Alison Rattle and Allison Vale have written several historical books, including Mad Kings & Queens and 501 Thing YOU Should Have Learned About History.

Timeline

List of Presidents of the United States

COLONIAL AMERICA

• Columbus and Other Discoverers of America
• The Conquistadors and the Rising Creole Population
• The English Quest for Colonies and a Northwest Passage
• Jamestown: The First English Settlement in America
• Puritans and Pilgrims
• The Mayflower and Plymouth Rock
• Slavery and the First Plantations
• The Rush for Religious Freedom
• The Salem Witch Trials
• French America
• New Netherland: Dutch America
• The Indian Wars of the Seventeenth Century
• The French and Indian War

REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA

• King George’s Proclamation Line
• The Tyranny of Taxation
• The Sons of Liberty
• The Boston Massacre
• The Boston Tea Party
• The Intolerable Acts
• The First Continental Congress
• The Battle of Concord
• The Battle of Bunker Hill
• The Declaration of Independence
• Early Successes and Failures
• Trenton, Saratoga, and Philadelphia
• The Articles of Confederation
• Last Years and Victory at Yorktown

THE BIRTH OF THE UNITED STATES

• Betsy Ross and the First Stars and Stripes Flag
• The United States Constitution
• The Bill of Rights
• Benjamin Franklin and the Founding Fathers
• George Washington
• John Adams
• Federalists v. Republicans: The Presidential Campaign of 1800
• Thomas Jefferson
• Marbury v. Madison and the Power of the Supreme Court

AMERICAN EXPANSION AND REFORM

• The Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
• The “War of 1812”
• The National Anthem
• The Mountain Men
• The Missouri Compromise
• The Monroe Doctrine
• Andrew Jackson
• The Nullification Crisis
• The Whigs
• Remember the Alamo!
• At War with Mexico
• The Battles of Monterrey and Veracruz
• “Manifest Destiny”
• Westward Ho!
• Strike It Lucky: The Gold Rush of ’49
• The Cotton Gin and Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Abraham Lincoln
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act
• The Abolitionist Movement
• Frederick Douglass
• The Underground Railroad
• The Dred Scott Decision
• The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
• The Presidential Election of 1860

THE CIVIL WAR

• Confederate States and Southern Secession
• General Robert E. Lee
• The First Battle of Bull Run
• Generals Ulysses S. Grant and William Sherman
• The Battle of Shiloh
• The Battle of Antietam
• The Emancipation Proclamation
• The Battle of Gettysburg
• The Gettysburg Address
• Sherman’s March to the Sea
• Surrender at Appomattox
• The Assassination of Lincoln

RECONSTRUCTION AND INDUSTRIALIZATION

• The Homestead Act
• Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction
• The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
• The Gilded Age
• The Age of Invention
• Industrialization and the Rise of the Industrial Tycoon
• Andrew Carnegie and John Pierpont Morgan, Sr.
• Transcontinental Railroads and the Robber Barons
• Custer’s Last Stand
• Taming the Wild West
• Immigration and the Making of Modern America
• The Rise of the Unions
• The Sherman Antitrust Act
• “Remember the Maine!” The Spanish-American War
• Black America: “Separate But Equal”
• Susan B. Anthony
• The Struggle for Equality
• Theodore Roosevelt
• The Muckrakers
• Woodrow Wilson
• The Sixteenth Amendment: Income Tax
• The Panama Canal

WORLD WAR ONE ANDTHE ROARING TWENTIES

• America the Peace Broker
• The Lusitania and America’s Declaration of War
• Making the World Safe
• The Impact of War at Home
• Wilson’s Fourteen Points
• The League of Nations and a Return to Isolationism
• The Roaring Twenties: “The Age of Wonderful Nonsense”
• Prohibition and the Rise of the Mob

THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND WORLD WAR TWO

• The Wall Street Crash
• The Great Depression
• Herbert C. Hoover
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• The New Deal
• American Isolation and the Threat of War
• The Outbreak of World War Two
• Pearl Harbor
• The Darkest Weeks
• Bataan and the Death March
• The Battle of Midway
• The War at Home
• The Allied Invasions of North Africa and Italy
• D-Day
• The Battle of the Bulge
• VE Day
• Guadalcanal and South Pacific Island-Hopping
• The Battle of Leyte Gulf
• Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• War Crimes and the Creation of the State of Israel

POST-WAR AMERICA

• The United Nations
• Harry S. Truman
• The “Superpowers”
• The Iron Curtain
• The Marshall Plan
• The Berlin Airlift
• The McCarthy Witch-Hunts
• The Korean War: The Seeds are Sown
• The Invasion of South Korea
• The Korean War: Stalemate
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• The Civil Rights Movement: The Origins
• The Civil Rights Movement: Brown v. Board of Education
• The Civil Rights Movement: Rosa Parks
• Martin Luther King
• The Election of John F. Kennedy
• The Bay of Pigs Invasion
• The Cuban Missile Crisis
• The Assassination of JFK
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• The Great Society and the Civil Rights Act
• Malcolm X and the Rise of Black Power

THE VIETNAM WAR YEARS

• The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• The Vietnam War
• Counterculture, Controversy, and a Giant Leap for Mankind
• Richard Nixon
• Cambodia
• Watergate and Nixon’s Resignation

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