US History timeline 2013-2014

By kelsey68

  • Jamestown

    Jamestown
    Discovery of Jamestown

  • House of Burgesses

    House of Burgesses
    House Of Burgesses was founded

  • Mayflower Compact

    The Mayflower compact was created and the first meeting was held in 1620

  • French and Indian war

    The french and indian war started in 1754 and ended in about 1763

  • Treaty of Paris (1763)

    Treaty of Paris

  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

  • The Stamp Act

    Stamp act. taxes were put on all legal documents

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

  • Boston Tea Party

    Tea was dumped into the Boston Harbor

  • 1st continental congress

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • 2nd continental congress

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence was signed

  • Start of Slavery

    This was the year of the start of slavery

  • The Critical Period

    was in the 1780's

  • Battle at Yorktown

  • Articles of Confederation

  • Articles of Confederation

  • The Treaty of Paris

  • Shay's Rebellion

  • The Annapolis Convention

  • The Constitutional Convention

  • Land Ordinance of 1787

  • The Great Compromise

  • The 3/5ths Compromise

  • The Judiciary Act of 1787

  • Washingtons Presidency began

  • Bill of Rights was signed

  • Cotton Gin was invented

  • Adams presicency began

  • Jeffersons presidency began

  • Marbury vs Madison case

  • War of 1812

  • McCulloh vs Maryland

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Monroe Doctrine

  • Gibbons vs Ogden

  • Dred Scott Case

  • Election of 1860

  • Battle of Fort Sumter

  • Homestead Act

  • Battle of Antietam

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Battle of Vicksburg

  • Battle of Gettysburg

  • Gettysburg Address

  • Reconstruction

    1865-1877

  • 13th Amendment was passed

  • Appomattox Court House

  • Lincolns Assassination

  • Reconstruction Act of 1867

  • Election of 1867

  • 14th Amendment was passed

  • Knights of Labor

  • 15th Amendement was passed

  • Jim Crow Laws

  • New Immigrants

    During the 1880's-1930's

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Spring of 1882

  • Haymarket Square Riot

  • American Federation Of Labor

  • Dawes Act

  • Progressive Movement

    1890's-1920's

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

  • Homestead strike

  • American Railway Union

  • Pullman Strike

    During the summer of 1894

  • Plessy vs Ferguson Court Case 1896

  • Old immigrants

    1900's

  • Immigration Restriction Act

  • 16th Amendment

  • 17th Amendment

  • Clayton Anti-Trust Act

  • Federal Trade Commision Act

  • 19th Amendment

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

  • Communist takeover of China

  • Herbert Hoover

    herbert hoover was elected president in the election of 1928

  • Black Tuesday

    is the nickname for the stock market crash

  • Assimilation Policy

    In the 1930's but adopted in the 1950's

  • War in Europe began

  • Dust Bowl

    Was a serious drought that lasted until the late 1930's

  • The Great Depression

    The great depression was struck after the Stock Market Crash on October 29,1929

  • New deal

    was a form of relief for the US after the great depression. FDR's idea

  • FDIC

  • Social Security Act

  • Wagner Act

  • Fair Labor Standards Act

  • Non-Aggression Pact

  • Germany invades Russia

  • SSS Act WWII

  • Pearl Harbor

  • US declares was

  • Miracle of Midway

  • Korematsu vs US

  • D-Day

  • Battle of the Bulge

  • V-E Day

  • Hiroshima was bombed

  • Nagasaki was bombed

  • Nuremberg trials

  • Division of Germany

  • Marshall Plan

  • Berlin Airlift

  • NATO was created

  • Julius and Ehtel Rosenberg's Trial

  • Eisenhowers presidency

    January 20, 1953- January 20-1961

  • Korean War

  • Warsaw Pact

  • Sputnik was launched

  • U2 Incident

  • JFK's presidency

    January 20, 1961- November 22-1963

  • Cuban Missle Crisis

  • JFK's assassination

  • Cold War

    1985-1991

  • Berlin Wall was torn down