U.S. History Timeline
By Daren Rowe
Americanism 1776
* 1787 United States Constitution
- First Ten Amendments
Westward Expansion 1776-1890
- Indian Wars
- Homestead acts - Free land
Civil War 1861 - 1877
*13th Amendment- Abolished Slavery
* 14th Amendment- citizenship for former slaves
* 15th Amendment- black males right to vote
Reconstruction 1877 - 1900
-Political Bosses
-business (monopolies & trusts), unsafe working conditions
* immigrants
Gilded Age 1877 - 1900
- Political Parties
- Business (monopolies & Trusts), Unsafe working conditions
*Immigrants
Progressive Era 1900 - 1914
-Teddy (Theodore Roosevelt)
-taft (William Taft)
-Wilson (Woodrow Wilson)
* 16th amendment - income tax
* 17th Amendment - Direct election of senators
Imperialism 1872-1912
-Teddy Roosevelt fought with the rough riders
WW1 1914 - 1918
* Us joined in1917 because of Unrestricted submarine warfare
Between the Wars 1918 - 1938
* Roaring Twenties of jazz age 1921 - 1929
-Flappers- Women Challenging Morals
-Prohibition - Organized crime
-18th Amendment - Prohibition of alcohol
-19th Amendment - womens right to vote
-21st Amendment - Repealed prohibition
* Great depression - President hoover 1929 - 1941
-Stock market crash
-Dust bowl
* New deal -President franklin Roosevelt 1933 - 1939
WWII 1938 - 1945
*US joined WWII after japan attacked Pearl Harbor
*Harry Truman - president - atomic bombs
Cold War 1945 - 1989
Korean War 1950 - 1953
Truman/Eisenhower 1945 - 1961
Kennedy/Johnson 1961 -1969
Civil Rights 1954 - 1968
*John F. Kennedy (JFK) assainated 1963
*Lyndon B. Johnson - Civil Rights Act 1964, Voting Rights Act 1965
*Plessy vs. Ferguson, Brown vs. Board of education
Vietnam War 1965 - 1973
Nixon/Ford 1969-1977
*Ford - Pardoned Nixon
Carter/Reagan 1977 -1989
*Fall of the Wall - Reagen 1989
Bush/Clinton/Bush 1989-2008
* Clinton - Lewinsky Affair
* W Bush - 9-11 Attacks
* W Bush - Iraq War