Us History Timeline
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Americanism 1776
- 1776 Declaration of Independence
- 1787 United States Constitution
Civil War 1861-1865
- Abraham Lincoln - President during Civil War (assassinated)
- 1863 - Emancipated Proclamation
Reconstruction 1865 - 1877
- 13th Amendment- Abolished Slavery
- 14th Amendment - Citizenship for former slaves
- 15th Amendment - Black males right to vote
Gilded Age 1877 - 1900
- Corruption
-Business (monopolies & Trusts), unsafe working conditions
- Immigrants
Progressive Era 1900 - 1914
- Three Progressive Presidents
-Taft (William Taft)
-Wilson (Woodrow Wilson)
- 16th Amendement - Income Tax
- 17th Amendement - Direct Election of Senators
Imperialism 1872 - 1912
- Spanish American War 1898
WW1 1914 - 1918
- Woodrow Wilson - President
- Us Joined in 1917 because of unrestricted Submarine warfare.
Between the Wars 1918 - 1938
- Roaring twenties of Jazz Age 1921 - 1929
- Prohibition - Organized Crime
- 18th Amendment - Prohibition of Alcohol
- 19th Amendment - Woman's Right to Vote
- 21st Amendment - Repealed Prohibition
- Great Depression - President Hoover 1929 - 1941
- Dust Bowl
- New Deal - President Franklin Roosevelt 1933 - 1939
WW2 1938 - 1945
- Franklin Roosevelt - President
- Us Joined WW2 after Japan Attacked Pearl Harbor
- Harry Truman - President - Atomic Bombs
Kennedy/ Johnson 1961 - 1969
JFK - Cuban Missile Crisis - 1963
Civil Rights 1954 - 1968
- Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks
- John F. Kennedy (JFK) Assassinated 1963
- Lyndon B. Johnson - Civil Rights Acts 1964, Voting Rights Act 1965
- Plessy vs. Ferguson, Brown vs. Board of Education
Vietnam war 1965 - 1973
- Domino Theory
Nixon/ Ford 1969 - 1977
- Nixon - Impeached and reassigned from office - Watergate
- Ford - Pardoned Nixon
Carter/ Reagan 1977 - 1989
- Iran Hostage Crisis - Carter
- Fall of the wall - Reagan 1989
Bush / Clinton / Bush 1989 - 2008
- HW Bush - Desert Storm
- Clinton - Lewinsky Affair
- W Bush - 9-11 Attacks
- W Bush - Iraq War