Period 6 & 7 Dates & Amendments

1869

Transcontinental Railroad completed

1880

James A Garfield elected/assassinated, Chester A Arthur presidency

1869

Transcontinental Railroad completed

1880

James A Garfield elected/assassinated, Chester A Arthur presidency

1884

Grover Cleveland elected

1887

Dawes Severalty Act

1888

Benjamin Harrison Elected

1890

Frontier Declared Closed, US Census Bureau

1892

Homestead Strike

1893

Columbian Exposition, Chicago Worlds Fair

1896

William Mckinley Elected, defeats Wm Jennings Bryan and the Populist Movement

1896

Plessy v Ferguson

1898

Spanish American War

1901

Mckinley assassinated, Theodore Roosevelt presidency begins

1908

William howard taft elected

1912

Woodrow Wilson Elected

1914-1918

World War 1

1917

US Enters World War 1

1920

William harding elected, dies, coolidge finishes

1923

Calvin Coolidge elected

1928

Herbert Hoover elected

1929

Stock Market Crash, Great Depression begins

1932

Franklin D Roosevelt elected

1933

New Deal begins

1939

Invasion of Poland, WW 2 starts in Europe

1941

Pearl Harbor, US enters WWII

1945

Yalta Conference, end of WWII, atomic bomb on Japan

16th Amendment

Income taxes, Congress has power create & collect income tax

17th Amendment

Direct Election of Senators, states have power to directly elect senators, switches from state legislature to state

18th Amendment

Prohibition of Liquor

19th Amendment

Women’s Suffrage

20th Amendment

Terms of president and congress, changes date when they take office, President January 20th, Congress January 3rd

21st Amendment

Repeals the 18th Amendment, allows liquor again