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| 1766 | Otis, John Fitzgerald |  |
| Washington Opposes Navigation Act writs on natural law to defend privacy & property
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| 1775 | Washington, George | |
| 3rd July Begins transforming the army while maintaining the Siege of Boston
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| 1776 | Jefferson, Thomas | |
| Washington Legislates for the separation of Church & State
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| 1782 | Washington, George | |
| 20th April Washington Congress adopts the Great Seal of the USA.index.html title="History of USA">United States
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| 1798 | Adams, John | |
| Washington Passes the Alien & Sedition Acts
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| 1825 | Adams, John Quincy | |
| Boston US agitation for a 10 hr day begins by a strike of Boston carpenters
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| 1829 | Jackson, Andrew | |
| Washington Builds the basis of the modern Democratic Party & initiates the spoils system
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| 1830 | Jackson, Andrew | |
| 29th April Washington The Preemption Act offers settlers cultivating land $1.25 an acre
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| 28th May Washington The Indian Removal Act removes Indians to lands west of the Mississippi
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| 1832 | Jackson, Andrew | |
| 22nd May Baltimore The Democratic Republican Party becomes the Democratic Party during its 1st convention
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| 17th June Washington A Tariff Act is passed favouring northern manafacturers over southern cotton growers
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| 1837 | Buren, Martin van | |
| 25th Aug Washington Passes the Independent Treasury Act to help deal with a financial crisis
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| 1882 | Arthur, Chester Alan | |
| Enacts the 1st Federal immigration law
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| 1883 | Arthur, Chester Alan | |
| Congress passes the Penleton Act, opens up the civil service to open competition
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| 16th Jan Signs the Tariff Act, raises rates
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| 1917 | Wilson, Thomas Woodrow | |
| 5th June Washington Draft registration day for nearly 10 million men aged 21-31
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| 1964 | King, Martin Luther | |
| Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1964, outlawing segregation in public accommodations and discrimination in education and employment
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| 1965 | King, Martin Luther | |
| Congress passes Voting Rights Act of 1965, which suspends (later bans) literacy tests and other restrictions to prevent blacks from voting
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| 1970 | Goodell, Charles | |
| 25th Sep Proposes legislation to bring back all GIs by the end of the year
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| 1970 | Scranton, William | |
| Heads a commission which reports divisions are "as deep as any since the Civil War"
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| 1993 | Clinton, William Jefferson Bill | |
| Sets up a task force, headed by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, to come up with a comprehensive plan to provide universal health care for all Americans, cornerstone of the administration
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| The effort to create a national healthcare system ultimately dies under heavy public pressure, the first major legislative defeat of Clinton's administration
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| 22nd Sep Announce a mandate for employers to provide health insurance coverage to all of their employees through competitive but closely-regulated health maintenance organizations (HMOs)
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| 1994 | Clinton, William Jefferson Bill | |
| 26th Sep Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell announces that Clinton's health plans are dead, at least for that session of Congress
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| 1996 | Clinton, William Jefferson Bill | |
| 22nd Aug Clinton signs the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996, which includes time limits for welfare, work requirements, and assistance for people transitioning to work
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| 1997 | Clinton, Hillary Diane Rodham | |
| Along with Senators Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch, she is a force behind passage of the State Children's Health Insurance Program
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| Clinton helps create the Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice
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| Promotes nationwide immunization against childhood illnesses and encourages older women to seek a mammogram to detect breast cancer, with coverage provided by Medicare
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| Successfully increases research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health
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| 1997 | Clinton, William Jefferson Bill | |
| Promises to develop a plan to unite a nation divided by attitudes to race
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| 1999 | Clinton, Hillary Diane Rodham | |
| Bill Clinton appoints Hillary Clinton to head and be the chairwoman of the Task Force on National Health Care Reform, hoping to replicate the success she had in leading the effort for Arkansas education reform.
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| Plays a role in advocating the establishment of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, the Adoption and Safe Families Act, and the Foster Care Independence Act
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| The recommendations of the task force become the Clinton Health Care Plan, a comprehensive proposal that would require employers to provide health coverage to their employees through individual health maintenance organizations
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| 2005 | Parks, Rosa | |
| 26th Jan Montgomery Condoleezza Rice Attends a memorial service in Montgomery, Alabama, in Rice's home state, for Rosa Parks, an inspiration for the American Civil Rights Movement
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| 26th Jan Montgomery Parks' act of civil disobedience inspired blacks in Montgomery to boycott the city's buses for more than a year and to successfully challenge the Jim Crow laws that confined them to second-class status in the city.
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| 25th Oct Montgomery American civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks dies age 92 years old, 50 years earlier, Parks had famously refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus and in doing so catalyzed the American civil rights movement
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| 2005 | Rice, Condoleezza | |
| 26th Jan Montgomery Condoleezza Rice Attends a memorial service in Montgomery, Alabama, in Rice's home state, for Rosa Parks, an inspiration for the American Civil Rights Movement
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