Social Studies

Presidents

Ulysses Grant R

1869 - 1877

Rutherford Hayes-R

1877 - 1881

Chestor Arther R

1881 - 1885

James Garfield R

1881

Grover Cleveland D

1885 - 1889

Benjamin Harrison D

1889 - 1893

Grover Cleveland D

1893 - 1897

William Mckinley R

1897 - 1901

Theodore Roosevelt R

1901 - 1909

William Taft R

1909 - 1913

Woodrow Wilson D

1913 - 1931

Warren Harding R

1921 - 1923

Calvin Coolidge R

1923 - 1929

Hervert Hoover R

1929 - 1933

Franklin Roosevelt FDR D

1933 - 1945

senate

Republicans

1871 - 1879

Democrats

1879 - 1881

Republicans

1883 - 1893

Democrats

1893 - 1895

Republicans

1895 - 1913

Democrats

1913 - 1919

3% of African Americans in the south are eligible to vote

1940

house of representatives

democrat

1869 - 1875

republican

1875 - 1881

democrat

1881 - 1883

republican

1883 - 1889

democrat

1889 - 1891

legislation

the 15th admendment is ratified by the states

1870

Indian naturalization act grants citizenship to native Americans

1890

16th amendment passed

1913

17th amendment passed

1913

18th amendment passed

1919

19th amendment passd

1920

breedlove v. suttles to uphold the constitutionality of Georgia poll taxes

1923

20th amendment passed

1933

21st amendment passed

1933

wars and world event

Alaska territory organized

1844

Trade Unions legalized in Britian

1871

Samoa treaty makes Pago Pago a navy coaling station

1878

Ohklahoma territory organized

1890

Cuba is occupied by the U.S. and released

1898 - 1902

Hawaii annexed

1898

Guam, Phillipines, and Puerto Rico

1899

Panama Canal completed

1914

League of Nations

1919

Worldwide depression begins

1930

World War II begins

1939

society and culture

twenty thousand leagues under the sea was published

1870

Lewis Carroll - through the looking glass

1872

first impressionist exhibit in Paris

1874

a gentleman of leisure was published

1910

Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls

1940

technology

chewing gum

1870

lubrication system

1872

barbed wire, blue jeans, ear muffs, scrapbook

1873

telephone

1876

toilet paper

1877

light bulb

1879

roll of film

1884

coca-cola

1886

automobile, matches

1889

swiss army knife

1891

cracker jack

1893

kellogs corn flakes

1894

bicycle

1896

asprin, jell-o

1897

hershey bar, radio

1900

ice cream cone

1904

pop-cycle

1905

planters peanuts

1906

shopping bag

1912

zipper

1913

wonder bread

1921

masking tape

1925

television

1927

gum, yo-yo

1928

blood bank

1940