Brock and Amanda

By brockmarsho

  • Judiciary Act of 1789

    Established the supreme court

  • 1789- George Washington Elected President

  • French Revolution

  • Ratification of the Bill of Rights

  • Westward expansion

  • Marbury vs. Madison establishes Judicial Review

  • Louisana Purchase

  • War of 1812 (1812-1815)

  • Nationalism, Sectionalism, and Economic Expansion

  • Underground Railroad provides Northern escape for slaves

  • Age of Jackson (1828-1849)

  • First Jim Crow Laws established (legal segregation)

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Abraham Lincoln elected 16th President

  • 13th Amendment – abolishes slavery

  • Gen. Robert E. Lee (confederacy) surrenders at Appomattox Court House to Union Gen. Ulysses Grant

  • Abraham Lincoln assassinated by John Wilkes Booth

  • Reconstruction (1865-1877)

  • Transcontinental Railroad– connects the coasts of the United States; greatest transportation achievemen

  • Susan B. Anthony – gets women’s suffrage vote to Congress – leads to 19th Amendment

  • **Plessy vs. Ferguson – ‘Separate but Equal’ is constitutional (overturned by Brown vs. Board of Education)

  • - Spanish-American War – Teddy Roosevelt leads Rough Riders, U.S. crushes Spain’s Navy

  • Treat of Paris – ends the Spanish-American War

  • Progressive Era – (1901-1914)

  • 16th Amendment – establishment of income tax , 17th Amend.– direct election of senators

  • – World War I begins in Europe

  • Zimmerman Telegram – intercepted by British, asks for Germany/Mexico alliance against U.S.; US. Enters WWI

  • Zimmerman Telegram – intercepted by British, asks for Germany/Mexico alliance against U.S.; US. Enters WWI

  • – Stock Market Crash– ‘Black Tuesday’ – launches Great Depression

  • Great Depression and New Deal (1930-1939)

  • U.S. unemployment rate reaches 25%, FDR claims Bank Holiday to fix banks

  • World War II – (1940-1945)

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor – U.S. enters the War

  • FDR dies, Harry Truman becomes President; Adolf Hitler commits suicide

  • U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima (Aug. 6) and Nagasaki (Aug 9) – Japan surrenders

  • The Cold War (1946-1960)

  • Brown vs. Board of Education – overturns Plessy vs. Ferguson; says separate but equal is unconstitutional

  • Rosa Parks arrested for not giving up seat on bus to whites; sparks Montgomery Bus Boycott