Semester 1 Interactive Timeline
Homestead Act 1862
Transcontinental RR Complete 1869
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
Monopolies on the Rise (late 1800s)
Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
Battle of Wounded Knee 1890
Klondike Gold Rush (1896)
Spanish American War (1898)
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Teddy the Trustbuster Takes office
U.S. Declares War on Germany WWI (1917)
Treaty of Versailles (1919)
Prohibition Begins (1919)
19th Amendment Passed (1920)
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial (1921)
Cotton Club Opens in Harlem (1923)
Stock Market Crashes (1929)
Breadlines and Hoovervilles (1930s)
New Deal Begins (1933)
Social Security Passed (1935)
Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor (1941)
Japanese Interned in America (1942)
Atomic Bomb (1945)
Homestead Act
Transcontinental RR
Completed
Chinese Exclusion Act
Monopolies Rise
Steel, Oil, Railroads
Battle of Wounded Knee
ends Indian Wars
Interstate Commerce Act
Klondike Gold Rush
Spanish America War
Pure Food & Drug Act
Teddy the Trust Buster
Takes Office
US Declares War on
Germany (WW1)
Treaty of Versailles
(post-WW1)
Prohibition Begins
19th Amendment
Passed
Sacco & Vanzetti Trial
Cotton Club Opens in
Harlem
Stock Market Crashes
Breadlines & Hoovervilles
Abound
FDR’s New Deal Begins
Social Security Act
Japan Bombs Pearl
Harbor
Japanese Internment in
America
Atomic Bomb Dropped
on Japan
Interactive Questions
Step forward if you are part of the Westward Exp. Era (substitute
any era here)? Explain why. (Can do more than one era at once.
want students to see they overlap)
Step forward if you are a piece of legislation. Explain why?
Step forward if you caused another event in this timeline to occur.
(Explain)
Step forward if you are a turning point in American history.
Explain.
Step forward if you are an example of American nativism. Explain.
Re-order yourselves from MOST IMPORTANT to LEAST
IMPORTANT