What is a timeline of events in the history of the United States?

Answer 1

I. The Colonies

II. English Involvement in the Colonies

III. The Revolutionary War

IV. The Jeffersonians

V. Jackson and the Age of the Common Man VI. The Mexican-American War

VII. The Sectional Crisis

VIII. The Civil War (1861-1865)

IX. Reconstruction

X. Post-Civil War America

XI. World War I

XII. Great Depression and FDR

XIII. World War II

XIV. The Cold War

Answer 2

1776-the United States becomes a country 1789-George Washington becomes the very first president 1791-the Bill Of Rights is ratified 1800-John Adams becomes the first president to live in the White House 1803-the Louisiana Purchase doubles the size of the United States 1814-the White House gets burned on fire 1823-the Monroe Doctrine is signed 1825-the Erie Canal opens 1832-John Calhoun resigns to become a senator 1841-William Harrison becomes the first president to die in office 1845-the United States annexes Texas 1848-gold is discovered near Sutters Mill 1850-Congress passes the Compromise Of 1850 1851-Herman Melville publishes Moby Dick 1854-the Kansas-Nebraska Act is passed 1861-Jefferson Davis becomes president of the Confederate States Of America 1861-the Civil War begins 1865-the 13th Amendment abolishes slavery 1868-Andrew Johnson becomes the first president to be impeached 1877-reconstruction ends 1890-the Sherman Anti Trust Act is passed 1898-the United States annexes Hawaii 1906-an earthquake hits San Francisco 1912-the Titanic sinks 1929-the Stock Market crashes 1939-World War 2 begins 1941-Japan attacks Pearl Harbor 1945-World War 2 ends 1963-John F.Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas 1973-Spiro Agnew resigns 1974-Richard Nixon resigns 1989-the Berlin Wall comes down

Answer 3

1783- US becomes a free nation

1787- US Constitution was ratified

1797- Panic strikes nation

1807- US's first depression- lasts 3 years

1812- US declares war on Great Britian

1815- Depression caused by the War of 1812- depression lasts 6 years

1846- US declares war on Mexico- war ends in 1848

1860- South Carolina secedes from the Union

1861- US Civil War begins with Confederates firing on Fort Sumter

1865- Confederacy surrenders, 16th President Abraham Lincoln assassinated

1881- 20th President James A. Garfield assassinated

1898- US declares war on Spain- Spain surrenders 10 weeks later

1901- 25th President William McKinley assassinated

1917- US enters WWI

1918- WWI ends

1922- Stock Market crash leading into the Great Depression

1941- Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, US declares war and enters WWII

1945- Germany surrenders, Japan surrenders

1950- US sends military advisers into Vietnam

1951- US intervenes in Korea

1960s- US involvement in Vietnam escalates

1963- 35th President John F. Kennedy assassinated

1973- US ends involvement in Vietnam

1991- US declares war on Iraq- Iraq surrenders 100 days later

2001- terrorist attack on World Trade Center, Pentagon, and a failed third strike aimed at unknowed target- US declares war on terrorism- US invades Afghanistan

2003- US invades Iraq

2008- First non-white man elected president