US History EOC Timeline

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  • George Washington elected president

  • Judiciary Act of 1789

  • French Revolution

  • Rhode Island ratifies the Constitution

  • Alexander Hamilton creates bank

  • Proclamation of American Neutrality

  • Whiskey Rebellion

  • Treaty of Greenville

  • John Adams wins the election

  • XYZ affair

  • Alien and Sedition Acts

  • Second Great Awakening

  • Thomas Jefferson wins president

  • John Marshall becomes first chief justice

  • Marbury vs Madison

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Embargo Act

  • James Madison elected President

  • Tecumseh establishes Native American Union

  • William Henry Harrison leads an attack against Tecumseh

  • War of 1812

  • Underground Railroad provides escape

  • James Monroe elected 5th president

  • Erie Canal

  • McCulloch v Maryland

  • Spain secedes Florida

  • Stephen F Austin establishes first US settlement

  • Monroe Doctrine

  • Gibbons vs Ogden

  • Death of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams

  • Andrew Jackson elected president

  • Jim Crow Laws established

  • Manifest Destiny

  • Garrison pleads immediate emancipation

  • Treaty of Guadalupe - Hidalgo

  • Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin

  • Bleeding Kansas

  • Dred Scott vs Sanford

  • Lincoln-Douglas debates

  • John Brown leads attack on Harper's Ferry

  • Abraham Lincoln elected 16th president

  • Confederate States formed

  • Fort Sumter

  • Homestead Act

  • Battle of Antietam

  • Battle of Gettysburg

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • William Sherman March to Sea

  • 13th Amendment

  • Lee surrenders

  • Lincoln assassinated

  • South established Black Codes

  • Civil Rights Act of 1866

  • Tenure of Office Acts

  • US purchase Alaska

  • Transcontinental Railroad

  • Fifteenth Amendment

  • Hiram Revels

  • William Tweed Political Machine

  • Slaughter House Cases

  • Whiskey Ring Scandal

  • Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse lead Sioux to win

  • Bell invents telephone

  • Susan B Anthony gets women suffrage

  • Edison creates the electric light

  • Garfield assassinated

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Rockefeller Carnegie Companies

  • Dawes Severalty Act

  • Wounded Knee

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

  • Populist Party

  • Yellow Journalism

  • Plessy vs Ferguson

  • Treaty of Paris

  • Grandfather Clause

  • Spanish-American War

  • Open Door Policy

  • President McKinley assassinated

  • Roosevelt Corrollary to Monroe Doctrine

  • Muckraker

  • Pure Food and Drug Act

  • Henry Ford Model T car

  • 16th Amendment

  • World War I begins in Europe

  • German U-Boat Sinks

  • Germany continues unrestricted submarine warfare

  • Zimmerman Telegram

  • Selective Service Act

  • Fourteen Points

  • Treaty of Versailles

  • 18th Amendment

  • 19th Amendment

  • Teapot Dome Scandal

  • Dawes Plan

  • Scopes Monkey Trial

  • First Solo flight

  • Sacco and Vanzetti executed for murder

  • Stock Market Crash

  • Bonus Army

  • FDR elected president

  • US Unemployment rates increase

  • Fireside Chats

  • First 100 Days

  • Huey Long criticizes FDR

  • Wagner Act

  • Social Security Act

  • FDR elected third term

  • Lend-lease Act

  • Atlantic Charter

  • Propaganda

  • Battle of Midway

  • Internment of Japanese Americans

  • Manhattan Project

  • Allies invade Normandy

  • Battle of the Bulge

  • Allies liberate Nazi Concentration Camps

  • FDR Dies, Truman becomes President

  • Germany Surrenders on V-E- Days

  • US drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • United Nations founded with 51 nations

  • Nuremburg Trials

  • "Iron Curtain"

  • Truman Doctrine

  • Marshall Plan

  • Berlin Blockade

  • Truman Orders desegregation of military

  • NATO

  • Korean War begins

  • McCarthy begins Anti-communist force

  • Communist fear in US

  • Brown v Board of Education

  • Containment

  • Geneva Peace Accords

  • Rosa Parks arrested

  • Jonas Salks creates polio vaccine

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • JFK vs Nixon First televised debate

  • JFK launches New Frontier platform to help America

  • Lunch Counter sit-ins

  • Berlin WAll

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • I have a Dream Speech

  • Oswald assassinates JFK

  • Lyndon B Johnson launches Great Society

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

  • Malcolm X

  • Miranda vs Arizona

  • Thurgood Marshall Court member

  • Tet Offensive

  • Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Robert Kennedy

  • Apollo 11 lands on the moon

  • My Lai Massacre

  • Pentagon Papers

  • Watergate Scandal

  • Roe vs Wade

  • US Energy Crisis

  • US withdraws from Vietnam

  • Richard Nixon resigns to avoid impeachment

  • Jimmy Carter elected President

  • Camp David Accords

  • Three Mile Island

  • Ronald Reagan elected President

  • Iran releases US hostages

  • Strategic Defense Initiative

  • Space Shuttle Challenger

  • US Bombs Lybia

  • Osama Bin Laden forms Al Qaueda

  • Chinese democracy crushes pro-democracy revolt

  • Berlin Wall falls

  • Saddam Hussein orders invasion of Kuwait

  • Bill Clinton elected president