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1796:
1. Jay’s Treaty is settled. It does little to settle differences with England.
2. John Adams is elected president.
3. A split forms between Thomas Jefferson's and Alexander Hamilton's political parties, the Democratic Republicans and Federalists, respectively.
1. The XYZ Affair occurs, and becomes one of the first instances in which Americans became distrustful and cynical towards their
government.
2. Undeclared naval war is fought between the French and United States, in what is today known as Quasi Wars.
3. The Tripolitan-American war ends.
1798:
1. The Alien and Sedition Acts are implemented by the Federalists.
2. The Virginia and Kentucky Resolves are written by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. They establish the doctrine of nullification of federal laws by states.
3. The Naturalization Acts raise the requirement for citizenship from 5 to 14 years.
1.The Napoleonic Wars begin.
2. George Washington dies.
3. David Brown and Luther Baldwin are put on trial for sedition.
1800:
1.Thomas Jefferson is elected president, becoming the first time the presidency changes parties.
2. The Capitol moves to Washington, D.C. in a compromise between the North and South.
3. Gabriel Prosser attempts to start a slave revolt in Virginia, but is put down..
1.John Marshall becomes Supreme Court justice of the United States. He influences the United States judiciary
body through his decisions for years to follow.
2. The Judiciary Act increases the number of circuit courts.
3. Republicans take over House and Senate.
1802:
1. The Haitian Revolution occurs, resulting in an independent black nation.
2. Congress repeals the Judiciary Act.
3. Democrat-Republicans undermine the Alien and Sedition Acts.
1803:
1. Marbury v. Madison is deciding, establishing the process of judicial review. This shaped the structure of the judiciary system.
2. The House of Representatives impeaches District Judge John Pickering for being a Federalist.
3. Thomas Jefferson buys the Louisiana Territory from the French in the Louisiana Purchase.
1804:
1. The Louisiana Purchase is finalized, doubling the size of the United States.
2. Thomas Jefferson wins reelection.
3. Alexander Hamilton is killed by Aaron Burr in a duel.
1805:
1. Lewis and Clark finish their expedition of the new territory.
2. Zebulon Pike begins to explore the West.
3. The United States naval war with Tripoli ends.
1. Construction begins on the National Road.
2. The Non-Importation Act provided that Americans could not trade with anyone.
3. Pike's Expedition continues.
1. The steamboat begins to run commercially.
2. The Embargo Act bans American vessels from landing in foreign ports.
3. The HMS Leopard attacks the USS Chesapeake to search for deserters.
1. The importation of slaves is banned in the United States
2. James Madison wins the presidency.
3. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Baltimore is promoted to an archdiocese, with the founding of the dioceses of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Bardstown (now Louisville) by Pope Pius VII.
1. The Embargo Act of 1807 is repealed.
2. The Non-Intercourse Act allowed Americans to trade with all countries except France and Great Britain.
3. The Supreme Court rules federal government power is greater than that of any state.
1. Macon’s Bill No. 2 passed, lifting both embargoes on France and Britain and establishing a provision that if either nation's attacks on U.S. ships stopped, the U.S. would stop trading with the other.
2. Western Florida is annexed from Spain.
3. Fletcher v. Peck was the first case in which the Supreme Court deemed a law unconstitutional.
1. In the Battle of Tippecanoe, the forces of Native American leader Tecumseh are defeated.
2. James Madison embargoes trade with Great Britain.
3. A Louisiana slave revolt by Charles Deslondes occurs at German Coast.
1. The War of 1812 begins.
2. James Madison is reelected.
3. The U.S. passes its foreign aid bill, aimed to aid Venezuela earthquake victims.
1. Pride and Prejudice is published.
2. In the Battle of the Thames, Tecumseh is killed and his Native American coalition that sided with the British was effectively dissolved.
3. The Creek War begins.
1. The Treaty of Ghent ends War of 1812.
2. At the Hartford Convention, New England federalists who did not want continued war with Britain discuss secession and issue a statement..
3. The Battle of Horseshoe Bend decisively ends the Creek War.
1815:
1. The Battle of New Orleans is a massive American victory, despite the fact that the war had already ended several weeks prior.
2. The Library of Congress, which had been burned in the War of 1812, is reestablished with Jefferson's 6500 volumes.
3. The U.S. declares war on Algiers for taking US prisoners and demanding tribute.
1. The Second Bank of United States is chartered.
2. James Monroe elected president.
3. The American Colonization Society is founded to aid free blacks who wanted to live in Liberia.
1817:
1. Construction on the Erie Canal begins.
2. The New York Stock Exchange is established.
3. The second Bank of the United States opens.
1.The 49th Parallel set as border between U.S. and Canada.
2. General Andrew Jackson conquers St Marks Florida from Seminole Indians.
3. Illinois becomes 21st state USA (Admission day).
1. In McCulloch V. Maryland, the Supreme Court declares the Bank of the United States to be constitutional and further solidifies federal supremacy over the states.
2. The Adams-Onis Treaty with Spain formally gives Florida to the U.S. and sets the boundary line between its colonial territory and the American West.
3. The panic (which later becomes a depression) of 1819 begins, becoming the first major financial crisis faced by the U.S.
1. The Missouri Compromise is passed. It is aimed at keeping both the North and South satisfied while dealing with the issues of slavery in the territories and slave versus free representation in Congress.
2. The Land Act of 1820 made land in the West less expensive.
3. The notion of men and women living in separate social "spheres" becomes common.
1. Mexico gains its independence from Spain.
2. Gibbons v. Ogden: One of the first tests of the Constitution.
3. Stephen Austin leads a group of American settlers into Texas.
1822:
1. Denmark Vesey's planned slave revolt, which would have been the largest in history, is thwarted.
2. The U.S. government gives diplomatic recognition to several Latin American Republics.
3. Congress combines East & West Florida into Florida Territory.
1. The Monroe Doctrine is issued, warning European powers against interfering in the Americas.
2. The city of Lowell, Massachusetts is founded by Francis Cabot Lowell as a production center for textiles.
3. President Monroe appoints the first U.S. ambassadors to South America.
1. The election of 1824 ends in a result that had no clear majority, leaving the decision to the House.
2. In Sturges v. Crowninshield, the Supreme Court allowed Congress to establish bankruptcy laws.
3. Construction of canals in the Northeast begins.
1. The Utopian community New Harmony, Indiana, is founded. It has the country's first kindergarten, free public school and free public library in America.
2. John Quincy Adams is chosen by the House to become president.
3. Creek Indian treaty is signed. The tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in Georgia to the government and move west by September, 1826.
1826:
1. A flu epidemic hits parts of the US.
2. The American Temperance Society is founded.
3. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both die.
(they did not die from the flu epidemic, I apologize for the mix-up(if there was one))
1. The Maryland Democratic Party, the precursor of the Democratic Party, is formed.
2. The Cherokee adopt a written constitution.
3. The Freedom Journal, the first African-American paper, begins publishing.
1. The Tariff of Abominations was passed, further ostracizing and angering the South and the North.
2. John Calhoun publishes the South Carolina Exposition and Protest against the Tariff of Abominations, re-establishing the doctrine of nullification.
3. Jackson defeats Adams for presidency.
1. Joseph Smith forms The Church of the Latter Day Saints. They are also known as the Mormons.
2. Andrew Jackson is inaugurated as 7th president
3. Walker's Appeal, a radical antislavery pamphlet, published in Boston
1. The Indian Removal Act is passed, allowing the government to forcibly remove thousands of natives from their homes.
2. The Southern justification of slavery changes from a "necessary evil" to a "positive good."
3. The Webster-Hayne debate and Jackson-Calhoun toast show the divide within the government over the tariff and nullification.
1. Nat Turner's slave revolt occurs. It is suppressed, but it scares the Southern planter elite.
2. Charles Finney begins his religious revivals, which were an important part of the Second Great Awakening.
3. William Lloyd Garrison begins publishing his antislavery newspaper, The Liberator.
1. The Worcester V. Georgia decision states that the federal government has authority in dealing with Indian nations, not the states, a continuation of John Marshall's federal over state concept.
2. President Jackson vetoes the U.S. Bank charter
3. President Jackson is re-elected.
1833:
1. The Force Bill allowed sweeping measures to enforce the tariff that was the subject of the South Carolina nullification crisis.
2. Philadelphia establishes a small police force.
3. John Calhoun resigns as Vice President because of his split with Jackson over the nullification crisis.
1834:
1. The land that is now Oklahoma is set aside by the American government to be Indian Territory.
2. Race riots occur in Philadelphia.
3. The Whig Party is established.
1. There is an assassination attempt on Andrew Jackson. It is the first in American history.
2. The United States national debt is 0 for the first and only time.
3. The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States.
1.Texas declares independence.
2. The gag rule is established on the issue of slavery in Congress.
3. Jackson orders the Specie Circular, mandating that all payment for federal land be in hard coinage.
1. An economic Panic and Depression begin as an aftershock of Jackson's Presidency.
2. The Cherokee tribe begins to follow the Trail of Tears, escorted by the army.
3. Sarah Grimke writes "Letters on the Condition of Women and the Equality of the Sexes".
1. The Cherokee continue to be forcibly relocated on the Trail of Tears.
2. Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
3. Iowa Territory forms.
1. The first state law permitting woman to own property is passed in Jackson, Mississippi.
2. A great fire occurs in NY.
3. The first anti-slavery political party in the U.S., the Liberty Party, convenes in NY.
1. The Washingtonian Temperance Society is Founded.
2. William Henry Harrison is elected president.
3. The Liberty Party participates in its first elections and has few gains.
1. William Henry Harrison is the first President to die in office, from pneumonia.
2. Transcendentalists found Hopedale and Brook Farm.
3. The U.S. Supreme Court rules that negroes are free in the case concerning the Amistad Incident.
1. The U.S. - Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains is established in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty.
2. The first U.S. wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Pennsylvania.
3. The first U.S. child labor law, which regulated working hours passed in Massachusetts.
1. The first Oregon Trail wagons set out.
2. Dorothea Dix publishes her report on treatment of the mentally insane.
3. Congress appropriates $30,000 "to test the practicability of establishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs" by the US
1.The first electrical telegram sent from Washington D.C to Baltimore, Maryland.
2. Anti-Catholic riots cause violence in Philidelphia.
3. The economy returns to normal at the end of financial panic and depression.
1. The term "Manifest Destiny" is first used in a publication claiming that westward expansion was divinely ordained.
2. Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass published.
3. President Tyler signs a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas
Women's rights convention in Akron Ohio
1852: Commodore Matthew Perry opens Japan to US trade.
Brigham Young publicly unveils the Mormon doctrine of polygamy after the church secretly practiced it for a decade.
Franklin Pierce elected president.
1853: Gadsen Purchase- land bought from Mexico to increase land so Railroads could be expanded.
1854: Kansas- Nebraska Act= Slavery in states determined by popular sovereignty.
1855: Walt Whitman publishes Leaves of Grass.
1856: The beating of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks at United States Senate.
1857: Dred Scott vs. Sanford
1858: Lincoln-Douglas Debates on extension of slavery into new territories.
1859: John Brown raids the Harpers Ferry Armory in Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in an unsuccessful bid to spark a general slave
rebellion.
1860:Abraham Lincoln is elected as the 16th president of the United States.
1861: Confederate States of America form when Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida
secede.
1862:Battle of Antietam is fought. it was the bloodiest day in American history.
1863: The Emancipation Proclamation is issued.
1864:General Sherman's "March to the Sea" (Also, the first fish and chip shop opened in London)
1865:The Civil War ends.
Lincoln is assasinated.
The Thirteenth Amendment is ratified, banning slavery.
1866: Tennessee becomes the first state to re-enter the Union
1867:Alaska is purchased, and the US takes control of Midway island.
1868:14th amendment is ratified, granting citizenship to African Americans for the first time.
1869:Trans-Continental Railroad completed.
Knights of Labor founded.
University of South Carolina opens to all races
1870:15th amendment ratified, giving African Americans the right to vote
John D Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
1st motion picture show to a theater audience(Philadelphia)
1871:University Test Act removes religious tests from several universities.
1872:Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is arrested.
Ulysses S. Grant is re-elected.
Victoria Woodhull is the first women nominated for election as President of the U.S. (Disputed)
1873:US Congress enacts Comstock Law
A depression that will last until 1879 begins.
The corruption in national politics shows in the Credit Moblier Scandal.
1874:US gains exclusive trading rights with Hawaii
Supreme Court declares parts of the Force Acts unconstitutional.
1st U.S. zoo opens in Philadelphia
1875: Indian Inspector E.C. Watkins issues a report stating that hundreds of Sioux and Cheyenne associated with Sitting Bull and
Crazy Horse are hostile to the United States
The end of the use of greenbacks because of the Specie Resumption Act.
The discovery of gold in a Sioux reservation prompts a war between U.S. forces and the tribe.
1876:Battle of Little Bighorn is fought
Telephone invented.
Democratic party re-establishes control in the last former Confederate states which were controlled by the Republicans.
1877:Compromise of 1877 allows Hayes to be elected President
Reconstruction ends.
Rail workers strike all across the country, and are violently put down.
1878:Black Bart makes his last clean getaway. Any help on this one? Done.
Yellow Fever in Mississippi Valley.
Bland-Allison Act passed, basing some dollars off of silver instead of gold.
1879:Thomas Edison tests the first practical lightbulb.
The Knights of Labor becomes a public organization.
Progress and Poverty by Henry George drew attention to the divide between the rich and poor.
Fidel Castro resigns as President of Cuba
1. Jay’s Treaty is settled. It does little to settle differences with England.
2. John Adams is elected president.
3. A split forms between Thomas Jefferson's and Alexander Hamilton's political parties, the Democratic Republicans and Federalists, respectively.
1797:
1. The XYZ Affair occurs, and becomes one of the first instances in which Americans became distrustful and cynical towards their
government.
2. Undeclared naval war is fought between the French and United States, in what is today known as Quasi Wars.
3. The Tripolitan-American war ends.
1798:
1. The Alien and Sedition Acts are implemented by the Federalists.
2. The Virginia and Kentucky Resolves are written by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. They establish the doctrine of nullification of federal laws by states.
3. The Naturalization Acts raise the requirement for citizenship from 5 to 14 years.
1799:
1.The Napoleonic Wars begin.
2. George Washington dies.
3. David Brown and Luther Baldwin are put on trial for sedition.
1800:
1.Thomas Jefferson is elected president, becoming the first time the presidency changes parties.
2. The Capitol moves to Washington, D.C. in a compromise between the North and South.
3. Gabriel Prosser attempts to start a slave revolt in Virginia, but is put down..
1801:
1.John Marshall becomes Supreme Court justice of the United States. He influences the United States judiciary
body through his decisions for years to follow.
2. The Judiciary Act increases the number of circuit courts.
3. Republicans take over House and Senate.
1802:
1. The Haitian Revolution occurs, resulting in an independent black nation.
2. Congress repeals the Judiciary Act.
3. Democrat-Republicans undermine the Alien and Sedition Acts.
1803:
1. Marbury v. Madison is deciding, establishing the process of judicial review. This shaped the structure of the judiciary system.
2. The House of Representatives impeaches District Judge John Pickering for being a Federalist.
3. Thomas Jefferson buys the Louisiana Territory from the French in the Louisiana Purchase.
1804:
1. The Louisiana Purchase is finalized, doubling the size of the United States.
2. Thomas Jefferson wins reelection.
3. Alexander Hamilton is killed by Aaron Burr in a duel.
1805:
1. Lewis and Clark finish their expedition of the new territory.
2. Zebulon Pike begins to explore the West.
3. The United States naval war with Tripoli ends.
1806:
1. Construction begins on the National Road.
2. The Non-Importation Act provided that Americans could not trade with anyone.
3. Pike's Expedition continues.
1807:
1. The steamboat begins to run commercially.
2. The Embargo Act bans American vessels from landing in foreign ports.
3. The HMS Leopard attacks the USS Chesapeake to search for deserters.
1808:
1. The importation of slaves is banned in the United States
2. James Madison wins the presidency.
3. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Baltimore is promoted to an archdiocese, with the founding of the dioceses of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Bardstown (now Louisville) by Pope Pius VII.
1809:
1. The Embargo Act of 1807 is repealed.
2. The Non-Intercourse Act allowed Americans to trade with all countries except France and Great Britain.
3. The Supreme Court rules federal government power is greater than that of any state.
1810:
1. Macon’s Bill No. 2 passed, lifting both embargoes on France and Britain and establishing a provision that if either nation's attacks on U.S. ships stopped, the U.S. would stop trading with the other.
2. Western Florida is annexed from Spain.
3. Fletcher v. Peck was the first case in which the Supreme Court deemed a law unconstitutional.
1811:
1. In the Battle of Tippecanoe, the forces of Native American leader Tecumseh are defeated.
2. James Madison embargoes trade with Great Britain.
3. A Louisiana slave revolt by Charles Deslondes occurs at German Coast.
1812:
1. The War of 1812 begins.
2. James Madison is reelected.
3. The U.S. passes its foreign aid bill, aimed to aid Venezuela earthquake victims.
1813:
1. Pride and Prejudice is published.
2. In the Battle of the Thames, Tecumseh is killed and his Native American coalition that sided with the British was effectively dissolved.
3. The Creek War begins.
1814:
1. The Treaty of Ghent ends War of 1812.
2. At the Hartford Convention, New England federalists who did not want continued war with Britain discuss secession and issue a statement..
3. The Battle of Horseshoe Bend decisively ends the Creek War.
1815:
1. The Battle of New Orleans is a massive American victory, despite the fact that the war had already ended several weeks prior.
2. The Library of Congress, which had been burned in the War of 1812, is reestablished with Jefferson's 6500 volumes.
3. The U.S. declares war on Algiers for taking US prisoners and demanding tribute.
1816:
1. The Second Bank of United States is chartered.
2. James Monroe elected president.
3. The American Colonization Society is founded to aid free blacks who wanted to live in Liberia.
1817:
1. Construction on the Erie Canal begins.
2. The New York Stock Exchange is established.
3. The second Bank of the United States opens.
1818:
1.The 49th Parallel set as border between U.S. and Canada.
2. General Andrew Jackson conquers St Marks Florida from Seminole Indians.
3. Illinois becomes 21st state USA (Admission day).
1819:
1. In McCulloch V. Maryland, the Supreme Court declares the Bank of the United States to be constitutional and further solidifies federal supremacy over the states.
2. The Adams-Onis Treaty with Spain formally gives Florida to the U.S. and sets the boundary line between its colonial territory and the American West.
3. The panic (which later becomes a depression) of 1819 begins, becoming the first major financial crisis faced by the U.S.
1820:
1. The Missouri Compromise is passed. It is aimed at keeping both the North and South satisfied while dealing with the issues of slavery in the territories and slave versus free representation in Congress.
2. The Land Act of 1820 made land in the West less expensive.
3. The notion of men and women living in separate social "spheres" becomes common.
1821:
1. Mexico gains its independence from Spain.
2. Gibbons v. Ogden: One of the first tests of the Constitution.
3. Stephen Austin leads a group of American settlers into Texas.
1822:
1. Denmark Vesey's planned slave revolt, which would have been the largest in history, is thwarted.
2. The U.S. government gives diplomatic recognition to several Latin American Republics.
3. Congress combines East & West Florida into Florida Territory.
1823:
1. The Monroe Doctrine is issued, warning European powers against interfering in the Americas.
2. The city of Lowell, Massachusetts is founded by Francis Cabot Lowell as a production center for textiles.
3. President Monroe appoints the first U.S. ambassadors to South America.
1824:
1. The election of 1824 ends in a result that had no clear majority, leaving the decision to the House.
2. In Sturges v. Crowninshield, the Supreme Court allowed Congress to establish bankruptcy laws.
3. Construction of canals in the Northeast begins.
1825:
1. The Utopian community New Harmony, Indiana, is founded. It has the country's first kindergarten, free public school and free public library in America.
2. John Quincy Adams is chosen by the House to become president.
3. Creek Indian treaty is signed. The tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in Georgia to the government and move west by September, 1826.
1826:
1. A flu epidemic hits parts of the US.
2. The American Temperance Society is founded.
3. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both die.
(they did not die from the flu epidemic, I apologize for the mix-up(if there was one))
1827:
1. The Maryland Democratic Party, the precursor of the Democratic Party, is formed.
2. The Cherokee adopt a written constitution.
3. The Freedom Journal, the first African-American paper, begins publishing.
1828:
1. The Tariff of Abominations was passed, further ostracizing and angering the South and the North.
2. John Calhoun publishes the South Carolina Exposition and Protest against the Tariff of Abominations, re-establishing the doctrine of nullification.
3. Jackson defeats Adams for presidency.
1829:
1. Joseph Smith forms The Church of the Latter Day Saints. They are also known as the Mormons.
2. Andrew Jackson is inaugurated as 7th president
3. Walker's Appeal, a radical antislavery pamphlet, published in Boston
1830:
1. The Indian Removal Act is passed, allowing the government to forcibly remove thousands of natives from their homes.
2. The Southern justification of slavery changes from a "necessary evil" to a "positive good."
3. The Webster-Hayne debate and Jackson-Calhoun toast show the divide within the government over the tariff and nullification.
1831:
1. Nat Turner's slave revolt occurs. It is suppressed, but it scares the Southern planter elite.
2. Charles Finney begins his religious revivals, which were an important part of the Second Great Awakening.
3. William Lloyd Garrison begins publishing his antislavery newspaper, The Liberator.
1832:
1. The Worcester V. Georgia decision states that the federal government has authority in dealing with Indian nations, not the states, a continuation of John Marshall's federal over state concept.
2. President Jackson vetoes the U.S. Bank charter
3. President Jackson is re-elected.
1833:
1. The Force Bill allowed sweeping measures to enforce the tariff that was the subject of the South Carolina nullification crisis.
2. Philadelphia establishes a small police force.
3. John Calhoun resigns as Vice President because of his split with Jackson over the nullification crisis.
1834:
1. The land that is now Oklahoma is set aside by the American government to be Indian Territory.
2. Race riots occur in Philadelphia.
3. The Whig Party is established.
1835:
1. There is an assassination attempt on Andrew Jackson. It is the first in American history.
2. The United States national debt is 0 for the first and only time.
3. The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States.
1836:
1.Texas declares independence.
2. The gag rule is established on the issue of slavery in Congress.
3. Jackson orders the Specie Circular, mandating that all payment for federal land be in hard coinage.
1837:
1. An economic Panic and Depression begin as an aftershock of Jackson's Presidency.
2. The Cherokee tribe begins to follow the Trail of Tears, escorted by the army.
3. Sarah Grimke writes "Letters on the Condition of Women and the Equality of the Sexes".
1838:
1. The Cherokee continue to be forcibly relocated on the Trail of Tears.
2. Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
3. Iowa Territory forms.
1839:
1. The first state law permitting woman to own property is passed in Jackson, Mississippi.
2. A great fire occurs in NY.
3. The first anti-slavery political party in the U.S., the Liberty Party, convenes in NY.
1840:
1. The Washingtonian Temperance Society is Founded.
2. William Henry Harrison is elected president.
3. The Liberty Party participates in its first elections and has few gains.
1841:
1. William Henry Harrison is the first President to die in office, from pneumonia.
2. Transcendentalists found Hopedale and Brook Farm.
3. The U.S. Supreme Court rules that negroes are free in the case concerning the Amistad Incident.
1842:
1. The U.S. - Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains is established in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty.
2. The first U.S. wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Pennsylvania.
3. The first U.S. child labor law, which regulated working hours passed in Massachusetts.
1843:
1. The first Oregon Trail wagons set out.
2. Dorothea Dix publishes her report on treatment of the mentally insane.
3. Congress appropriates $30,000 "to test the practicability of establishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs" by the US
1844:
1.The first electrical telegram sent from Washington D.C to Baltimore, Maryland.
2. Anti-Catholic riots cause violence in Philidelphia.
3. The economy returns to normal at the end of financial panic and depression.
1845:
1. The term "Manifest Destiny" is first used in a publication claiming that westward expansion was divinely ordained.
2. Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass published.
3. President Tyler signs a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas
1846: Mexican War begins.
Mormon migration to the Great Basin begins.1847: Mormon Migration to Utah begins, led by Brigham Young.
US annex’s California.
Frist issue of Fredrick Douglass's North Star published.1848: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo- gains land for US.
Jefferson Davis is elected to the US senate, his first political post.
James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma, Calif1849: Gold Rush in California.
1st US women's rights convention (Seneca Falls NY)
Territory of Minnesota organizes1850: Compromise of 1850- (Claims California as a free state, establishes popular sovereignty, Fugitive Slave Law
Zachary Taylor sworn in as 12th president.
strengthened.)1851: Fort Laramie Treaty
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" published
Great fire in San Francisco.
Women's rights convention in Akron Ohio
Gwin Land law causes confusion over land ownership in California.
1852: Commodore Matthew Perry opens Japan to US trade.
Brigham Young publicly unveils the Mormon doctrine of polygamy after the church secretly practiced it for a decade.
Franklin Pierce elected president.
1853: Gadsen Purchase- land bought from Mexico to increase land so Railroads could be expanded.
Washington territory is separated from Oregon territory.
First electric telegraph is sent.
1854: Kansas- Nebraska Act= Slavery in states determined by popular sovereignty.
Know-Nothing Party Founded
Republican Party Founded
1855: Walt Whitman publishes Leaves of Grass.
Massachusetts outlaws segregated public education, the first state in the country to do so.
Congress authorizes $30,000 for testing of camels in the military, results in the short-lived U.S. Camel Corps.
1856: The beating of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks at United States Senate.
"Bleeding Kansas" violence erupts as abolitionist and pro-slavery settlers clash.
James Buchanan Elected President
1857: Dred Scott vs. Sanford
The pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution is passed in Kansas.
U.S. occupies Sand, Baker, Howland and Jarvis Is south of Hawaii
1858: Lincoln-Douglas Debates on extension of slavery into new territories.
1st commercial treaty between U.S. and Japan signed.
New York Symphony Orchestra performs for the first time.
1859: John Brown raids the Harpers Ferry Armory in Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in an unsuccessful bid to spark a general slave
rebellion.
Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to choose exile or slavery
Oregon admitted as 33rd state
1860:Abraham Lincoln is elected as the 16th president of the United States.
U.S. Secret Service created
Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens
1861: Confederate States of America form when Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida
secede.
The standoff at and shelling of Fort Sumter mark the beginning of the Civil War.
Following the Fort Sumter incident, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia secede.
The first U.S. income tax is passed to pay for the war effort.
1862:Battle of Antietam is fought. it was the bloodiest day in American history.
The CSA starts the first military draft in U.S. history.
Homestead Act passed, setting the stage for a massive movement west after the war..
1863: The Emancipation Proclamation is issued.
The Battle of Gettysburg becomes a major turning point in favor of the Union.
Riots occur in New York in response to the Union's new draft laws.
1864:General Sherman's "March to the Sea" (Also, the first fish and chip shop opened in London)
Lincoln re-elected to his second term.
Ulysses S. Grant appointed head of U.S. forces.
1865:The Civil War ends.
Lincoln is assasinated.
The Thirteenth Amendment is ratified, banning slavery.
1866: Tennessee becomes the first state to re-enter the Union
Ku Klux Klan forms.
Civil Rights Bill passes over President Andrew Johnson's veto
1867:Alaska is purchased, and the US takes control of Midway island.
The Grange movement begins.
The Reconstruction Acts establish several procedures for the organization of former Confederate states.
1868:14th amendment is ratified, granting citizenship to African Americans for the first time.
Andrew Johnson's impeachment trials occur.
Ulysses S. Grant elected president.
1869:Trans-Continental Railroad completed.
Knights of Labor founded.
University of South Carolina opens to all races
1870:15th amendment ratified, giving African Americans the right to vote
John D Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
1st motion picture show to a theater audience(Philadelphia)
1871:University Test Act removes religious tests from several universities.
Ku Klux Klan Act passed, banning secret groups that denied others their rights.
Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4miles (10 km) of Chicago buildings, and original Emancipation Proclamation
1872:Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is arrested.
Ulysses S. Grant is re-elected.
Victoria Woodhull is the first women nominated for election as President of the U.S. (Disputed)
1873:US Congress enacts Comstock Law
A depression that will last until 1879 begins.
The corruption in national politics shows in the Credit Moblier Scandal.
1874:US gains exclusive trading rights with Hawaii
Supreme Court declares parts of the Force Acts unconstitutional.
1st U.S. zoo opens in Philadelphia
1875: Indian Inspector E.C. Watkins issues a report stating that hundreds of Sioux and Cheyenne associated with Sitting Bull and
Crazy Horse are hostile to the United States
The end of the use of greenbacks because of the Specie Resumption Act.
The discovery of gold in a Sioux reservation prompts a war between U.S. forces and the tribe.
1876:Battle of Little Bighorn is fought
Telephone invented.
Democratic party re-establishes control in the last former Confederate states which were controlled by the Republicans.
1877:Compromise of 1877 allows Hayes to be elected President
Reconstruction ends.
Rail workers strike all across the country, and are violently put down.
1878:Black Bart makes his last clean getaway. Any help on this one? Done.
Yellow Fever in Mississippi Valley.
Bland-Allison Act passed, basing some dollars off of silver instead of gold.
1879:Thomas Edison tests the first practical lightbulb.
The Knights of Labor becomes a public organization.
Progress and Poverty by Henry George drew attention to the divide between the rich and poor.
1880- Republican presidential candidate James Abram Garfield defeats Democratic candidate Winfield Scott Hancock with the
smallest popular vote in American history (about 2000 votes).
Construction on Panama Canal begins
1st commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Michigan
-DOW starts the year below 13,000 after months of growth followed by a drop.smallest popular vote in American history (about 2000 votes).
Construction on Panama Canal begins
1st commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Michigan
1881- Tuskegee University founded with Dr. Booker T. Washington as president. Tuskegee University is the first major black
college in the south.
American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton
American Federation of Labor(AFL) founded.
college in the south.
American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton
American Federation of Labor(AFL) founded.
1882- Chinese Exclusion Act is passed. Law passed by congress allowing the US to deny Chinese immigrants. The law was
passed in an attempt to prevent Chinese immigrants from assimilating into the American way of life.
Federal government restricts several other groups of immigrants under the Federal Immigration Law.
Edmunds Act adopted by U.S. to suppress polygamy in the territories
Massive buffalo slaughter in the Midwest severely hurts Plains Indian morale.
The Supreme Court Insular Cases result in the notion that Constitutional rights do not follow the U.S. flag (extend to its
territories).
Roosevelt delivers a speech to Congress suggesting that the powers of trusts ought to be limited.
1902-Electric Theatre, the first movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.
The Platt Amendment is passed, effectively reversing the Teller Amendment and establishing indirect control of Cuba.
Roosevelt negotiates the end of a coal strike by the United Mine Workers.
1903-The Wright Brothers' first successful flight.
Construction begins on the Panama Canal.
The Elkins Act increases the power of the ICC.
1904-For $10 million, the United States gained control of the Panama Canal Zone.
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine is written.
Theodore Roosevelt is re-elected to the presidency.
1905-Einsteins Theory of Relativity was published.
The IWW is established.
Oklahoma admitted to statehood
1906-U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize negotiating peace in the Russo-Japanese War (1905).
1908-The Model T Ford created.
1909-The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded, celebrating the 100th anniversary of
Abraham Lincoln's birth.
1910-Boy Scouts of America founded.
1911-The United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act
and orders the company to be dissolved.
1912 The United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act
and orders the company to be dissolved.
A meteorite explodes over the town of Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona causing thousands of pieces of debris to rain
down on the town.
passed in an attempt to prevent Chinese immigrants from assimilating into the American way of life.
Federal government restricts several other groups of immigrants under the Federal Immigration Law.
Edmunds Act adopted by U.S. to suppress polygamy in the territories
1883- Civil Rights Cases are decided by the US Supreme Court under Morrison Waite. The court decided that the Civil Rights Act
of 1875 was unconstitutional.
The Timezones that we know today were implemented. of 1875 was unconstitutional.
Massive buffalo slaughter in the Midwest severely hurts Plains Indian morale.
1884- Democrat Grover Cleveland defeats Republican James Blaine, becoming the first Democratic president since Johnson.
Southern Farmer's Alliance forms.
Statue of Liberty presented to U.S. in Paris
Southern Farmer's Alliance forms.
Statue of Liberty presented to U.S. in Paris
1885- Jumbo the elephant of the PT Barnum circus was killed in train wreck.
The Home Insurance Building was built in Chicago, becoming the first skyscraper.
Salvation Army is organized.
Salvation Army is organized.
1886- Haymarket Riot takes place in Haymarket Square in Chicago after bomb is thrown. The riot was the effect of police brutality and the murders of strikers. Prior to the riot taking place after unions decided to strike on May 1 for the eight hour workday and anarchists began meeting at Haymarket.
- Coca Cola is introduced for the first time.
-American Federation of Labor is formed when Samuel Gompers unites 26 craft unions.
1887- The first Groundhogs day is held in Pennsylvania. Believe it or not that is the most important event to happen in 1887.
but what about...
Dawes Severalty Act passed, carving up Indian reservations and giving small portions of them to individual Native
Americans.
The Interstate Commerce Commission is established to regulate railroad companies.
1888- US presidential election of 1888 also known as the election of the beards*. Republican Benjamin Harrison defeated
Democrat incumbent Grover Cleveland.
but what about...
Dawes Severalty Act passed, carving up Indian reservations and giving small portions of them to individual Native
Americans.
The Interstate Commerce Commission is established to regulate railroad companies.
1888- US presidential election of 1888 also known as the election of the beards*. Republican Benjamin Harrison defeated
Democrat incumbent Grover Cleveland.
Great Blizzard of 88 hits the east coast causing millions of dollars in damage and killing hundreds.
Colored Farmer's Alliance founded.
1889- North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington are admitted as states by president Grover Cleveland.
Andrew Carnegie publishes "The Gospel of Wealth," his justification for the massive fortunes held by captains of
industry/robber-barons during the Gilded Age.
Jane Addams creates Hull House, a milestone in the settlement house movement.
Colored Farmer's Alliance founded.
1889- North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington are admitted as states by president Grover Cleveland.
Andrew Carnegie publishes "The Gospel of Wealth," his justification for the massive fortunes held by captains of
industry/robber-barons during the Gilded Age.
Jane Addams creates Hull House, a milestone in the settlement house movement.
1890- The greatest invention mankind has ever seen (corrugated cardboard) makes its debut.
Alfred Mahan publishes his plea for the U.S. to increase its naval power.
Alfred Mahan publishes his plea for the U.S. to increase its naval power.
-Wounded Knee Massacre takes place at the Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota when the US 7th cavalry attempt to
escort the Lakota to the railroad. At days end hundreds of Lakota men, women, and children lay dead after being shot
by US soldiers. Many US soldiers are awarded Medal of Honors for their 'bravery'.
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act is past, marking the first antitrust legislation in U.S. history.
escort the Lakota to the railroad. At days end hundreds of Lakota men, women, and children lay dead after being shot
by US soldiers. Many US soldiers are awarded Medal of Honors for their 'bravery'.
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act is past, marking the first antitrust legislation in U.S. history.
1891- Basketball was invented by Dr. James A. Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts.
-This year eventually went down in history as the most boring year American history has ever seen. Now, now, Zach.
You're forgetting 1880. Then again, that's pretty easy to do.
One of the first pieces of conservation legislation, the Forest Reserve Act, is passed.
Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio)
1892- Homestead Strike. After workers were locked out of the Carnegie Steel Company in Pittsburgh in an attempt to break the
union one of the greatest strikes/protests takes place. In order to suppress the strikers Pinkerton guards were called
in and become involved in a battle.
The People's (Populist) Party forms as an offshoot from the farmers' movement.
Grover Cleveland re-elected to presidency.
You're forgetting 1880. Then again, that's pretty easy to do.
One of the first pieces of conservation legislation, the Forest Reserve Act, is passed.
Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio)
1892- Homestead Strike. After workers were locked out of the Carnegie Steel Company in Pittsburgh in an attempt to break the
union one of the greatest strikes/protests takes place. In order to suppress the strikers Pinkerton guards were called
in and become involved in a battle.
The People's (Populist) Party forms as an offshoot from the farmers' movement.
Grover Cleveland re-elected to presidency.
1893- The Panic of 1893 began after the stock market crashes. The ensuing depression was caused by poor railroad financing,
bank failures, and the use of gold and silver to back the US dollar.
bank failures, and the use of gold and silver to back the US dollar.
US Supreme Court declares the tomato to be a vegetable, legally in one of the most important cases, Nix v. Hedden.
Frederick Jackson Turner presents his thesis that the Western frontier is now gone, and that American history was at a
turning point.
Frederick Jackson Turner presents his thesis that the Western frontier is now gone, and that American history was at a
turning point.
1894- Coxey's Army deploys for Washington, protesting the governments inaction during the country's worst depression to date.
The Pullman Strike begins when over three thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on strike.
Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks
Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks
1895- The US Supreme Court hands down the In re Debs decision, the decision gives the government the right to regulate
interstate commerce.
U.S. v. E.C. Knight, a supreme court case that diminished government power over monopolies.
Cubans revolt against the Spanish government, which is covered by sensationalist journalists and later contributes to the
Spanish-American War.
interstate commerce.
U.S. v. E.C. Knight, a supreme court case that diminished government power over monopolies.
Cubans revolt against the Spanish government, which is covered by sensationalist journalists and later contributes to the
Spanish-American War.
1896- Plessy v. Ferguson decision establishes the basis separate but equal, which would stand until its repeal 58 years later in
Brown v. Board of Education.
The Populist and Democratic parties merge under William Jennings Bryan.
William McKinley is elected president in a hotly contested election.
Brown v. Board of Education.
The Populist and Democratic parties merge under William Jennings Bryan.
William McKinley is elected president in a hotly contested election.
1897- The first underground metro opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
The Klondike Gold Rush begins in Seattle, Washington after
prospectors find gold.
The depression that began in 1893 ends.
The Klondike Gold Rush begins in Seattle, Washington after
prospectors find gold.
The depression that began in 1893 ends.
1898- The USS Maine explodes in near Havana, this event leads the US into...
The Spanish-American War is fought, resulting in the acquisition of Puerto Rico, Guam, and The Philippines.
The Spanish-American War is fought, resulting in the acquisition of Puerto Rico, Guam, and The Philippines.
Teller Amendment is passed, promising self-government for Cuba.
1899- The Philippine-American War begins after Emilio Aguinaldo declares war on the US for its refusal to recognize the Filipino
Revolution.
The U.S. begins to use its "Open Door" policy in its relations with China.
A peace treaty between the U.S. and Spain is ratified.
Revolution.
The U.S. begins to use its "Open Door" policy in its relations with China.
A peace treaty between the U.S. and Spain is ratified.
1900- The Gold Standard Act is passed, this act places the dollar on the gold standard.
-William McKinley is re-elected with new vice president Theodore Roosevelt in the 1900 presidential election.
The Boxer Rebellion strains U.S.-Chinese relations.
1901-Theodore Roosevelt became President of the United States after the death of William McKinley. The Boxer Rebellion strains U.S.-Chinese relations.
The Supreme Court Insular Cases result in the notion that Constitutional rights do not follow the U.S. flag (extend to its
territories).
Roosevelt delivers a speech to Congress suggesting that the powers of trusts ought to be limited.
1902-Electric Theatre, the first movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.
The Platt Amendment is passed, effectively reversing the Teller Amendment and establishing indirect control of Cuba.
Roosevelt negotiates the end of a coal strike by the United Mine Workers.
1903-The Wright Brothers' first successful flight.
Construction begins on the Panama Canal.
The Elkins Act increases the power of the ICC.
1904-For $10 million, the United States gained control of the Panama Canal Zone.
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine is written.
Theodore Roosevelt is re-elected to the presidency.
1905-Einsteins Theory of Relativity was published.
The IWW is established.
Oklahoma admitted to statehood
1906-U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize negotiating peace in the Russo-Japanese War (1905).
The Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Acts help regulate safety in food and medicine production.1907-Panic of 1907.
The ICC is strengthened by the Hepburn Act, allowing it to fix rates.
Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory become Oklahoma, which is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
A major American financial crisis is averted when J. P. Morgan, E. H. Harriman, James Stillman, Henry Clay Frick, and other Wall Street financiers create a $25,000,000 pool to invest in the shares on the plunging New York Stock Exchange, ending the bank panic of 1907.
The U.S. forms a "Gentleman's Agreement" with Japan.
1908-The Model T Ford created.
Japanese immigration to the U.S.A. is forbidden.
Henry Ford produces his first Model T automobile.
Muller V. Oregon upholds state laws regulated women's work hours. William Taft elected president.
1909-The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded, celebrating the 100th anniversary of
Abraham Lincoln's birth.
William Howard Taft succeeds Theodore Roosevelt as the 27th President of the United States.
The United States Army Signal Corp Division purchases the world's first military airplane. They buy the Wright Military Flyer from the Wright Brothers.
The "Great White Fleet" sails around in the world in a show of U.S. naval power.
1910-Boy Scouts of America founded.
In the United States, Republicans reduce the powers of the Speaker of the House of Representatives to influence committee membership.
A bomb explodes at the Los Angeles Times building, leaving 21 dead and several injured. James B. McNamara and Joseph J. McNamara are later arrested and sentenced.
W.E.B. Du Bois becomes editor of the joint Niagra Movement- NAACP journal. Mann-Elkins Act expands the ICC's power further, to encompass communications companies (telegraph, etc.)
1911-The United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act
and orders the company to be dissolved.
Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro
tempore of the United States Senate.
The Principles of Scientific Management by Frederick Taylor is published, changing the way Americans worked, especially
in factories.
1912 The United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act
and orders the company to be dissolved.
A meteorite explodes over the town of Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona causing thousands of pieces of debris to rain
down on the town.
-Breakaway U.S. Republicans form the Progressive or Bull Moose Party, and nominate former President Theodore Roosevelt as their presidential candidate.
-The first minimum wage law is enacted in Massachusetts.
-Woodrow Wilson beats Taft, Roosevelt, and Debs and becomes president. Election of 1912 makes history when a third party candidate (Roosevelt) gets more votes than one of the major parties (Taft).
1913-The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect
income taxes.
-Woodrow Wilson beats Taft, Roosevelt, and Debs and becomes president. Election of 1912 makes history when a third party candidate (Roosevelt) gets more votes than one of the major parties (Taft).
1913-The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect
income taxes.
-The Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution is passed, dictating the direct election of senators.
-The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line, reducing chassis assembly time from 12½ hours in October to 2 hours, 40 minutes (although Ford is not the first to use an assembly line, his successful adoption of one sparks an era of mass production).
-The Federal Reserve is Established.
-Wilson helps pass the Underwood Tariff, greatly reducing rates on numerous goods.
1914-Beginning of WWI.
-New York Stock Exchange closed due to war in Europe, where nearly all stock exchanges were already closed.
-U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act (initially introduced by Francis Burton Harrison).
-Striking mine workers and some of their family members are massacred in Ludlow, Colorado.
-The Panama Canal is opened.
1915-The Birth of a Nation, directed by D.W. Griffith, premieres in Los Angeles, California.
-The United States occupation of Haiti begins.
-The Lusitania is sunk, prompting outrage in the U.S.
1916-United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola.( Case inspired by Pure food and Drug act of 1906, over issue of cocaine in product.)
-Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad: The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the national income tax.
-In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade, killing 10 injuring 40 (Warren Billings and Tom Mooney are later wrongly convicted of it).
-American forces under General "Black Jack" Pershing fight Pancho Villa's men in Mexico.
-Woodrow Wilson is re-elected.
1917-US enters WWI.
-United States ambassador to the United Kingdom, Walter H. Page, is shown the Zimmermann Telegram a document the British suggested was a German offer to give the American Southwest back to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.
-The United States Senate adopts the cloture rule in order to limit filibusters.
-The Creel Committee is Established.
-The Sedition Act is passed, banning speech critical of the government.
-Wilson outlines his foreign policy objectives in his Fourteen Points.
1919-Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, dies in his sleep at the age of 60.
-The Versailles Conference opens with the aim of negotiating a treaty to end WWI.
-The first Red Scare begins.
-The Eighteenth Amendment is passed, banning alcohol in the U.S.
1920-United States women given the right to vote.
A pair of Italian anarchists are arrested for reasons including their ethnicity and political affiliation.
Warren Harding elected president.
1921-The United States formally ends World War I, declaring a peace with Germany.
An economic depression begins, brought on by the end of the war.
Congress passes the first of several immigration acts that heavily restrict the number of people who could enter from
Europe.
1922: The United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming.
Fordney-McCumber Tariff begins to build trade protectionism in the U.S. tariff system.
1923: Calvin Coolidge becomes president after the death of Warren G. Harding.
The Walt Disney Company is formed. ...................................................................
1924:Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 into law, granting citizenship to all Native
Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
The immigration quota system is officially established.
Coolidge is re-elected.
1925: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
Ku Klux Klan power reaches its peak, and would later decline due to internal problems.
F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.
1926: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
Ernest Hemingway writes The Sun Also Rises.
Walt Disney Studios forms
1927: Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo non-stop trans-Atlantic flight, from New York to Paris.
Marcus Garvey, leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, is deported.
U.S. government doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty
1928: The Kellogg-Briand Pact is signed in Paris (the first treaty to outlaw aggressive war).
Herbert Hoover elected to the presidency.
Alfred Hitchcock's 1st film, "Case Of Jonathan Drew," is released
1929: Wall Street Crash of 1929: Three multi-digit percentage drops wipe out more than $30 billion from the New York Stock
Exchange (10 times greater than the annual budget of the federal government).
Hoover sponsors a tax cut to try to prevent economic collapse.
.Dow Jones hits a record peak of 381.17 (obviously before it crashes)
1930: Great Depression: U.S. President Herbert Hoover goes before Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
1931: The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the United States National anthem
1932: The first of approximately 15,000 World War I veterans arrive in Washington, D.C. demanding the immediate payment of their military bonus, becoming known as the Bonus Army.
1933: The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution goes into effect.
1934: Black Sunday: Twenty of the worst dust storms within the Dust Bowl occur.
1935: United States President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act into law.
1936: U.S. presidential election, 1936: Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected to a second term in a landslide victory over Alf Landon. Farmers support Roosevelt.
1937: Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first feature-length animated cartoon with sound, opens and becomes a smash hit.
1938: Winston Churchill, in a broadcast address to the United States, condemns the Munich Agreement as a defeat and calls upon America and western Europe to prepare for armed resistance against Hitler.
1939: Albert Einstein writes President Franklin Roosevelt about developing the atomic bomb using uranium. This leads to the creation of the Manhattan Project.
1940: The first McDonald's restaurant was opened by brothers Dick and Mac McDonald in San Bernardino, California.
1941: The Japanese Navy launches a surprise attack on the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor, thus drawing the United States into World War II
1942: WWII: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs an executive order directing the internment of Japanese Americans and the seizure of their property.
1943- Tehran Conference. The U.S., Britain, and the Soviet Union agree on the plans for Operation Overlord (AKA D-Day). Also, there was a tentative agreement on the formation of the U.N.
1944- Operation Overlord goes into effect on D-Day. Marked the beginning of a massive campaign in France.
1945- Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Caused Japan to surrender, brought the U.S. into a new era.
1946- Atomic Energy Act. More or less paved the way for America's nuclear program from then on.
1947- Taft-Hartley Act. It gave American unions several painful setbacks, including outlawing closed shops.
1948- The U.S. supports the founding of Israel. War breaks out soon afterward in the Middle East, and the U.S. support of Israel, combined with its need for oil, would shape Middle East policy for decades.
1949- The U.S. is a founding member of NATO. It showed the establishment of a Western coalition against the Communists in the East.
1950- Joseph McCarthy's Wheeling, WV Speech. The speech became the first claim he made against supposed Communists in the government and the beginning in earnest of his efforts.
1951- The Invention of the Oral Contraceptive. Helped shape American attitudes towards sex for generations to come, and played a major part in the following decade's Sexual Revolution.
1952- The Successful Testing of the Hydrogen Bomb. It showed that nuclear weapons could be far more devastating than just the early models used on Japan, and would make the threat of nuclear exchange far more dire by increasing the potential damage.
1953- Eisenhower approves NSC 168/2. The document stated that nuclear weapons were to be maintained and the stockpile was to be expanded to deal with the Communist threat.
1954- Brown v. Board of Education. Gave government support to the campaign against school segregation, and helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement.
1955- The AFL and CIO merge. This consolidated the largest labor unions in the U.S. into one group, strengthening the movement.
1956- The Interstate Highway Act is passed. This act revolutionized the U.S. highway system, speeding both transport and commerce, as well as contributing to the car culture of the 1950s.
1957- Eisenhower authorizes the use of National Guard troops to integrate Little Rock schools. This set a precedent for the government in integration, as well as provided a defeat for Southern segregationists.
1958- NASA Forms. This showed U.S. committment to the space race, which it was sorely behind in, as an attempt to fight the Soviets through scientific progress rather than military or economic force.
1959- The Cuban Revolution ends. With a Communist government in power, many American officials became nervous of what the Soviets could do with the help of sympathetic Cuban officials.
1960- Students For a Democratic Society forms. This activist group became the first of many politically oriented student groups to form during the turbulent 1960s, and would be a powerful voice for liberal social change.
1961- The Bay of Pigs Invasion. Intensified Cuban-American and Soviet-American relations after it was revealed the CIA was behind it.
1962- The Cuban Missile Crisis. (sorry to go Cuba-heavy, but it WAS important) It was the closest the U.S. and the Soviets ever got to a nuclear exchange. Resulted in the end of the threat of nuclear launch from Cuba.
1963- Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Greatly limited the conditions in which both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. could test nuclear weapons, literally sending them underground.
1964 - Gulf of Tonkin Incident/Resolution
1965 - Voting Rights Act
1966 - "Miranda rights" created
1967 - 25th Amendment passed
1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
1969 - Neil Armstrong lands on the moon
1970 - U.S & South Vietnam invade Cambodia
1971 - Pentagon Papers published
1972 - Watergate scandal
1973 - First U.S space station launched
1974 - Richard Nixon resigns
1975 - Vietnam ends
1976 - U.S. completes withdrawal of Air Forces bases from Thailand
1977 - Department of Energy formed
1978 - Personal Computer
1979 - American hostages held in Iran - (Iraqi Revolution)
1980 - United States severs diplomatic relations with Iran
1981 - Economic Recovery Tax Act
1982 - United States - Libya Oil Embargo
1983 - "Star Wars" plan
1984 - President Ronald Reagan re-elected
1985 - Reagan and Gorbachev meet in Geneva
1986 - Iran-Contra affair
1987- Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, major point in U.S. Soviet relations.
Aretha Franklin 1st female inducted nto rock and roll hall of fame
Strict no-smoking policies in federal buildings
1988-Reagan re-elected, continuing conservatism policies
Harvard makes genetically engineered mouse
Supreme Court rules make it illegal for clubs to discrminate against women
1989- Berlin Wall falls, end of Soviets and their influence on policy which was the basis of American foreign policy for the last thirty years
Soviets promise to rid of chemical stockpile
Soviets also announce a manned mission to Mars program in two years
1990-Hubble Space Telescope is launched, next major astronomical step
Exxon corp is indicated in criminal court
Gorbachev made president of the "Soviet Congress"
1991- Gulf War starts, creating a divode between America and the Middle East
Joni Mitchell inducted in Canadian Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Bush (sr.) falls ill and is hospitalized
1992- Race Riots in L.A, after the not guilty verdict of King's beatings.
Bush addresses Australian Parliament (first pres. to do so)
Jeffrey Dahmer pleads guily with insanity defense
1993-NAFTA makes absolute free trade between the U.S Canada, and Mexico, creating good markets there
Cigarette advertisements banned in NYC Transportation Authority
General Colin Powell retires
1994-Proposition 187 in California, hampering illegal aliens rights
Lion King is released
O.J Simpson charged with murder
1995- Balkan Crisis, troops sent to keep peace in the area
Selena was murdered
Blind boy recieves bionic eye
1996-Bill Clinton re-elected, keeping liberal agenda in America
Bob Dole resigns from Senate to run for presidency
Howard Stern's radio show gets played nationally
1997-Major tobacco settlement, the gov't defeating the tobacco industry
Toni Blair is made U.K's prime minister
Betty Shabazz (malcolm X's widow) is set aflame by her 12-year old grandson
1998-Clinton impeached by the House of Representatives, due to them not liking his policies
Bill Gates gets pie thrown in his face
Supreme Court says attorney-client priveledge is extended to the grave
1999-Senate didnt impeach Clinton, sided with him
Senate tries Clinton because he lied under oath in the lewinsky case
Columbine incident happens
2000- Bush wins presidency, major win by conservatives and republicans
Y2K is a joke, nothing happens
USS Cole is bombed, killing 17 sailors
2001- World Trade Centers are destroyed, starts "War on Terror"
American Airlines crashes, killing 252
1918-WWI fighting ends.
-The Sedition Act is passed, banning speech critical of the government.
-Wilson outlines his foreign policy objectives in his Fourteen Points.
1919-Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, dies in his sleep at the age of 60.
-The Versailles Conference opens with the aim of negotiating a treaty to end WWI.
-The first Red Scare begins.
-The Eighteenth Amendment is passed, banning alcohol in the U.S.
1920-United States women given the right to vote.
A pair of Italian anarchists are arrested for reasons including their ethnicity and political affiliation.
Warren Harding elected president.
1921-The United States formally ends World War I, declaring a peace with Germany.
An economic depression begins, brought on by the end of the war.
Congress passes the first of several immigration acts that heavily restrict the number of people who could enter from
Europe.
1922: The United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming.
Fordney-McCumber Tariff begins to build trade protectionism in the U.S. tariff system.
1923: Calvin Coolidge becomes president after the death of Warren G. Harding.
The Walt Disney Company is formed. ...................................................................
1924:Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 into law, granting citizenship to all Native
Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
The immigration quota system is officially established.
Coolidge is re-elected.
1925: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
Ku Klux Klan power reaches its peak, and would later decline due to internal problems.
F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.
1926: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
Ernest Hemingway writes The Sun Also Rises.
Walt Disney Studios forms
1927: Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo non-stop trans-Atlantic flight, from New York to Paris.
Marcus Garvey, leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, is deported.
U.S. government doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty
1928: The Kellogg-Briand Pact is signed in Paris (the first treaty to outlaw aggressive war).
Herbert Hoover elected to the presidency.
Alfred Hitchcock's 1st film, "Case Of Jonathan Drew," is released
1929: Wall Street Crash of 1929: Three multi-digit percentage drops wipe out more than $30 billion from the New York Stock
Exchange (10 times greater than the annual budget of the federal government).
Hoover sponsors a tax cut to try to prevent economic collapse.
.Dow Jones hits a record peak of 381.17 (obviously before it crashes)
1930: Great Depression: U.S. President Herbert Hoover goes before Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
1931: The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the United States National anthem
1932: The first of approximately 15,000 World War I veterans arrive in Washington, D.C. demanding the immediate payment of their military bonus, becoming known as the Bonus Army.
1933: The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution goes into effect.
1934: Black Sunday: Twenty of the worst dust storms within the Dust Bowl occur.
1935: United States President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act into law.
1936: U.S. presidential election, 1936: Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected to a second term in a landslide victory over Alf Landon. Farmers support Roosevelt.
1937: Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first feature-length animated cartoon with sound, opens and becomes a smash hit.
1938: Winston Churchill, in a broadcast address to the United States, condemns the Munich Agreement as a defeat and calls upon America and western Europe to prepare for armed resistance against Hitler.
1939: Albert Einstein writes President Franklin Roosevelt about developing the atomic bomb using uranium. This leads to the creation of the Manhattan Project.
1940: The first McDonald's restaurant was opened by brothers Dick and Mac McDonald in San Bernardino, California.
1941: The Japanese Navy launches a surprise attack on the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor, thus drawing the United States into World War II
1942: WWII: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs an executive order directing the internment of Japanese Americans and the seizure of their property.
1943- Tehran Conference. The U.S., Britain, and the Soviet Union agree on the plans for Operation Overlord (AKA D-Day). Also, there was a tentative agreement on the formation of the U.N.
1944- Operation Overlord goes into effect on D-Day. Marked the beginning of a massive campaign in France.
1945- Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Caused Japan to surrender, brought the U.S. into a new era.
1946- Atomic Energy Act. More or less paved the way for America's nuclear program from then on.
1947- Taft-Hartley Act. It gave American unions several painful setbacks, including outlawing closed shops.
1948- The U.S. supports the founding of Israel. War breaks out soon afterward in the Middle East, and the U.S. support of Israel, combined with its need for oil, would shape Middle East policy for decades.
1949- The U.S. is a founding member of NATO. It showed the establishment of a Western coalition against the Communists in the East.
1950- Joseph McCarthy's Wheeling, WV Speech. The speech became the first claim he made against supposed Communists in the government and the beginning in earnest of his efforts.
1951- The Invention of the Oral Contraceptive. Helped shape American attitudes towards sex for generations to come, and played a major part in the following decade's Sexual Revolution.
1952- The Successful Testing of the Hydrogen Bomb. It showed that nuclear weapons could be far more devastating than just the early models used on Japan, and would make the threat of nuclear exchange far more dire by increasing the potential damage.
1953- Eisenhower approves NSC 168/2. The document stated that nuclear weapons were to be maintained and the stockpile was to be expanded to deal with the Communist threat.
1954- Brown v. Board of Education. Gave government support to the campaign against school segregation, and helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement.
1955- The AFL and CIO merge. This consolidated the largest labor unions in the U.S. into one group, strengthening the movement.
1956- The Interstate Highway Act is passed. This act revolutionized the U.S. highway system, speeding both transport and commerce, as well as contributing to the car culture of the 1950s.
1957- Eisenhower authorizes the use of National Guard troops to integrate Little Rock schools. This set a precedent for the government in integration, as well as provided a defeat for Southern segregationists.
1958- NASA Forms. This showed U.S. committment to the space race, which it was sorely behind in, as an attempt to fight the Soviets through scientific progress rather than military or economic force.
1959- The Cuban Revolution ends. With a Communist government in power, many American officials became nervous of what the Soviets could do with the help of sympathetic Cuban officials.
1960- Students For a Democratic Society forms. This activist group became the first of many politically oriented student groups to form during the turbulent 1960s, and would be a powerful voice for liberal social change.
1961- The Bay of Pigs Invasion. Intensified Cuban-American and Soviet-American relations after it was revealed the CIA was behind it.
1962- The Cuban Missile Crisis. (sorry to go Cuba-heavy, but it WAS important) It was the closest the U.S. and the Soviets ever got to a nuclear exchange. Resulted in the end of the threat of nuclear launch from Cuba.
1963- Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Greatly limited the conditions in which both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. could test nuclear weapons, literally sending them underground.
1964 - Gulf of Tonkin Incident/Resolution
1965 - Voting Rights Act
1966 - "Miranda rights" created
1967 - 25th Amendment passed
1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
1969 - Neil Armstrong lands on the moon
1970 - U.S & South Vietnam invade Cambodia
1971 - Pentagon Papers published
1972 - Watergate scandal
1973 - First U.S space station launched
1974 - Richard Nixon resigns
1975 - Vietnam ends
1976 - U.S. completes withdrawal of Air Forces bases from Thailand
1977 - Department of Energy formed
1978 - Personal Computer
1979 - American hostages held in Iran - (Iraqi Revolution)
1980 - United States severs diplomatic relations with Iran
1981 - Economic Recovery Tax Act
1982 - United States - Libya Oil Embargo
1983 - "Star Wars" plan
1984 - President Ronald Reagan re-elected
1985 - Reagan and Gorbachev meet in Geneva
1986 - Iran-Contra affair
1987- Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, major point in U.S. Soviet relations.
Aretha Franklin 1st female inducted nto rock and roll hall of fame
Strict no-smoking policies in federal buildings
1988-Reagan re-elected, continuing conservatism policies
Harvard makes genetically engineered mouse
Supreme Court rules make it illegal for clubs to discrminate against women
1989- Berlin Wall falls, end of Soviets and their influence on policy which was the basis of American foreign policy for the last thirty years
Soviets promise to rid of chemical stockpile
Soviets also announce a manned mission to Mars program in two years
1990-Hubble Space Telescope is launched, next major astronomical step
Exxon corp is indicated in criminal court
Gorbachev made president of the "Soviet Congress"
1991- Gulf War starts, creating a divode between America and the Middle East
Joni Mitchell inducted in Canadian Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Bush (sr.) falls ill and is hospitalized
1992- Race Riots in L.A, after the not guilty verdict of King's beatings.
Bush addresses Australian Parliament (first pres. to do so)
Jeffrey Dahmer pleads guily with insanity defense
1993-NAFTA makes absolute free trade between the U.S Canada, and Mexico, creating good markets there
Cigarette advertisements banned in NYC Transportation Authority
General Colin Powell retires
1994-Proposition 187 in California, hampering illegal aliens rights
Lion King is released
O.J Simpson charged with murder
1995- Balkan Crisis, troops sent to keep peace in the area
Selena was murdered
Blind boy recieves bionic eye
1996-Bill Clinton re-elected, keeping liberal agenda in America
Bob Dole resigns from Senate to run for presidency
Howard Stern's radio show gets played nationally
1997-Major tobacco settlement, the gov't defeating the tobacco industry
Toni Blair is made U.K's prime minister
Betty Shabazz (malcolm X's widow) is set aflame by her 12-year old grandson
1998-Clinton impeached by the House of Representatives, due to them not liking his policies
Bill Gates gets pie thrown in his face
Supreme Court says attorney-client priveledge is extended to the grave
1999-Senate didnt impeach Clinton, sided with him
Senate tries Clinton because he lied under oath in the lewinsky case
Columbine incident happens
2000- Bush wins presidency, major win by conservatives and republicans
Y2K is a joke, nothing happens
USS Cole is bombed, killing 17 sailors
2001- World Trade Centers are destroyed, starts "War on Terror"
American Airlines crashes, killing 252
--Enron files for bankruptcy in December becoming the largest company to declare bankruptcy ever.
2002- Enron corporation dissolves, one of the largest bussinesses pleads to fraud
Bush makes "axis of evil" speech, demeaning such countries as North Korea
Euro becomes official currency of nost of Europe
2003- Invasion of Iraq, due to Hussein's ties with Al Quaeda
2002- Enron corporation dissolves, one of the largest bussinesses pleads to fraud
Bush makes "axis of evil" speech, demeaning such countries as North Korea
Euro becomes official currency of nost of Europe
2003- Invasion of Iraq, due to Hussein's ties with Al Quaeda
-Bush declares "Mission Accomplished" aboard USS Abraham Lincoln in May, of course as we all know combat and deaths had yet reached their peak.
-NASA space shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry, all on board are killed.
2004- First gay marriage legally recognized, a step for all individuals
-Bush gets re-elected
Intelligence reform and Terrorism Act passed, reorganizing intel agencies
2005-Hurricane Katrina hits the U.S, killing more than 2,000 people
Supreme Court rules that the death penalty does not apply for people under 18
Watergate "Deep Throat" is revealed to be W. Mark Filt, a former F.B.I agent
2006-Avian Flu Virus becomes epidemic and U.S recognizes the threat
2004- First gay marriage legally recognized, a step for all individuals
-Bush gets re-elected
Intelligence reform and Terrorism Act passed, reorganizing intel agencies
2005-Hurricane Katrina hits the U.S, killing more than 2,000 people
Supreme Court rules that the death penalty does not apply for people under 18
Watergate "Deep Throat" is revealed to be W. Mark Filt, a former F.B.I agent
2006-Avian Flu Virus becomes epidemic and U.S recognizes the threat
-Dick Cheney "accidently" shoots his "friend" in the face during a hunting trip.
-The Great American Boycott by people of Latin American origin takes place.
2007-DOW goes over 13,000, a sign the economy is doing great.
2007-DOW goes over 13,000, a sign the economy is doing great.
-DOW reaches 14,000 only to fall miserably.
Nancy Pelosi is made the speaker of the House
2008- Obama gets elected president, major step for African-Americans
Nancy Pelosi is made the speaker of the House
2008- Obama gets elected president, major step for African-Americans
Fidel Castro resigns as President of Cuba
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I actually found a pretty useful site by searching *insert year* in history and going to the link for brainyhistory.com
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I know it's awesome, but geez, why are half the entries here copied word-for-word from it?
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