U.S. history timeline

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    Early Republic

  • George Washington

    George Washington
    Federalist
  • The Second Great Awakening🟦

    A Protestant religious revival during the late 18th century
  • John Adams

    John Adams
    Federalist
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson
    Democratic-Republican
  • James Madison

    James Madison
    Democratic-Republican
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    Manifest Destiny/Westward Expansion

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    Era Of Good Feelings

  • James Monroe

    James Monroe
    Democratic-Republican
  • John Quincy Adams

    John Quincy Adams
    National Republican
  • Temperance Movement🟦

    A movement supporting total absence from drinking alcohol
  • Andrew Jackson

    Andrew Jackson
    Democratic
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    Jacksonian

  • Indian Removal Act🟪

    The removal of indians to specific areas within existing state borders.
  • Martin Van Buren

    Martin Van Buren
    Democratic
  • William Henry Harrison

    William Henry Harrison
    Whig
  • John Tyler

    John Tyler
    Whig
  • James K. Polk

    James K. Polk
    Democratic
  • The Great Famine And Irish Immigration🟪

    2 million people fled a famine in Ireland to the U.S.
  • Seneca Falls Convention🟦

    The first womens rights convention
  • Zachary Taylor

    Zachary Taylor
    Whig
  • Millard Fillmore

    Millard Fillmore
    Whig
  • Franklin Pierce

    Franklin Pierce
    Democratic
  • Kansas Nebraska Act🟧

    When the Missouri compromise was repealed creating 2 new states and allowing popular sovereignty.
  • James Buchanan

    James Buchanan
    Democratic
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln
    Republican
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    Civil War🟥

    When the southern states seceded from the United States for conflicts involving slavery.
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    Progressive Era

  • Adrew Jackson

    Adrew Jackson
    Democratic (Union)
  • Assassination of President Lincoln

    When President Lincoln was assassinated over freeing the slaves.
  • 13th Amendment🟧

    It forbids chattel slavery across the United States and in every territory under its control, except as a criminal punishment.
  • Reconstruction Acts🟧

    The bill divided the former Confederate states, except for Tennessee, into five military districts.
  • 14th Amendment🟧

    the Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States,"
  • Ulysses S. Grant

    Ulysses S. Grant
    Republican
  • Jim Crow🟧

    Laws that mandated segregation between black and white people
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    Gilded Age

  • 15th Amendment🟧

    The 15th Amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
  • Rutherford B. Hayes

    Rutherford B. Hayes
    Republican
  • James A. Garfield

    James A. Garfield
    Republican
  • Chester A. Arthur

    Chester A. Arthur
    Republican
  • Chinese Exclusion Act🟧

    A law restricting Chinese immigration into the United States
  • Grover Cleveland

    Grover Cleveland
    Democratic
  • Settlement House Movement🟦

    Provided community services to poor urban neighborhoods
  • Benjamin Harrison

    Benjamin Harrison
    Republican
  • Grover Cleveland

    Grover Cleveland
    Democratic
  • William McKinley

    William McKinley
    Republican
  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt
    Republican
  • William Howard Taft

    William Howard Taft
    Republican
  • Woodrow Wilson

    Woodrow Wilson
    Democratic
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    WW1

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    Roaring 20s

  • Warren G. Harding

    Warren G. Harding
    Republican
  • Tulsa Race Massacre🟦

    A two-day-long white supremacist terrorist massacre
  • Calvin Coolidge

    Calvin Coolidge
    Republican
  • Introduction To The ERA🟦

    A proposed amendment to the constitution that would prevent discrimination because of sex
  • Herbert Hoover

    Herbert Hoover
    Republican
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    Great Depression

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    Democratic
  • Chicano Movement🟦

    A social movement by the Hispanic community combating institutional racism
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    WW2

  • Japanese Internment🟧

    The forced incarceration of Japanese citizens during World War 2
  • Zoot Suit Riots🟦

    White servicemen attacking Mexican Americans who wore zoot suits because they were considered unpatriotic
  • Harry S. Truman

    Harry S. Truman
    Democratic
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    Cold War

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Republican
  • Red Power Movement🟦

    A social movement led by native american youths
  • John F. Kennedy

    John F. Kennedy
    Democratic
  • Lyndon B. Johnson

    Lyndon B. Johnson
    Democratic
  • Richard M. Nixon

    Richard M. Nixon
    Republican
  • The Stonewall Riots🟦

    A series of riots over police action against the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York
  • Gerald R. Ford

    Gerald R. Ford
    Republican
  • Jimmy Carter

    Jimmy Carter
    Democratic
  • Ronald Reagan

    Ronald Reagan
    Republican
  • Second National March On Washington🟦

    A march of 750,000 people protesting the government's actions about the aid crisis and their view on gay and lesbian people.
  • George Bush

    George Bush
    Republican
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    Contemporary History

  • Bill Clinton

    Bill Clinton
    Democratic
  • George W. Bush

    George W. Bush
    Republican
  • Barack Obama

    Barack Obama
    Democratic
  • Donald Trump

    Donald Trump
    Republican
  • Joe Biden

    Joe Biden
    Democratic
  • Donald Trump

    Donald Trump
    Republican