periods

2000s

attacks; beginning of War on Terror

Financial Crisis

1990s

end of Cold War (fall of Soviet Union)

Clinton impeachment

1980s

Reagan won presidential election

AIDS epidemic

1970s

First Earth Day

oil crisis; stagflation

manufacturing in the US begins to decline

rise of Christian fundamentalism (1979 Moral Majority)

Pentagon Papers

Nixon travelled to China

Watergate break-in

Title (9) IX; ERA went to the states for ratification

Roe v Wade

Nixon resigned

Iran hostage crisis

1960s

JFK won presidential election

Formation of SNCC

Freedom Rides

Cuban Missile Crisis

JFK assassinated; LBJ became president

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique

Freedom Summer

Civil Rights Act; beginning of Republican Party's Southern Strategy

Tonkin Gulf Resolution

LB Johnson starts Great Society program

Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

Voting Rights Act

Malcolm X assassinated

Griswold v Connecticut

Riots in American cities over police brutality

Chicano Movement

Formation Black Panthers

Loving v Virginia

Women's Liberation Movement

Asian American Movement

MLK assassinated; Bobby Kennedy assassinated

Nixon won presidential election

American Indian Movement began

Stonewall Uprising

countercultures, youth culture, antiwar protests

1950s

Korean War

Joseph McCarthy makes first accusations

Growth of the suburbs

Immigration and Nationality Act

Brown v Board of Education

Civil Rights Movement

Murder of Emmett Till; Rosa Parks arrested; beginning of Montgomery Bus Boycott

Vietnam War

1940s

Pearl Harbor

Internment of Japanese Americans

Final Solution

D-Day

Death of FDR; Truman became president

VE Day

Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Decolonization of Asian and African countries

Baby Boom

Cold War

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

Desegregation of Armed Forces

Dixiecrats

Founding of NATO

People's Republic of China created; USSR tested A-bomb

1930s

FDR won presidential election

Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany

World War I

1920s

19th Amendment

Roaring Twenties/Jazz Age

Founding of USSR

Immigration Act of 1924 (Johnson-Reed Act)

Great Depression begins

1910s

Great Migration

Woodrow Wilson won presidential election

Panama Canal completed

World War I

US enters WWI; Russian Revolution

Red Scare

Red Summer

1900

McKinley assassinated; TR became president

1890s

Progressive Era

Wounded Knee Massacre

Changes in immigration patterns

Census Bureau declared the frontier closed

Founding People's Party (Populist Party)

Founding Carnegie Steel

Imperial Japan

Plessy v. Ferguson

Spanish American War

Philippine-American War

1880s

first references to Social Darwinism

Jane Addams founded Hull House

Andrew Carnegie's "The Gospel of Wealth"

1870s

Gilded Age

Social Gospel movement

Founding Rockefeller Oil

the New South

Conviction of Boss Tweed

Carlisle Indian Industrial School opened

1860s

Lincoln won presidential election

South Carolina first state to secede

Confederate States of America formed

Civil War

Emancipation Proclamation

Reconstruction

Completion of first Transcontinental Railroad

1850s

Compromise of 1850

Know Nothing Party popular

Republican Party founded

Kansas Nebraska Act

Dred Scott Decision

1840s

James K. Polk won presidential election

Brigham Young becomes leader of Latter-day Saints

Mexican-American War

Utopian Communities

Seneca Falls Convention

Free Soil Party

1830s

Indian Removal Act

Founding of Whig Party

Texas Revolution

1820s

Missouri Compromise

Monroe Doctrine

Opening of first mill in Lowell

Founding of Democratic Party

Erie Canal completed

Market Revolution

Andrew Jackson elected as president

1800s

Jefferson won presidential election

Second Great Awakening

Expansion of universal white manhood suffrage

Temperance Movement

Napoleonic Wars in Europe

Louisiana Purchase

Embargo Act

Prohibition of international slave trade

Congress enacted American System programs

Second Bank of the US

1790s

Naturalization Act of 1790

First Bank of the US

Whiskey Rebellion

Invention of cotton gin

1780s

(ratification)-1789 Articles of Confederation

Land Ordinance of 1785

Northwest Ordinance

Shay's Rebellion

Constitutional Convention

Constitution ratified (put into operation in 1789)

French Revolution

Washington became president

1770s

Boston Massacre

Tea Act; Boston Tea Party

Intolerable Acts

First Continental Congress

Lexington and Concord

Second Continental Congress; Olive Branch Petition

American Revolution

Thomas Paine, Common Sense

Declaration of Independence

1760s

period of Salutary Neglect ends

Proclamation Line of 1763

Sugar Act

Stamp Act

Townshend Acts