US History Timeline
By: Carsen Medlin
Americanism 1776
1787 United States Constitution
First Ten Amendments- Bill of RIghts
Reconstruction 1865-1877
14th Amendment- Citizenship for former Slaves
15th Amendment- Black Males Right to Vote
Gilded Age
Political Bosses
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
WWI 1914-1918
US joined in 1917 because of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Between the Wars 1918- 1938
Flappers- women challenging morals
Prohibition- Organized Crime
18th amendment- Prohibition of Alcohol
19th amendment- Women's 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21st amendment- Repealed Prohibition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
Civil Rights 1954- 1968
JFK assassinated 1963
LBJ- Civil Rights Act 1964, Voting Rights Act 1965
Plessy vs. Ferguson, Brown vs. Board of Education
Bush/Clinton/ Bush 1989- 2008
Clinton- Lewinsky Affair
W Bush- 9-11 Attacks
W Bush- Iraq War