American History

By NivaLaurent

  • US Constitution is ratified

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    US History

  • Bill of Rights, are ratified

  • Marbury v. Madison

  • Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, Mo., on expedition to explore the West and find a route to the Pacific Ocean

  • Trail of Tears

  • Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana secede

  • Civil War starts

  • Emancipation Proclamation is issued

  • President Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address

  • Lincoln is assassinated

  • Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, prohibiting slavery

  • Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, prohibiting slavery

  • Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, defining citizenship

  • Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, giving blacks the right to vote

  • U.S. adopts standard time

  • Statue of Liberty is dedicated to USA

  • Ellis Island becomes chief immigration station of the U.S.

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

  • U.S. annexes Hawaii

  • Wright brothers make the first controlled, sustained flight

  • Panama Canal opens to traffic

  • Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, granting women the right to vote

  • The Great Depression occurs

  • The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem

  • Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman

  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is established

  • Twenty-Second Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, limiting the president to two terms

  • Alaska becomes the 49th state

  • Hawaii becomes the 50th

  • Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech

  • Miranda v. Arizona

  • Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated

  • Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Jr., become the first men to land on the Moon

  • The Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18

  • Space shuttle Challenger explodes

  • Two hijacked jetliners ram twin towers of World Trade Center in worst terrorist attack against U.S.

  • President Bush signs legislation creating a new cabinet department of Homeland Security

  • Space shuttle Columbia explodes upon reentry into Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts on board

  • President Bush signs $350 billion tax-cut bill

  • The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that the population of the United States has reached 300 million

  • Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President