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Before 1492
1607-1713
1607 Jamestown Colony Founded
1619 1st African's Arrive in Virginia
1620 Plymouth colony founded - Mayflower Compact
House of Burgesses established in Virginia
1629 Puritans settle Massachusetts Bay
1635 Connecticut Founded
1637 Anne Hutchinson expelled for Massachusetts Bay colony
1642-48 English Civil War
1643 New England Confederation
1644 Roger Williams establishes Rhode Island colony
1662 Halfway Covenant established in New England
1664 North Carolina, New York, New Jersey Founded
1675 Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia
1681 South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Delaware Founded
1692 Witchcraft trials begin in Salem
1713-1763
1763-1783
1783-1789
1789-1801
1800-1824
1825 Erie Canal Completed
1828-1848
1860
1861-1865
1865-1877
1900
1914
1920
1929
1939-1945
1946
1950
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000
2010
"Era of Good Feelings": 1816-1824
Importance of Maize Cultivation for the Rise of the Great Civilizations such as Maya , Inca, Aztec, Pueblo, etc.
Most society semi-sedentary
Developed extensive trade networks
1492 Christopher Columbus
1733 Georgia, Founded
1734 Great Awakening begins
1736 Zenger Case
1739 Stono rebellion in North Carolina
George Whitfield begins preaching in America
Conservative Politics:
Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
Higher Tariffs
Anti - Labor
Laissez Faire
Trickle Down Economics
1785 Land Ordinance
1787 Northwest Ordinance
1787 Shay's Rebellion
Constitutional Convention
1861 Fort Sumter
Bull Run
1862 Antietam
Trent Affair
1863 Gettysburg
Vicksburg
1864 Grant's Wilderness Campaign
1865 Lee's Surrender
Lincoln Assassinated
13th Amendment
1800 Gabrielle's Rebellion
1801 Tripolitian War
1803 Louisiana Purchase - Lewis and Clark
Marbury v. Madison- Judicial Review
1804 Twelfth Amendment - One Candidate from a party
Impeachment of Samuel Chase
1806 Britain's Orders of Council
1807 Chesapeake Leopard Affair
Embargo Act
Robert Fulton's Steamboat Travels up the Hudson
1809 Non-Intercourse Act
War of 1812: 1812-1815 WHITEN
1814 Hartford Convention
1815 Treaty of Ghent
Battle of New Orleans
1817 Rush- Bagot Treaty
1819 Convention of 1818
Adam- Onis Treaty - Florida
Panic of 1819
1820 Missouri Compromise - 36' 30
1822 Denmark Vesey Conspiracy
1823 Monroe Doctrine
1842 Prigg v. Pennsylvania
1848 Willmot Proviso
1850 Compromise of 1850 - POPFACT
1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin
1854 Kansas Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
1857 Dred Scott Case
1859 John Brown Raids Harpers Ferry
1860 Election of 1860 - Lincoln
1789 Judiciary Act of 1789
BE FAT 1789-1791
French Revolution
1790 First Turnpike built in Lancaster, PA
1791 Bill of Rights
Slater Builds 1st Textile Factory
1st BUS
1793 Neutrality Proclamation
Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin
1794 Whiskey Rebellion
1795 Jay Treaty
Pinckney Treaty
1796 1st two party election Adams (Federalist) vs. Jefferson (Democratic
Republican)
1797 XYZ Affair
1798 Quasi War with France (1798-1800)
Alien and Sedition Acts
Virginia and Kentucky Resolution - Nullification
1800 Convention of 1800
Revolution of 1800
1919 - Did not sign Treaty of Versailles
1921-22 Washington Disarmament Conference
Five Powers Treaty
Four Powers Treaty
Nine Powers Treaty
1922 - Fordney McCumber Tariff
1924 - Dawes Plan
1928 -Kellogg Braind Pact - Outlaws War
1930 - Hawley Smoot Tariff
1932 - Hoover Stimson Doctrine - No recognition of Japan's conquest of Manchuria
1934 - Nye Committee - WWI caused by banks and arms manufactures
1935 - Neutrality Act - No sale of arms to belligerent nations
1936 - Neutrality Act - No loans to belligerent nations
1937 - Neutrality Act - No traveling on ships of belligerent nations
1939 - Neutrality Act - Cash and Carry
1940 - Arsenal of Democracy Speech
1941 - Four Freedoms Speech
Lend Lease Act
Atlantic Charter
1864-65
Presidential Reconstruction
10% Plan
December 1865 13th Amendment
1865 -67
Congressional Reconstruction
Freedmen' s Bureau
1867-1877
Military Reconstruction
1868
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
1875 Civil Rights Act- Ends Segregation in Public Spaces
Ruled Unconstitutional in 1883
1877 Compromise of 1877 aka Corrupt Bargain Part II
1828 First Railroad in U.S.
Tariff of Abominations
1830 Second Great Awakening
Mower Reaper Invented
Indian Removal Act
1831 William Lloyd Garrison- Liberator
Nat Turner's Rebellion
1832 Webster-Hayne Debate
Nullification Crisis
National Nominating Convention
BUS Issue
1836 Gag Rule
1837 Panic of 1837
Deere Invents Steel Plow
1846 Sewing Machine
1763 Proclamation of 1763
1765 Stamp Act
1767 Townshend Acts
1770 Boston Massacre
Townshend Acts Repealed
1772-1773 Committees of Correspondence
1773 Tea Act
Boston Tea Party
1774 Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
Quebec Act
1774 1st Continental Congress
1775 Lexington and Concord
2nd Continental Congress
Battle of Bunker Hill (Breed's Hill)
1776 Thomas Paine Publishes Common Sense
Trenton (Crossing of the Delaware)
1776 Declaration of Independence
1777 Saratoga
1781 Yorktown
1783 Treaty of Paris
1911- Frederick Winslow Taylor - Scientific Management - Mass Production
1919-20 Red Scare
1920 - Harding Elected "Return to Normalcy" - 1st time women vote
Sacco and Vanzetti Arrested
Harlem Renaissance
1921 - Immigration Act
Margaret Sanger Founds the American Birth Control League
Marcus Garvey - "Back to Africa" Speech
1923 - Equal Rights Amendment Written - Alice Paul
1924 - National Origins Act
Dawes Plan
1925 - Scopes Monkey Trial
Miss Nully Gagged When Clay's Kangaroo Bit Dumb John's Ear
1950-53 Korean War
1953 Overthrow of Moussadegh in Iran
1954 Geneva Conference
1955 Warsaw Pact
1956 Suez Crisis
1957 Sputnik
1958 Invasion of Lebanon
Eisenhower Doctrine
1959 Cuba falls to Communism
1946 George Kennan - Long Telegram - Containment
1947 Truman Doctrine
Greece and Turkey
Marshall Plan
1948-49 Berlin Crisis
1949 NATO
China Falls to Communism
Vegetables Never Matter Much Cuz Rice Never Never Never Satisfies Prairie Dogs Golly
1970- Invasion of Cambodia
Kent State
1972 Paris Peace Accords
Nixon Visits China
Nixon Visits Moscow
SALT I - stop making ICBM
1973 American Troops Leave Vietnam
1975 US Embassy in Saigon falls
1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
1960 U2 Spy Plane Incident
1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
1964-75 Vietnam War
1964 Gulf of Tonkin
1968 Tet Offensive
Mai Lai Massacre
1969 Vietnamization
Bombing of Cambodia
ARTICLES
"G" I HATE LAMB
Big Jolly Hamilton Found Nervous Jefferson Entering X-Men's Quarters Angering White Republicans
1980 Boycott of Moscow Olympics
1983 Star Wars
Evil Empire Speech - Reagan
1984 Soviets Boycott LA Olympics
Reagan Doctrine
1987 Iran Contra Scandal
1988 Soviets Leave Afghanistan
1989 Fall of Communism Eastern Europe
1991 Fall of the Soviet Union
New KNICKS
Pretty Silly Tammy Baked Tea Cookies Inside Freshly Layered Spicy Dough
Hoover - Indirect Relief: "Rugged Individualism"
FDR- Direct Relief
1754 French and Indian War begins
1756 Albany Plan of Union
1760 Battle of Quebec
1763 Pontiac's Revolt
Treaty of Paris
Proclamation of 1763
1845 Texas Annexed
1846 Oregon Treaty
1848 Wilmot Proviso
1853 Matthew Perry goes to Japan
Gadsden Purchase
1854 Ostend Manifesto
1867 Alaska Purchase Treaty- William H Seward
1893 Fredrick Jackson Turner - Frontier Thesis
1862 Pacific Railway Act
Morrill Tariff
Homestead Act
Morrill Land Grant Act
1863 National Banking Act
1929 - Stock Market Crashes
1930 -36 - Dust Bowl
1931 - Debt Moratorium
1932 - Bonus Army
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
1933-35 First New Deal - Relief and Recovery
CCC, PWA, WPA, NYA, NIRA, AAA, EBRA
1935 - Schecter Poultry Corp v. US - AAA unconstitutional
1936 - United States V. Butler - NIRA unconstitutional
1935-38 Second New Deal - Recovery and Reform
SSA, FDIC, TVA, SEC, Indian Reorganization Act, Fair Labor and Standards Act, FHA
1937 - Court Packing Scheme
1852 Social Darwinism
2nd Industrial Revolution - ROSE
1869 Knights of Labor
1870 Standard Oil Organized
1873 Panic of 1873 - Economic Depression
1876 Boss Tweed Jailed
1886 American Federation of Labor
1887 Interstate Commerce Act
1889 Gospel of Wealth
1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Act
1890 Homestead Strike
1892 Populist Party
1893 Panic of 1893- Economic Depression
1894 Pullman Strike
TOM
AP History Make Me Nauseous
2016 - Hilary Clinton 1st Female to earn parties nomination for
President
2017 - Women's March
Travel Ban
Pardon's Sheriff Joe Arpaio of AZ.
$1.5 Trillion in Tax cuts
2018 - Syria uses Chemical Weapons on its citizens Trump strikes
back with allied French and British air strike.
Summitt between North and South Korea - Call for a formal end to the Korean War
1941 - December 7th, Pearl Harbor Attacked
Japanese American Internment
1942 - Midway
1943 - Operation Torch- North Africa
Hirabaysashi v U.S.
1944 - D- Day, Invasion of Normandy
Battle of the Bulge
Korematsu v. United States
1945 - Feb Iwo Jima
Feb 4 Yalta Conference
Creation of United Nations
April 1 Okinawa
April 15 FDR Dies
April 30 Hitler Commits Suicide
May 8 VE Day
July 17 Potsdam Conference
August 6 Hiroshima
August 9 Nagasaki
August 14 VJ Day
1988 - "Read my lips, no new taxes."
1989 - Exon Valdez Oil Spill
Tiananmen Square Massacre
Berlin Wall Falls
1990 - New Taxes Proposed
Americans with Disabilities Act
1991- Gulf War
Operation Desert Storm
Civil Rights Act of 1991 - easier for employees to sue on grounds of discrimination
Soviet Union disolved
1992-93 Recession
1993 - al Qaeda bombs World Trade Center
1978 - Camp David Accords
1979 - Energy Crisis
Iran Hostage Crisis
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Three Mile Island - Nuclear disaster
Attacked by a rabbit
SALT II
Department of ED established
1980 - Boycotting of Moscow Olympics
Carter Doctrine- threats on Middle East threat on American interests
2000- Dimpled Chads - Contested Election
2001 - Trillion Dollar Tax Cut
9-11 Terrorist Attacks
Operation "Enduring Freedom"
2002 - No Child Left Behind
Jimmy Carter Travels to Cuba
2003 - Iraq War
Late Term Abortions Banned
2005 - Hurricane Katrina
2006 - Saddam Hussein Executed
2007 - Nancy Pelosi - 1st female speaker of the house
Virginia Tech Massacre
2008 - Financial Crisis
Too Big to Fail
2008 - 1st African American President Elected
2009 - Executive Order to close Guantanamo Bay
New Age Fireside Chats
Nobel Peace Prize
Hate Crimes Prevention Act
2010 - Affordable Care Act
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
2012 - Sandy Hook School Shooting
2013 - Government Shutdown
2014 - Executive order banning LGBTQ discrimination
2015 - Ogerbefell v. Hodges - Legalizes Gay Marriage in the U.S.
Paris Climate Change Conference
2016 - Cuba Trip
Flint Michigan
1836 Texas Declared Indpendence
1837 Jackson Recognizes Texas
1845 Tyler makes Texas a State
Slidell sent to buy California
1846 Gen. Zachary Taylor Marches to Nueces River
War Breaks Out
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Wilmot Proviso
1960 Televised Debates
1961 Berlin Crisis
1961 Bay of Pigs Crisis
1961 Sends Attorney General Robert F Kennedy to enforce Civil Rights Act of 1960- Freedom Rides
Executive Order 10925 - Affirmative Action
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
"We Choose to Go the the Moon" Speech - Space Race
Engle v Vitale - Bans mandatory prayer in public schools
Federalizes National Guard to ensure James Meredith can attend Old Miss
1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Gideon v Wainwright - Right to an attorney even if you cannot afford one
November 22nd assassinated by Lee Havey Oswald in Dallas Texas
Domestic - Fair Deal
1947 - Desegregation Armed Forces
Jackie Robinson Integrates Baseball
Taft-Hartley Act - Anti-Labor Law
Truman's Loyalty Review Program
1946-54 2nd Red Scare
1950-54 McCarthyism
1950 Rosenbergs
McCarran Act
1877 - Disenfranchisement - Poll taxes, Grandfather clauses, Literacy Tests
1895 - Atlanta Compromise - Booker T. Washington
1896 - Plessy V. Ferguson
1905 - Niagara Movement - WEB DuBois
1909 - NAACP
1953-1961
1953 -Appoints Earl Warren to Supreme Court
1954- Brown v. Board
1956 - National Highway Act
1957 - Integration of Little Rock
Eisenhower sends in the 101st Airborne Division
Civil Rights Act - Fed. Prosecutors can use court injunction to enforce 14th and 15th Amendment
1960- Civil Rights Act - Federal inspection of polling stations
Flexible Response
New Frontier
1981 March 30 - Assassination Attempt
Reduces Taxes by 25%
Sandra Day O'Connor 1st Female Supreme Court Justice appointed
1982 Marines deployed to Lebanon
Recession Unemployment reaches 10%
1983 "Evil Empire" Speech
1984 Iran-Contra Affair
1986 Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes
Reykjavik Summit - Destroy all the world's nuclear weapons
Iran-Contra Scandal
1987 "Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!"
1993 - Family Medical Leave Act
Janet Reno - 1st Female Attorney General
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
Brady Act
North America Free Trade Agreement
1994 - Republicans take control of Congress
1995 - Oklahoma City Bomb
US Recognizes Vietnam
1997 - Chemical Weapons Convention Ratified
all development, production and use of Chemical weapons banned
Balanced budget
1998- Monica Lewinski Affair
Bombing of Kosovo
House Impeaches Clinton
Senate acquitted Clinton
Special Forces, Conventional Military, Nuclear Weapons Covert Operations
Reaganomics
Minimum Wage
Federal Commission on the Status of Women
Peace Corps
Job Corps
Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation
Planning Amendment to the Social Security Act
Brinkmanship
1968 - Peace with Honor
1969 - Public learns of Mai Lai
"Silent Majority Speech"
Bombing of Cambodia
1970 - Invasion of Cambodia
Kent State/ Jackson State
Vietnamization
Clean Air Act
Environmental Protection Agency
Stagflation
1971 - Pentagon Papers
26th Amendment - Voting Age 18
1972 - Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP)
Travels to China
Travels to USSR
Detente
Watergate Break-In
Nixon Re-Elected
1973 - American Forces Leave Vietnam
Oil Crisis
Senate Hearings on Watergate
Spiro Agnew Resigns - Tax evasion
Saturday Night Massacre
1974 - Ford becomes VP
Impeachment Hearings begin
August 9th Resigns from the office
Ford Becomes President of the United States
1854 - Ostend Manifesto - Cuba
1889 - Pan American Conference
1889 - Samoan Crisis
1890- Alfred Thayer Mahan - Influence of Sea Power Upon History
1894 - Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii overthrown by American Planters
1898 - Spanish American War
1898 - Teller Amendment - Cuban Independence
1899 - Open Door Policy - China
1900 - Boxer Rebellion
1901 - Hay - Banau - Varilla Treaty - Can build Panama Canal
1902 - Platt Amendment - Guantanamo Bay
1903 - Construction of Panama Canal Begins
1904 - Roosevelt Corollary
1905 - Treaty of Portsmouth - Ends Russo - Japanese War - Favors Russians
1914 - Quazi War with Mexico
1916 - Jones Act - Philippines official a territory
1877 Munn vs Illinois
1878 Greenback Labor Party
1886 Wabash Case
1896 William Jennings Bryan - Cross of Gold Speech
Populist Agenda: Fried Green Gummy-bears Invade Really Really Dorky Silly People
Marshall Court - Strengthen National Gov't
Free Coinage of Silver
Graduated Income Tax
Gov't Ownership of Railroads
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
Direct Election of Senators
Sub-treasury System
Postal Savings Bank
1963 - Sworn in on Air Force One after Kennedy assassination
1964- Re-Elected
Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Bans discrimination in public places and in the work force
Gulf of Tonkin
1965 - Voting Rights Act - Bans Literacy Tests and allows for
federal examiners to ensure voting registration
Medicare Act
Head Start
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Weaver- 1st Black Cabinet Member
Immigration Act of 1965 - ends quota system
National Endowment for the Arts
1967 - Thurgood Marshall 1st African American to Supreme Court
1968 - Tet Offensive
Imperialist Presidents: McKinley, T. Roosevelt (Big Stick Diplomacy), Taft ($ Diplomacy) , Wilson (Moral Diplomacy)
Antebellum Reform - A Totally Wicked Elephant Made Pigs Devour Worms
1816 American Colonization Society
1825 Tax Supported Schools - Horace Mann
New Harmony - Wilderness Utopia founded by Robert Owen
1828 Webster's American English Dictionary
1830 2nd Great Awakening
1831 The Liberator - William Lloyd Garrison
1837 Oberlin College Opens doors to women and blacks
1848 Seneca Falls Declaration
Oneida Colony
1851 Neal Dow: Maine Law - Temperance
1854 T.S. Arthur Ten Nights in a Barroom and What I Saw There
1974 - Federal Electins Campaign Act
Visits Japan
Privacy Act
Freedom of Information Act
1975 - Saigon Falls to the North Vietnamese
Tax Cuts
Unemployment hits 9.2%
Egypt-Isreal Peace Agreement
1976 - Pardons Nixon
Federal Elections Campaign Act
Great Society
1941 - American CIA trains Ho Chi Minh to help against the Japanese
1950 - 1st advisors to Vietnam - Truman
1954- Geneva Conference - Two Vietnams - North Ho Chi Minh, South Nago Dinh Diem
1956 - Elections lost to Communist Regime - Civil War
1960 - Kennedy Sends in Green Berets
1963 - Self Immolation of Buddhist Monks
Military Coup Kills Diem and Brother - Backed by US
Destabilizes South
1964 - Gulf of Tonkin incident/ Resolution
1965 - Operation Rolling Thunder
1965-68 Ground War
1967 - William Westmoreland "Light at end of the tunnel."
1968 - Tet Offensive
Mai Lai Massacre
1969 - Peace with honor
Bombing of Cambodia
1970 - Invasion of Cambodia
Kent State/ Jackson State
Vietnamization
1971 - Pentagon Papers - Johnson misled gov't - Gulf of Tonkin
26th Amendment - voting age 18
1972 - Peace at Hand
1973 - Ceasefire
American Troops withdrawn
1975 - US Embassy in Saigon falls to North Vietnam
Progressive President's:
T. Roosevelt
Conservation
Consumer protection
Corporate Regulation
Taft
Wilson
Tariffs
Trusts
The Banks
1790 1st Turnpike
1807 Steamboat
1811 National Road - Completed in 1852
1825 Erie Canal
1828 B & O Railroad
1837 Charles River Bridge Decision
1793 King Cotton
1816 Tariff of 1816
1828 Tariff of Abominations
1831 Clay's American System BIT
1832 Tariff of 1832
1842 Commonwealth v. Hunt
1850 Interchangeable Parts
1944 GI Bill
1946-64 Baby Boom
1946 Commonsense Book of Baby and Childcare Dr. Spock
1955 The Howl - Allen Ginsburg
1957 On the Road - Jack Kerouac
1958 Affluent Society - John Kenneth Galbreath
1963 Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan
1883 - Pendelton Civil Service Act
1890- How the Other Half Lives - Jacob Riis
1901 Tenenment Housing Act
1902 - Shame of the Cities by Lincoln Steffens
1902 - History of Standard Oil Company by Ida Tarbell
Standard Oil Dissolved in 1911
1902 - Antricite Coal Mine Strike - Gov't on the Side of the Union
Newlands Reclamation Act
1906 - The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
1906 - Bitter Cry of the Children by John Spargo
1912 - 16th Amendment - Income Tax
1913 - 17th Amendment - Direct Election of Senators
Federal Reserve Act
1914 - Clayton Anti -Trust Act
Federal Trade Commission
1916 - Workingmen's Compensation Act
Federal Highway Act
National Parks - Department of Interior
1920 - 18th Amendment - Prohibition
Volstead Act
19th Amendment - Women's Suffrage
Robert La Follette Wisconsin Experiment
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
Direct Election of Senators
IRR
Gov't regulation of Public Utilities
Civil Service Reform
Direct Primary
Conformity
Consumerism
Suburbia
Religious Revival
Counterculture/Beatniks
Rock/ Rebellion
Cult of Domesticity
1793- Treaty of Paris- All land East of Mississippi is the United States
1803 - Louisiana Purchase
1817- Rush Bagot Treaty - Great Lakes Boarder
1819- Adams Onis Treaty - Florida
1820 - Missouri Compromise
1830- Indian Removal Act
1845 Texas Annexed
1846 Oregon Treaty
1848 Wilmot Proviso
1853 Matthew Perry goes to Japan
Gadsden Purchase
1854 Ostend Manifesto
1867 Alaska Purchase Treaty- William H Seward
1893 Fredrick Jackson Turner - Frontier Thesis
1914 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand - assassinated
Europe Enters War
1915 - Lusitania
Great Migration Begins
1916 - Sussex Pledge
1917 - Zimmerman Note
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Bolshevik Revolution
April 1917 - Declaration of War by U.S.
1918 - 14 Points
Espionage Act
Sedition Acts
1919 - Schenck v US
Treaty of Versailles
Palmer Raids
1955- Civil Rights Movement begins with Death of Emmett Till
1965 - United Farm Workers Boycott Grapes
1967 - Youth NARC (National Association for Retarded Children) Formed
1968 - American Indian Movement Founded
1969 - Stonewall Rebellion - LGBT Movement
1970 - Greenpeace Founded
1972 - Equal Rights Amendment passes Congress not ratified by states
1975 - Education for all Handicapped Children Act
1980 - Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act
1988 - Congress apologizes for Japanese American Internment
1993 - The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
2013 - Black Lives Matter Movement
2015 - Ogergefell v Hodges - Legalizes Gay Marriage
1862 - Dakota Sioux War
1864 - Sand Creek Massacre
1876 - Battle of the Little Big Horn
1877 - Nez Perce War
1886 - Century of Dishonor - Helen Jackson Hunt
1887- Dawes Severalty Act
1890 - Wounded Knee
1769 - Coveture
1776- "Remember the Ladies"
Republican Motherhood
1777 - All States take away voting
rights for women
1839 - Mississippi women can own property
1848 - Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentements
1866 - 14th Amendment Passed
1869 - Wyoming Territory 1st to grant suffrage
1870 - 15th Amendment Passed
Wyoming 1st Sexually integrated Jury
1872 - Victoria Woodhall 1st women to run for Presiden t
of the U.S.
1890 - Wyoming 1st State to Grant Women's Suffrage
1908 - Muller v Oregon - 10 hr workday for women
1916 - Margaret Sanger est. 1st birthing clinic in Brooklyn
Jeannette Rankin 1st Women Elected to Congress
1920 - 19th Amendment Ratified
1932 - National Recovery Act forbids more than 1 person from
holding a job. Resulting in loss of jobs for women
1938 - Fair Labor Standards Act - Minimum wage regardless of sex
1947 - Fay v. New York - Women are equally qualified to serve on
juries.
1981 - Kirchberb v. Feenstra - property is held jointly not
unilaterally by husband
Sandra Day O'Connor 1st female Justice on Supreme Court
1984 -Mississippi Ratifies 19th Amendment
Geraldine Ferraro - 1st Female Running Mate
1994 - Gender Equity in Education Act
Violence Against Women Act
2007 - Nancy Pelosi 1st Female Speaker of the House
2008 - Hilary Clinton 1st, 1st Lady to run for President, 1st
to get a major parties nomination for president
2013 - Ban on Women in Combat Lifted
2017 - Women's March on Washington D.C.
1961 - Hoyt v. Florida - Women less likely to be called on for jury. " center of
home and family life."
1963 - Equal Pay Act
1964 - Civil Rights Act - Title VII
1965 - Griswold v. Connecticut - state cannot prohibit constraceptive use by
married couples
1966 - National Organization for Women Founded
1968 - Executive Order 11246 - Affirmative Action
1971 - Reed v. Reed - Court declares women as "Persons" women no longer
different
1972 - Title IX
Shirley Chisholm - 1st Black women elected to congress
Equal Rights Amendment Passed by Congress - 3 states shy of ratification
1973 - Roe v. Wade
1978 - Pregnancy Discrimination Act banned employment discrimination during
pregnancy
1979 - Spousal rape 1st defined by the courts
1739 - Stono Rebellion
1787 - 3/5ths Compromise
1793- Cotton Gin
1619 - 1st African
American Indentured Servants to Colonies
1800- Gabriel's Rebellion
1808- Congress bans international slave trade
1822 - Denmarck Vessey's Rebellion
1831 - William Lloyd Garrison - The Liberator
Nat Turner's Rebellion
1846 - Frederick Douglass - North Star
1849- Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad
1850- Fugitive Slave Act - Compromise of 1850
1857 - Dred Scott v Sanford
1860- Civil War
1865 - 13th Amendment
1868 - 14th Amendment
1870 - 15th Amendment
1875 - Civil Rights Act of 1875
1895 - Atlanta Compromise - Booker T. Washington
1896 - Plessy v Ferguson
1905 - Niagra Movement - WEB DuBois
1909- NAACP
1913 - Woodrow Wilson segregates federal offices
1915 - Great Migration
Guinn v. United States - Grandfather clauses overturned
1917 - A Philip Randolph - Messenger
Buchanan v Warley - Strikes down ordinance mandating segregated neighborhoods
1919- Claude McKay - If We Must Die
1920 - Marcus Garvey - Universal Negro
Improvement Association
1923 - Cotton Club
1936 - Jesse Owens wins 4 Gold Medals in Berlin Olympics
1941 - Executive Order 8802 - Integrates defense industry
Double V Campaign
1943 - Detroit Race Riots
1947 - Jackie Robinson Integrates Baseball
1948- Truman signs Executive Order - 9981 Desegregates
Army
1983 - Vanessa Williams -1st African American Miss America
MLK Jr Day National Holiday
1987 - Aretha Franklin - 1st African American inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
1989 - Collin L. Powell 1st African American United States Joint
Chiefs of Staff
1991 - Rodney King Beating
LA Riots
1992 - Carol Moseley Braun 1st African American Female to US
Senate
1995 - Million Man March
2001 - Collin Powell 1st African American Secretary of State
2005 - Condolezza Rice 1st Female African American Secretary
of State
2008 - Barack Obama 1st African American President
2013 - George Zimmerman acquitted of killing Trayvon Martin
Black Live Matter Movement
2016 - Philando Castile Shot -Aftermath Live streamed
Five Police Officers killed in Dallas
Colin Kaepernick Takes a Knee
1954- Brown v Board
1955 - Emmett Till killed
1955 - Montgomery Bus Boycott
1957 - Civil Rights Act of 1957
Little Rock Nine
1960 - Civil Rights Act of 1960
1961 - Freedom Rides
1962- James Meredith integrates Old Miss
1963 - Children's March
"I Have a Dream" Speech
1964- Civil Rights Act of 1964
1965 - Assignation of Malcolm X
March Selma to Montgomery
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Watts Riot
1967 - Loving v. Virginia
Thurgood Marshall 1st African American Supreme Court Justice
1968 - MLK Jr Assignation
Shirley Chisholm - 1st African American Elected to Congress
1970 - Jackson State
1974- Busing of Students to integrate schools
1978 - Affirmative action upheld Regents v Bakke