Timeline

12,000 B.C. - Migration from Asia and the Mediterranean.

Asians and Mediterranean peoples migrated to the Americas.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/12/science/earliest-americans-arrived-in-3-waves-not-1-dna-study-finds.html

c. 3000-2600 B.C. Mayan civilization

Mayan civilization flourished in Central America. The Mayans developed a scientific culture with advanced mathematics and astronomy.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-just-discovered-mayan-city-once-held-35000-people-2240987/

350 - 1250

Pueblo civilization

Pueblo culture in today's Southwest. The Anasazi built pueblo "apartment" complexes in the American Southwest.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/riddles-of-the-anasazi-85274508/

1000

Viking settlemens

Around year 1000 CE, Vikings established the “Vineland” settlement in today's Newfoundland. The settlement, however, did not last for long.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-vikings-a-memorable-visit-to-america-98090935/

1050 - 1250

Mississippian civilization

Mississippian culture dominated the Midwestern and Southeastern United States. The Mississippians had a complex agricultural system and grew crops such as corn, beans, and squash.

http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/mississippian-period-overview

1300s

Aztec civilization

The Aztec civilization in today's Mexico was organized in city states with surrounding farmland, the Aztecs built a sophisticated system of interconnected and rivaling cities.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548v0

1492

Columbus "discovers" America

Christopher Columbus came ashore in the Bahama Islands.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/columbus_christopher.shtml

1492 - 1542

European in the Americas

European explorers visited and mapped parts of the Americas. Europeans began fishing in the Great Banks off the east coast of North America in 1497.

http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/amerbegin/exploration/exploration.htm

1519 - 1521

Hernán Cortéz invaded and conquered Mexico

The Aztec empire fell as Cortéz and his soldiers managed to build on existing conflicts among the Aztecs.

http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21636686-journey-past-most-mexicans-would-rather-forget-trail-hern-n

1518 - 1620

Epidemics in the New World

Smallpox and other European diseases decimated Native Americans.The epidemic made it easier for European powers to gain control over the continent.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/06/how-europeans-brought-sickness-new-world

1607

Jamestown, Virginia settlement

The first permanent English settlement in the Americas. The settlers of Jamestown sought investment opportunities in the New World and started growing tobacco to be sold in Europe.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/rethinking-jamestown-105757282/

1619

African workers in Virginia

Initially, African workers were not slaves, but indentured servants working on tobacco farms. Their freedoms, however, were gradually reduced as new slave laws were passed.

http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/feature/indentured-servants-in-the-us/

1620 - 1630

New England colonies

English Pilgrims and later Puritans founded colonies in today's New England. They sought to build a society dominated by strict religious beliefs, although they had different ideas on how to relate to the Church of England. The Pilgrims were separatists, i.e. wanted to establish a church separate from the English church, while the Puritans wanted to purify the church from within. The Pilgrims arrived, via Netherland, in 1620 on the ship Mayflower and settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts. A decade later, the Puritans established the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

http://www.newsweek.com/whats-difference-between-pilgrim-and-puritan-397974

1622

Massacre of white colonists

Powhatan Indians massacred 300 colonists. The attack eventually led to armed conflict between the English settlers and the Powathans.

http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Anglo-Powhatan_War_Second_1622-1632#

1636 - 1637

Pequot War

Native Americans and Puritans waged war, the first lengthy armed conflict between the indigenous people and the new groups settling the country.

https://connecticuthistory.org/connecticut-declares-war-against-the-pequot/

1624 - 1681

European settlements

New Amsterdam (New York), Maryland, New Sweden, Carolina, New Jersey and Pennsylvania were founded.

https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/essays/colonization-and-settlement-1585%E2%80%931763

1636 - 1647

Higher education and public schools

Harvard College and then public schools started in Massachusetts. The region was shaped by Puritan emphasis on Christian learning and the importance of Bible reading.

http://www.harvard.edu/about-harvard/harvard-glance/history

1680 - 1776

The First Wave of non-English immigrants arrived in the North American colonies.

1732

Georgia founded

Georgia, the last of the 13 English colonies, was founded.

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/ga01.asp

1730s - 1740s

First Great Awakening

Preachers such as Jonathan Edwards and George Whitfield gathered thousands to emotionally charged religious meetings.

http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/eighteen/ekeyinfo/grawaken.htm

1757

Early protests against the British

New Yorkers rioted against British policies.

1775 - 1776

Revolution Began

The American Revolution began in 1775. On July 4, 1776 the Second Continental Congress cut ties to the British crown with the Declaration of Independence.

https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/DeclarInd.html

1783

Treaty of Paris

The Treaty of Paris recognized the independence of the United States and granted it the territory south of Canada to the Mississippi River.

https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/paris.html

1780s

US Constitution signed

A strong federal government under the US Constitution replaced the loose league of states under the Articles of Confederation. George Washington took office as President. Federalists and Anti-Federalists competed in Congress.

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1784-1800/convention-and-ratification

1792

Stock market

The New York Stock Exchange opened. It would eventually become the center of international commerce.

https://www.loc.gov/rr/business/hottopic/stock_market.html

1803

Geographic and legal expansion

The Louisiana Purchase from France added a huge slice of the continent’s mid-section to the US; the US Supreme Court claimed the power to declare laws unconstitutional.

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1801-1829/louisiana-purchase

1808

End of slave import

Congress outlawed the import of African slaves, but slavery remained legal until 1863.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17988106

1810

New York City

New York passed Philadelphia in population at third US census.

1808 - 1813

Native Americans responses to expansion

Shawnee leaders, Tecumseh and the Prophet, organized the eastern tribes to resist US expansion beyond the Appalachians.

http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Tecumseh

1812 - 1815

The War of 1812

The USA became involved in the Napoleonic Wars in Europe. Siding with the French, the US waged war against the British.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-10-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-war-of-1812-102320130/

1815 - 1825

Industrialization started in the New England and Mid-Atlantic states.

1820s - 1840s

Second Great Awakening

A religious, emotional revival swept across the frontier. Converts joined social and utopian reform movements. Many were involved in the abolitionist movement.

http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nineteen/nlinkssga.htm

1820s - 1880s

Second Wave of immigration

About 16 million Europeans and smaller numbers of Asians and Latinos immigrated in the Second Wave.

1825

Erie Canal opened

The opening the Erie Canal secured the economic power of the East.

http://www.canals.ny.gov/history/history.html

1831 - 1838

The Trail of Tears

Native Americans removed from the South along the Trail of Tears to Indian Territory in Oklahoma

https://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/118trail/118trail.htm

1830s

New political party structure

The Democratic Party emerged and competed with the Whigs.

1845 - 1848

US takes over the Southwest

The US went to War with Mexico and eventually gained control over today's California and the Southwest. The state of Texas had declared independence from the US in 1836, but became part of the union again in 1845.

http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/index_flash.html

1848

Feminist movement

The first women’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York.

https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/rightsforwomen/SenecaFalls.html

1850s

Political divisions

Anti-foreign “nativist,” abolitionist, and pro-slavery movements dominated US politics. The Republican Party emerged as part of a vital anti-slavery movement.

1861 - 1865

Civil War

Civil War raged over slavery and states’ rights.

http://archive.oah.org/magazine-of-history/issues/262/index.html

1862

The Homestead Act

The Homestead Act granted land to people who live on and farm it for five years, spurring massive settlement of the in-land West.

https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/homestead-act

1865 - 1875

Emancipation and Reconstruction

Slavery was abolished in 1863 with the Emancipation Proclamation. After the Civil War, constitutional amendments and a civil rights act were passed to secure the citizenship and rights of former slaves as part of the Reconstruction.

https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart5.html

1877

End of Reconstruction

Reconstruction of the South ended and Southern race laws progressively denied Blacks rights in the 1880s and 1890s.

http://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/themes/black-codes/

1869 - 1882/1883

Trans-continental railroad

The railroad connected the Eastern and Western parts of the USA.

http://railroad.lindahall.org/essays/brief-history.html

1890

Closing of the Frontier

The US census bureau announced the “closing of the frontier” after a century of westward expansion.

https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/development-west/timeline-terms/frederick-jackon-turners-frontier-thesis-0

1890

The Battle of Wounded Knee

The Battle of Wounded Knee ended centuries of open warfare against Native Americans.

http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/eight/wklakota.htm

1890 - 1930

Third Wave of Immigration

About 23 million immigrants arrived, mostly from southern and eastern Europe but also from Asia, Canada, and Latin America.

1898

Imperialism and anti-imperialism

Anti-imperialist debate in Congress. The Spanish-American War ended Spain's overseas empire as the USA gained control over Spain's colonies the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam.

http://amhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/printable/section.asp?id=7

1890 - 1920

The Progressive Era

Progressive Era reformed social institutions, politics and government.

https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/progressiveera/home.html

1917 - 1918

American and World War I

America fought with the Allies in the First World War. 4.7 million American soldiers served in the war.

https://www.theworldwar.org/explore/exhibitions/online-exhibitions

1919

Tabloid journalism

The first tabloid newspaper, the New York Daily News, appeared.

1919 - 1933

Prohibition Era

Prohibition of alcoholic beverages became the law under the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which would eventually be repealed by the 21st Amendment in 1933.

http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/

1920

Women voters

Women won the right to vote through the Nineteenth Amendment.

https://www.loc.gov/collections/women-of-protest/about-this-collection/

1921

Red Scare

The Red Scare and general restriction of immigration started. World War I and the Russian Revolution had made many Americans worried about European influence on the US.

1929

Start of the Great Depression

The Wall Street Stock-market crash signalled the start of the Great Depression.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/american-enterprise-exhibition/corporate-era/great-depression

1910

House of Representatives

The size of the House of Representatives set at 435, up from 394, based on the 1910 census. The number of representatives had gradually increased as the US population grew, but has stayed 435 since the 1910 census.

1920s - 1940s

Hollywood rises

Hollywood’s classic period of film production.

1920s - 1970s

Civil liberties expanded

Progressively more of the Bill of Rights applied to state law and cases.

https://www.aclu.org/other/bill-rights-brief-history

1933

The New Deal

Franklin Roosevelt elected president and implemented the New Deal to bring the US out of the Great Depression. In 1937, the Supreme Court accepted New Deal powers of federal government. A larger and more powerful federal government was met with hostility from those supporting states rights and limited government.

http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1906802_1906838_1906979,00.html

1939

Television

Commercial television introduced at the World’s Fair in New York.

1941 - 1945

World War II

On December 7 Japan bombed the Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii, and the US entered the Second World War.

https://www.archives.gov/research/military/ww2

1946

Baby boom and consumer culture

The post-war baby boom began in the midst of increased suburbanization and a thriving consumer culture. Many former soldiers had gained a college degree and landed better paying jobs. Generous federal funding helped more Americans, primarily white Americans, buy homes in the rapidly growing suburbs.

http://www.ushistory.org/us/53b.asp

1947 - 1990s

US vs. Communism

The National Security Act (1947) transformed American government for the Cold War. The Truman Doctrine set path of US foreign policy. In the 1950s, the McCarthy era “Red scare” caused an oppressive political climate at home. American soldiers fought in the Korean War (1950-1953) to stop communism spreading. The tension between the US and the Communist world fluctuated, with the Cuba Missile Crisis in Oct. 1962 as a critical moment. The 1970s saw a time of detente before there was increased tension again before the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War around 1990.

http://www.coldwar.org/index.asp

1953 - 1974

Protest movements

US involvement and war in Vietnam, massive protests at home and abroad against the war in the 1960s; African-Americans, Native-Americans, Chicanos, Women, and gay Americans fought for civil Rights.

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2010/03/09/the-1960s-a-decade-of-promise-and-heartbreak

1954

School segregation unconstitional

Racial desegregation began with the Brown v the Board of Education US Supreme Court decision.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark_brown.html

1955

Labor union merger

The American Federation of Labour (AFL) and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) combined in a union of US unions.

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/history_of_labor_unions.html

1958

Science education

The National Defense Education Act funded scientific competition with the USSR, who had launched Sputnik in 1957.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/25/science/space/25educ.html

1963

JFK and LBJ

President John F. Kennedy assassinated; Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency

http://www.newsweek.com/2014/11/28/truth-behind-jfks-assassination-285653.html

1960s

Youth culture and religious cooperation

The high point of the Youth “counter culture” and of religious ecumenism in the US.

1964 - 1965

The Great Society

President Johnson launched Great Society and War on Poverty social reforms, leading to an even larger federal government. Conservatives again worried about states' rights and too much power in the hands of the federal government.

https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/sixties/resources/study-aid-great-society-legislation

1964

The Civil Rights Act

The Civil Rights Act outlawed discrimination in housing and jobs.

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civil-rights-act/

1965

The Voting Rights Act

The Voting Rights Act protected voter registration, especially in the South; the Elementary and Secondary Education Act provided massive funding for education reform.

http://history.house.gov/HistoricalHighlight/Detail/35187?ret=True

1966 - 2012

Fourth wave of immigration

In the continuing fourth wave of immigration, over 38.5 million people arrived, most from Latin America and Asia, but also from the former USSR, Africa, and the Middle East.

1968

Assassinations and race riots

Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr, and the Democratic politician Robert Kennedy were assassinated. 168 cities erupted in race riots.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/archival-video-abc-news-special-report-1968-assassination-38146970

1969

Stonewall

The Stonewall Riots when gay men for the first time fought back after repeated police raids.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/01/an-amazing-1969-account-of-the-stonewall-uprising/272467/

1970s - 1980s

The New Christian Right

The rise of Christian fundamentalism and conservative religious political activity.

http://www.pbs.org/video/1610782993/

1972

New federalism

The conservative President Nixon’s “New Federalism” began the return of power to the states.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2014/08/11/nixons-new-federalism-45-years-later/

1973

Abortion legalized

Roe v. Wade decision legalized limited abortion rights for women.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/politics/2013/02/norma-mccorvey-roe-v-wade-abortion

1974

Watergate

President Nixon resigned as a result of the Watergate scandal.

https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/watergate-constitution

1981

AIDS scare and backlash

AIDS was first identified in the US in 1981. First labeled "the gay plague" because most of the first affected by AIDS, the disease led to a severe backlash against the gay rights movement which had experienced some gains in the 1970s. For instance, in 1986 the Supreme Court ruled in favor of so-called "sodomy laws," which outlawed homosexual relations in the case Bowers v. Hardwick.

https://www.aids.gov/hiv-aids-basics/hiv-aids-101/aids-timeline/

1986 - 1988

Ronald Reagan's legacy

Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan co-operated to bring the end of the Cold War. The Iran-Contras scandal cast a shadow over the second Reagan administration.

https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/age-reagan/essays/ronald-reagan-and-end-cold-war-debate-continues

1991

Bush and Gulf War

The newly elected President George H. W. Bush led the US in the Persian Gulf War to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.

https://millercenter.org/president/bush/foreign-affairs

1993 - 2001

1990s economic boom

President Clinton presided over the longest economic boom in US History.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/23/opinion/remembrance-of-booms-past.html?_r=0

1996

Welfare reform

The devolution of policymaking power to the states occurred through the welfare reform act.

http://time.com/4446348/welfare-reform-20-years/

1999

Clinton impeached

Congress impeached but did not convict President Clinton.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-clinton-impeached

2000

Presidential election

George W. Bush won the presidential election after a 5-4 divided decision of the US Supreme Court stopped Florida vote recounts and called for uniform vote counting procedures.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2004/10/florida-election-2000

2001

Education reform

The No Child Left Behind Act set in action the most far-reaching national educational reform since the 1960s.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/schools/

2001

9/11 attacks

Terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center and attacked the Pentagon. The US initiated a global war on terrorism in Afghanistan.

http://collection.911memorial.org/

2002

Voting and post-terrorist attack reforms

The Help America Vote Act was passed to standardize voting procedures within states; the USA Patriot Act and the authorization of the Department of Homeland Security transformed American government for the War on Terror.

2003

War in Iraq

The US-led “coalition of the willing” invaded and occupied Iraq. Evidence that suggested Saddam Hussein had access to weapons of mass destruction convinced the Bush administration to enter Iraq. However, no such weapons were found in Iraq.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/invasion/

2003

End of "sodomy laws."

The Supreme Court decision, Lawrence v. Texas, ended the criminalization of homosexual relations between consenting adults.

http://www.lambdalegal.org/in-court/cases/lawrence-v-texas

2004

Republican wins

George W. Bush won a second term and the Republican secured larger majorities in Congress.

2006 - 2008

Presidential election

In the longest and most expensive presidential election in US history, 10 or more men and women announced their candidacy for each major party’s nomination. John McCain emerged as the presumptive Republican candidate. The Democrats nominated the first seriously competitive woman, former First Lady and current New York Senator Hillary Clinton, who fought a close contest with Illinois Senator Barack Obama, the first mixed race African American to run for president. Obama won the nomination, and in November he won the presidency with unprecedented use of social media.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/2008_election.php

2006 - 2013

Immigration restriction

Legal immigration to the US capped at 675,000 immigrant visas a year.

2008

Gun rights

In District of Columbia v. Heller the Supreme Court decided that the ban on the private possession of handguns in Washington DC was an infringement of the Second Amendment.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/07-290.ZS.html

2008

The Great Recession

The worsening economic crisis due to subprime mortgages became the worst financial breakdown since the 1930s.

http://www.economist.com/news/schoolsbrief/21584534-effects-financial-crisis-are-still-being-felt-five-years-article

2009 - 2010

Stimulus package

The Obama administration’s financial policies rescued Wall Street firms and the Detroit automobile industry, extended unemployment insurance and initiated a jobs and economic stimulus package.

2010

New rules on campaign funding

In Citizens United v. the FEC the Supreme Court ruled that corporations have the same right to freedom of expression as individuals, also regarding contributions to campaign contributions.

http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/citizens-united-v-federal-election-commission/

2010

Health care reform

The Patient Protection and Affordable Health Act (PPACA or ACA) passed with no support from Republican members of congress. The Act was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2012.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/the-real-story-of-obamacares-birth/397742/

2010

Earthquakes

Fracking to extract shale oil said to cause 1000’s of earthquakes in Oklahoma and across the US.

2012

Congressional and presidential elections

In the mid-term congressional elections the Democrats lost the majority in the House of Representatives and legislative support for Obama’s agenda, in part due to Tea party support for conservative Republicans in the 2012 election. In the next presidential election cycle a dozen Republicans, competed for the party’s nomination. Mitt Romney won and faced incumbent Obama in the general election. The sitting president won a electoral college and popular vote victory. In the congressional elections the Democrats improved their majority in the Senate, but the Republicans kept a majority in the House. SMS declined and gave way to smartphones and social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

2012

Sandy Hook shooting

Another school mass killing occurred at Newtown, Connecticut, when 20 young children and 6 teachers were killed by Adam Lanza.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/newtown-shooting

2012

The rise of Black Lives Matter

The Back Lives Matter movement against racism in the US justice system began on social media, after the acquittal of a neighborhood watchman for the murder of black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida. A policeman in Ferguson, Missouri, shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, leading to riots in the St. Louis suburb. Riots started again and spread across the nation when a court decided not to indict the policeman. Support for Black Lives Matters grew.

http://blacklivesmatter.com/

2013

Boston Marathon attack

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, two Chechen immigrant brothers, exploded bombs at the Boston Marathon killing three people and injuring hundreds.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9999754/Boston-Marathon-bombs-April-16-as-it-happened.html

2014

Republican landslide

In a mid-term election landslide, Republicans gained control of the Senate and increased their majority in the House of Representatives.

2015

Same sex marriage

In Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage is constitutional.

http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/obergefell-v-hodges/

2015

Political cooperation and elections

Bipartisan majorities in Congress and President Obama enacted a new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Seventeen Republicans and 6 Democrats competed for the major party nominations for president, and the Libertarian and Green Parties also chose candidates

2015

Violence against black Americans

Anger and protest against police brutality against black Americans erupted in Baltimore, Maryland after the death of Freddie Gray in police custody. Riots also flared in Ferguson, Missouri after the death of Michael Brown, unarmed 18-year-old black teenager shot by a white policeman. Dylann Roof, a white nationalist, massacred nine black worshippers in Charleston, South Carolina.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/black-lives-matter/421839/

2016

Presidential election

After the most contentious campaign in memory, intelligence reports accusing Russia of interfering in the election in Donald Trump’s favor, and allegations by the FBI and candidate Trump regarding Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, Republican Trump surprised pollsters and commentators, winning an Electoral College victory, even though Clinton won the popular vote by 3 million.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/2016_election.php

2016

Dakota Access Pipeline

The Standing Rock Sioux reservation with a coalition of Native American activists successfully protested the building of the Dakota Access pipeline near its water supply and sacred sites.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/dakota-access-pipeline

2016

Climate change agreement

The US ratified the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, which took effect on November 4. The further participation of the US was doubtful following the formation of the Trump administration in 2017.

http://unfccc.int/paris_agreement/items/9485.php

2016

TPP

Under President Obama, the US signed the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) with 11 other Pacific-rim countries, but the trade treaty was not yet in force. The TPP meant a shift of US trade policies from Europe to the Pacific rim. President Trump withdrew the US from the TPP.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32498715

2017

Dakota Access Pipeline 2.0

President Trump reversed the decision to reroute the Dakota Access Pipeline to protect the Standing Rock Sioux’s sites and water supply.

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardepstein/2017/01/26/trumps-big-move-on-dakota-access-pipeline/&refURL=https://www.google.co.uk/&referrer=https://www.google.co.uk/

2017

Border wall funding

By executive order President Trump reallocated funds to begin building a wall to prevent undocumented immigrants from crossing the Mexican border.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39727705

2017

Health care reform challenged

The new administration and Republican-controlled Congress reevaluated The Patient Protection and Affordable Health Act (PPACA), 2012, meant to extend health insurance to 50 million Americans by 2014. In May 2017, the House of Representatives approved a second version of President Trump's American Health Care Act (AHCA) before it moved on to the Senate.

http://time.com/money/4766063/ahca-new-republican-health-care-bill/