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U.S. History Timeline

U.S. History Timeline. By Jeri Rogish. 1865-1870. 1865 - American Civil War ends - Lincoln was assassinated 1867 - Alaska was purchased 1870 - Texas is last confederate state readmitted to Union. 1871-1880. 1873 - 43 rd Congress has 7 black members

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U.S. History Timeline

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  1. U.S. History Timeline By Jeri Rogish

  2. 1865-1870 1865 - American Civil War ends - Lincoln was assassinated 1867 - Alaska was purchased 1870 - Texas is last confederate state readmitted to Union

  3. 1871-1880 1873 - 43rd Congress has 7 black members 1875 - Federal troops sent to Vicksburg to protect blacks - Civil Rights Act passed - 44th Congress has 8 black members 1877 - Rutherford Hayes becomes president 1880 - Univ. of Southern CA was found

  4. 1881-1890 1881 - Clara Barton organizes American Red Cross - Some vehicles are required to display liscense 1883 - Civil Rights act of 1875 declared unconstitutional 1889 - Washington admitted as a state - Prudence Crandall died 1890 - Wilber and Orville Wright print the “Dayton Tattler” in Dayton, Ohio

  5. 1891-1900 1891 - Carnegie Hall opens in NY 1892 - James Naismith publishes basketball rules 1893 - The New York stock exchange collapses 1895 - 1st professional football game played in Latrobe, PA 1897 - Tomb of Ulysses S. Grant dedicated in New York 12 years after his death 1900 - Theodore Roosevelt is vice president

  6. 1901-1910 1901 - McKinley assassinated and Roosevelt becomes president 1903 - Wright Brothers’ first flight 1906 - San Francisco earthquake 1908 - Ford introduces model T - Taft elected president 1910 - Boy Scouts established in U.S.

  7. 1911-1920 1912 - More than 1,000 Africans lynched since 1901 1914 - World War I begins in Europe 1917 - U.S. enters World War I 1918 - World War I ends 1919 - Prohibition Act becomes law 1920 - 19th ammendment goes into effect

  8. 1921-1930 1921 - Albert Einstein lectures in New York 1924 - Congress passed new immigration law 1926 - Army Air Corps are established 1928 - St. Francis dam gives away in southern CA 1929 - Car radio invented 1930 - American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto

  9. 1931-1940 1931 - State of Nevada legalizes gambling - Star-Spangled Banner is approved by Hoover and Congress as national anthem 1932 - Highest continuous pave road in U.S. is opened 1933 - Pres. Roosevelt inaugurated for 1st time 1935 - Babe Ruth retires from baseball 1940 - The Great Smokey Mountains National Park is dedicated by Franklin D. Roosevelt

  10. 1941-1950 1943 - Race riots in Detroit and Harlem cause 40 deaths and 700 injuries 1945 - President Roosevelt succumbs to a brain hemorrhage 1946 - Basketball Assoc. of America is founded 1947 - Jackie Robinson breaks Major League Baseball’s barrier against colored players 1949 - U.S. withdraws troops from Korea 1950 - Brinks robbery in Boston occurs when 11 bandits steal 2.8 mill from armed car

  11. 1951-1960 1951 - U.S. signs a mutual security pact 1953 - 1st colored T.V. goes on sale - Dwight Eisenhower is inaugurated 34th president 1958 - Explorer I, the 1st American satellite is launched 1959 - Alaska becomes 49th state and Hawaii 50th 1960 - Olympics were held in Rome

  12. 1961-1970 1961 - John F. Kennedy moves into White House 1962 - John Glenn is 1st man to orbit Earth 3 times 1963 - Martin Luther King gives his “I Have A Dream” speech 1966 - Walt Disney dies of cancer on 12/15 1967 - First heart transplant was performed 1970 - Beatles break up

  13. 1971-1980 1971 - London Bridge brought to U.S. - VCRs introduced 1972 - M*A*S*H T.V. show premieres - Pocket calculators introduced 1980 - John Lennon was assassinated - Ted Turner establishes CNN

  14. 1981-1990 1981 - Personal Computers introduced by IBM 1982 - Michael Jackson releases Thriller 1983 - Sally Ride becomes 1st American woman in space 1984 - PG-13 movie rating created 1985 - Wreck of the Titanic found 1990 - Hubble telescope launched into space

  15. 1991-2000 1992 - Official end of Cold War 1993 - World Trade Center bombed 1994 - I was born 1997 - Tiger Woods wins Masters 1998 - Titanic becomes most successful movie 2000 - Bush formally accepts presidency

  16. 2001-2009 2001 - Terrorist attack in NY 2007 - Male kills 2 students in VA Tech dorm 2009 - Obama is president

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