U.S History Timeline 1870-2000 Courtney hitt Austin spears

Presidents

Ulysses S. Grant

1870 - 1877

Rutherford B. Hayes

1877 - 1881

Chester A. Arthur

1881 - 1885

James Garfield

1881

Grover Cleveland

1885 - 1889

Benjamin Harrison

1889 - 1893

Grover Cleveland

1893 - 1897

William Makenly

1897 - 1901

Teddy Roosevelt

1901 - 1909

William Howard Tafft

1909 - 1913

Woodrow Willson

1913 - 1921

Warren G. Harding

1921 - 1923

Calvin Coolidge

1923 - 1929

Herbert Hoover

1929 - 1933

Franklin D. Roosevelt

1933 - 1945

Senate

Republican

1870 - 1877

Democrat

1877 - 1881

Republican

1881 - 1883

Democrat

1883 - 1885

Democrat

1885 - 1887

Democrat

1887 - 1889

Republican

1889 - 1891

Democrat

1891 - 1895

Republican

1895 - 1911

Democrat

1911 - 1919

Republican

1919 - 1933

Democrat

1933 - 1941

House of Representatives

Republican

1870 - 1875

Democrat

1875 - 1881

Republican

1881 - 1883

Democrat

1883 - 1889

Republican

1889 - 1891

Democrat

1891 - 1895

Republican

1895 - 1911

Democrat

1911 - 1917

Republican

1917 - 1933

Democrat

1933 - 1947

Legislation, Amendments, & Supreme Court

15th Amendement is ratified

1870

Slaughterhouse Cases

1873

women lawers permittedto argue cases in front of the Supreme Court

1879

still aloud to argue today

Plessy vs. Ferguson

1898

Lochner vs. New York

1905

Muller vs.Oregon

1908

War & World Events

Cuba occupied by U.S and released

1898 - 1902

League of Nations

1919

U.S contains spread of communism

1947 - 1990

Technology

Chewing Gum

1870

Blue jeans

1873

Telephone

1876

Toilet Paper

1877

Christmas Lights

1882

Jell-O

1897

Hershey Bar

1900

Teddy Bear

1902

Ice Cream Cone

1904

Zipper

1913

TV

1927

Socity & Culture

Reconstruction in the old South

1870 - 1877

started in 1865

National League

1876

baseball

First U.S Film

1889

Fred Ott's Sneeze

Selective Service Act

1917

19th Amendement

1920

Stock Market Crash

1929

New Deal

1933