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Seneca Falls Convention
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women’s suffrage Convention. Which was held in Seneca Falls, New York and went on from July 19-20 of 1848 -
Wade Davis Bill (1864)
-required 50% of the number of 1860 voters to take an “iron clad” oath of allegiance (swearing they had never voluntarily aided the rebellion)
- required a state constitutional before the election of stadium officials
- it prosposed the base Reconstruction of the South on the govermnets power to guarantee a republican form of the govermnet -
13th amendment
-abolishing slavery
- this is important because this a,end,entirely inalienable..y set the slabes free from all the mistreatment they received. They could finally be treated like an equal -
Freedmen’s Bureau
- many former northern risked their lives Tom help southern freedmen = carpetbaggers
- provided food, clothes, jobs, medical care, and education for millions of former slaves Andy poor whites -scalawags- southerners who are cooperating with reconstruction. Many were formers who had never owned slaves.
- it’s important because it helped protect former slaves at be end of the civil war.
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Freedmen’s Bureau bill vetoed
- the president vetoed the Freedmen’s Bureau bill in 1866
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United States bought Alaska
U.S. agreed to purchase Alaskan from Russia for $7.2 million dollars, about 2 cents on acre. -
14th Amendment
- citizenship rights
- this is important because it gave the slaves and everyone else the ability to finally free and freedom of speech
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Transcontinental Railroad
-On May 10, 1869 the transcontinental railroad was finally done.
-this is importantly because it wasn’t such a big project that needed to be done and it was finally finished -
First state to grant women’s rights
Wyoming became the first state to grant women’s right to vote! -
15th amendment
- all men can vote
- this finally gave the black men the right to vote and that’s why it’s important because they are getting the same respect in a way as the white men
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The Gilded Age
Mark Twain wrote a book Called “the gilded age” which satirized the greed and corruption of the period -
Battle of Little Big Horn
Custer Andy hos men attacked the Indians because there’s was gold in the Sioux Black Hills and Custered was greedy amd wanted it.
- this was an important event because Custer and his men died And it shcoked the nation. Soon the army came in crushing the natives uprising. -
Reconstruction ends
Hayes gets Southern states to help him get him get elected.
Withdrew federal troops - abadndons southern Blacks politically and econimically -
Brooklyn Bridge open
John A. Roebling built and designed the Brooklyn Bridge. He later died during the process of th3 bridge being built -
Geronimo
Geronimo was known as a guy that could escape anything and everything. He would always think about his people before he did what he did. Before he surrendered
- this is important becasue when he surrendered he did it for his people because he saw how much his people were struggling -
Statue of Liberty open
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi built the Statue of Liberty and it was opened in October -
Jacob Riis’s book
Jacob Riis’s published a book called “how the other half lived” -
Wounded Knee Massacre
They basically Americanized the Native Americans.
-around 150 Sioux and 25+ soldiers were killed -
National Association of Colored Women
"Lifting as we climb", to demonstrate to "an ignorant and suspicious world that our aims and interests are identical with those of all good aspiring women." -
Explosion of the Maine
USS Maine explodes in Havanna, Cuba Harbor.
Most Americans believe it was Spain’s fault -
Congress
Congress declared war on Spain because they thought that Spain was the reason for the “explosion of Maine” -
Macy opens in NYC
The tallest 9 story store opens in New York City -
Titanic sunk
2,223 people went on a ship to go to New York and 4 days later it sunk and 1,503 died because they either drowned or froze to death. -
17th amendment
The senate of the United States shall be composed of 2 senators from each state, elected by the people Theron, for 6 years; each senators shall have 1 vote -
Germany torpedoed
German torpedoed the “Lusitania” sinking 1,200 passengers and crew (with 128 Americans) -
America joined World War 1
America joined the war due to Zimmerman Note and due to the unlimited submarine warfare in the war zone to keep their blockade -
Selective Service Act
Congress passes the Selective Service Act authorizing the draft. Although criticized for destroying democracy at home while fighting for it abroad, President Wilson claims he sees no other option and signs the bill into law. -
Armistice Day
an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, was declared between the Allied nations and Germany in World War I, then known as “the Great War.“ -
18th
Congress ratifies the 18th Amendment, prohibiting the sale of alcohol anywhere in the United States. -
19th amendment
This amendment is helping everyone vote even women. -
Steamboat Willie
This was the first animated movie with sound, Walt Disney created and Mickey Mouse came to life -
Stock market crashes
In late October 1929 the stock market crashed, wiping out 40 percent of the paper values of common stock -
The Great Depression starts
The Great Depression began with the stock market crash of 1929 and was made worse by the 1930s Dust Bowl. President Franklin D. Roosevelt responded to the economic calamity with programs known as the New Deal. -
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
Raised import duties to protect American businesses and farmers, adding considerable strain to the international economic climate of the Great Depression. -
Bank of United States Failed
The first of four separate banking panics began in the fall of 1930, when a bank run in Nashville, Tennessee, kicked off a wave of similar incidents throughout the Southeast -
Al Capone arrested
Al Capone was arrested and convicted on tax evasion charges in 1931 -
Revenue Act of 1932
Hoover signed the Revenue Act of 1932. It increased the top income tax rate to 63 percent -
21st Amendment
Repeals the 18th Amendment -
Germany
Germany invades Poland -
Nazi
Nazi Germany takes control of France -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese attack on US navy at Pearl Harbour brings the USA into the war against Japan and German -
D-Day
World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. -
Soviet Union
Society army had stormed Berlin -
Eva Braun
Hitler married Eva Braun -
Hitlers dead
Hitter shot himself in the head and poisioned his wife. The day before they got married. -
Truman Doctrine
Helped send $400 million worth of war supplies to Greece and helped push out communism -
Marshall Plan (1947-1948)
Economic acid to all European countries offered in European recovery programs -
Dividing Germany
U.s., Britain, and France merged their zones in 1948 to create an independent West German State -
Berlin Airlift
U.S. and British planes airlift over 2 million tons of supplies to residents of Wets Berlin -
NSC-68
Served as a framework for American policy for over the next 20 years -
38th parallel
North Korea communist forces across 38th parallel and invaded South Korea -
U.S. forces to South Korea
Truman orders U.S. forces to assist the South Korea -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that American state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. -
Hawaii a part of the United States
Hawaii admitted into the Union as the 50th state -
Yurt Gagarin
First human in space; spacecraft- Vostok 1 -
Alan Shepard
Alan Shepard 2nd human Andy had freedom 7 spacecraft -
Lee Harvey Oswald murdered
Jack Ruby shot Oswald cashing no abdominal gunshot wound. -
Jim Crow law removed
Law was passed by southerners to segregate public places, such as schools, restaurants, theater, trains, hospitals, etc. but then they realized everyone was equal and discontinued the law -
Washington Post on Watergate Scandal
The New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers, the Defense Department's secret history of the Vietnam War. The Washington Post will begin publishing the papers later in the week.
