 FDR dies Apr 30, 1945 Atomic bomb on Hirshima Apr 30, 1945 United Nations form Apr 30, 1947 National Security Act Apr 30, 1947 Truman Doctrine announced Apr 30, 1947 Marshall Plan enacted Apr 30, 1948 Berlin Airlift Apr 30, 1948 Nation of Israel created Apr 30, 1949 NATO formed Apr 30, 1949 Second Red Scare Apr 30, 1950 Korean War Apr 30, 1951 22nd Amendment Apr 30, 1952 Dwight Eisenhower elected Apr 30, 1954 Vietnam divided Apr 30, 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings Apr 30, 1954 Brown v Topeka Board of Education Apr 30, 1955 TV in 65% of American homes Apr 30, 1955 Warsaw Pact formed Apr 30, 1955 Montgomery bus boycott Apr 30, 1956 Federal Highways Act Apr 30, 1957 Sputnik launched Apr 30, 1957 Little Rock HS integration Apr 30, 1960 U-2 fiasco Apr 30, 1960 First sit-ins Apr 30, 1960 John F. Kennedy elected Apr 30, 1961 Bay of Pigs Apr 30, 1961 Peace Corps established Apr 30, 1961 Berlin Wall built Apr 30, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Apr 30, 1963 Lyndon B. Johnson assumes presidency Apr 30, 1964 Civil Rights Act Apr 30, 1964 Freedom Summer Apr 30, 1964 24th Ammendment Apr 30, 1964 Economic Opportunity Act Apr 30, 1964 Tonkin Gulf Resolution Apr 30, 1965 Voting Rights Act Apr 30, 1965 Medicare established Apr 30, 1966 Black Power movement Apr 30, 1966 United Farm Workers organized Apr 30, 1968 Tet Offensive Apr 30, 1970 Kent State Apr 30, 1971 26th Ammendment Apr 30, 1972 Nixon visits China Apr 30, 1972 SALT Treaty Apr 30, 1972 Equals Rights Amendment submitted Apr 30, 1973 War Powers Act Apr 30, 1973 Roe v Wade decision Apr 30, 1973 Last American troops leave Vietnam Apr 30, 1973 OPEC embargo Apr 30, 1974 Nixon resigns Apr 30, 1975 Deep economic recession Apr 30, 1976 Affirmative action policies Apr 30, 1976 Growing Immigration Apr 30, 1976 Jimmy Carter elected Apr 30, 1976 Energy crisis Apr 30, 1978 Camp David Accords Apr 30, 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis Apr 30, 1980 Ronald Reagan elected Apr 30, 1981 AIDS first recognized Apr 30, 1981 Increased defense spending Apr 30, 1982 Yuppies live expensively Apr 30, 1987 Iran-Contra hearings Apr 30, 1989 Berlin Wall falls Apr 30, 1991 USSR collapses