U. S. History - 1302 Mini-Mester Chronology Chapter 13 1857 Financial Panic and Depression Dred Scott decision 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates 1859 John Brown's raid 1861 Secede Lincoln Inauguration Fort Sumter Chapter 14 1861 Bull Run 1862 Virginia v. Monitor Grant & Shiloh Conscription Act Antietam 1st Emancipation Proclamation
Chapter 15 1863 2nd Emancipation Proclamation Union passes Conscription Act 1864 Lincoln pocket vetoes Wade-Davis Sherman captures Atlanta 1865 Lincoln Assassinated 13th Amendment 1866 Johnson vetoes Freedman's Bureau Bill Freedman's Bureau renewal over Johnson's veto 14th Amendment 1867 Reconstruction Act Tenure of Office Act Chapter 16 1867 Alaska purchase 1868 Andrew Johnson impeached Alaska purchase completed 1869 15th Amendment 1873 Panic of 1873 1876 Custer & Little Big Horn 1877 Hayes declared winner of the presidency
Chapter 17 1877 Railroad wages / national strike 1879 Henry George publishes work 1881 AFL formed 1886 Haymarket Riot in Chicago 1887 Dawes Severalty Act Interstate Commerce Act Chapter 18 1888 Edward Bellamy publishes work 1889 Oklahoma Territory becomes available for settlement Jane Adams Pan-American Conference 1890 McKinley Tariff Sherman Anti-Trust Act Battle of Wounded Knee 1893 Hawaiian Revolution Chapter 19 1894 Pullman Strike
1895 Booker T. Washington Venezuelan crisis 1898 Battleship Maine Treaty of Paris ends war and U. S. obtains Philippines & Puerto Rico 1899 Insurrection in Philippines Chapter 20 1903 Panama Canal Zone acquired 1904 Roosevelt elected / Square Deal 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act, Meat Inspection Amendment Chapter 21 1912 Titanic hits iceberg 1913 Federal Income Tax adopted Federal reserve system established 1914 Federal Trade Commission created
Chapter 22 1915 Lusitania torpedoed 1916 Wilson achieves "Sussex Pledge" 1917 "Peace Without Victory" speech Germany's unrestricted submarine campaign U. S. enters war 1918 Wilson's 14 points Armistice ends 1st World War 1919 17th Amendment 1920 Woman Suffrage amendment ratified Chapter 23 1921 Immigration law quotas 1923 Teapot Dome scandal 1925 Scopes trial Chapter 24 1928 Republicans nominate Herbert Hoover 1929 Stock Market Crash - October
1932 Bonus March in Washington Democrats nominate FDR - promised New Deal Election of 1932 1933 Banks fail during 1st two months Depression worsens Roosevelt inaugurated March 4, 1933 Chapter 25 1933 18th Amendment repealed "1st 100 Days" of New Deal 1935 "2nd New Deal" Neutrality Act passed by Congress 1936 FDR re-elected John Lewis breaks from AFL to form CIO 1937 Roosevelt unveils "Court-Packing Plan" 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act Chapter 26 1940 Selective Service Act
FDR elected to 3rd term 1941 Lend-Lease Act Atlantic Charter issued Dec. 7, 1941 - Japan attacks Pearl Harbor 1942 FDR authorizes top secret Manhattan Project 1944 Normandy Invasion - D-Day Roosevelt elected to 4th term 1945 Allied leaders @ Yalta FDR dies; Truman takes office U. S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japanese surrender Chapter 27 1947 Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan 1950 McCarthy & Communism Korean War begins 1952 Richard Nixon - Checkers Speech Eisenhower elected
Chapter 28 1953 Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin dies 1956 Hungarian Revolution and Suez Crisis strain 1957 Russians launch Sputnik 1958 U. S. manned space program begins 1959 Fidel Castro leads successful revolution in Cuba 1960 American U-2 spy plane shot down John F. Kennedy elected president Chapter 29 1961 Peace Corps 1962 War on poverty formulated Bay of Pigs Cuban Missile Crisis 1963 U. S. and Soviets agreement on above-ground nuclear testing 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Civil Rights Act 1965 Voting Rights Act 1968 Tet offensive in South Vietnam Nixon elected president
Chapter 30 1969 Neil Armstrong 1970 U. S. troops invade Cambodia 1971 Pentagon papers 1972 Nixon visits China Watergate break-in 1973 Congress investigates Watergate scandal War in Middle East / Arab Oil embargo 1974 Nixon resigns / Ford becomes president 1975 U. S. & Soviets sign Helsinki Accords 1976 Carter elected president 1978 Camp David Accords 1979 American Embassy hostage crisis in Iran Soviets invade Afghanistan 1980 Reagan elected president Chapter 31 1981 Iranian hostages freed 1982 Democrats make gains in congressional elections
1983 SDI - Star Wars U. S. invades Grenada 1984 Mac computer introduced 1985 Gramm-Rudman-Hollings budget act Reagan administration begins negotiations with Iran 1986 Tax Reform Act Immigration Reform Act Democrats regain control of Senate Iran-Contra scandal 1987 Stock Market loses 508 points in one day U. S. & Soviets pursue arm control Iran-Contra hearings held 1988 George Bush elected president 1989 U. S. invades Panama Berlin Wall comes down Chinese / Tiananmen Square 1990 Iraq invades Kuwait Americans With Disabilities Act 1991 Iraq defeated in Gulf War Clarence Thomas confirmed for Supreme Court Soviet Union collapses
Chapter 32 1992 Ross Perot 3rd party candidate 1993 Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 2nd woman appointed to Supreme Court 1995 Murrah Federal Building / Oklahoma City Dayton Peace Accords 1997 Federal budget deficit falls dramatically Balanced budget agreement Clinton vs. Jones court case 1998 Clinton admits "inappropriate relationship" with Lewinsky House starts impeachment inquiry against Clinton Democrats make House gains in elections 1999 Clinton acquitted after impeachment trial