SDC American History Timeline (Amelia B) by Amelia Bliss https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a US History from 1862-2022 en-us 2025-04-29 15:00:41 UTC 2025-04-30 15:19:38 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f39e.png Homestead Act of 1862 ameliabliss1 https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3430082237 Gave citizens who would homestead for 5 years 160 acres of surveyed government land out West.

]]> 2025-04-29 15:04:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3430082237 Reconstruction (1863-1877) ameliabliss1 https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3430086609 Southern states are readmitted into the United States; the South rebuilds economy and government; freed slaves gain civil rights and find their place in society.

]]> 2025-04-29 15:07:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3430086609 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments ameliabliss1 https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3430091298 13th (Dec 6, 1865) - abolishes slavery

14th (July 9, 1868) - citizenship and equal legal protection for African-Americans

15th (Feb 3, 1870) - gave African-Americans the right to vote

]]> 2025-04-29 15:10:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3430091298 Compromise of 1877 ameliabliss1 https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3430095084 An agreement resolving the 1876 presidential election, giving Republican Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency in exchange for removing troops from the South, ending reconstruction.

]]> 2025-04-29 15:13:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3430095084 The Dawes Act (Feb 8, 1887) ameliabliss1 https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3430098735 Aimed to assimilate Native Americans into white societies by breaking up communal land on reservations and forcing a system of private ownership.

]]> 2025-04-29 15:16:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3430098735 Massacre at Wounded Knee (Dec 29, 1890) ameliabliss1 https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3430102604 150-300 Lakota men, women, and children killed by US soldiers because of their Ghost Dance.

]]> 2025-04-29 15:18:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3430102604 Plessy v. Ferguson (May 1896) ameliabliss1 https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3430105587 Supreme court ruled that segregation was legal under the circumstance that whites and colored people were given "separate but equal" facilities.

]]> 2025-04-29 15:21:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3430105587 Election of 1896 ameliabliss1 https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3430111187 Republican William McKinley defeats Democrat-Populist William Jennings Bryan.

]]> 2025-04-29 15:23:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3430111187 Spanish-American War (Apr 21 - Dec 10, 1898) ameliabliss1 https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3430114707 US goes to war with Spain and gains Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.

]]> 2025-04-29 15:25:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3430114707 Founding of the NAACP (Feb 12, 1909) ameliabliss1 https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3430117496 The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is founded to promote civil rights for African-Americans.

]]> 2025-04-29 15:27:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3430117496 Election of 1912 ameliabliss1 https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3430119820 Democrat Woodrow Wilson defeats Progressive Theodore Roosevelt and Republican William H. Taft.

]]> 2025-04-29 15:29:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3430119820 US Enters WWI (Apr 6, 1917) ameliabliss1 https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3430122076 The US enter WWI after Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare and the Zimmermann Telegram.

]]> 2025-04-29 15:31:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3430122076 Treaty of Versailles (June 28, 1919) ameliabliss1 https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431800461 Germany signs the Treaty of Versailles, ending WWI.

]]> 2025-04-30 14:48:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431800461 Prohibition (1919 - 1933) ameliabliss1 https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431804174 18th amendment - January 16, 1919. Prohibits the manufacturing and sale of alcohol.

21st amendment - December 5, 1933. Overturns the 18th amendment.

]]> 2025-04-30 14:51:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431804174 19th Amendment (June 4, 1919) ameliabliss1 https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431805544 Gives women the right to vote.

]]> 2025-04-30 14:52:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431805544 The Red Summer of 1919 ameliabliss1 https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431807340 A period of racial violence and riots in over 36 cities throughout the US.

]]> 2025-04-30 14:53:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431807340 The Stock Market Crash of 1929 ameliabliss1 https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431808577 The stock market crashes, marking the beginning of the Great Depression.

]]> 2025-04-30 14:54:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431808577 The New Deal (1933 - 1939) ameliabliss1 https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431810515 FDR enacts relief, recovery, and reform policies to aid the country during the Great Depression.

]]> 2025-04-30 14:55:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431810515 Pearl Harbor and WWII (December 7, 1941) ameliabliss1 https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431812047 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, causing the US to enter WWII.

]]> 2025-04-30 14:57:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431812047 V-E Day (May 8, 1945) ameliabliss1 https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431813856 After Germany's surrender, WWII ends in Europe.

]]> 2025-04-30 14:58:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431813856 Potsdam Conference (July 17, 1945) ameliabliss1 https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431816062 The American, British, and Soviet leaders decide the fate of Germany and the rest of Europe postwar.

]]> 2025-04-30 15:00:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431816062 V-J Day (August 15, 1945) ameliabliss1 https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431817563 Japan surrenders to the US, marking the official end of WWII.

]]> 2025-04-30 15:01:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431817563 The Korean War (June 25, 1950 - July 27, 1953) ameliabliss1 https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431821118 The US fights alongside South Korea against communist North Korea. It ends in a stalemate.

]]> 2025-04-30 15:04:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431821118 Cuban Missile Crisis (October 16, 1962) ameliabliss1 https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431823563 The world nearly erupts in nuclear war due to tensions between the US and the USSR, with the USSR planting missiles in Cuba.

]]> 2025-04-30 15:06:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431823563 Invasion of Poland (September 1, 1939) ameliabliss1 https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431826290 Germany invades Poland, marking the start of WWII.

]]> 2025-04-30 15:08:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431826290 The Vietnam War (Nov 1, 1955 - Apr 30, 1975) ameliabliss1 https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431828701 The US fights with South Vietnam against communist North Vietnam, but the war meets criticism, and the US loses.

]]> 2025-04-30 15:10:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431828701 JFK Assassinated (Nov 22, 1963) ameliabliss1 https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431832198 John F. Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.

]]> 2025-04-30 15:13:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431832198 The Great Society (1964-1968) ameliabliss1 https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431834218 LBJ's programs supporting civil rights, healthcare, education, and an end to poverty.

]]> 2025-04-30 15:14:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431834218 Stonewall Riots (June 28 - July 3, 1969) ameliabliss1 https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431837917 Riots and protests against a police raid at Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York. It marked the beginning of the gay rights movement.

]]> 2025-04-30 15:17:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431837917 Roe v. Wade ameliabliss1 https://padlet.com/ameliabliss1/eo1782o8nkdxo51a/wish/3431840820 Jan 22, 1973 - the Supreme Court rules that the Constitution protects women's right to an abortion.

June 24, 2022 - Roe v. Wade is overturned.

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