US History Timeline

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    George Washington

    1st president of USA
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    Cornelius Vanderbilt

    Train guy
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    John Adams

    2nd pres
    leader of continental congress
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    Thomas Jefferson

    3rd pres
    one of the founding fathers
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    James Madison

    4th pres
    also a founding father
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    James Monroe

    5th pres
    fought in revolutionary war
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    John Quincy Adams

    6th pres
    son of john adams
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    Andrew Jackson

    7th pres
    trail of tears
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    Andrew Carnegie

    Steel guy
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    Martin Van Buren

    8th pres
    unpopular policies and he lost his 2nd election
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    J.P Morgan

    Banker
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    John D Rockefeller

    Oil guy
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    William Henry Harrison

    9th
    spoke presidental speech hours in rain and got sick and died
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    John Tyler

    10th pres
    governor of virginia
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    James K Polk

    11th pres
    territorial expansion during the mexican american war
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    Zachary Taylor

    12th pres
    died from stomach illness
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    Millard Fillmore

    13th pres
    last member of the whig party
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    Franklin Pierce

    14th
    resigned from senate in 1842
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    James Buchanan

    15th
    fought in civil war after his term
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    Abraham Lincoln

    16th
    freed the slaves
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    Andrew Johnson

    17th pres
    Abe Lincolns vice president
  • Ku Klux Klan

    mean white people
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    Ulysses S Grant

    18th pres
    Controlled all US armies in 1864
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    Gilded Era

    era of corruption
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    Imperialism

    US engages in aggresive expansion for land
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    Rutherford B Hayes

    19th
    became president at the end of the reconstruction era
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    James Garfield

    20th
    assassinated
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    Chester Arthur

    21st
    attorney and politician
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    Eleanor Roosevelt

    The FIRST first lady
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    Grover Cleveland

    22nd
    in office two different times but not consecutive terms
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    Benjamin Harrison

    23rd
    Grandson of 9th president William Henry Harrison
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    Adolf Hitler

    Nazi leader
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    Progessive era

    when america started progressing forward
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    Grover Cleveland

    24th
    served two different terms
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    Babe Ruth

    Big Slugga
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    William Mckinley

    25th
    assassinated
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    Amelia Earhart

    YUNG FLYA
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    Spanish American war

    war of spaniards and americans
  • USS Maine explosion

    US battleship docked in Cuba explodes, leading to spanish american war
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    Temperance Movement

    Social movement against alchoholic beverages
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    Teddy Rosevelt

    26th
    War general
  • Radio

    changing life for people around the world
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    William Howard Taft

    27th
    got stuck in white house tub
  • Shirtwaist Fire

    T-shirt factory explodes causing laws to be passed for more safety regulations
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    Woodrow Wilson

    28th
    led US through WWI
  • Trench Warfare

    common and popular way of warfare during WWI
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    WWI

    Wars of wars
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    Hollywoods Golden Era

    time when people looked to movies for hope and emotions
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    Jazz age

    Get jazzed son
  • Communism

    far left political movement
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    Roaring 20's

    A wild crazy time in US history where people "lived as if theres no tomorrow"
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    Suffarage Movement

    Womens voting rights
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    Nazi Party

    far right German political party
  • Stock Market Crash

    Americans lost all their money
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    League Of Nations

    Intergovernmental Organization founded off the Paris Peace Conference
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    Great Depression

    we were in the rough
  • Bonus Army Conflict

    Got paid a bonus for fighting in war
  • Concentration Camps Built

    Places built and designed for German enemies and and jewish citizens
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    Holocaust

    genocide of jewish people
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    Seabiscut

    Trusty Steed
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    War Admiral

    Trusty Steed
  • Nuramburg Laws

    Series of laws that has zero tolerence for relationships with jewish people
  • Dust Bowl

    Major sand storm in the mid-west destroying several farmlands
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    Kristallnacht

    German rampage killing and damaging jewish communities
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    Killing Centers

    Places designated just for killing jewish people
  • Wizard of Oz

    Tight movie with my girl Dorthy that had the american culture shook. represented political, social, and economic events of America in the 1890
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    WWII

    icky war caused by several nations due to Adolf Hitlers dream of expanding the German territory
  • Allied Powers

    Alliance of Great Britain, USA, China, and The Soviet Union
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    Nuremberg Trials

    German Leaders tried for their inhumane crimes
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    Cold war (red scare)

    Time after WWII
  • Central Powers

    Alliance between Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire
  • Hawaii babyyyyyy

    Hawaii joins the union
  • Alaska babyyyy

    Alaska joins the union