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Civil War - Start of the Civil War
Civil war had multiple causes,including sectionlism,slavery and different views of states rights. -
Civil War
Lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation it announced the E.P of slaves in those states still in rebellion on January 1st,1863. -
Reconstruction
14th Amendment guarenteed all citizens "the Equal protection of laws" and "due process" -
Civil War
General Robert E.Lee surrendered to grant at appomktax.less than a week later President Lincoln was assinated. -
Gilded Age - politics
the Third Party System which was competition between the two parties : The Democrats & Republicans fought over control of offices. minor parties issues of concern to prohibitionists,Farmers and labor unions. -
Gilded Age - First Railroad
In 1869, the First Transcontinental Railroad opened up the far-west mining and ranching regions. The train traveled from New York to San Francisco and it took 6 days instead of 6 months -
Reconstruction
After north troops were withdrawn , Southern states started passing segregation laws in the 1870's. -
Gilded Age
The west and north side had an era of rapid economic growth. in Europe American wages for skilled workers, were much higher!The nation was rapidly expanding the economy. -
End of Reconstruction
South states governments passed "jim crow" laws reduring racial segregation. and the sepration of "white" and "Colored" in public places. -
Industrialization
Industrialization brought major changes, including the rise of a labor movement and the emergence of women's organizations -
Industralization Wattsteam system
The Watt steam engine known as the Boulton and Watt steam engine was the first type of steam engine to make use of steam at a pressure just above atmospheric to drive the piston helped by a partial vacuum. -
Roaring 20's - dawes plan
Dawes plan lent money to Germany while temp reading german repartations payments -
Roaring 20's
Roaring 20's ; The new decade of the roaring twenties would be a time of change for everyone -
World War I - broken out in Europe
WWI broke out in Eurpoe w./ several long term causes Nationalism, Economic rivaries and imperalism. the alliance system and militarism they wanted control over France, German was the main w./ Imperalism -
World War I - Involving U.S
The United states bacame involved with the World war I because americans tried to stay out of the war. in 1915 a german submarine sank the lusitania... -
World War I -Liberty Bonds
The rest of the war was financed through borrowing. Liberty bonds were government bonds that were sold to the public and paid a low interset rate. -
Roaring 20's - The Red Scare
The triumph of bolshevism in Russia , was a series of strikes and random bombings by many americans and anarchists led on americans to fear a commiunists revolution at home during the red scare . -
Great Depression - President roosevelt Response
President roosevelt responded to the Great depression by making a new deal with recovery. Lead by economic weakness in the 1920's. -
Great Depression - Causes..
Some Causes were stock market crashes , federal reserve "tight money". the had over production that was under consumption. and also tariffs were high. speculation was also another cause. -
Great Depression - The Start Of It All..
It was the longest, deepest, Depression of the 20th century....which had devastating effects in countries rich and poor. Personal income, tax revenue, profits and prices dropped. -
World War II- Cash and Carry
The Neutrallity Acts of 1935-37 aimed at keeping the U.S out of the war. they allowed americans to sell non military goods to countries at war on a cash and carry basis. -
World War II
Nazi Germany invaded Poland in sep of 1939. France and Britain declared war on germany. Germany coordinated its airplanes , tanks, and motorized troop carriers in the new blitzkrieg or warfare. -
World war II
Japan Luanched a suprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. Germany and Italy also declared war on the united states -
The Cold War
in 1947 communists threatned the governments of Greece and Turkey. President Truman announced the Truman Doctrine; the U.S would provide assistance to free countires resisting communism. -
Civil Rights Movement
African americans organizations like the NAACP , the NUL and CORE worked to improve conditions and mobilize african americans in the early 20th century. -
The Cold War - NATO
The western allies formed NATO in 1949. The sovient union and its eastern European satellites formed the warsaw pact in 1955. -
Civil rights Movement -Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-56)
The MBB Was a successful attempt to end segregration on public transit.The success of the boycott caused several of its leaders to form the southern christian leadership council -
Vietnam War
in 1956 loas and cambodia became independent. Vietnamese was divided between two communist. -
The Cold War -Sputnik
Sovient success in sending sputnik in to space in 1957 caused the united states to increase its spending on science education and to enter the space race -
Civil Rights movement - Black Power Movement
Militants disappointed at slow progress of civil rights.the black power movement began w./ a group of leaders who wanted african americans to take control -
Vietnam War
Nixon was elected president in 1968. his policy of Vietnamization replaced troops with south Vietnamese. -
Vietnam War
Dr.Henry Kissinger signed the paris peace accords with north vietnam.the Us withdrew all troops but continued to send aid. South vietnam fell to the communits in 1975
