Dates and Ammendments

Cold War

1945-1989

1945

Yalta Conference/ End of WWII/ Atomic Bomb on Japan

Truman Doctrine

1947

1950-1953

Korean War

1954

Brown v. Board of Education Topeka

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

1963

Martin Luther King’s March on Washington/ JFK assassinated/ LBJ becomes president

1964

Civil Rights Act/ Gulf of Tolkin Resolution (Vietnam)

1968

Tet Offensive in Vietnam/ RFK & MLK assassinated

1974

Watergate Nixon (resigns)/ Gerald Ford Presidency Begins

1975

US Exit of Vietnam

1979-1981

Iranian Hostage Crisis

1980

Ronald Reagan Elected

1989

Fall of Berlin Wall/ End of Cold War

2001

September 11th Terrorist Attacks

22nd amendment

Limitation of president to 2 terms

23rd Amendment

Suffrage in DC

24th Amendment

ended poll tax

25th Amendment

Presidential Disability & succession

26th Amendment

voting age moved to 18

27th Amendment

Congressional Pay Raises

1619

VA House of Burgess/ first slaves arrive

1620

Plymouth Settled

1492

Christopher Columbus Arrives

1607

Jamestown Settled

1754 - 1763

French and Indian War Era

1775 - 1783

Revolutionary War Era

1763

French and Indian War Ends/ Pontaic’s Rebellion/ Proclamation of 1763

1776

Declaration of Independence

1781

Articles of Confederation

1787

Constitutional Convention

1789

Washington Presidency Begins

1791

Bill of Rights

1st Amendment

Freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.

2nd Amendment

Right to Bear Arms

3rd Amendment

Housing of Soldiers

4th Amendment

Search and Seizure

5th Amendment

Rights of the Accused

6th Amendment

Right to fair trial

7th Amendment

Rights in Civil Case

8th Amendment

Cruel and Unusual Punishment

9th Amendment

Rights retained by the people

10th Amendment

Power retained by the states and the people

1800

Thomas Jefferson elected

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1812-1814

War of 1812

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1825

Erie Canal opens

1828

Andrew Jackson elected

1838

Trail of Tears

11th Amendment

Lawsuits Against States

12th Amendment

Election of President and Vice President

1865-1900

The Gilded Age

1869

Transcontinental Railroad completed

1887

Dawes Severalty Act

1890

Frontier Declared Closed - US Census Bureau

1892

Homestead Strike

1893

Columbian Exposition/ Chicago Worlds Fair

1896

William McKinley Elected defeats William Jennings Bryan & the Populist Movement

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson

1898 - 1917

Progressive Era

1914-1918

WWI Era

1940 - 1945

WWII Era

1898

Spanish American War

1901

McKinley assassinated/ Theodore Roosevelt President

1917

US Enters WWI

1929

Stock Market Crash / Depression Begins

1932

Franklin D. Roosevelt Elected

1933

New Deal Begins

1941

Pearl Harbor / US Enters WWII

1846 - 1848

Mexican War

1848

Gold in California/ Seneca Falls Convention

1850

Compromise of 1850 - Fugitive Slave Act

1852

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

1854

Kansas Nebraska Act / Bleeding Kansas

1857

Dred Scott Case

1860

Abraham Lincoln Elected/ Southern Succession

1862

Emancipation Proclaimation

1877

Compromise of 1877 - End of Reconstruction

1861 - 1865

Civil War Era

1863 - 1877

Reconstruction Era

13th Amendment

Abolished Slavery

14th Amendment

Civil Rights of freed slaves

15th Amendment

African American Suffrage

16th Amendment

Income Tax

17th Amendment

Direct Election of Senators

18th Amendment

Prohibition

19th Amendment

Women’s Suffrage

20th Amendment

Start Dates of President and Congress

21st Amendment

Repeal of Prohibition