Module 3 and 4 timeline Flashcards
Robert E. Lee surrenders to General U.S Grant
1865 (April 9, 1865 civil war ends)
Reconstruction
1865-1877
General Sherman issues Special Field Order No.15
January 16, 1865
President Lincoln is assassinated
April 14, 1865
Civil Rights Act passed by congress
1866
Ku Klux Klan is organized
1866
14th amendment passed by congress
June 8, 1866
Ulysses Grant elected president
1868
14th amendment ratified
July 9, 1868
15th amendment passed by congress
February 26, 1869
15th amendment ratified
February 3, 1870
Depression of 1873
1873
Page Act passed by congress
1875
Compromise of 1877
1877
Reconstruction ends
1877
Immigration Act passed by congress
1882
Chinese Exclusion Act passed by congress
May 1882
Progressive Era
1896-1916
Spanish-American War
1898
U.S.S. Maine explodes in Havana Harbor
February 15, 1898
Open door policy presented
1899
Philippine-American War
1899-1902
Boxer Rebellion
1900
President Theodore Roosevelt adds Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
1904
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
1911
American troops seize Veracruz, Mexico
April 21,1914
Archduke Ferdinand and Grand Duchess Sophie are assassinated
June 8, 1914
Austria declares war in Serbia, starting World War I
July 28, 1914
Zimmerman Telegram is exposed
January 1917
Tsar Nicholas II regime collapses in Russia
1917
Congress declares war on Germany
April 4, 1917
Spanish flu (influenza) strikes, killing hundreds of thousands worldwide
1918
Bolshevik Revolution
1918-1923
Germany launches Kaiserschlacht (Spring Offensive)
May 1918