U.S. History Time Line 1861 - 1955 By

1861 Abraham Lincoln becomes 16th President

1861 North and South fight in Civil War

1863 Emancipation Proclamation issued

1865 Andrew Johnson becomes 17th President

1869 Ulysses S. Grant becomes 18th President

1876 Telephone is Invented

1877 Rutherford B. Hayes becomes 19th President

1879 The Light Bulb is Invented

1881 James A. Garfield becomes 20th President Chester A 1881 James A. Garfield becomes 20th President Chester A. Arthur becomes 21st President

1885 Grover Cleveland becomes 22nd President

1889 Benjamin Harrison becomes 23rd President

1893 Grover Cleveland becomes 24th President

1896 Supreme Court rules “separate but equal” is legal

1897 William McKinley becomes 25th President

1898 Hawaii is Annexed

20th Century America

1901 Theodore Roosevelt becomes 26th President

1903 Wright Brothers first Airplane

1909 William Howard Taft becomes 27th President

1913 Woodrow Wilson becomes 28th President

1917 U.S. Fights in World War I

1920 Prohibition

1920 19th Amendment, Women can Vote

1921 Warren G. Harding becomes 29th President

1923 Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th President

1929 Herbert Hoover becomes 31th President

1929 The Great Depression

1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes 32nd President

1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

1945 Harry S. Truman becomes 33rd President

1945 A-bomb drops on Hiroshima

1950 U.S. enters Korean War

1953 Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes 34th President

1955 End Segregation in Schools