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Am Hist Chronology
American History Chronology
Event | During Whose Presidency? | Time Period |
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Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle | TR | 1900s |
Japanese Internment | FDR | 1940s |
McCarran Internal Security Act | Truman | 1950 |
Ky and VA Resolutions | Adams | 1790s (1798) |
Wilmot Proviso | Polk | 1840s (1846) |
Nat Turner's Rebellion | Jackson | 1830s (1831) |
Plessy v. Ferguson | Cleveland | 1896 |
End of Reconstruction | Grant/Hayes | 1877 |
Teapot Dome Scandal | Harding | ealry 1920s |
Hawley Smoot Tariff | Hoover | 1930 |
Fair Labor Standards Act | FDR | 1930s |
Peace Corps Founded | JFK | early 1960s |
Interstate Highway Act | Eisenhower | 1950s |
Saigon falls to North Vietnamese | Ford | 1975 |
Freedom Summers | LBJ | 1960s |
Emmet Till murdered | Eisenhower | 1950s |
Murder of Medgar Evers | JFK | 1963 |
Federal Reserve founded | Wilson | 1910s |
Battle for the ERA | Nixon-Ford-Carter | 1970s |
1st Red Scare/Palmer Raids | Wilson | 1919-1920 |
Haymarket Riot | Cleveland (1st term) | 1886 |
Muller v. Oregon | TR | 1900s (1908) |
Hepburn Act | TR | 1900s (1906) |
Lecompton Constitution | Buchanan | late 1850s |
Populist Party grows and collapses | Harrison - Cleveland | 1880s - 90s |
Kansas Nebraska Act | Pierce | 1854 |
McCulloch v. Maryland | Monroe | 1810s (1819) |
Denmark Vesey's Rebellion | Monroe | 1820s (1822) |
Citizen Genet controversy | Washington | 1790s |
Marbury v. Madison | Jefferson | 1800s (1803) |
Start of teh Transcontinental RR | Lincoln | 1860s (1862) |
Transcontinental RR finished | Grant | 1860s (1869) |
Munn v. Illinois | Hayes | 1870s (1877) |
Mormons move to Utah | Polk | 1840s |
Missouri Compromise | Monroe | 1820 |
New York Draft Riots | Lincoln | 1860s (1863) |
Massacre at Wounded Knee | B. Harrison | 1890 |
Sherman Anti-Trust Act | B. Harrison | 1890 |
AFL formed | Cleveland (1st term) | 1880s |
Addition of the Bill of Rights | Washington | 1790s |
Chesapeake vs. Leopard | Jefferson | 1807 |
"Midnight" judicial appointments | J. Adams | 1800 |
Webster-Hayne Debate | Jackson | 1830s |
William Lloyd Garrison begins publishing The Liberator | Jackson | 1831 |
Thoreau writes Civil Disobedience | Polk | 1840s |
California admitted as a free state | Fillmore | 1850 |
Whiskey Rebellion | Washington | 1790s |
Seneca Falls Convention | Polk | 1848 |
Dawes Plan | Harding/Coolidge | 1920s |
War Industries Board | Wilson | 1910s |
Scopes Trial | Coolidge | 1920s |
Bank Holiday | FDR | 1933 |
Chinese Communist Revolution | Truman | 1949 |
Medicare and Medicaid founded | LBJ | 1960s |
Montgomery Bus Boycott | Eisenhower | 1955-56 |
Taft-Hartley Act passed over president's veto | Truman | 1940s |
EPA founded | Nixon | 1970s |
Bleeding Kansas | Pierce/Buchanan | mid-1950s |
Homestead Act | Lincoln | 1862 |
Chinese Exclusion Act | Arthur | 1882 |