VA/US History Timeline

By 4001889

  • Articles of Confederation

  • The Critical Period

  • Land Ordinance of 1785

  • Shay's Rebellion

  • Annapolis Convention

  • Consitiutional Convention

  • The Great Cpomprmise

  • The 3/5ths Compromise

  • Northwest Ordinance of 1787

  • Adam's Presidency

  • Washington's Presidency

  • Judiciary Act of 1789

  • Bill of Rights was signed

  • Cotton Gin

  • Jefferson's Presidency

  • Gabe Prosser Revolt

    Revolt took place in the summer of 1800
  • Period: to

    Marubury vs. Madison

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • War of 1812

  • Period: to

    McCulloch vs. Maryland

  • Age of the Common Man

    Age of the Common Man
    This appealed to the white man and helped Jackson win in election.

  • Susan B. Anthony

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Monroe Doctrine

  • Period: to

    Jackson's Presidency

  • Indian Removal Act

  • Nat Turner Revolt

  • Battle of Alamo

  • Battle of San Jacinto

  • U.S. annexed Texas

  • Mexican War

  • Reservation System

  • Ca gold Rush

  • Senca Falls Convention

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Fugitive Slave Law

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Dred Scott Case

  • Election of 1860

  • Period: to

    Battle of Fort Sumter

  • Homestead Act

  • Battle of Antietam

  • Emancipation Proclaimation

  • Period: to

    Battle of Vicksburg

  • Period: to

    Battle of Gettysburg

  • Gettysburg Address

  • Period: to

    Reconstruction

  • 13th amendment

  • Appomattox Court House

  • Lincoln's Assassination

  • Reconstruction Act of 1867

  • Period: to

    Election of 1867

  • 14th Amendment

  • Knights of Labor

  • 15th Amendment

  • Jim Crow Laws

  • Period: to

    American Federation of Labor

  • Chinese Exculsion Act of 1882

  • Haymarket Square

  • Dawes Act

  • Period: to

    Progressive Movement

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

  • Homestead Strike

  • American Railway Union

  • Period: to

    Pullman Strike

  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

  • Period: to

    Spanish-American War

  • Treaty of Paris (1898)

  • Open Door Policy

  • Period: to

    Boxer Rebellion

  • Immigration Restriction Act

  • Period: to

    Panama Canal

  • Platt Amendmant

  • Roosevelt Corollary

  • 16th Amendment

  • 17th Amendment

  • Period: to

    World War 1

  • Federal Trade Commission Act

  • Clayton Anti-Trust Act

  • Period: to

    Great Migration

  • U.S. enters WW1

  • Fourteen Points

  • 18th Amendment

  • Treaty of Versailles

  • Harlem Renaissance (1920s)

  • 19th Amendment

  • 19th Amendment

  • Scopes Trail

  • Period: to

    Herbert Hoover

  • Great Depression

  • Black Tuesday

  • Dust Bowl (1930s)

  • New Deal

  • Period: to

    Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • FDIC

  • CIO

  • Social Security Act

  • Wagner Act

  • Fair Labor Standards Act

  • Non-Aggression PAct

  • Period: to

    War in Europe Begins

  • Selective Service Act in WWII

  • War in Russia Begins

  • Pearl Harbor

  • U.S. declares war

  • Miracle of Midway

  • D-Day

  • Period: to

    Battle of the Bugle

  • Korematsu vs. U.S.

  • V-E Day

  • Nagasaki A-Bomb

  • Hiroshima A-bomb

  • Period: to

    Nuremburg Trials

  • Period: to

    Gibbons vs. Ogden