America History Timeline

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    Early Republic 🟧

  • George Washington 🟧

    George Washington 🟧
    1789-1797
    Party: Unaffiliated
  • Hamilton's Financial Plan 🟩

    Aimed to stabilize the American economy by assuming state debts, creating a national bank, and tariffs
  • The Second Great Awakening 🟦

    Religious revival and religion spread across America.
  • John Adams 🟧

    John Adams 🟧
    1797-1801
    Party: Democratic- Republican
  • Thomas Jefferson 🟧

    Thomas Jefferson 🟧
    1801-1809
    Party: Democratic- Republican
  • James Madison 🟧

    James Madison 🟧
    1809-1817
    Party: Democratic- Republican
  • War of 1812 🟥

    A war that was between the US and Great Britain
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    Westward Expansion 🟪

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    Era of Good Feelings 🟧

  • James Monroe 🟧

    James Monroe 🟧
    1817-1825
    Party: Democratic- Republican
  • Temperance Movement 🟦

    A social movement that advocated for the reduction or elimination of alcohol.
  • John Quincy Adams 🟧

    John Quincy Adams 🟧
    1825-1829
    Party: Democratic- Republican
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    Jacksonian 🟧

  • Andrew Jackson 🟧

    Andrew Jackson 🟧
    1829-1837
    Party: Democratic
  • Indian Removal Act 🟪

    The removal of Native Americans; President Andrew Jackson caused them to trek the Trail of Tears
  • Jackson vetoes the Second National Bank 🟩

    President Andrew Jackson vetoed the decision of having a second national bank because he saw it unnecessary.
  • Martin Van Buren 🟧

    Martin Van Buren 🟧
    1837-1841
    Party: Democratic
  • William Henry Harrison 🟧

    William Henry Harrison 🟧
    1841-1841
    Party: Whig
  • John Tyler 🟧

    John Tyler 🟧
    1841-1845
    Party: Whig, Unaffiliated
  • The Great Famine and Irish Migration 🟪

    This was the mass emigration of Irish people into America because there was a famine in Ireland, and Irish people sought refuge.
  • James K. Polk 🟧

    James K. Polk 🟧
    1845-1849
    Party: Democratic
  • Mexican-American War 🟥

    A war that was caused by the annexation of Texas and them fighting over the land
  • Seneca Falls Convention 🟦

    A convention held by women suffragists to advocate for women's rights
  • Zachary Taylor 🟧

    Zachary Taylor 🟧
    1849-1850
    Party: Whig
  • Millard Fillmore 🟧

    Millard Fillmore 🟧
    1850-1853
    Party: Whig
  • Franklin Pierce 🟧

    Franklin Pierce 🟧
    1853-1857
    Party: Democratic
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act 🟧

    The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a law that was passed that established where popular sovereignty decided whether Kansas and Nebraska allowed slaves or not.
  • James Buchanan 🟧

    James Buchanan 🟧
    1857-1861
    Party: Democratic
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    Civil War 🟥

  • Abraham Lincoln 🟧

    Abraham Lincoln 🟧
    1861-1865
    Party: Republican
  • Civil War 🟥

    The North and South of the United States separated and fought each other because they believed in different things
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    Progressive Era 🟧

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    Jim Crow Laws 🟧🟥

    The Jim Crow Laws were laws implemented by southern states to segregate African Americans from Whites.
  • Andrew Johnson 🟧

    Andrew Johnson 🟧
    1865-1869
    Party: Democratic
  • Assassination of Abraham Lincoln 🟥

    April 15th, 1865, Abe Lincoln was shot and killed in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth.
  • 13th Amendment 🟧

    The 13th Amendment abolished slavery in America.
  • 14th Amendment 🟧

    The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to people who were born in America.
  • The Reconstruction Acts 🟧

    The Reconstruction Acts outlined the terms for readmission to the Union after the rebel states seceded.
  • Ulysses S. Grant 🟧

    Ulysses S. Grant 🟧
    1869-1877
    Party: Republican
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    Gilded Age 🟧

  • 15th Amendment 🟧

    The 15th Amendment granted the right for all US citizens to vote no matter their race, color, or previous servitude.
  • Rutherford B. Hayes 🟧

    Rutherford B. Hayes 🟧
    1877-1881
    Party: Republican
  • Spanish-American War 🟥

    A war between the US and Spain, the US helped Cuba and the Philippines become independent from Spain.
  • James A. Garfield 🟧

    James A. Garfield 🟧
    1881-1881
    Party: Republican
  • Chester A. Arthur 🟧

    Chester A. Arthur 🟧
    1881-1885
    Party: Republican
  • Chinese Exclusion Act 🟪

    This act prohibited the immigration of any more Chinese laborers into America
  • Settlement House Movement 🟦

    This movement was aimed to put a bridge between the gap or the wealthy and poor.
  • Grover Cleveland 🟧

    Grover Cleveland 🟧
    1885-1889
    Party: Democratic
  • Benjamin Harrison 🟧

    Benjamin Harrison 🟧
    1889-1893
    Party: Republican
  • Grover Cleveland 🟧

    Grover Cleveland 🟧
    1893-1897
    Party: Democratic
  • William McKinley 🟧

    William McKinley 🟧
    1897-1901
    Party: Republican
  • Theodore Roosevelt 🟧

    Theodore Roosevelt 🟧
    1901-1909
    Party: Democratic
  • William Howard Taft 🟧

    William Howard Taft 🟧
    1909-1913
    Party: Republican
  • Woodrow Wilson 🟧

    Woodrow Wilson 🟧
    1913-1921
    Party: Democratic
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    WWI 🟥

  • WWI 🟥

    A war in Europe between the Allies and the Central Powers, caused by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
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    Roaring 20's 🟧

  • Warren G. Harding 🟧

    Warren G. Harding 🟧
    1921-1923
    Party: Republican
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    Tulsa Race Massacre 🟥

    A violent racial massacre where many African Americans were killed by a white mob.
  • Introduction of the ERA 🟧

    This amendment ensured that men and women have equal rights.
  • Calvin Coolidge 🟧

    Calvin Coolidge 🟧
    1923-1929
    Party: Republican
  • The Great Depression 🟩

    An economic crisis where unemployment rates were high and there was a widespread increase in poverty.
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    Great Depression 🟧

  • Herbert Hoover 🟧

    Herbert Hoover 🟧
    1929-1933
    Party: Republican
  • The Dust Bowl 🟩

    A severe drought that affected farming practices greatly and impacted the economic side of farming.
  • The New Deal 🟩🟧

    A series of programs implemented by FDR to help combat the affects of The Great Depression
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt 🟧

    Franklin D. Roosevelt 🟧
    1933-1945
    Party: Democratic
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    Chicano Movement 🟦

    This was a movement among Mexican Americans to highlight their mistreatment and advocate for their rights.
  • WWII 🟥

    A war in Europe between the Allies and the Axis powers, was fought to stop Hitler.
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    WWII 🟥

  • Japanese Internment 🟪

    Japanese interment camps were forced living spaces that Japanese-Americans were moved to after Pearl Harbor.
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    Zoot Suit Riots 🟥

    These riots were racially motivated attacks where Mexican Americans were violently attacked just for wearing zoot suits
  • Harry S. Truman 🟧

    Harry S. Truman 🟧
    1945-1953
    Party: Democratic
  • Cold War 🟥

    Not really a war but it was a race where people were building nuclear weapons
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    Cold War 🟥

  • Korean War 🟥

    A war fought between North and South Korea that tried to reunify the Korean peninsula under communist rule.
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower 🟧

    Dwight D. Eisenhower 🟧
    1953-1961
    Party: Republican
  • Vietnam War 🟥

    A war between North and South Vietnam where the North was trying reunify the country under communist rule.
  • John F. Kennedy 🟧

    John F. Kennedy 🟧
    1961-1963
    Party: Democratic
  • Lyndon B. Johnson 🟧

    Lyndon B. Johnson 🟧
    1963-1969
    Party: Democratic
  • Assassination of JFK 🟥

    President JFK was riding through a presidential motorcade when he was fatally shot.
  • Assassination of MLK 🟥

    MLK was a black civil rights activist who was shot and killed.
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    Red Power Movement 🟦

    A social movement led by Native Americans who aimed to bring attention to treaty violations.
  • Richard Nixon 🟧

    Richard Nixon 🟧
    1969-1974
    Party: Republican
  • The Stonewall Riots 🟦

    LGBTQ+ patrons advocated for gay rights against police.
  • Gerald Ford 🟧

    Gerald Ford 🟧
    1974-1977
    Party: Republican
  • Jimmy Carter 🟧

    Jimmy Carter 🟧
    1977-1981
    Party: Democratic
  • Ronald Reagan 🟧

    Ronald Reagan 🟧
    1981-1989
    Party: Republican
  • Second National March on Washington 🟦

    A march that advocated for gay and lesbian rights.
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    Contemporary History 🟧

  • George H. W. Bush 🟧

    George H. W. Bush 🟧
    1989-1993
    Party: Republican
  • Bill Clinton 🟧

    Bill Clinton 🟧
    1993-2001
    Party: Democratic
  • George W. Bush 🟧

    George W. Bush 🟧
    2001-2009
    Party: Republican
  • 9/11 🟥

    A terrorist attack against America, where planes were hijacked and crashed into the Twin Towers.
  • Stock market crash of 2008 🟩

    An economic crisis where the stock market crashed due to the collapse of the US housing market
  • Barack Obama 🟧

    Barack Obama 🟧
    2009-2017
    Party: Democratic
  • Donald Trump 🟧

    Donald Trump 🟧
    2017-2021
    Party: Republican
  • COVID-19 🟩

    A global pandemic where countries were forced to shut down and the entire world became "abandoned," and businesses struggled.
  • Joe Biden 🟧

    Joe Biden 🟧
    2021-2025
    Party: Democratic
  • Donald Trump 🟧

    Donald Trump 🟧
    2025- now
    Party: Republican