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Social Studies Timeline
Created by
will
⟶ Updated 29 Aug 2017 ⟶
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Events
England founds & settles Jamestown, Virginia
Last English colony (Georgia) founded
Declaration of Independence
Treaty of Paris
Articles of Confederation Adopted
Land Ordinance of 1785
Northwest Ordinance
Constitution drafted
Constitution ratified
Judiciary Act of 1789
Federalist & Republican parties formed
George Washington inaugurated as President
Bill of Rights drafted
Marbury v. Madison
Louisiana Purchase
Missouri Compromise
Monroe Doctrine
Dred Scott v. Sanford
South Carolina secedes
Abraham Lincoln inaugurated President
Confederacy formed
Battle of Gettysburg
General Lee surrenders at Appomattox
Lincoln assassinated
Reconstruction Act
Dawes Act (assigned land to Indians)
Interstate Commerce Act
Sherman Antitrust Act
American Federation of Labor founded
Plessy v. Ferguson
Wright Brothers make first heavier-than-air flight
Henry Ford introduces Model T
U.S. enters WWI
Treaty of Versailles signed
Harlem Renaissance
Lindenbergh flies solo to Paris
Stock Market Crashes (Black Tuesday)
Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated as President
Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
Pearl Harbor
United States enters WWII
Doolittle Raid
Germany surrenders
Japan surrenders
United Nations (UN) intervenes in Korea
Armistice ends Korean War
United States begins to provide aid to South Vietnam
Alaska & Hawaii become states
Sputnik launched into space
John Glenn circles globe
Civil Rights march on Washington (“I have a dream” speech)
Kennedy assassinated
Civil Rights Act passed
First United States combat troops land in Vietnam
National Organization for Women founded
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
Robert Kennedy assassinated
American astronauts land on the moon
Watergate scandal
Nixon resigns from the Presidency
SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) signed
Helsinki Accords signed
Camp David Accords signed
Iranians seize American hostages
United States invades Grenada
Berlin Wall comes down
United States sends troops to Saudi Arabia
Collapse of the Soviet Union
Clinton defeats Bush & Perot
Columbine High School shooting
Terrorist planes crash into the World Trade Center Towers, the Pentagon, and Pennsylvania
United States invades Afghanistan & Iraq
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
Barack Obama Elected 44th President
Social Networking Revolution
Periods
Columbus lands at San Salvador Island (Bahamas)
French & Indian War
Revolutionary War
Shay’s Rebellion begins
Whiskey Rebellion
War of 1812 (ending with Treaty of Ghent)
Women’s Rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York
Civil War
Spanish American War
World War I
Great Depression
Germany invades Poland (Start of WWII)
World War II
Atomic bombs dropped on Japan (Hiroshima & Nagasaki)
Korean War
Brown v. Board of Education
Montgomery bus boycott
Vietnam War
Cold War
Cuban Missile Crisis
Civil Rights Movement
OPEC embargoes oil
Iran Contra affair
Persian Gulf Crisis
The Los Angeles Riots
Global financial crisis
