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Uncle Sam
Uncle Sam is a common national personification of the American government or the United States in general that, according to legend, came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel Wilson. -
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First wave of immigration
Northwestern Europeans flee starvation, feudal governments & social upheaval from the Industrial Revolution. People are mostly from Ireland Germany Scandinavia and China. -
The Seneca Falls Convention
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention movement of the mid-19th century. -
Wade-Davis Bill
It's a plan made by congress. It required 50% of the number of 1860 voters to take an oath of allegiance. It required a state constitutional convention before the election of state officials. -
The Homestead Act
The Homestead Act gave public lands which are the lands owned by government to American citizens. Any person who was the head of a family can get 160 acres and married couples were entitled to 320 acres of land. This gave land to American people and speed up the process of developments on the west coast. -
10% Plan
10% plan is a plan from President Lincoln. It pardon to all but the high military and civilian confederate officers. When 10% of the voting population in 1860 election had taken an oath of loyalty and established a government, it will be recognized. So the state can be re admitted. -
The sand creek massacre
Colorado's government took advantage of the peace act and killed several hundreds of Indians. -
Reconstruction Acts of 1867
One part of it is called command of the army act, it indicates that the president must issue all reconstruction orders through the commander of the army. One part of it it's called the tenure of office act, it indicates that the president could not remove any officials without out the senate's consent. This made president Jonson really weak. -
U.S. Purchases Alaska
On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William Seward purchased Alaska from Russia in what many at the time called “Seward’s Folly.” -
15th commandments
This indicate that the all the citizens of US has the rights to vote, your race color or previous condition of servitude doesn't matter. But the women's rights groups were furious that they weren't granted the vote. -
Statue of liberty
The statue of liberty was a gift from France, it's designed by Gustave Eiffel. -
Battle of little bighorn 1876
This was a battle between the Indians and Custer. The cause was because they found gold in the Sioux Black Hills Custer's force had 250 men but have to deal with 2000 warriors, so Custer was defeated. This shocked the nation and the Indian soldiers and they were forced to leave. -
Compromise of 1877
This is a promise by Hayes to the southern states, he promised to remove the troops from the southern states, this gave an end to the Reconstruction Era -
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Lynching under Jim Crow
There has been a lot of deaths under Jim Crow, The Tuskegee institute has recorded 3446 blacks and 1297 whites getting lynched between 1882 and 1968. -
Standard Oil Trust
In 1882, John D. Rockefeller formed the Standard Oil Trust and consequently dominated 95% of the production, refining, and marketing of oil in the United States. -
The Dawes law
This is a law made by Henry Dawes, a congressman, he think that the Indians should live the same life as the Americans. They wear modern cloth and live in houses. This plan failed and the Indians didn't get a lot lands. -
The invention of Basketball
Basket ball was invented by a guy called James Naismith, and it quickly gained popularity and was one of the three most popular sports in U.S. -
Congress declares war against Spain
Spain was accused for destroying Maine, so the congress declared war against it. -
Hawaii Becomes a US Territory
The Territory of Hawaii was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 12, 1898, until August 21, 1959, when most of its territory, excluding Palmyra Island and the Stewart Islands, was admitted to the Union as the fiftieth U.S. state, the State of Hawaii. -
The end of war
Aguinaldo was captured. Over 4,000 Americans and 220,000 Filipinos died in the war, including 20,000 Filipino soldiers. -
the Modern President - Theodore Roosevelt
The rising young Republican politician Theodore Roosevelt unexpectedly became the 26th president of the United States in September 1901 at age 42, after the assassination of William McKinley. -
Seventeenth Amendment
As a result, Congress passed the 17th Amendment in 1913 and enough states ratified it to add it to Constitution. -
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First Red Scare
A "Red Scare" is promotion of widespread fear by a society or state about a potential rise of communism, anarchism, or radical leftism. The term is most often used to refer to two periods in the history of the United States with this name. The First Red Scare, which occurred immediately after World War I, revolved around a perceived threat from the American labor movement, anarchist revolution and political radicalism. -
The NWP began to pickett the White House
The government’s initial tolerance for these demonstrations gave way after the United States entered World War I. The NWP highlighted the government’s hypocrisy of supporting democracy abroad while denying its women citizens the right to vote at home. -
Selective Service Act
The Selective Service Act of 1917 authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription. It was envisioned in December 1916 and brought to President Woodrow Wilson's attention shortly after the break in relations with Germany in February 1917. -
Wilson's 14 Points
The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918 speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson. -
Sedition Act
The Sedition Act of 1918 was an Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered with the sale of government bonds. -
The Flapper
A Flapper was an emancipated young woman who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes. Shorter hair, shorter skirts, smoking, drinking. -
The Ku Klux Klan
In 1915, the second Klan was founded atop Stone Mountain, Georgia by William Joseph Simmons. While Simmons relied on documents from the original Klan and memories of some surviving elders, the revived Klan was based significantly on the wildly popular film, The Birth of a Nation. -
Women suffrage before 1920
Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. -
Quota system
It limits the people from entering the U.S. by their nationalities. -
Scopes Trial
In March 1925, Tennessee passed the nation's first law that made it a crime to teach evolution. -
Sreamboat Willie
This is the first animated with sound. Walt Disney's animated Steamboat Willie marked the debut of Mickey Mouse. It was a seven minute long black and white cartoon. -
The Crash "Black Tuesday"
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Stock Market Crash of 1929 or the Great Crash, is a major stock market crash that occurred in late October 1929. It started on October 24 ("Black Thursday") and continued until October 29, 1929 ("Black Tuesday"), when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed. -
1932 German presidential election
They were the second and final direct elections to the office of President of the Reich (Reichspräsident), Germany's head of state under the Weimar Republic. -
Bonus Army
The Bonus Army were the 43,000 marchers—17,000 U.S. World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. -
The Second New Deal
The Second New Deal in 1935–1938 included the Wagner Act to protect labor organizing, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) relief program (which made the federal government by far the largest single employer in the nation),[5] the Social Security Act and new programs to aid tenant farmers and migrant workers. -
court-packing plan
The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 (frequently called the "court-packing plan") was a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. Roosevelt's purpose was to obtain favorable rulings regarding New Deal legislation that the court had ruled unconstitutional. -
The War Starts in Europe
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. -
The Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japanese attack on US navy at Pearl Harbor brings the USA into the war against Japan and Germany. -
D-Day
During World War II (1939-1945), the Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. -
Battle of The Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Counteroffensive, took place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945, and was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. -
The cold war
By the time World War II ended, most American officials agreed that the best defense against the Soviet threat was a strategy called “containment.” -
Hitler Commits Suicide
This was the reported reaction of Stalin when he heard of Hitler’s suicide. For a long time the Soviets claimed that Hitler had simply taken poison, which in their eyes made it an even more ‘unworthy death’, even though they had access to the closest witnesses to the incident. -
V-E Day
Victory in Europe Day, generally known as VE Day (Great Britain) or V-E Day (North America), was celebrated on Tuesday, 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Communist Takeover in Czechoslovakia
Key members of Czech gov't die mysteriously. Pro-western President forced to resign, new constitution ratified -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. -
Easter parade
On its biggest day, the "Easter parade" of April 16, 1949, the airlift sent 1,398 flights into Berlin-- one every minute. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea (with the support of China and the Soviet Union) and South Korea (with the support of the United Nations, with the principal support from the United States (US)). The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. -
Dien Bien Phu
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist revolutionaries. It was, from the French view before the event, a set piece battle to draw out the Vietnamese and destroy them with superior firepower. -
The Arrest of Rosa Parks
On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a White man on a bus. -
The Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. -
The National Liberation Front
National Liberation Front (NLF), formally National Front for the Liberation of the South, Vietnamese Mat-Tran Dan-Toc Giai-Phong Mien-Nam, Vietnamese political organization formed on December 20, 1960, to effect the overthrow of the South Vietnamese government and the reunification of North and South Vietnam. -
"I Have A Dream" Speech
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States. -
Birmingham Church Bombing, 1963
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday, September 15, 1963, when four members of the Ku Klux Klan planted at least 15 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the steps located on the east side of the church. -
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Central Standard Time in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. Kennedy was riding with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie when he was fatally shot by former U.S. Marine Lee Harvey Oswald firing in ambush from a nearby building. -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin incident, also known as the USS Maddox incident, was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War. It involved either one or two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
On 2 March 1965, the US Air Force, the US Navy, and the Republic of Vietnam Air Force (VNAF) began Operation Rolling Thunder, a gradual and sustained bombing campaign over North Vietnam that lasted for three years and eight months, ending on 2 November 1968. -
The Watergate Break-in
The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States during 1972 to 1974, following a break-in by five men at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. -
The Ceasefire
A ceasefire, also called cease fire, is a temporary stoppage of a war in which each side agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions. Ceasefires may be declared as part of a formal treaty, but they have also been called as part of an informal understanding between opposing forces. A ceasefire is usually more limited than a broader armistice, which is a formal agreement to end fighting. Successful ceasefires may be followed by armistices, and finally by peace treaties.
