| United
States Post-1880-Leaders and Events
Learn
about different important events that happened between 1880
and now.
Timeline
Here is a timeline of important events from 1880 to now.
1880:
In
the 1880s the Farmers' Alliances seek federal support.
In the 1880s a standard width for railroad tracks was adopted.
1881:
National
trade unions form the American Federation of Labor (AFL.)
Booker T. Washington opened the Tuskegee Institute.
1882:
The
Chinese Exclusion Act is passed.
1883:
The
United States is divided into 4 time zone.
The Northern Pacific railroad opens.
The Brooklyn Bridge opens.
Joseph Pulitzer bought the New York World.
1884:
The
first skyscraper is made in Chicago.
1886:
Geronimo
surrendered to the US army.
Riots erupted at Haymarket Square.
The
Statue of Liberty is assembled.
1887:
Sugarcane
workers went on strike.
The Interstate Commerce Commission was set up.
The
American Protective Association targeted Catholics.
1889:
Poll
taxes and literacy tests are adapted.
The Pan-American Association was established.
1890:
Oklahoma
land rush occurs.
The Sherman Antitrust act was passed. It prohibits monopolies.
300 Lakota Sioux are killed at Wounded Knee.
During the 1890s Southern mills produced nearly 20% of the
nation's iron and steel.
In the 1890s five railway lines crossed the country.
The National Women's Suffrage Association became known.
1892:
The
Farmers' Alliance formed the Populist Party.
The Homestead steel workers strike was put in action.
The silver mines strike started.
Ellis Island started processing immigrants.
1893:
Queen
Liliuokalani of Hawaii was over thrown by American planters
living there.
1894:
The
Pullman strike happened.
1895:
Jose
Marti led a revolt in Cuba.
1896:
Henry
Ford built his first automobile.
Plessy versus Ferguson ruled the segregation constitutional.
William McKinley is elected as president.
The National Association of Colored Women was formed.
1898:
The
USS Maine exploded.
The Spanish-American War began.
1899:
The
United States, Great Britain, and Germany divided Samoa.
1900:
Andrew
Carnegie dominates the steel industry.
Hawaii became a United States territory.
The Foraker Act set up a new government in Puerto Rico.
1901:
William
McKinley was assassinated.
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt becomes president.
1902:
The
Anthracite Coal Strike happened.
1903:
The
Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk.
1904:
The
Roosevelt Corollary was issued.
1905:
Theodore
Roosevelt proposed the U.S. Forest Service.
1906:
Upton
Sinclair wrote The Jungle.
1907:
Oklahoma
is admitted as the 46th state to the United States.
The Gentlemen's Agreement restricted Japanese immigration.
The Great White Fleet (16 shining white battleships) began
its voyage.
1908:
Henry
Ford introduced the Model T.
1909:
The
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP) was formed, with help from W.E.B. Du Bois.
1911:
A
revolution occurred in Mexico.
1912:
A
textile strike happened in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
1913:
The
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments are ratified.
The Federal Reserve act created 12 regional banks.
1914:
The
Ludlow strike began.
The Congress established the Federal Trade Commission.
The Panama Canal opened.
Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in June.
Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia in July.
Germany declared war on Russia and France in August.
World War I began.
Marcus Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
1915:
The
Ku Klux Klan reappeared.
Germany torpedoed the Lusitania in May.
1916:
Francisco
"Pancho" Villa started a revolt in Mexico.
France and Germany fought the battle of Verdun.
1917:
The
Immigration Act of 1917 requires literacy.
Bolsheviks took control of Russia.
A Zimmermann telegram angered the U.S.
The U.S. declared war on Germany in April.
American troops llanded in France in June.
Race riots occurred in East St. Louis in July.
1918:
Russia
withdrew from the war in March.
The National War Labor Board was set up in April.
The American Expeditionary Force began to fight in June.
Congress passed Sabotage and Sedition acts.
An armistice ended World War I in November.
1919:
The
Eighteeneh Amendment is ratified.
The Paris Peace Conference begins and the Treaty of Versailles
is signed.
1920:
Prohibition
begins nationwide.
The Nineteenth Amendment was approved.
The Senate rejects the League of Nations.
Thousands of people were arrested during the Palmer raids.
Sacco and VAnzetti were proven guilty.
Warren G. Harding became president.
The stock market booms.
1921:
The
US signs a seperate treaty with the Central Powers.
1922:
The
Senate investigated the Teapot Dome lease.
The gross national product (GNP) reached $70 billion.
1923:
Calvin
Coolidge became the president of the US.
1924:
The
Model T sold for less than $300.
Crossword puzzles were a popular pastime.
The Congress passed the National Origins Act.
1925:
The
Scopes trial tested teaching of evolution.
The Scopes trial got national attention.
1927:
Babe
Ruth hit 60 home runs.
Charles
Lindbergh flew by himself across the Atlantic Ocean.
1928:
The
Kellogg-Briand Pact aimed to outlaw war.
Herbert Hoover was elected President.
1929:
The stock market crashes, starting the great depression.
Electricity ran more than 70% of factories in the US.
1930:
The Great Depression was during the 1930s.
1931:
Japan invaded
Manchuria.
1932:
The
bonus Army marched in Washington DC.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President
Hattie Caraway was elected as the frist woman senator.
1933:
President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt launched the New Deal.
Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Gremany.
1934:
Securities
and Exchange Commision was made.
The Indian Reorganization Act was approved.
The COngress of Industrial Organizations was formed by John
L. Lewis.
1935:
Franklin
Delano Roosevelt put the second New Deal into action.
Italy invaded Ethiopia.
1936:
Franklin Delano Rosevelt was reellected.
1937:
The
Dust Bowl is formed in the Great Plains.
A sit-fown strike happened in Flint Michigan.
1938:
1939:
The
movie Gone with the Wind was first released.
Germany took over Czechoslovovakia.
Germany incaded Poland in September.
1940:
In August Great Britian was bombed by Germany.
1941:
The
Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
The United States entered World War II
Hitler tried to incade the Soviet Union in June.
Franklin Roosevelt established the Fair Employment Practices
Commision.
1942:
The Revenue Act raised taxes to pay for the war.
The Office of War Information promoted Patriotism.
In January the United States joined the Allies.
In April the Allies surrendered Bataan.
1943:
Navajo
soldiers developed an unbreakable radio code.
1944:
In June Allied ships back Normandy.
The Battle of the Bulge, in December, had over 75000 dead.
Congress approved the Servicemen's REadjustment Act, or the
GI Bill of Rights.
1945:
The United States took Iwo Jima in March.
In February a conference at Yalta was held.
In April Harry Truman became President.
In May Germany surrendered to the Allies.
In August the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
In September Japan surrendered and World War II ended.
1946:
Miners and railroad workers went on strike.
1947:
Jakie
Robinson first played for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
The Taft-Harley Act limits unions.
The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) held hearings.
William Levitt started the first suburban development.
1948:
In
May Jewish leaders founded the new country Israel.
In June Soviets blockaded West Berlin.
Harry Truman gets reelected.
Harry Truman ended segregation in the military.
1949:
In
October Mao Zedong formed a Communist China.
1950:
In
June North Korea invaded South Korea and the U.S. sent help
to South Korea.
Congress approved the McCarren act.
During the 1950s more than 20% of Americans were poor.
During the 1950s "Beat" writers influenced nonconformists.
During the 1950s women and African Americans questioned their
place in society.
1951:
In
April Harry Truman fired General MacArthur.
1952:
Dwight
D. Eisenhower became president.
1953:
The
Rosenbergs are condemned as spies and executed.
In July a cease-fire agreement was signed.
Oveta Culp Hobby headed the Department of Health, Education,
and Welfare (HEW.)
1954:
The
Brown versus Board of Education decision took place.
Senator McCarthy was censured for bad conduct as a senator.
The Supreme Court stopped segregation in schools.
The Geneva accords divided Vietnam.
1955:
Rosa
Parks was arrested and influenced the Montgomerey bus boycott
to begin.
The Polio vaccine is given to school kids.
1956:
Congress
passed the Federal Highway Act.
Elvis Presley gained increased popularity in the United States.
1957:
The
Soviet Union launched Sputnik.
Martin Luther King Jr. leaded the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference (SCLC.)
Federal troops helped to desegregate a Little Rock high school.
1958:
National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched the Explorer.
1959:
Hawaii
and Alaska became the 49th and 50th states.
Fidel Castro took over Cuba.
Civil war started in Vietnam.
1960:
The
Soviet Union shot down a United States U-2 plane.
1961:
John
F. Kennedy became president.
Freedom riders went throughout the south.
The Bay of Pigs assault failed.
1962:
James
Meredith signed up at the University of MIssissippi.
A Cuban millile predicament occurred.
The Students of a Democratic Society (SDS) organized protests
against the Vietnam War.
1963:
Jogn
F. Kennedy was assassinated and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson
took hs place.
Over 200,000
people
marched in Washington D.C. led by Martin Luther King Jr.,
urging congress to act.
Congress passed the Equal Pay ACt.
The Feminine Mystique is published,, written by Betty Friedan.
A telephone hot line
was created that linked the U.S. and Soviet leaders.
1964:
In
January Lyndon B. Jognson declared war on poverty in America.
In July the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed.
The Free Speech Movement pretested at Berkeley.
1966:
The
National Organization for Women (NOW) was created.
1967:
Over
500,000 American troops are stationed in Vietnam.
War protestors march at the Pentagon.
1968:
The
American Indian Movement was established by Native Americans.
North Korea captured the U.S.S. Pueblo in January.
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in April.
In June Robert Kennedy was assassinated.
During August violence erupted at a Democratic donvention
in Chicago.
In November Richard Nixon became president.
1969:
Neil
Armstrong was the first man on the moon.
In June Robert Nixon started to withdraw the troops stationed
in Vietnam.
1970:
In
April Richard Nixon stationed troops in Cambodia.
In May six students were killed at Kent State and Jackson
State during protests.
1971:
An
American ping-pong team visits Communist China.
1972:
In
February Richard Nixon visited Beijing, China.
In May Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev both signed the first
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty.
In June there was break-in at Watergate.
In November Richard Nixon was reelected.
1973:
The
United States ends
its
role in Vietnam.
An American Indian Movement protested at Wounded Knee, South
Dakota.
In January the Paris peace accords ended the U.S. involvement
in Vietnam.
The Arab countries inflicted an oil ban on the United States.
1974:
Richard
Nixon resigned in August.
In August Gerald Ford became president.
In September Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon for any felonies
he committed as president.
In December the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) secret
files were exposed.
1975:
In
July the Helinski Accords were signed.
1976:
Jimmy
Carter was elected president.
1977:
The
Panama Canal treaties were signed.
1978:
The
Camp David Accords directed the way toward Arab and Israeli
peace.
1979:
The
Iranians took 52 American captives.
1980:
Mount
St. Helens erupted.
1981:
Ronald
Reagan became president
Sandra Day O'Conner was the first women selected for the Supreme
Court.
1982:
The
Vietnam Memorial was built in Washington D.C.
1983:
American
troops invaded Grenada.
1984:
AIDS
is discovered.
1985:
Mikhail
Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union.
1986:
The
space shuttle Challenger exploded.
1987:
Ronald
Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Intermediate-Range
Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty.
1988:
George
Bush is chosen as president.
1989:
In June Chinese students protested at Tiananmen Square
in China against communism.
In November the Berlin Wall was torn down in Germany.
1990:
The
Hubble Telescope is launched.
1991:
In
January the Allies began Operation Desert Storm.
In December the Soviet Union fell apart.
1992:
Bill
Clinton was chosen as president.
1993:
The
Congress passed a new gun-control bill
called
the Brady Bill.
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) got rid of
trade restrictions between the United States, Canada, and
Mexico.
1994:
The
Hubble Telescope proves the existance of black holes.
1995:
The
Serbs, Croats, and Bosnian Muslims signed a peace treaty.
Computers became an indispensible part of most Americans'
daily life.
1996:
Bill
Clinton was reelected.
The legislation rendered null and void the New Deal social
welfare.
The United Nations environmental agencies met to converse
ozone security.
1997:
Scientists
cloned a sheep named Dolly.
1998:
Two
United States Embassies in Africa were bombed.
1999:
The
United States Women's soccer team won the World Cup.
2000:
People
over the age of 65 made up more than 20% of the United States
population.
2001:
On
September 11 terrorist Osama Bin Laden carried out a attack
on the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon in the United States.
2002:
The
Winter Olympics were held in Salt Lake City.
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