Timeline Civil War to WW2

1861 - Lincoln became president and the civil war started

1865 - The civil war ended with victory by North

1869 – Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads are joined, first transcontinental railroad

1870 – Fifteenth amendment to the Constitution gives black the right to vote

1876 – Custer's regiment is wiped out of Sioux Indians at the Little Big Horn River

1882 – US adopts standard time

1886 – Statue of Liberty is given to the USA by France

1890 – The massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends all Indian resistance

1892 – Ellis Island becomes chief immigration station

1898 – Plessy v. Ferguson: Supreme Court decision holds that racial segmentation is constitutional

1903 – Spanish- American War: the USA occupies Cuba an the Philippines

1906 – San Fransisco earthquake

1914 – The First World War begins

1917 - US enters the First World War on April 6^th , 1917

1918 – Armistice ending the First World War is signed on November 11^th , 1918

1919 – Eighteenth Amendment begins Prohibition; Nineteenth Amendment grants women the right to vote; Treaty of Versailles is rejected by the Senate

1927 – Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight

1929 – Stock market crash of October 29 starts the Great Depression

1933 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in as President; New Deal recovery measures are enacted by Congress; Twenty-First Amendment ends Prohibition

1935 – Neutrality Acts passed by Congress

1939 – The Second World War begins; the US declares its neutrality