US Political history

By OakLeave

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Louisiana Purchase (After Napoleon has conquered Spain and taken New Spain back)

  • Abraham Lincoln elected US President

  • Start of the Civil War

  • Emancipation Amendment

  • End of the Civil War

  • WWI begins

  • America enters WWI

  • End of WWI

  • Prohibition Amendment

  • Female Suffrage Amendment

  • Wall Street Crash/ Great Depression begins

  • Prohibition Scrapped

  • The New Deal

  • WWII begins

  • America enters WWII

  • WWII ends

  • Truman Doctrine (replaces Monroe Doctrine)

  • JFK assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act

  • Nixon resigns (after Watergate)

  • Obama elected US President (1st term)

  • 9/11

  • Obama elected US president (2nd term)

  • Trump elected US President (1st term)

  • Trump elected US President (2nd term)

  • Biden elected US President

  • War in Afghanistan begins

  • George W. Bush elected US President

  • Iraq War begins

  • US wins war of Independence

  • US Constitution becomes effective (federal government set up)

  • Bill of Rights

  • Democratic Party founded

  • Monroe Doctrine

  • Republican Party founded 2006

  • WWII begins