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Seneca Falls Convention
Outlined the women's rights movement of the mid-19th century. -
Transcontinental Railroad
1,775 miles of track from Omaha to Sacramento. Union Pacific and central Pacific building towards each other. May 10, 1869 they met at Promontory Point, Utah. They had a big positive impact of rail roads. -
Homestead Act
This act gave public lands to American citizens. Any person that was the head of a family or 21 years old could become the owner of 120 acres of land. Married couples were entitled to 320 acres. This act helped poor families and gave unemployed people a chance to find work on land of their own. -
Freedman's Bureau
An organization that provided food, clothing, jobs, education, and medical services for former slaves. -
Presidential Reconstruction
Andrew Johnson was a Democrat and became President. He was a white supremacist and came up with the 10%+ Plan, or the President Johnson's Plan. -
Black Adjustment and Sharecropping
Sharecropping is renting land which was a power struggle. A Sharecropper is a farmer who works part of the land and gives that landowner part of the harvest. Radical Republicans wanted to give every former slave or "freedman" 40 acres of land and a mule. Freedman were in constant debt to their landowners and were never able to earn profit, so basically like slaves again. -
Civil Rights Act
Its a crime for any individual to deny full and equal use of public conveyances and public places. It prohibited discrimination in jury selection. -
Indian Clashes
Battle of Little Bighorn was a big battle between Sitting bull and Crazy Horse and Custer. Custer and all his men were massacred.
Sand Creek Massacre was also deadly. 150-500 Indians were slaughtered by Colonel Chivington. -
Compromise of 1877
Republican Rutherford Hayes wins the election, but with the exception that the Democrats get to end the reconstruction. The biggest loser in this bargain are the black population. Southerns could vote again, and federal troops were removed from the South. -
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
This act limits and ends Chinese immigration into America. This was important because Americans didn't want them to take their jobs so only a tiny percent of Chinese immigrants were allowed in. -
Brooklyn Bridge is built
The date i put is when it was finished because I couldn't find the specific date when it was started. But the Brooklyn Bridge was designed by John Roebling and started in 1869. -
Statue of Liberty
Fredric Auguste Bartholdi designed it and France gave it to America to celebrate 100 years of being and independent country. The statue was dedicated on this date. -
Oklahoma Land Rush
This was an event where homesteaders lined up at territory border to stake a claim. Oklahoma was a "sooner state". And all the Native Americans were conquered. Oklahoma was the "Indian territory". -
The Sherman Antitrust Act
This act outlawed all contracts, combinations, and conspiracies in restraints of trade and all monopolies. -
Ellis Island Opening
ellis Island is where most immigrants come to become American citizens. 12 million people pass through from 1892-1954. This is very important because many immigrants were seeking a new life and America provided that. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
A man who was 1/8 black went on a white train and got arrested so he sued for it to be a right. -
Grandfather Clause
This let poor and illiterate white people avoid the voting restrictions. It stated that if your father of grandfather was eligible to vote, then you wouldn't have to take the test or pay. -
Spanish-American War
This date is the start of the war. This was fought between the United States and Spain. America won. -
War on Spain
Congress declares war on Spain, and the war goes into full effect. -
NAACP was formed
This was a group of black people whose goal was to have equality. -
1912 Election
Theodore and Taft both ran again, with Wilson, and Wilson won the election. -
Federal Reserve Board
Created by Congress in response to the banking crisis in 1907 -
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary, was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip. -
Sinking of the Lusitania
Germans torpedoed Lusitania, sinking it with 1,200 passengers and crew. Including 120 Americans. -
Espionage Act
This act forbade actions that obstructed recruitment or efforts to promote insubordination in the military. -
Picketing the White House
The NWP began to picket the White House in order to get the Presidents attention in order to have women vote. -
Sedition Act
This act stated that it was a crime to speak against war bonds or anything about the war effort. -
The Treaty of Versailles
This ended the war. It took away land rom Germany, dismantled their military, forced them to make reparations to the countries it harmed in the war, ad forced them to take all the blame. -
18th Amendment
This amendment banned making, selling, and transporting alcohol. -
19th Amendment
This is when the 19th amendment became part of the constitution. This amendment let women vote. This changed women's suffrage forever. -
Scopes Trial
Tenessee passed the first law forbidding teaching evolution because John Scopes started teaching evolution in his science class. -
St Valentine's Day Massacre
& members of the Moran gang were murdered, and it is assumed that this was Al Capone's doing. But to this day, the authorities can't tie it to him. -
"Black Tuesday"
This is the day the stock market crashed. Over 16 million shares were sold in massive selling frenzy and losses exceeded $26 billion. -
Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. -
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
Closed our borders to foreign goods and ignited vicious international trade war. -
Revenue Act of 1932
It increased the top income tax rate to 63 percent. -
21st Amendment
This amendment basically repealed prohibition. -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in order to try to cripple the Pacific fleet. This was important because it was the start of the war for America. -
Battle of Midway Island
Admiral Chester Nimitz defended island. Americans won, and destroyed 4 Japanese aircraft carries and 250 planes. -
D-Day
Largest land-air-sea operation in military history. Allies freed France, Belgium, and Luxembourg. German retaliation was brutal, especially on Omaha Beach. -
V-E Day
Victory in Europe. Allies won, and the war is over. -
Hiroshima is Bombed
Americans drop the atomic bomb Little Boy on the city Hiroshima. -
Bombing of Nagasaki
Americans dropped second atomic bomb Fat Man on this city. -
Korean War Truce
This truce was finally signed July 27, 1953. Negotiations lasted 2 years. The war lasted 3 years. -
Brown vs The Board of Education
Lind Brown of Topeka Kansas became face of school segregation. She was a 3rd grader. After the ruling, integration and desegregation took awhile. -
Rosa Parks got arrested
She sat in a white seat on the bus and refused to move. She was charged for violating a segregation law. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Blacks there boycotted using the bus. 40,000 people participated and walked instead of riding the bus for 382 days. -
Sputnick 1 is launched
Soviets launch Sputnik 1, the first thing in space. It stayed in orbit for 92 days until January 4, 1958. -
Alaska becomes a state
This is the date when Alaska officially becomes a state. -
Hawaii becomes a state
This is the official date that Hawaii became a state. -
First man in space
Soviets send Yuri Gagarin into space. He is the first human to successfully be in space. -
Berlin Wall goes up
East Germany under communist control builds the Berlin Wall to keep East Germans in. -
Birmingham Church Bombing
On 16th street, a black church was bombed and 4 girls died. The 5th girl lost an eye, and 17 more people were injured. -
Kennedy's Assassination
Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy twice from the 6th floor of the School Book Depository -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Nonstop bombing of Hanoi for 3 years. Air war. -
The My Lai Massacre
US troops went to this village and open fired and killed 300-500 men women and children. -
Democratic Convention
Police riot in Chicago. Hundreds of thousands of people protested US involvement -
First man on the moon
America sends Neil Armstrong to the moon. He takes the first steps. -
Watergate Break-in
5 men were arrested while trying to bug the office of the Democrat Party. -
A Napalm Attack
Gel or like hot tar dropped on the Vietnamese.
