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Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail was Independence, Missouri to Oregon City, Oregon 2,170 miles across America. -
The First Finding Of Gold
A man by the name of James Wilson Marshallfound the first flakes of gold in the american river in the Sierra Nevada. -
One of the First Women's Rights Conventions
Amy Post, Sarah D. Fish, Sarah C. Owen, and Mary H. Hallowell convene a women's rights convention in Rochester, New York. Abigail Bush chairs the public meeting, a first for American women. -
Ain't I A Women
Sojourner Truth's spontaneous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech electrifies the woman's rights convention in Akron, Ohio. -
The Homestead Act
The Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land. -
Segregation Starting
Segragation started in the year 1865 when whites seperated from the the blacks. -
Lincoln's Assassination
He and his wife were at a play when he was shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth -
13th Amendment Ratified
All African Americans can vote -
The Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty was built in the year 1868 by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi. In New York. -
14th Amendment Ratified
Granting citizeship born and naturalized in the US. -
Grant Elected President
Grant Was eleceted president on tuesday, November 3, 1868. -
KKK
The KKK(Klu Klux Klan) formed in the year of 1869, and was originally a society for confedrate war veterans. Yet, they became something more, a danger to anyone that wasn't white. -
USS Maine Explodes
The USS Maine explosion was the start of the Spanish American. Even though the USS Maine blew up by its self. Killing 268 men. -
The First Railroad
The first railroad was the Transcontinental Railroad. -
Rockefeller Incorporates Standard Oil
Rockefeller was one of the few rich people during the Gilded Age and invested his money in the Standard Oil Company. -
Exodus To West
During 1849, the African Americans migrated to west to get out of the south during the Civil War. -
The Brooklyn Bridge
The Brokklyn Bridge is the connection of Manhatten and Brooklyn. Being built from 1869-1883. -
The Pendleton Act
The Pendleton Act provided that Federal Government jobs be awarded on the basis of merit and that Government employees be selected through competitive exams. The act also made it unlawful to fire or demote for political reasons employees who were covered by the law. -
The Gibson Girl
It was a style during this time that was very famous for girls. Yet it had its downfalls and also caused deformities in the waist. -
Ellis Island
Ellis Island was a immigration port that foreigners had to go through before they got in America. This port was located in New York. -
McKinley Tariff
President William McKinley sets a tax on all foreign goods. -
Spanish American War
The Spanish–American War was an armed conflict between Spain and the United States in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. -
The Battle of San Juan Hill
The Battle of San Juan Hill, also known as the battle for the San Juan Heights, was a decisive battle of the Spanish–American War. The only lasted for six hours. -
Angel Island
Angel Island was also an immigration port. Located in San Francisco, it mainly for Asian foreigners. -
The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
Archduke Ferdinand was the heir to the presumptive throne of Austria-Hungary until he was assassinated which started World War 1. -
The Lusitania Sinks
The Lusitania was a British ship that had British civilians on it what sunk due to torpedoes in World War 1. -
Seward Alaska
Now owned by the U.S, was a a part of a Alaska that was given to them from the Russians for a great price. -
Palmer Raids
These were a series of conducted scares and raids conducted by United States Department of Justice. -
Steel Strike Ends
The steel strike was when steel workers went on strike because of less pay. -
Senate rejects league
Senate refuses to ratify Versailles Treaty. -
Immigration Quota Established
Congress passes immigration restrictions for the first time in US history. -
Wall Street
Wall Street Crashes at the break of the Depression -
Smoot Hawley Tariff
Smoot Hawley Tariff was established. -
Bank
This when US had a major bank collapse. -
Roosevelt
This was the year Franklin Roosevelt was elected during the Depression. -
Roosevelt Inaguration
Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated into office as the 32nd President of the United States. -
Cash and carry Act
Cash and carry was a policy requested by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on September 21, 1939 to replace the Neutrality Acts of 1936. The revision allowed the sale of materiel to belligerents, as long as the recipients arranged for the transport using their own ships and paid immediately in cash. -
Tuskegee Airmen
A group of African-American and Caribbean-born military pilots (fighter and bomber) who fought in World War II. They formed the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Forces. -
Code Talkers
A code talker was a person employed by the military during wartime to utilize a little-known language as a means of secret communication. -
Lend Lease Act
President Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease bill into law on March 11, 1941. It permitted him to "sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of, to any such government [whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States] any defense article." -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
This was the Attack that the Japanese made on the U.S soil in Hawaii -
Battle of Midway
Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union and the United States liberated Korea from imperial Japanese colonial control on 15 August 1945. -
Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957, orbiting for three weeks before its batteries died, then silently for two more months before falling back into the atmosphere. -
1960 u-2 incident
United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while performing photographic aerial reconnaissance deep into Soviet territory. The single-seat aircraft, flown by pilot Francis Gary Powers, was hit by an S-75 Dvina surface-to-air missile and crashed near Sverdlovsk. -
Cuban Missile Strike
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
Buddhist Monk Burns Alive
Demonstrations against the government continued as it refused to take any responsibility for the shooting in Hue. On June 11 a group of cars pulled up on a busy street in Saigon and an old buddhist monk named Quang Duc climbed out. He sat down on the street, crossed his legs and was encircled by other monks. One of them doused the priest in gasoline and started a fire with a lighter. The monk clasped his hands together as he was enveloped in flames. Duc’s entire body burned. -
Diem Overthrown
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. Civilians : 20 dead, 146 wounded. In November 1963, President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam was deposed by a group of Army of the Republic of Vietnam officers who disagreed with his handling of both the Buddhist crisis and the Viet Cong threat to the regime. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution or the Southeast Asia Resolution, Pub.L. 88–408, 78 Stat. 384, enacted August 10, 1964, was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive, or officially called The General Offensive and Uprising of Tet Mau Than 1968 was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. -
Soviet–Afghan War
The Soviet–Afghan War was a conflict wherein insurgent groups known collectively as the mujahideen, as well as smaller Maoist groups, fought a guerrilla war against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government for over nine years, throughout the 1980s, mostly in the Afghan countryside.
