U.S. history timeline

  • Boston tea party

    event that lead to american revolution
  • declaration of independance

    We were breaking away from british colony
  • George Washington

    1789-1797
  • Hamiltons financial plan

    Aimed to have a stable economy, it assumed state debts made a national bank, and promoted manufacturing
  • Second great awakening

    Protest religous revival movent that went through the us.
  • Early republic 1780-1830

    The convention of Philadelphia, the United States Constitution was drafted during this. George Washington died at Mount Vernon of a throat infection. Before he died he signed jay´s treaty with great britan.
  • John adams

    1797-1801
  • Thomas jefferson

    1801-1809
  • War of 1812

    A conflict over maritime rights
  • James madison

    James madison
    1809-1817
  • Temperance movement

    Encouraged drinkers to motivate each other to stop drinking and avoid the temptation to drink.
  • Era of good feelings 1815-1825

    We got a new president in james monroe. The Monroe doctrine which was the west hemisphere is no longer open to europeans. The missouri compromise was which admitted missouri as aslave state and maine as a free state.
  • James monroe

    James monroe
    1817-1825
  • jacksonian

    The indian removal act of 1830 the nullificationa crisis and maysville road bill veto this impacted our politics heavily and influenced the Democratic Party more.
  • Jackson veto second national bank

    President jackson vetoed to recharter the second national bank
  • John quincy adams

    John quincy adams
    1825-1837
  • andrew jackson

    andrew jackson
    1829-1837
  • Martin van Buren

    Martin van Buren
    1837-1841
  • William Henry Harrison

    William Henry Harrison
    1841
  • john tyler

    john tyler
    1841-1845
  • Famine irish immigration

    Crops were infected and that was gonna cause the irisht to die so they migrated to the us
  • Seneca falls convention

    A convention held in New York for women is known as the first women's convention.
  • James k Polk

    James k Polk
    1845-1849
  • Zachary Taylor

    Zachary Taylor
    1849-1850
  • Millard Fillmore

    Millard Fillmore
    1850-1853
  • Kansas Nebraska act

    organized Kansas and Nebraska, and repealed the Missouri Compromise.
  • franklin pierce

    1853-1857 democrat
  • James buchanan

    James buchanan
    1857-1861 democratic party
  • Civil War

    The Battle of Gettysburg, and Battle of Fort Sumter, and the Secession Crisis, the Civil War impacted us in a big way by reforming the us and then getting closer to aboloshing slavery.
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln
    1861-1865 National Union Party
  • Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed while attending a play at Ford's Theatre.
  • manifest destiny/westward expansion

    The Mexican-American War, Louisiana Purchase and Gold Rush happened during this time. This impacted our land where we expanded and grew even more.
  • Reconstruction act

    four federal laws were passed by congress.
  • andrew johnson

    andrew johnson
    democrat 1865-1869
  • Jim crow

    Laws and acts that forced racism against african americans.
  • 13-15 ammendmants

    the 13th Amendment abolished slavery. The 14th garuntees cirizenship to all born in america. the 15th gives voting rights to people of color.
  • ulysses grant

    ulysses grant
    1869-1877
  • James a Garfield

    James a Garfield
    1881 republican
  • Settlement house movement

    These houses wanted to make a bridge in between the gap of the rich and the poor.
  • Chester A Aurther

    Chester A Aurther
    republican 1881-1885
  • Rutherford b hayes

    Rutherford b hayes
    1877-1881 republican
  • Gilded Age

    The Chinese Exclusion Act,the panic of 1873 and moving to industrialization and urbanization. The Gilded Age impacted us because we were technologically evolving.
  • Benjamin harrison

    Benjamin harrison
    1889-1893 republican
  • Glover Cleveland

    Glover Cleveland
    1885-1889 / 1893-1897 national democratic
  • Spanish american war

    This put the United States and Spain against each other.
  • Progressive era

    We had the Political reforms, labor and social reforms, and environmentalism. The progressive era impacted us by helping reshape everything like politically and econimically and socially.
  • William McKinley

    William McKinley
    1897-1901 republican
  • Theodore roosevelt

    Theodore roosevelt
    republican 1901-1909
  • William Howard taft

    William Howard taft
    1909-1913 republican
  • Tulsa race massacre

    a riot where a black man was accused of assaulting a white woman that took place in Oklahoma.
  • WW1

    The Treaty of Versailles,the declaration of war and the russian revolution. World War I was probably one of the most impactful things to happen in the world our federal government got bigger. Our culture just got shaped in general to.
  • Woodrow Wilson

    Woodrow Wilson
    democratic 1913-1921
  • Warren G harding

    Warren G harding
    republican 1921-1923
  • Intro of the era

    An amendment that guaranteed equal rights for all peopl,e no matter what they are.
  • Roaring 20´s

    The Harlem Renaissance, women's suffrage, and prohibition. The roaring 20s impact in a way that our economy was growing at crazy rates and womens rights were finally being granted.
  • Calvin Coolidge

    Calvin Coolidge
    republican 1923-1929
  • Herbet Hoover

    Herbet Hoover
    republican 1929-1933
  • Great depression

    The stock market crash of 1929, the Dust Bowl, and the New Deal. the great depression impacted America in a way that in the future or future events our government would be more invloved.
  • chicano movement

    a political movement that focused on chicano' identity.
  • Japanese internment

    Japanese-descended people were relocated and incarcerated.
  • Zoot suit riots

    White civilians and police officers were beating Mexican American kids who wore the zoot suits.
  • Franklin D roosevelt

    Franklin D roosevelt
    democratic 1933-1945
  • World War 2

    Battle of britian, invasion of poland and the attack of pearl harbor. We were impacted by the great depression ending and economy being boosted and more jobs are avaliable.
  • Korean war

    A battle fought on the Korean peninsula.
  • Harry s Truman

    Harry s Truman
    democratic 1945-1953
  • Dwight d Eisenhower

    Dwight d Eisenhower
    republican 1953-1961
  • JFK assassination

    President kennedy was shot while in a motorcade with his wife
  • John f Kennedy

    John f Kennedy
    dempcratic 1961-1963
  • Stonewall Riots

    Spontaneous riots that took place early morning hours of the Stone Wall Inn.
  • Lyndon b johnson

    Lyndon b johnson
    democratic 1963-1969
  • Red Power Movement

    movement led by youth that wanted determination for native americans.
  • Richard m Nixon

    Richard m Nixon
    republican 1969-1974
  • Vietnam war

    us didnt want south vietnam to have communism
  • Gerald R Ford

    Gerald R Ford
    republican 1974-1977
  • Jimmy Carter

    Jimmy Carter
    democratic 1977-1981
  • Second national march on washington

    A large rally that happened in Washington, dc
  • Cold war

    Construction of the Berlin Wall, the fall of the Berlin Wall, then the cuban missle crisis. The impact of this formed the alliance of nato and warsaw pact.
  • Ronald Reagan

    Ronald Reagan
    republican 1981-1989
  • George bush

    George bush
    republican 1989-1993
  • Bill clinton

    Bill clinton
    republican 2001-2009
  • Barack Obama

    Barack Obama
    democrat 2009-2017
  • Donald trump

    Donald trump
    republican 2017-now
  • Joe biden

    democratic 2021-2025