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America gets Alaska
Secretary of State William Seward buys Alaska from Russia from 7.2 million dollars. -
End of Reconstruction
Hayes withdrew the last federal troops from the south, and the bayonet-backed Republican governments collapsed. -
Vaudeville
The usual date given for the "birth" of vaudeville is October 24, 1881 at New York's Fourteenth Street -
How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis writes a book on the struggles of the poor called "How the Other Half Lives" -
Burea of Immigration & Ellis Island
Federal Government establishes
Bureau of Immigration & selects Ellis Island
as site of new immigration station for port of
New York -
Ida B. Wells Crusades Against Lynching
She began a newspaper attacking lynchings and racism. -
Ellis Island Opens
Ellis Island opens it doors -
Klondike Gold Rush
Gold was discovered in northwestern Canada. -
Spanish American War Begins
Conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas -
Congress Declared War
Congress declares war on Spain -
Coal Strike
140,000 coal miners in Pennsylvania went on strike for increased wages, a 9-hour work day and the right to unionize. -
16th Amendment
Established Congress's right to impose a Federal income tax. -
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Ferdinand is assassinated by Gavrilo Princip -
World War I
Global War that originated in Europe. War to end all wars -
Russia mobilizes
Russia mobilizes its vast army to intervene against Austria-Hungary in favor of its ally, Serbia. -
Sinking of the Lusitania
A German submarine sinks the passenger liner Lusitania. The ship carries 1,198 people, 128 of them Americans. -
The Great Migration
movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West -
America joins war
America officially joins World War I -
Picket the White House
Suffragettes began to picket the White House for women's rights -
Prohibition Begins
A statute or order forbidding a particular action. -
19th Amendment
Women get to vote. -
Don't teach Evolution
A law is created in Tennessee that made is a crime to teach evolution -
Across the Atlantic
Charles Lindbergh flew a solo flight with the spirit of st. Louis across the Atlantic -
Stock Market Crash
he American stock market collapses, signaling the onset of the Great Depression. -
Dust Bowl
Period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies -
Smooth-Hawley Tariff
Congress passes the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, steeply raising import duties in an attempt to protect American manufactures from foreign competition. -
F. D. Roosevelt is elected
Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover in a landslide to win the presidency. -
National Recovery Act
Enacted by Congress in June 1933 and was one of the measures by which President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to assist the nation's economic recovery during the Great Depression. -
World War II starts in Europe
Germany invades Poland -
Lend-lease Act
the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. -
Mobilization lifts Economy
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor draws United States into World War II. Mobilization for war finally lifts the American economy permanently out of the Great Depression. -
U.S. Declares war on Japan
The United States declares war on Japan, entering World War II. -
V - E Day
Victory in Europe. Acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Hiroshima
The United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima -
V-J Day
Victory over Japan. Japan surrenders -
Cold War Begins
state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc. -
Berlin Airlift
Flights to Berlin to drop off -
Berlin Blockade
Those living in Western Berlin had no access to food supplies and faced starvation. -
Vietnam War begins
conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. -
National Liberation Front
NLF was born -
The Equal Pay Act
President John F. Kennedy’s Commission on the Status of Women described the inequalities women still faced in the U.S. economy. -
JFK Assassination
JFK is shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald -
End of Vietnam War
The Vietnam war ends
