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Jefferson is elected as the third president of the U.S. He arranged the Louisiana Purchase and created peace with France
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The United States purchased the Louisiana territory from the French. This allowed Americans to expand West
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The Lewis and Clark expedition or the Corps of Discovery, was led by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis, and used seasoned mountain men to explore the Louisiana Purchase
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Slaves were no longer allowed to be imported in the United States
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James Madison is elected as president of the United States
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War between American and Great Britain. Increased tensions between the two.
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The Battle of New Orleans was won by Andrew Jackson
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Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana, and Mississippi are admitted into the United States
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The Indian Removal act was created
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The Liberator set a flame to the abolitionist movement
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Nat Turner, who led a slave rebellion, to end slavery and free slavery slaves, told his story in The confessions of Nat Turner.
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The Alamo falls in the attempt to free Texas
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The U.S. declares war on Mexico to bring Texas into the Union for it journey of manifest destiny
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Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Lincoln would fight for civil rights throughout his presidency.
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The Pony Express Mail service begins
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War between the North and South begins about slavery. Divides the nation into two
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Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address
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Puts an end to the Civil War. Leaves the South is shambles
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Lee surrenders and the Civil War is over
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
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Amendment 13 abolishes slavery in the United States
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Andrew Johnson's impeachment was the first faced by an American Presidency, and would deepen reconstruction, led by abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens.
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Government limits the work day hours to 8 hours
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Grants citizenship to anyone born or naturalized in the U.S. Allowed African-Americans to become citizens
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The first time the entire United States are connected
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Prohibits the denial of voting based on race or prior status as a slave
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Hiram R Revels is elected as the first African-American senator
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Susan B. Anthony, a leader of women's rights and civil rights, was helped by long time friend Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Clara Barton forms the Red Cross
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The Chinese Exclusion Act impacted Chinese American Civil Rights
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The Socialist party is founded by Eugene V. Debs and Victor L. Berger
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The National Women's Trade Union League is founded by Lillian Wald
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The Industrial Workers of the World
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Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is published
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Gives the government the right to tax American's income
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Allows citizens to chose senators through popular vote
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The U.S. enters World War One
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Bans the creation and consumption of alcohol. Starts the prohibition era.
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American Civil Liberties Union
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Establishes women suffrage
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The KKK marched in front of the capital
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Stock market crashed and America fell into its worse depression
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Hattie Wyatt Caraway was elected as the first woman senator
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Norris-LaGuardia Act passed, prohibiting federal injunctions in most labor disputes
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Sets the dates in which elected officials take office and when their terms end. It also determined the order of the presidents successors
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he Civilian Conservation Corps was a New Deal agency which would be substantial in getting the U.S. out of the Depression. The Corporation would go on to supply millions of young men with needed jobs
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Ended prohibition
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The Federal Communications Commission is founded
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Fair Labor Standards Act
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Congress passes Alien Registration Act
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The United States joined the war after the attacks on Pearl Harbor
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Japan bombed the American Naval base on Pearl Harbor
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Congress of Racial Equality is founded
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America drops the first ever atomic bomb on Hiroshima in attempt to end WWII
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Just three days after dropping a bomb on Hiroshima, the U.S. once again drops an atomic bomb on Japan. This bomb did put an end to the war
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The U.S. and Europe signed the treaty in an attempt to keep peace
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Limits a president to two 4-year terms
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Sixteen-year-old Barbara Johns led a walkout by four hundred black students to protest inadequate facilities at segregated Robert R. Moton High School. Vowing to boycott classes until the local all-white School Board addressed their complaints
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Overturned Plessy V. Ferguson. Determined that the Separate-but-equal doctrine violated the 14th amendment
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Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy was founded
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John Kennedy is elected as President of the United States
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Gave citizens of Washington D.C. the right to vote in the presidential election
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Freedom Rides begin. Some of the first peaceful protest for civil rights movemnt
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JFK is shot by Lee Harvey Oswald while being driven through Dallas
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All poll taxes are abolished
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Malcolm X is assassinated by Thomas Hagan
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Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were the first people to step foot on the moon
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Voting age is moved to 18 years old
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This meant that rights of scholarships and jobs were guaranteed by the government. This allowed girls to be involved in all school sports and activities
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The supreme court ruled that Johnson was protected under the first amendment, when he burned the american flag
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Bill Clinton is impeached for a sex scandal within the White House
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Sparked the "Bullying Revolution". Also started a huge debate on school safety and gun control
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The terrorist attacks of 9/11 sparked the War on Terrorism in the Middle East
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Osama Bin Laden organized a terror attack in which planes would crash into a few targets, such as the Twin Towers and Pentagon.
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Allows the government to do what is ever deemed necessary to intercept and prevent terrorist attacks. This includes having assess to private information on technology.
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Barack Obama is elected as the first African-American president of the United States.
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Lead to changes made to the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 for legally married same-sex couples
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The ban is lifted nationwide on same-sex marriage
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Hillary Clinton wins the 2016 Democratic Nominee
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In a very rocky 2016 election, Donald Trump was elected president
