US History 19th and 20th Century Timeline

1865 The US Civil War ends with General
Robert E. Lee and his officers surrendering their swords. 1865­ President Lincoln is assassinated. 1865­ Thirteenth Amendment 1865­ Freedman’s Bureau 1866­ Civil Right’s Act 1866­ Ku Klux Klan created 1866­ National Labor Union 1867­ Military Reconstruction Act 1867­ Grandfather Clause 1867­ Indian Peace Commission 1868­ Fourteenth Amendment 1869­ President Ulysses S. Grant 1870­ Fifteenth Amendment 1870­1871­ Enforcement Acts 1870­ Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company 1870­ Farmer’s Alliance 1872­ Liberal Republicans formed 1873­ Panic of 1873 1873­ Mark Twain publishes The Gilded Age

1874­ Coushatta Massacre 1876­ Battle of the Little Big Horn 1877­ The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 1880­ New Immigrants 1880­ Salvation Army 1882­ Chinese Exclusion Act 1883­ Civil Service Act of 1883 1886­ Samuel Gompers 1886­ Haymarket Riot 1887­ American Protective Association 1887­ Immigration Restrictive League 1890­ Wounded Knee Massacre 1890­ People’s Party 1892­ Homestead Strike 1892­ Ellis Island 1894­ Pullman Strike 1896­ Plessy v. Ferguson

1900­ Theodore Roosevelt Elected
President

1903­ Wright brother’s first flight 1908­ Taft Elected President 1914­ World War 1 Begins in Europe 1917­ U.S. enters World War I 1918 ­ World War I Ends 1923 ­ German money hyper inflats 1929 ­ Stock market crashes, Depression
Begins

1931­ Worst of depression almost 25% unemployed 1932 ­ Franklin Roosevelt Elected President 1934 ­ Hindenburg Dies 1936­ FDR Re­elected 1939­ World War II Starts in Europe 1941­ Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor 1949 ­ NATO established 1950 ­ U.S. recognizes Vietnam 1950­­ U.S. bars trade with Communist
China

1952­ Eisenhower and Nixon elected
President and Vice President

1954 ­ Brown v. Board of Education 1955 ­ U.S. begins economic aid to South
Vietnam

1955­ ­ U.S. Supreme Court orders immediate desegregation of schools 1956 ­ Eisenhower and Nixon re­elected. 1958­ Soviets launch “Sputnik” 1959 ­ Alaska and Hawaii become states 1960 ­ Lunch counter sit ins begin in South 1960­ Kennedy and Johnson elected
President and Vice President 1961 ­ US INCREASES INVOLVEMENT IN
VIETNAM

1961­ U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with
Cuba

1962 ­ Cuban Missile Crisis 1963 ­ KENNEDY ASSASSINATED 1964 ­ Johnson defeats Republican
Goldwater and remains President 1965 ­ Massive escalation of U.S. military effort, combined with nightly TV coverage of war and opposition of liberal news media. 1966 ­ More race riots in many major cities 1969 ­ U.S. ­ Vietnam peace talks start 1969­ 400,000 people attend “Woodstock” 1970­ Nixon names two women generals 1971 ­ Constitutional Amendment (26) lowering voting age to 18

1973­ Vietnam War Ends 1973­ President Nixon resigns 1980­ Some one new class now born 1991 ­
Cold War ends as the
USSR
dissolves 1992­ Clinton Elected President 1993 ­ President Clinton signs '
Don't ask, don't tell
' into law. 1995 ­
Republicans
gain control of both the
House
and
Senate

1996 ­
Centennial Olympic Park bombing at
Summer Olympics in
Atlanta
kills 1 and injures 111 1998­ Lewinsky Scandal 1998­ Marina Pena was born. Heavily influencing the entire world and changing it for the better.