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Civil War begins
Wasn't this in the last timeline? Deja vu maybe? -
Gettysburg Address
Lincoln upstages the main speaker of an event with a speech written on a napkin. -
Emancipation Proclamation
This earns Lincoln some brownie points for "freeing slaves," but it's more a political power play than anything. -
Gettysburg Address
Lincoln writes a speech on a napkin and upstages the keynote speaker. -
Abraham Lincoln assassinated
Our most beloved president gets shot by an intruder at a play, and security still doesn't check for guns at most movie theaters? -
Civil War ends
America recovers from her suicide attempt, but doesn't make improvements for quite some time. -
Reconstruction Amendments ratified
A major step towards basic human rights for African-Americans. -
Reconstruction Amendments passed
The North tries to punish the South for their part in the Civil War. It backfires. -
Military Reconstruction Act passed
The North is stupid and doesn't listen to Lincoln, leaving the South to wallow in its anger for an unhealthy amount of time. -
Ulysses S. Grant elected
The 18th president - that really intense kid from your class that somehow wound up Student Council president and is really scaring you. -
Boss Tweed convicted of embezzlement
A slimy dude with a really dope name gets caught committing fraud. -
Compromise of 1877 ends Reconstruction
Bipartisan compromise exchanges the South's freedom (how ironic) for a Northern president. -
Jane Addams founds Hull House
Addams creates a care facility to educate the children of working immigrants. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
In this landmark case, segregation is deemed constitutional as long as all institutions remain “separate but equal.” -
Carrie Nation begins smashing bars
I would pay to see the reactions of the men in the bar the first time she showed up. -
Theodore Roosevelt takes office
The 26th president begins to make some big changes in America. -
Booker T. Washington releases Up From Slavery
Washington was an advocate for peaceful black resistance. -
Ida Tarbell publishes her Rockefeller exposé
The first investigative journalist, she wrote her report without ever speaking to Rockefeller. -
W.E.B. DuBois forms the NAACP
DuBois was an advocate of black action and strength to gain equality. -
World War 1 begins
Clueless teenager's assassination attempt goes awry and sparks a global disaster. -
Birth of a Nation released
This white supremacy-glorifying film received a stamp of approval from the President, causing a resurgence in the KKK. -
Margaret Sanger coins the term “birth control”
Sanger was a pioneer of contraceptive rights for teenage girls and women. -
Jeannette Rankin becomes first Congresswoman
Oddly enough, Rankin is elected before white women are even given the vote. -
World War 1 ends
We won, so we party and go blackout drunk for the next decade. Bad idea.
