US History Timeline

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    The key states anything represented by blue is a historical event.
  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin was an inventor that revolutionized the country. He created things like the lightning rod, the first public library, and even a form of a fire department. (1749 was the year the lightening rod was invented)
  • Ratification of the Bill of Rights

    Ratification of the Bill of Rights

    The Bill of Rights consists of the first 10 amendments to the Constitution. It was written by James Madison and several other famous founding fathers such as Benjamin Franklin.
  • End of Slave Trade in US

    End of Slave Trade in US

    The slave trade was ended in US on January 1, 1808. However, slave trade continued illegally for the next fifty years.
  • Industrial Age

    Industrial Age

    The Industrial Age did not begin in the US until Samuel Slater brought new manufacturing technologies from Britain to the United States and founded the first U.S. cotton mill in Beverly, Massachusetts. This did not happen until about the 1820s and ended in the 70s
  • Nicola Tesla

    Nicola Tesla

    Nicola Tesla was an astonishing scientist who revolutionized the way we communicated with his studies and findings on alternating currents. He built the first AC (Alternating current) generator in 1832
  • Gold Rush

    Gold Rush

    This was when settlers moved west in order to get better job opportunities, specifically in the gold business because it was discovered that their was a high concentration of it in California.
  • Establishment of the Klu Klux Klan

    Establishment of the Klu Klux Klan

    The Klu Klux Klan is a secret society in the southern US that focuses on white supremacy and terrorizes other races and nationalities.
  • American Imperialism

    American Imperialism

    American imperialism is the economic, military, and cultural philosophy that the US directly/indirectly affects/controls other countries or their policies. This influence is often associated with expansion into foreign territories.
  • Establishment of Yellowstone National Park

    Establishment of Yellowstone National Park

    Yellowstone National Park is a national park located in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. It was established by the US Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872.
  • Rutherford B. Hayse

    Rutherford B. Hayse

    Presidency ended March 4, 1881.
  • Westward Expansion

    Westward Expansion

    This w as when the US was just the 13 colonies which resided in the east coat. People wanted more opportunities to they expanded westward. Most people were looking for jobs. Manifest Destiny (1845)=][0 and the Louisiana purchase (1803) were major parts of the westward expansion.
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison was a famous inventor that created many things that revolutionized the country. He invented the light bulb, the phonograph, and many more.
  • James A. Garfield

    James A. Garfield

    Presidency ended September 19, 1881.
  • Clara Barton

    Clara Barton

    She was one of the main founders of the red cross, she was also a medic during in the civil war.
  • Chester A. Arthur

    Chester A. Arthur

    Presidency ended in March 4, 1885.
  • Grover Cleveland

    Grover Cleveland

    Presidency ended March 4, 1889.
  • Benjamin Harrison

    Benjamin Harrison

    Presidency ended March 4, 1893.
  • Progressive Era

    Progressive Era

    The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the US. It went from 1890s to 20s. The main objectives of the Progressive movement were eliminating problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and corruption in government
  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie

    Carnegie owned the largest steel business in the US which revolutionized the country allowing us to built rail road, bridges, and sky scrapers.
  • Grover Cleveland's Second Presidency

    Grover Cleveland's Second Presidency

    Presidency ended March 4, 1897.
  • William McKinely

    William McKinely

    Presidency ended September 14, 1901.
  • Spanish-American War

    Spanish-American War

    Spanish-American War was a war between Spain and the US. The war was fought in 1898 and began as an intervention by the US on behalf of Cuba. The US acquired Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines in the war and gained temporary control over Cuba.
  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt

    Presidency ended March 4 1909.
  • William Howard Taft

    William Howard Taft

    Presidency ended March 4, 1913.
  • Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

    The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York. It was was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in US history.
  • Woodrow Wilson

    Woodrow Wilson

    Presidency ended March 4, 1921.
  • Henry Ford and the Assembly line

    Henry Ford and the Assembly line

    Created the assembly line in 1913 which revolutionized companies and mass production
  • World War I

    World War I

    World War I was a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, US, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918. This was also a war in which the major nations of the world are involved.
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist who changed the way people thought. He developed the theory of relativity, published in 1915.
  • Roaring 20s

    Roaring 20s

    The 1920s in the US, was referred to as “roaring” because of the exuberant and freewheeling culture of the decade. The Roaring 20s was a time when many people defied Prohibition, indulged in new styles of dancing and dressing, and rejected many traditional moral standards.
  • Warren G. Harding

    Warren G. Harding

    Presidency ended August 2, 1923.
  • Calvin Coolidge

    Calvin Coolidge

    Presidency ended March 4, 1929.
  • Herbert Hoover

    Herbert Hoover

    Presidency ended March 4, 1933.
  • The Great Deppresion

    The Great Deppresion

    America's Great Depression began with the crash of the stock market. The unemployment rate increased so many people lost their jobs. Losing their jobs meant a lot of people were struggling financially which made it difficult to care for their families.
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Presidency ended April 12, 1945.
  • World War II

    World War II

    A war fought from 1939 to 1945 between the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (France and Britain), and later the Soviet Union and the US.
  • Harry S. Truman

    Harry S. Truman

    Presidency ended January 20, 1953.
  • Jackie Robinson

    Jackie Robinson

    Jackie Robinson was the first African American baseball player. This was very important in history because the racial tension between whites and blacks in this time period.
  • Cold War

    Cold War

    Cold War from 1947 to 1991. The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the US and its NATO).
  • Establishment of NATO

    Establishment of NATO

    NATO is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    The Korean war is also referred to as the Korean conflict. It was fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations (who were supported by the US and North Korea. The war began in 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea.
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Presidency ended January 20, 1961.
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    The Vietnam War was a Cold War. The US and the French colonial government in South Vietnam against the Viet Minh (communist Vietnamese independence movement), following the latter's expulsion of the French in 1954.
  • Civil Rights Movement

    Civil Rights Movement

    The Civil Rights Movement was the national effort made by black people and their supporters in the 1950s and 60s to eliminate segregation and gain equal rights.
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks

    Famous civil rights activist who boycotted the buses in 1955.
  • J.P. Morgan

    J.P. Morgan

    He ran trust companies and created the chain og Chase banks. Trusts are businesses who buy stock in other businesses and run them as one company.
  • Moon Landing

    Moon Landing

    This was the time of the space race when the US and Soviet Union were deciding who has control over space and the us won with the landing on the moon.
  • New Frontier and Great Society

    New Frontier and Great Society

    This was and era that started in 1961 with John F. Kennedy's election, and ended with Lyndon B. Johnson in 1969. This era brought on things the Berlin Wall wall, the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Limited Test Ban Treaty, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy after which Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president upon Kennedy’s death.
  • Era of Social Change

    Era of Social Change

    This is when many minorities gained more rights. some of the minorities were were women and blacks. One important figure during this time was Cesar Chavez because he set up the Mexican-American labor movement
  • John F. Kennedy

    John F. Kennedy

    Presidency ended November 22, 1963.
  • Lyndon B. Johnson

    Lyndon B. Johnson

    Presidency ended January 20, 1969.
  • Richard Nixon

    Richard Nixon

    Presidency ended August 9, 1974.
  • Gerald Ford

    Gerald Ford

    Presidency ended January 20, 1977.
  • Jimmy Carter

    Jimmy Carter

    Presidency ended January 20, 1981.
  • Ronald Reagan

    Ronald Reagan

    Presidency ended January 20, 1989.
  • George H. W. Bush

    George H. W. Bush

    Presidency ended January 20, 1993.
  • Gulf War

    Gulf War

    The Gulf War was a war between the forces of the United Nations, (lead by the US), and those of Iraq that followed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein 's invasion of Kuwait.
  • Bill Clinton

    Bill Clinton

    Presidency ended January 20, 2001.
  • George W. Bush

    George W. Bush

    Presidency ended January 20, 2009.
  • 9/11

    9/11

    This was an Islamic terrorist attack on the world trade center, most commonly known as the twin towers. The attack was believed to be part of the Al-Qaeda network.
  • Iraq War

    Iraq War

    A military conflict in Iraq that began in 2003 with an attack by a coalition of forces led by the US which resulted in the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime. US combat troops were withdrawn in 2010.
  • Barack Obama

    Barack Obama

    Presidency ended January 20, 2017.
  • Death of Osama Bin Ladin

    Death of Osama Bin Ladin

    Osama bin Laden was the founder and head of the Islamist group Al-Qaeda. He was excited shot in Pakistan on May 2, 201 by US Navy SEALs.
  • Donald Trump

    Donald Trump

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