History of the United States

{{seealsocat|History of the United

Pre-colonial history (40000 BCE - 1607 CE)

related property: Archaeology of the United States

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  Cliff Palace
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  Wupatki Pueblo
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  Tonto National Monument

Early Colonization (1607–1789)

related property: Colonization of the United States

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  Gnadenhutten massacre
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  Mystic massacre

National Founding (1776-1789)

Main gallery: American Revolutionary War.

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  Slave quarters at George Washington's plantation at Mt. Vernon
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  The U.S. Declaration of Independence called Native Americans "merciless Indian Savages."
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  During the Revolutionary War, many enslaved people and Indigenous nations supported the British

Westward Expansion and Indigenous Genocide (1776-1900)

related property: Native American genocide in the United States

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  Andrew Jackson ordered the ethnic cleansing of Georgia, culminating in the Trail of Tears
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  Massacre in Crow War
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  Wounded Knee Massacre
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  The California genocide
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  Manifest Destiny
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  Sitting Bull (1831-1890) led the Lakota people to resist U.S.' genocidal policies
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  Colonization of the United States

Slavery (1619–1865)

related property: Slavery in the United States

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Civil War (1861–1865)

Main gallery: American Civil War.

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  John Brown (abolitionist)
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  Justice Roger B. Taney, who wrote the majority opinion in Dred Scott
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  Union soldier from Kentucky
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  Confederate soldier from Alabama
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  Robert E. Lee
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  Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by a white supremacist

Reconstruction (1865-1877)

related property: Reconstruction Era

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  And Not This Man? (August 1865), by Thomas Nast
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  Political cartoon depicting the anti-Reconstruction movement (1868)
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  U.S. Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels, the first African-American in the Congress (1870-71)
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  "Colored Rule in Reconstructed State", Harpers Weekly (1874)
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  A political cartoon by Joseph Keppler depicts the Compromise of 1877

Jim Crow (1877–1964)

related property: Jim Crow Era

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  Duluth lynchings
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  Ku Klux Klan marching in Washington, D.C.
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  Tulsa race massacre
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  La Matanza (1910–1920)
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  KKK in Virginia
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  Lynching in the United States
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  The Juan Crow era is described as the rough equivalent matrix of legal discrimination targeting Mexican Americans during this period

Gilded Age (1870s – c. 1900)

related property: Gilded Age

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  Toluca Street oil district in Los Angeles
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  Standard oil

Progressive Era (1896–1916)

related property: Progressive Era

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  Mexican American boy targeted for eugenic sterilization. The Progressive Era marked the zenith of Eugenics in the United States
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  Breaker boys sort coal in at an anthracite coal breaker near South Pittston, Pennsylvania, in 1911
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  Anti-immigrant sentiment during the Progressive Era set the foundation for the Immigration Act of 1924 which shut off immigration from non-white countries
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  Women's Progressive era organizing led to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

Great Depression (1929-1941)

Main gallery: Great Depression in the United States.

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  Bank failure
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  Mexican American boy in San Antonio, Texas
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  Hooverville in Portland, Oregon
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  African American boy in Vicksburg, Mississippi
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  Mexican Repatriation
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  Dust Bowl

World War II

related property: Military history of the United States during World War II

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  Rosie the Riveter
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  Battle of Iwo Jima
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  Mexican American servicemen
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  Internment of Japanese Americans
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  Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Segregation (1896–1954)

related property: Racial segregation in the United States

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  Detroit, Michigan
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  Dallas, Texas
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  Lancaster, Ohio
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  Durham, North Carolina
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  Atlanta, Georgia
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  Chinese Americans were segregated into neighborhoods known as Chinatowns

Civil Rights Movement (1945–1975)

related property: Civil Rights era

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  Clinton, Tennessee
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  Chicano Movement, Austin, TX
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  Red Power movement, Alcatraz Island, CA
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  New Orleans school desegregation crisis
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  Little Rock Nine, Little Rock, AK
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  Second-wave feminism
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  Watts Riots, Watts, CA
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  Gay liberation movement
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  Desegregation busing
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  Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War

Late-Twentieth Century (1975–1999)

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  Nixon became the first sitting U.S. president to resign after the Watergate scandal
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  1979 oil crisis under Jimmy Carter
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  Ronald Reagan led the War on Drugs and the Iran-Contra Affair
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  Phyllis Schafly led the movement to prevent the Equal Rights Amendment from being adopted
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  Bill Clinton become only the second president in U.S. history to be impeached
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  Fox News started in 1996 and quickly became the number one news channel in the U.S.
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  Rise of Mass Incarceration in the United States under Reagan and Clinton
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  1992 Los Angeles riots after the police brutalization of Rodney King
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  Oklahoma City bombing by white supremacist Timothy McVeigh

Contemporary (2000–present)

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  September 11 attacks
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  Iraq War was started after George W. Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction
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  First inauguration of Barack Obama, the first African-American president in U.S. history
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  Legalization of same-sex marriage after Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015
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  Donald Trump was impeached twice and lost his re-election bid in 2020
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  2021 United States Capitol attack by Trump supporters who believed his lies about 2020 election irregularities
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  George Floyd protests after the murder of George Floyd
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  Mass shootings in the United States reached an all-time high after Congress allowed semi-automatic bans to lapse in 2006 and the Supreme Court loosened gun controls in 2008

See also

• Images from The Beginner's American History
• Cotton Mather
• Cowboy
• Indigenous peoples of North America
• United States Bill of Rights