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US History Timeline

Cultural/Social Event

Economic Event

Familial Event

Political Event

Seneca Falls Convention:

  • When/Where: New York July 12-20, 1848
  • Who: Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the first American women's rights convention
  • What: Declaration of Sentiments was signed

Personal Event

New Deal:

  • Who/What: a series of federal programs created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to help the working class after the Great Depression
  • included the WPA, Social Security Act, FBI

17th Amendment:

  • Who/When: Passed by Congress May 13, 1912, and ratified April 8, 1913
  • What: modified Article I, section 3, of the Constitution by allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. Senators
  • Where: allowed the people of each state to choose who would represent their state in the U.S. Senate

Grandma died:

  • Where: Charlottesville, VA
  • Who: Entire family involved
  • What:lots of mourning
  • When: 2002

Personal Event

When: 1933

Went to the Bahamas

  • Where: in the Caribbean
  • Who: my family and I went
  • What: first time out of the country
  • first time on a cruise
  • When: 2010

Familial Event

Parents Divorce:

  • Where: Charlottesville, VA
  • Who: My parents
  • When: 2014
  • What: Had to learn to live without my dad

Grandpa died:

  • Where: Charlottesville, VA
  • Who: My entire family affected
  • When: 2015
  • What:Had to learn to live without him

Political Event

Fletcher v. Peck:

  • Where: at Georgia State General Assembly
  • Who: John Peck, Robert Fletcher and John Marshall involved
  • What: Overturned a state law that the Supreme Court issued

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1929

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Literary/Cultural/Social Event

2003

Cultural/Social Event

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1787

2015

Economic Event

2011

Civil Rights Movement:

  • What: mass protest movement against racial segregation and discrimination in the southern United States
  • Who/Where: led by Martin Luther King Jr. in Washington DC

Moved to North Carolina:

  • Where: From Charlottesville, VA to Cary, NC
  • Who: My parents and my two sisters involved
  • What: had to adjust to different lifestyle
  • When: 2003

Uncle Tom's Cabin:

  • Who: Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War
  • What: Anti-slavery novel that changed forever how Americans viewed Slavery
  • Where: Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin partially while living in Brunswick, ME and partially in Andover, MA

Familial Event

Stock Market Crash:

  • Where: Involved banks in New York shutting down
  • What: sharp decline in U.S. stock market values that contributed to the Great Depression
  • Who: affected many people, caused much poverty

Personal Event

Sister moved to Florida:

  • Where: from NC to FL
  • Who: My sister
  • When: 2015
  • What: had to learn to live without my sister

Got my first cell phone:

  • Where: Cary, North Carolina
  • Who: Bought by my parents
  • When: 2011
  • What: Expanded my communication with friends and family

Constitutional Convention: Political Event

  • Who: made up of 55 state delegates from 12 of the 13 original colonies, including George Washington, James Madison, and Benjamin Franklin
  • When: met between May and September of 1787
  • Where: in Philadelphia
  • What: addressed the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.

Personal Event

Familial Event

Personal Event

Economic Event

Social/Cultural Event

Moved back to Virginia:

  • Where: From NC to VA
  • Who: My mom and my sister
  • When: 2013
  • What: had to readjust to a new school

Went to Disney World for the first time:

  • Where: Orlando, Florida
  • Who: My family
  • What: lots of fun
  • When: 2006

Hawley Smoot Tariff:

  • Who: an act sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley
  • When: signed into law on June 17, 1930
  • What: raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods
  • Who: Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone
  • When/Where: in 1876 in Boston, Massachusetts
  • What: Affected how people communicated with each other and the speed at which they communicated

Got my first dog:

  • Where: Charlottesville, VA
  • Who: Bought by my parents
  • What: spent lots of time taking care of her
  • When: 2001
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