American History Timeline 1860 1940 Timeline Project Nicole

American History Timeline: 1860 -1940 Timeline Project Nicole Koleczek

1860’s

1861 • Abraham Lincoln (1861 -1865) serves as President • The Civil War (1861 -1865) 1862 • The Homestead Act is passed to offer free land to anyone who agrees to live on and improve it for five years

1865 • The Civil War (1861 -1865) ends; The Union is restored • The Thirteenth Amendment ends slavery 1867 • Christopher Latham Sholes invents the first practical typewriter

1868 • The Fourteenth Amendment makes African Americans equal citizens 1869 • The Transcontinental Railroad is completed

1870’s

1870 • The Fifteenth Amendment guarantees African Americans the right to vote 1876 • The Battle of the Little Bighorn kills an entire force of U. S. troops causing the government to step up military action against Native Americans • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

1880’s

1882 • The Chinese Exclusion Act is passed to ban Chinese immigration 1884 • Alaska is annexed

1887 • The Dawes Act is passed to distribute land to individual Native American owners 1889 • Fenced fields replace the open frontier as a result of the Oklahoma Land Rush • The Hull House is established by Jane Addams to help the poor as well as immigrants

1890 • The Wounded Knee Massacre becomes the last armed conflict with Native Americans in the West 1897 • William Mc. Kinley (1897 -1901) serves as President

1898 • Hawaii is annexed

1900’s

1901 • Theodore Roosevelt (1901 -1909) serves as President 1903 • Wisconsin becomes the first state to have a direct primary

1904 • The Roosevelt Corollary is established to allow U. S. interference in Latin American domestic affairs 1906 • The Pure Food and Drug Act is passed to ban the sale of impure foods and medicines • The Meat Inspection Act is passed to create a government meat inspection program

1909 • The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded to protect the rights of African Americans • William H. Taft (1909 -1913) serves as President 1910 • The Immigration Center on Angel Island opens • The Great Migration increases opportunity for African Americans in the North

1913 • The Federal Reserve Act is passed to create the modern banking system • The Seventeenth Amendment establishes direct election of United States senators by popular vote • The Sixteenth Amendment establishes federal income tax • Woodrow Wilson (1913 -1921) serves as President 1914 • The Panama Canal opens • World War I (1914 -1918)

• • • 1917 America enters World War I The War Industries Board is established to manage the buying and distributing of war materials, set goals for production, order construction of new factories, and set prices 1918 Alvin York becomes an American hero for his action during the war The Second Battle of the Marne becomes the turning point of the war World War I (1914 -1918) ends; Social conflict begins The Fourteen Points are established by President Woodrow Wilson as goals for peace after World War I

1919 • The Eighteenth Amendment establishes prohibition of the manufacture, sale, or transport of alcohol • The Treaty of Versailles is signed to end World War I

1920’s

1920 • The Nineteenth Amendment establishes woman suffrage 1921 • Warren G. Harding (1921 -1923) serves as President

1923 • Calvin Coolidge (1923 -1929) serves as President 1925 • Laissez-faire economics are established by President Calvin Coolidge to benefit the nation • The Jazz Age and Harlem Renaissance change American culture

1929 • Herbert C. Hoover (1929 -1933) serves as President • The Stock Market Crash of 1929 marks the beginning of the Great Depression

1930’s

1933 • Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933 -1945) serves as President • The First New Deal (1933 -1935) 1935 • The Second New Deal (1935 -1937) • The Social Security Act is passed to assist retired workers and the unemployed

1936 • The Boulder Dam is completed

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