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Lincoln issues a Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, which comes to be known as his 10 percent plan.
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The 13th Amendment is ratified, prohibiting slavery and involuntary servitude.
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An organization primarily composed of confederate Army veterans founds the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), a terrorist group formed to intimidate Blacks and other ethnic and religious minorities. It first meets in Pulaski, Tennessee. The Klan is the first of many secret terrorist organizations organized in the South for the purpose of reestablishing white authority.
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In this date If a voter’s father or grandfather was eligible to vote, they didn’t have to take a aliteracy test or pay a fee.
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The United States agreed to purchase Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million dollars, about two cents an acre.
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The CPR crew set a record of laying 10 miles in twelve hours.
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The UPR arrived at promontory point, utah, and the last track was laid to connect the entire country.
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The first of the Enforcement Acts are passed in response to KKK violence.
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Reconstruction finally ended and begins slavery
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Chief joseph’s Tribe killed a group of settlers, he tried to flee to Canada with his followers, traveling over 1500 miles. Along the way they fought several battles. At the end he surrenders.
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John D. Rockefeller formed the standard oil trust and consequently dominated 95% of the production.
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Brooklyn bridge was finally opened and was known as the largest bridge in the world.
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The statue was dedicated to the United States from France. The Statue of Liberty symbolizes freedom.
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Homesteaders line up at territory border to stake a claim. In 1890 Oklahoma territory was created.
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Ellis Island open its door for other immigrants.
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Maine explodes in Havana Harbor, killing about 268 men, making the Americans cry.
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The congress declared war on Spain.
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140,000 coal miners in Pennsylvania went on strike for increased wages, a 9-hour work day, and the right to unionize. Mine owners refused to bargain.
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Congress passed the 17th Amendment and enough states ratified it to add it to the Constitution.
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Assassination of Franz Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian empire.
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The national woman's party began to picket he white house.
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The declaration of war was announced. The Zimmerman note and the sinking of four unarmed American ships led to a declaration of war.
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Influenza killed nearly 200,000 Americans during the war.
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It was a crime to speak against the purchase of war bonds.
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The central powers were exhausted by the war, specially after u.s joined. The war finally was over.
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almost 50% of college students were females.
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The 19th amendment became part of the united states constitutional when Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify it.
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The United States officials destroyed liquor at Brownsville Custom House.
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Tennessee passed the nation’s first law that made it a crime to teach evolution.
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Trial became a national sensation. Darrow got Bryan to admit that the Bible can be interpreted in different ways.
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The gang of Chicago reached its bloody climax in a garage, when seven men associated with the Irish gangster George. It is said that Capone was responsible for this massacre.
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The “Black Tuesday,” the stock market crashed.
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Homeless families build shacks out of wooden crates and scrap.
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The largest peacetime increase in history, the Revenue Act of 1932.
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Tanks and cavalry prepare to evacuate The Bonus Army and shelters being burned.
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In 1932 over 20,000 jobless veterans protested in Washington, D.C. demanding immediate payment. Veterans were due to be paid a bonus in 1945.
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“Colored” water fountains were fixtures throughout the south during the Jim Crow era.
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Germany invades Poland.
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Japanese attack on US Army at Pearl Harbour, which brings the USA into the war against Japan and Germany.
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The Tuskegee Airmen who were pilots fought in Italy which were the all- black 99th squadron. They were the first group of African-American pilots trained at the Tuskegee Institute, arrived in North Africa.
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D-Day was the largest land-sea-air operation in military history.
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On April 29 Hitler married his girlfriend Eva Braun then wrote a last note in which he blamed the Jews for starting the war and his generals for losing it. The next day he gave poison to his wife and shot himself.
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General Eisenhower accepted the surrender of the Third Reich and the Allies celebrated V-E Day which means victory in Europe Day.
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North Korean communist forces cross the 38th parallel and invade South Korea.
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Truman orders U.S. forces to assist the South Koreans while the U.N. security council condemns the invasion and establishes a 15-nation fighting force. Chinese troops enter the conflict by year's end.
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An armistice is signed ending the Korean War, with the border between North and South roughly the same as it had been in 1950. The willingness of China and North Korea to end the fighting was in part attributed to Stalin's death.
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After a long siege, Vietnamese communists under Ho Chi Minh defeat French colonial forces at Dien Bien Phu on May 7. In July, the Geneva Accords divide the country at the 17th parallel, creating a North and South Vietnam. The United States assumes chief responsibility of providing anti-communist aid to South Vietnam.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a White man on a bus.
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The African Americans in Montgomery began to boycott the buses. 40,000 Black commuters walked to work, some as far as twenty miles.
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Angry whites harassed nine black students as they arrived at Little Rock’s Central High School.
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Hawaii was admitted into the union as the 50th state.
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The National Liberation Front (NLF) was born. It brought together Communists and non-Communists in an umbrella organization that had limited, but important goals. Anyone could join as long as they opposed Ngo Dinh Diem and wanted to unify Vietnam.
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President JFK was in Dallas trying to get support for next year’s election in Dallas but Dallas was not exactly a huge bastion of supporters for Kennedy.
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Civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and
Michael Schwerner went missing during a trip to investigate
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Responding to the assault, an aerial bombardment campaign against North Vietnam known as Operation Rolling Thunder began. The continuous operation would go on for more than 3 years.
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Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to reach the moon.
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During massive anti-war demonstrations at Kent State University, 4 students were shot and killed, eleven were wounded and one was paralyzed for life. These killings sparked anger and sentiment worldwide against America’s aggression in Cambodia and their involvement in Vietnam.
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The Watergate scandal escalated, costing Nixon much of his political support making him resigned in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office; the only time a U.S. president has done so.
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Last two U.S. men were killed at Tan Son Nhut airport in their evacuation mission. South Vietnam fell as the acting President Duong Van Minh delivered an unconditional surrender to the North Communists in early hours of April 30. The Vietnam war eventually ended.
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Ellis Island immigration museum opens.
