US Government Timeline-CC By ccolemangwd51 Period: 1775 to 1783 Revolutionary war 1776 the declaration of independence was signed 1788 Constitution ratified 1791 Bill of rights adopted 1803 Louisiana purchase Period: 1812 to 1815 War of 1812 1823 Monroe Doctrine declared 1830 Trail of Tears 1836 Texas independence Period: 1846 to 1848 Mexican-American war Period: 1848 to 1855 California Gold Rush 1850 Compromise of 1850 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act 1857 Dred Scott Decision 1861 Civil War begins 1863 Emancipation Proclamation 1863 Battle of Gettysburg 1865 Civil War ends 1865 13th Amendment Ratified Period: 1865 to 1877 Reconstruction Era 1876 Centennial Exposition 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn 1881 Interstate Commerce Act 1898 Spanish-American War 1900 Women's suffrage movement 1903 Wright brothers' First flight Period: 1914 to 1917 WWI 1919 Prohibition enacted 1929 Great depression begins 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal 1939 WWII begins in Europe 1941 Pearl Harbor attack 1941 U.S. enters WWII 1944 D-Day invasion 1945 United Nations founded 1945 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima Period: 1950 to 1953 Korean War 1954 Brown V. Board of Education decision 1964 Civil Rights Act 1965 Vietnam War escalates 1969 Moon landing Period: 1972 to 1974 Watergate Scandal 1987 Fall of the Berlin Wall Period: 1990 to 1991 Gulf War 2001 9/11 attacks 2001 War in Afghanistan begins 2005 Hurricane Katrina 2008 Election of Barack Obama 2019 COVID-19 pandemic begins 2021 January 6 Capitol riot
