American History Timeline

  • 🟪 Declaration of Independence adopted

    formal announcement written and adopted by continental congress on July 4th, 1776 where it declared the 13 American colonies independent from Great Britain
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    Early Republic

  • 🟧 US Constitution signed

    The convention approved the constitution and was ratified after 9 states had to approve it
  • 🟧 Hamiltons financial plan

    Federalist Alexander Hamiltons Financial Plan as the nation was in debt from the revolutionary war, his plan was to sell US Treasury bonds, create excise taxes, create tariffs, and create a national bank to stabilize the economy.
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    George Washington

    George Washington wasn't associated with a political party
  • 🟧 Judiciary Act Adopted

    During its first session congress formally established the federal judiciary.
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    🟦 The Second Great Awakening

    Spread religion through revivals and emotional preaching. It sparked a number of reform movements. Aimed to increase church membership and increase in new denominations like Methodists and baptists.
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    John Adams

    John Adams was a Federalist
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    Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson was a democratic-republican
  • 🟩 Louisiana Purchase

    A land deal where the US acquired around 828,000 square miles of land from France for $15 million
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    James Madison

    James Madison was a democratic-republican
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    Manifest Destiny/Westward Expansion

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    🟥 War of 1812

    War between the United States and Great Britian.
  • 🟥 The Capital was Burned in the war of 1812

    fire was set to major federal buildings including the presidents house, the Capitol, and the Treasury building.
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    James Monroe

    James Monroe was a democratic-republican
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    Era of Good Feeling

  • 🟥 British are defeated (battle of New Orleans)

    American Settlers begin large migration to the old southwest which is Alabama and Mississippi
  • 🟧 James Monroe

    James Monroe and Daniel Tompkins are elected President and Vice President
  • 🟧 Mississippi admitted to the Union as the 20th State

    After arguments about this event, President James Monroe signed the Resolution that admitted Mississippi as the nations 20th State
  • 🟧 Connecticut abolishes property ownership as a requirement for voting

    In order to vote, an elector had to be a white male, a US Citizen, 21 years or older, a resident of the town where the citizen wanted to vote, have good morals, and either own land valued at least $7 or be a tax payer within the last year.
  • 🟧 Temperance Movement

    Social and political campaign to eliminate or at least decrease alcohol consumption.
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    John Quincy Adams

    John Quincy Adams was a whig
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    Andrew Jackson

    Andrew Jackson was a democrat
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    Jacksonian

  • 🟪 Indian Removal Act

    signed into law by andrew jackson for an exchange of lands with the indians residing in any of the states or territories and for their removal east of the mississippi river
  • 🟥 Texas Revolution

    The Texas Revolution starts when tension is created over slavery, immigration, and customs.
  • 🟧 Jackson Vetoes the Second National Bank Jackson Vetoes the Second National Bank

    Andrew Jackson vetoed the bill to recharter the Second Bank of the US, citing concerns about the constitutionality of it, the potential corruptness of it, and the concentration of power in the hands of some, sparting the Bank war.
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    Martin Van Buren

    Martin Van Buren was a democrat
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    William Henry Harrison

    William Henry Harrison was a whig
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    John Tyler

    John Tyler was a democrat
  • 🟪 The Great Famine and Irish Immigration

    Triggered a huge wave of Irish immigration and had around 1-2 million people leaving Ireland, and for the most part going to the US, Great Britain, and other parts of North America. This was to escape starvation and disease and to have an overall better life.
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    James K. Polk

    James K. Polk was a democrat
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    🟥 Mexican American War

    conflict between US and Mexico stemming from the annexation of Texas and disputes over the border between the two nations
  • 🟦 Seneca Falls Convention

    The first Womens Rights Convention in the US
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    Zachary Taylor

    Zachary Taylor was a whig
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    Millard Fillmore

    Millard Fillmore was neither a democrat or republican
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    Franklin Pierce

    Franklin Pierce was a democrat
  • 🟧 Kansas Nebraska Act

    The Kansas Nebraska Act created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and let the settlers in these territories decide for each of their own if they should allow slavery or not.
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    James Buchanan

    James Buchanan was a democrat
  • 🟧 Election of Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln gets elected as president while Hannibal Hamlin earns the name of vice president. This was the first time a republican was elected president.
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    Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln was a republican
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    🟥 Civil War

    violet conflict and division in our country freeing millions of slaves
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    Progressive Era

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    Andrew Johnson

    Andrew Johnson was a democrat
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    🟪 Jim Crow

    Collection of State and local statutes that legalized racial segregation
  • 🟧 Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

    President Abraham Lincoln, shot by John Wilkes Booth in Washington D.C while watching a play and died the next day as a result. He was the first president to be assassinated.
  • 🟧 13th Amendment

    Abolished slavery and forced labor in the US, except for punishment for a crime committed.
  • 🟧 Reconstruction Acts

    Series of laws that outlined how the previously confederate states would be allowed to rejoin the union. Also gave African-Americans the right to vote.
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    Gilded Age

  • 🟧 14th Amendment

    Allowed citizenship to all people ¨ born or naturalized in the United States¨. This included former slaves.
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    Ulysses S. Grant

    Ulysses S. Grant was a republican
  • 🟧 15th Amendment

    Granted the rights for all men to vote no matter their color or previous slave status.
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    Rutherford B. Hayes

    Rutherford B. Hayes was a republican
  • 🟦 Settlement House Movement

    Social Movement focusing on establishing settlement houses in more poor places where middle class volunteers/settlers lived and worked with low income residents. This provided services like education, healthcare and cultural programs.
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    James A. Garfield

    James A. Garfield was a republican
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    Chester A. Arthur

    Chester A. Arthur was a republican
  • 🟧 Chinese Exclusion Act

    US Federal law that was the first and only major federal legislation to explicitly suspend immigration for a specific nationality
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    Grover Cleveland

    Grover Cleveland was a democrat
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    Benjamin Harrison

    Benjamin Harrison was a republican
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    Grover Cleveland

    Grover Cleveland was a democrat
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    William Mckinley

    William Mckinley was a republican
  • 🟥 Spanish American War

    Conflict between the US and Spain in 1898
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    Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt was a republican
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    William Howard Taft

    William Howard Taft was a republican
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    Woodrow Wilson

    Woodrow Wilson was a democrat
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    WWl

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    Warren G. Harding

    Warren G. Harding was a republican
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    Roaring 20s

  • 🟥 Tulsa Race Massacre

    believed to be the single worst incident of racial violence in american history. a white mob attacked residents homes and businesses in a neighborhood of tulsa oklahoma.
  • 🟦 Introduction of the Era

    Proposed Amendment to the US Constitution aimed at guaranteeing equal rights for women, prohibiting discrimination based on gender and ensuring that your gender should not be the determining factor of legal rights.
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    Calvin Coolidge

    Calvin Coolidge was a republican
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    Herbert Hoover

    Herbert Hoover was a republican
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    The Great Depression

  • 🟪 The Dust Bowl

    The man made Dust Bowl disaster was caused by poor farming practices, over plowing while increasing crop production, removing thick protective layer of prairie grass with nothing to hold top soil down.The Dust Bowl was a series of Dust storms and droughts with insane wind, forcing migration and leaving ecological damage.
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    🟪 The New Deal

    President Roosevelt toom action in response to the Great Depression, providing jobs electricity and water, creating organizations, starting projects prior to becoming president, providing direct intervention and so much more.
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Franklin D. Roosevelt was a democrat
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    🟪 Chicano Movement

    Transformed the identity, politics, and community dynamics of Mexican Americans
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    WWll

  • 🟥 Pearl Harbor Attack

    A surprise attack by Japan that led to the US entering World War 2
  • 🟪 Japanese Internment

    The policy of the US Government that people of Japanese descent including US citizens would be incarnated in isolated camps
  • 🟦 Zoot Suit Riots

    Conflicts that occurred in LA between US servicemen and Mexican american youths , the latter that wore outfits called zoot suits
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    Harry S. Truman

    Harry S. Truman was a democrat
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    Cold War

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    🟦 Civil Rights Movement

    Social Movement in the US that aimed at ending legalized racial segregation and discrimination particularly African Americans
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    🟥 Korean War

    A major conflict in the Cold War and was fought between North and South Korea with support from their respective allies
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    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Dwight D. Eisenhower was a republican
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    🟥 Vietnam War

    Major conflict between North Vietnam and South Vietnam
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    John F. Kennedy

    John F. Kennedy was a democrat
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    Lyndon B. Johnson

    Lyndon B. Johnson was a democrat
  • 🟦 The Stonewall Riots

    Series of spontaneous riots and demonstrations against a police raid. Turning point in the fight for LGBTQ rights.
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    Richard Nixon

    Richard Nixon was a republican
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    🟦 Red Power Movement

    Native American Civil Rights movement pursued protection and autonomy in white culture that pursued culture from the 1960´s to the 70s
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    Gerald Ford

    Gerald Ford was a republican
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    Jimmy Carter

    Jimmy Carter was a democrat
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    Ronald Reagan

    Ronald Reagan was a republican
  • 🟦 Second National March on Washington

    Advocated for Lesbian and Gay rights. It was a huge political rally in Washington D.C.
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    🟩 Contemporary History

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    George H. W. Bush

    George H. W. Bush was a republican
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    🟥 The Gulf War

    The Gulf War marked a major conflict in the post-cold war era, led by the US
  • 🟥 9/11 Attacks

    Terrorist attack on the US killing nearly 3,000 people
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    Bill Clinton

    Bill Clinton is a democrat
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    George W. Bush

    George W. Bush is a republican
  • 🟥 The Iraq War

    US and coalition forces moved into Iraq and within three weeks coalition forces captured the major cities. George Bush who was president at the time, then ended combat operations.Despite the declaration of military victory, a persistent guerrilla war waged on for years following the initial combat operations.
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    Barack Obama

    Barack Obama is a democrat
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    Donald Trump

    Donald Trump is a republican
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    Joe Biden

    Joe Biden is a democrat
  • Donald Trump

    Donald Trump is a republican