US History Since the Civil War

Crédit Mobilier Scandal

Period: 1864 to 1867

Black Codes

Period: 1865 to 1866

Presidential Reconstruction

Period: 1865 to 1867

Special Field Order 15

Jan 16, 1865

Freedmen's Bureau

Mar 3, 1865

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Apr 15, 1865

Presidency of Andrew Johnson

Period: Apr 15, 1865 to Mar 4, 1869

(KKK) Ku Klux Klan

Dec 24, 1865

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Apr 9, 1866

Reconstruction Act of 1867

1867

Radical Reconstruction

Period: 1867 to 1877

Tenure of Office Act

Mar 2, 1867

Alaska Purchase

Mar 30, 1867

Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

Feb 24, 1868

14th Amendment

Jul 9, 1868

Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant

Period: Mar 4, 1869 to Mar 4, 1877

Senatorship of Hiram Revels

Period: Feb 25, 1870 to Mar 3, 1871

15th Amendment

Mar 3, 1870

Enforcement Act of 1870

May 31, 1870

Enforcement Act of 1871

Feb 28, 1871

Liberal Republicans

1872

Slaughter-House Cases

Period: Jan 11, 1872 to Apr 14, 1873

Panic of 1873

Period: 1873 to 1879

Colfax Massacre

Apr 13, 1873

WCTU (Women's Christian Temperance Union)

1874

United States v. Cruikshank

Mar 27, 1876

Battle of Little Bighorn

Jun 25, 1876

Bargain of 1877

1877

Gilded Age

Period: 1877 to 1900

Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes

Period: Mar 4, 1877 to Mar 4, 1881

Great Railroad Strike of 1877

Period: Jul 14, 1877 to Sep 4, 1877

"Progress and Poverty" - Henry George

1879

Kansas Exodus

Period: 1879 to 1880

Presidency of James A. Garfield

Period: Mar 4, 1881 to Aug 18, 1881

Presidency of Chester A. Arthur

Period: Sep 19, 1881 to Mar 4, 1885

Chinese Exclusion Act

May 6, 1882

Civil Service Act

Jan 16, 1883

Civil Rights Cases

Oct 25, 1883

Creation of the Time Zones

Nov 18, 1883

First Presidency of Grover Cleveland

Period: Mar 4, 1885 to Mar 4, 1889

Haymarket Affair

May 4, 1886

AFL (American Federation of Labor)

Dec 8, 1886

ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission)

Feb 4, 1887

Dawes Act

Feb 8, 1887

"Looking Backward" - Edward Bellamy

1888

Presidency of Benjamin Harrison

Period: Mar 4, 1889 to Mar 4, 1893

Hull House

Sep 18, 1889

"How the Other Half Lives" - Jacob Riis

1890

"The Influence of Sea Power upon History" - Alfred T. Mahan

1890

NAWSA (National American Woman Suffrage Association)

Feb 18, 1890

Sherman Antitrust Act

Jul 2, 1890

Wounded Knee Massacre

Dec 29, 1890

Populist Party

1892

Homestead Strike

Period: Jul 1, 1892 to Nov 20, 1892

Panic of 1893

Period: 1893 to 1897

Overthrowing of Queen Liliuokalani

Jan 17, 1893

Second Presidency of Grover Cleveland

Period: Mar 4, 1893 to Mar 4, 1897

"Wealth Against Commonwealth" - Henry Demarest Lloyd

1894

IRL (Immigration Restriction League)

1894

March of Coxey's Army

Mar 25, 1894

Pullman Strike

Period: May 11, 1894 to Jul 20, 1894

United States v. E.C. Knight Co.

Jan 21, 1895

"Atlanta Compromise" - Booker T. Washington

Sep 18, 1895

NACWC (National Association of Colored Women's Clubs)

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson

May 18, 1896

Presidency of William McKinley

Period: Mar 4, 1897 to Sep 14, 1901

Spanish-American War

Period: Apr 21, 1898 to Aug 13, 1898

"The Theory of the Leisure Class" - Thorstein Veblen

1899

Philippine-American War

Period: Feb 4, 1899 to Jul 2, 1902

Gold Standard Act

Mar 14, 1900

Insular Cases

Period: 1901 to 1904

Socialist Party

Jul 29, 1901

Assassination of William McKinley

Sep 14, 1901

Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt

Period: Sep 14, 1901 to Mar 4, 1909

"The Souls of Black Folk" - W.E.B. Du Bois

1903

Ford Motor Company

Jun 16, 1903

Panama Canal Zone

Nov 18, 1903

Northern Securities

1904

Roosevelt Corollary

1904

Niagara Movement

1905

Lochner v. New York

Apr 17, 1905

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

Jun 27, 1905

"A Living Wage" - John A. Ryan

1906

"The Jungle" - Upton Sinclair

Feb 26, 1906

Hepburn Act

Jun 29, 1906

Meat Inspection Act

Jun 30, 1906

Pure Food and Drug Act

Jan 1, 1907

Muller v. Oregon

Feb 24, 1908

NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

Feb 12, 1909

Presidency of William Howard Taft

Period: Mar 4, 1909 to Mar 4, 1913

Mexican Revolution

Period: Nov 20, 1910 to Dec 1, 1920

Bailey v. Alabama

Jan 3, 1911

Triangle Fire

Mar 25, 1911

Society of American Indians

Apr 4, 1911

Progressive Party

1912

17th Amendment

Apr 8, 1912

16th Amendment

Feb 3, 1913

Presidency of Woodrow Wilson

Period: Mar 4, 1913 to Mar 4, 1921

Federal Reserve

Dec 23, 1913

Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

Jun 28, 1914

World War I

Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918

FTC (Federal Trade Commission)

Sep 26, 1914

Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914

Oct 15, 1914

Ku Klux Klan Reemerges

1915

"Birth of a Nation" - D.W. Griffith

Feb 8, 1915

Sinking of the RMS Lusitania

May 7, 1915

Zimmermann Telegram

1917

Russian Revolution

Period: Mar 8, 1917 to Jun 16, 1923

US Involvement in World War I

Period: Apr 6, 1917 to Nov 11, 1918

Espionage Act of 1917

Jun 15, 1917

Spanish Flu

Period: 1918 to 1920

"Fourteen Points" - Woodrow Wilson

Jan 8, 1918

"If We Must Die" - Claude McKay

1919

18th Amendment

Jan 16, 1919

First Red Scare

Period: Jan 21, 1919 to Apr 1, 1920

Schenck v. United States

Mar 3, 1919

Treaty of Versailles

Jun 28, 1919

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

Jan 19, 1920

19th Amendment

Aug 18, 1920

Presidency of Warren G. Harding

Period: Mar 4, 1921 to Aug 2, 1923

Tulsa Race Massacre

May 31, 1921

Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti

May 31, 1921

Hays Code

1922

"American Individualism" - Herbet Hoover

1922

Washington Naval Conference

Feb 6, 1922

Meyer v. Nebraska

Jun 4, 1923

Presidency of Calvin Coolidge

Period: Aug 2, 1923 to Mar 4, 1929

Immigration Act of 1924

May 26, 1924

"Middletown" - Robert and Helen Lynd

1929

Great Depression

Period: 1929 to 1939

Presidency of Herbert Hoover

Period: Mar 4, 1929 to Mar 4, 1933

Repealing of Sheppard-Towner Act

Jun 30, 1929

Black Tuesday

Oct 29, 1929

Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act

Mar 13, 1930

Scottsboro Case

Mar 25, 1931

Japanese Invasion of Manchuria

Period: Sep 18, 1931 to Feb 28, 1932

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Jan 22, 1932

Bonus Army

Jul 28, 1932

Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt

Period: Mar 4, 1933 to Apr 12, 1945

Bank Holiday

Mar 6, 1933

Hundred Days

Period: Mar 9, 1933 to Jun 16, 1933

US Recognition of Soviet Union

Nov 16, 1933

21st Amendment

Dec 5, 1933

Dust Bowl

Period: 1934 to 1940

"Share Our Wealth" - Huey Long

Feb 23, 1934

Second New Deal

Period: 1935 to 1936

Neutrality Acts

Period: 1935 to 1939

National Recovery Administration Dissolved

May 27, 1935

Social Security Act

Aug 14, 1935

Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

Nov 9, 1935

"The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money" - John Maynard Keynes

1936

Flint Sit-Down Strike

Period: Dec 30, 1936 to Feb 11, 1937

Second Sino-Japanese War

Period: Jul 7, 1937 to Sep 2, 1945

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

May 26, 1938

Fair Labor Standards Act

Jun 25, 1938

Munich Agreement

Sep 30, 1938

World War II

Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Sep 2, 1945

Invasion of Poland

Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Aug 6, 1939

Establishment of the Draft

Sep 16, 1940

"The American Century" - Henry Luce

1941

"Four Freedoms" - Franklin D Roosevelt

Jan 6, 1941

Lend-Lease Act

Mar 11, 1941

Executive Order 8802

Jun 25, 1941

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

1942

Executive Order 9066

Feb 19, 1942

Battle of Midway

Period: Jun 4, 1942 to Jun 7, 1942

Soot Suit Riots

Period: Jun 3, 1943 to Jun 8, 1943

Detroit Race Riot

Period: Jun 20, 1943 to Jun 22, 1943

Magnuson Act

Dec 17, 1943

Smith v. Allwright

Apr 3, 1944

D-Day

Jun 6, 1944

GI Bill

Jun 22, 1944

Bretton woods Conference

Period: Jul 1, 1944 to Jul 22, 1944

Battle of the Bulge

Period: Dec 16, 1944 to Jan 28, 1945

Korematsu v. United States

Dec 18, 1944

Yalta Conference

Period: Feb 4, 1945 to Feb 11, 1945

Death of Franklin D. Roosevelt

Apr 12, 1945

Presidency of Harry S. Truman

Period: Apr 12, 1945 to Jan 20, 1953

V-E Day

May 8, 1945

Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima

Aug 6, 1945

Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki

Aug 9, 1945

Truman Doctrine

Mar 12, 1947

Executive Order 9835 - "Loyalty Order"

Mar 21, 1947

Jackie Robinson Integrates Major League Baseball

Apr 11, 1947

Mendez v. Westminster

Apr 14, 1947

Levittown

May 21, 1947

Taft-Harley Act

Jun 23, 1947

Freedom Train Exhibition

Period: Sep 17, 1947 to Jan 22, 1949

Hollywood Blacklist from the House Un-American Activities Committee

Nov 25, 1947

Marshall Plan

Apr 3, 1948

Berlin Blockade and Airlift

Period: Jun 24, 1948 to May 12, 1949

Executive Order 9981 - Desegregation of the Military

Jul 26, 1948

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Dec 10, 1948

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Apr 4, 1949

RDS-1 - First Successful Soviet Atomic Bomb

Aug 29, 1949

People's Republic of China

Oct 1, 1949

"The Lonely Crowd" - David Riesman

1950

McCarthy's Speech in Wheeling, WV

Feb 9, 1950

NSC 68 - United States Objectives and Programs for National Security

Apr 7, 1950

Korean War

Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 27, 1953

McCarran Internal Security Act

Sep 23, 1950

Ivy Mike - The First Hydrogen Bomb

Nov 1, 1952

Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower

Period: Jan 20, 1953 to Jan 20, 1961

Execution of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg

Apr 19, 1953

Army-McCarthy hearings

Period: 1954 to 1954

Brown v. Board of Education

May 17, 1954

CIA-Led Guatemalan Coup D'état

Jun 27, 1954

Geneva Accords

Jul 20, 1954

"Howl" - Allen Ginsberg

1955

Warsaw Pact

May 14, 1955

Vietnam War

Period: Nov 1, 1955 to Apr 30, 1975

The First Soviet Hydrogen Bomb

Nov 22, 1955

AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations)

Dec 5, 1955

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Period: Dec 5, 1955 to Dec 20, 1956

"Southern Manifesto"

1956

Interstate Highway System

Jun 29, 1956

Little Rock Nine

1957

SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)

Jan 10, 1957

The Launch of Sputnik 1

Oct 4, 1957

National Defense Education Act

Sep 2, 1958

Kitchen Debate

Jul 24, 1959

Sagebrush Rebellion

Period: 1960 to 1982

Greensboro Sit-Ins

Period: Feb 1, 1960 to Jul 25, 1960

Young Americans for Freedom

Sep 11, 1960

Presidency of John F. Kennedy

Period: Jan 20, 1961 to Nov 22, 1963

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Apr 17, 1961

Freedom Riders

Period: May 4, 1961 to Dec 10, 1961

Berlin Wall Constructed

Aug 13, 1961

Port Huron Statement

Jun 15, 1962

"Silent Spring" - Rachel Carson

Sep 27, 1962

Desegregation of University of Mississippi

Sep 30, 1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

Oct 16, 1962

"The Feminine Mystique" - Betty Friedan

Feb 19, 1963

"Letter from Birmingham Jail" - Martin Luther King Jr.

Apr 16, 1963

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

Aug 28, 1963

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

Nov 22, 1963

Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson

Period: Nov 22, 1963 to Jan 20, 1969

Freedom Summer

1964

Great Society

Period: 1964 to 1965

Civil Rights Act

Jul 2, 1964

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Aug 10, 1964

Voting Rights Act

Aug 6, 1965

Watts Riots

Aug 11, 1965

Immigration and Nationality Act (Hart-Celler Act)

Dec 1, 1965

National Organization for Women

Jun 30, 1966

American Indian Movement

1968

Tet Offensive

Period: Jan 31, 1968 to Sep 23, 1968

My Lai Massacre

Mar 16, 1968

Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Apr 4, 1968

Presidency of Richard Nixon

Period: Jan 20, 1969 to Aug 9, 1974

Stonewall Riots

Jun 28, 1969

Woodstock

Aug 15, 1969

Cambodian Campaign

Apr 29, 1970

Until July 22

US Abandon the Gold Standard

1971

Pentagon Papers

Jun 13, 1971

Nixon's Visit to China

Feb 21, 1972

Until February 28, 1972

Equal Rights Amendment Passed for Ratification

Mar 22, 1972

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)

May 26, 1972

Watergate Scandal

Jun 17, 1972

Title IX

Jun 23, 1972

Roe v. Wade

Jan 22, 1973

Paris Peace Accords

Jan 27, 1973

Chilean Coup D'État

Sep 11, 1973

War Powers Resolution

Nov 7, 1973

Resignation of Richard Nixon

Aug 9, 1974

Presidency of Gerald Ford

Period: Aug 9, 1974 to Jan 20, 1977

Fall of South Vietnam

Apr 30, 1975

Presidency of Jimmy Carter

Period: Jan 20, 1977 to Jan 20, 1981

Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

Jun 28, 1978

Camp David Accords

Sep 17, 1978

Three Mile Island Accident

Mar 28, 1979

Iran Hostage Crisis

Period: Nov 4, 1979 to Jan 20, 1981

Presidency of Ronald Reagan

Period: Jan 20, 1981 to Jan 20, 1989

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

Mar 23, 1984

Iran-Contra Affair

Period: Aug 20, 1985 to Mar 4, 1987

Bowers v. Hardwick

Jun 30, 1986

Presidency of George H. W. Bush

Period: Jan 20, 1989 to Jan 20, 1993

Fall of Communism

Jun 4, 1989

Gulf War

Aug 2, 1990

Until January 17, 1991

Dissolution of the Soviet Union

Dec 26, 1991

Los Angeles Riots

Apr 29, 1992

Until May 4, 1992

Planned Parenthood v. Casey

Jun 29, 1992

Presidency of Bill Clinton

Period: Jan 20, 1993 to Jan 20, 2001

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

Jan 1, 1994

Contract with America

1994

Oklahoma City Bombing

Apr 19, 1995

Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) Ended

1997

Impeachment of Bill Clinton

Dec 19, 1998

Until February 12, 1999

Glass-Steagall Act Repealed

1999

Seattle WTO Protests

Nov 30, 1999

Ended December 3, 1999

Bush v. Gore

Dec 12, 2000

Presidency of George W. Bush

Period: Jan 20, 2001 to Jan 20, 2009

September 11 Attacks

Sep 11, 2001

War in Afghanistan

Period: Oct 7, 2001 to Aug 15, 2021

Patriot Act

Oct 26, 2001

"Axis of Evil" - George W. Bush

Jan 29, 2002

United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

Nov 25, 2002

Iraq War

Period: Mar 20, 2003 to Dec 18, 2011