U.S history timeline

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    Early Republic

  • 🟦 Farmers rise in shays rebellion

    When lower courts started to seize the property of farmers such as Daniel Shays, a Revolutionary War veteran, western Massachusetts farmers temporarily closed the courts and threatened a federal arsenal. Although the rebels were defeated by the state militia, they were victorious at the polls.
  • 🟧 Congress passed alien and sedition acts

    In 1798, Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts. These laws criminalized dissent, abused civil liberties, and violated the Constitution. They are among the most notorious laws in history. One is still on the books, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
  • 🟧 George Washington

    🟧 George Washington
    George Washington was elected as the first US president
  • 🟧 congress passes bill of rights

    Amendment 1 Freedoms, Petitions, Assembly
    Amendment 2 Right to bear arms
    Amendment 3 Quartering of soldiers
    Amendment 4 Search and arrest
    Amendment 5 Rights in criminal cases
    Amendment 6 Right to a fair trial
    Amendment 7 Rights in civil cases
    Amendment 8 Bail, fines, punishment
    Amendment 9 Rights retained by the People
    Amendment 10 States' rights
  • 🟦 The second great awakening

    🟦 The second great awakening
    The Second Great Awakening was a religious revival in the United States that changed the way people worshiped and lived. It also inspired social reform movements.
  • 🟧 john Adams

    🟧  john Adams
    John Adams was elected as the 2nd president of the united states
  • 🟧 Thomas Jefferson

    🟧 Thomas Jefferson
    The 3rd president
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    🟪 Manifest Destiny/Westward Expansion

  • 🟥 War with great Britain

    conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights. It ended with the exchange of ratification of the Treaty of Ghent.
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    Era of Good Feelings

  • 🟧 James Madison

    🟧  James Madison
    the 4th president
  • 🟪 Temperance movement

    🟪 Temperance movement
    first urged moderation, then encouraged drinkers to help each other to resist temptation, and ultimately demanded that local, state, and national governments prohibit alcohol outright.
  • 🟧 James Monroe

    🟧  James Monroe
    the 5th president
  • 🟧 John Quincy Adams

    🟧  John Quincy Adams
    the 6th president
  • 🟧 Andrew Jackson

    🟧  Andrew Jackson
    the 7th president
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    Jacksonian

  • 🟪 Indian Removal act (1830)

    authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders.
  • 🟧 Martin van Buren

    🟧  Martin van Buren
    the 8th president
  • 🟧 William harry Harrison

    🟧  William harry Harrison
    9th president
  • 🟧 John Tyler

    🟧  John Tyler
    the 10th president
  • 🟪 The Great famine and Irish immigration

    🟪  The Great famine and Irish immigration
    The 410,000 documented arrivals from Ireland in the database represent about one-third to one-quarter of the up to 1.5 million Irish who arrived in the United States during the broader Famine period of 1845–1855, including some who walked into the country after landing in Canada
  • 🟧 Seneca falls convention

    🟧 Seneca falls convention
    The Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 launched the women's rights and suffrage movements in the United States
  • 🟧 James K Polk

    🟧 James K Polk
    The 11th president
  • 🟧 Zachary Taylor

    🟧 Zachary Taylor
    12th president
  • 🟧 Millard fillmore

    🟧 Millard fillmore
    The 13th president
  • 🟧 Franklin Pierce

    🟧 Franklin Pierce
    The 14th president
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    🟥 Civil War

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    Progressive Era

  • 🟧 James Buchanan

    🟧 James Buchanan
    The 15th president
  • 🟧 Abraham Lincoln

    🟧 Abraham  Lincoln
    16th president
  • 🟧 Andrew Johnson

    🟧 Andrew  Johnson
    The 17th president
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    Gilded Age

  • 🟧 Ulysses S Grant

    🟧 Ulysses S Grant
    The 18th president
  • 🟪 The Settlement House Movement

    🟪 The Settlement House Movement
    played a pivotal role in addressing poverty and inequality in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
  • 🟧 Rutherford B Hayes

    🟧 Rutherford B Hayes
    The 19th president
  • 🟧 James A Garfield

    🟧 James A Garfield
    The 20th president
  • 🟧 Chinese Exclusion Act

    It was a law to restrict immigration to the Chinese
  • 🟧 James R Arthur

    🟧 James R Arthur
    the 21st president
  • 🟧 Grover Cleveland

    🟧 Grover Cleveland
    was president twice this was the first and is the 22nd president
  • 🟧 Benjamin Harrison

    🟧 Benjamin Harrison
    The 23rd president
  • 🟧 Grover Cleveland

    🟧 Grover Cleveland
    Was in office twice this was the second term. The 24th president
  • 🟧 William McKinley

    🟧 William McKinley
    Born on January 29, 1843 in Niles, Ohio, McKinley briefly attended Allegheny College, and was teaching in a country school when the Civil War broke out. was the 25th president .
  • 🟧Theodore Roosevelt

    🟧Theodore Roosevelt
    McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, age 42, became the youngest president in the nation’s history. He brought new excitement and power to the presidency, as he briskly led Congress and the American public toward progressive reforms and an aggressive foreign policy. the 26th president of the united states
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    🟥 WW1

  • 🟧 William Howard Raft

    🟧 William Howard Raft
    Born in 1857, the son of a distinguished judge, he graduated from Yale, and returned to Cincinnati to study and practice law. He rose in politics through Republican judiciary appointments, through his own competence and availability. 27th president
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    Roaring 20s

  • 🟧 Woodroe wilson

    🟧 Woodroe wilson
    Wilson regarded himself as the personal representative of the people. "No one but the president," he said, "seems to be expected . . . to look out for the general interests of the country." He developed a program of progressive reform and asserted international leadership in building a new world order. In 1917 he proclaimed American entrance into World War I a crusade to make the world "safe for democracy." 28th president
  • 🟥 Tulsa race movement

    The Tulsa race massacre, also known as the Tulsa race riot or the Black Wall Street massacre, was a two-day-long white supremacist terrorist massacre that took place between May 31 and June 1, 1921,
  • 🟪 introduction of the ERA

    🟪 introduction of the ERA
    The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was first introduced to Congress in 1923. It was written by suffragists Alice Paul.
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    Great Depression

  • 🟪 Jim crow laws

    Separated people based on skin color in social and environmental areas.
  • 🟥The attack on pearl harbor

    The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Empire of Japan on the United States Pacific Fleet at its naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. At the time, the U.S. was a neutral country in World War II
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    🟥 WW2

  • 🟧 Internment of Japanese Americans

    🟧 Internment of Japanese Americans
    A movement on the interment camp for Japaneses.
  • 🟪 Zoot suit Riots

    🟪 Zoot  suit Riots
    The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots that took place June 3–8, 1943, in Los Angeles, California, United States, involving American servicemen stationed in Southern California and young Latino and Mexican American city residents.
  • 🟥Normandy landings

    The D-Day operation of June 6, 1944, brought together the land, air, and sea forces of the allied armies in what became known as the largest amphibious invasion in military history. The operation, given the code name OVERLORD, delivered five naval assault divisions to the beaches of Normandy, France.
  • 🟥 Battle of the bulge

    The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the dearness Offensive, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during the Second World War which took place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945
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    🟥 Cold War

  • 🟧 NATO

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.
  • 🟥 The end of Korean war

    On July 27, 1953, seven months after President Eisenhower's inauguration as the 34th President of the United States, an armistice was signed, ending organized combat operations and leaving the Korean Peninsula divided much as it had been since the close of World War II at the 38th parallel.
  • 🟥 Vietnam war

    The Vietnam War was a long, costly, and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
  • 🟪 Chicano movement

    🟪 Chicano  movement
    The Hispanic community embarked on a social movement aimed at combating institutional racism, increasing cultural hegemony, and guaranteeing equal labor and political rights.
  • 🟦 Red power movement

    The Red Power movement was a social movement which was led by Native American youth who demanded self-determination for Native Americans in the United States.
  • 🟧 The stone walls riots

    🟧 The stone walls riots
    In 1969, a series of riots over police action against The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, changed the landscape of homosexual society quite literally overnight. Since then, the term 'Stonewall' itself has become almost synonymous with the struggle for gay rights.
  • 🟧 Second national march on Washington

    🟧  Second national march on Washington
    The Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights was a large political rally that took place in Washington, D.C., on October 11, 1987. Around 750,000 people participated. Its success, size, scope, and historical importance have led to it being called, "The Great March".
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    Contemporary History

  • 🟥 9/11

    The attack on 9/11 took place on new York making the USA angry and want war
  • 🟦 Labor Rights Movement

    At that moment, the labor movement was a civil rights movement, the sanitation workers' union a vehicle not merely for wages and better working conditions but for civil and human rights as well. In subsequent years, the labor movement slowly but decisively committed itself to civil rights.
  • 🟩 The COVID-19 outbreak

    A global pandemic that got over and into the us that has effected our countries economics and the way we live up to this day .