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In 1843, close to 1,000 people joined together to traverse the Oregon Trail via a wagon train, becoming one of the largest groups to ever make the long and dangerous journey. -
Jim Crow laws and Black codes were both passed at various times in the southern United States to enforce racial segregation and limit the voting power of Black people -
John Wilkes Booth, an actor from Maryland, assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Key part of history. -
President Johnson's Reconstruction plan included the readmission of Southern states to the Union, allowing freed slaves to become citizens and encouraging economic development in the region.
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Communication technologies were changing quickly, and they brought with them new ways for information to travel. Innovations in telegraphy, radio, and television created new opportunities for the rapid exchange of ideas. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the telephone changed how people communicated with one another, allowing for direct conversations across distances and even over oceans. -
as of 1880, when more than half of all Americans still lived and worked on farms, industrialization had taken hold in the United States and transformed the country. Fewer than one in seven Americans, mostly men, were employed in factories, with the exception of long-established textile factories where female workers tended to predominate
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Following the sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898, and the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain, the United States declared war on Spain on April 25, 1898. -
Muckrakers, a group of journalists and authors who exposed political and corporate corruption in the early twentieth century, played an important role in the Progressive Era and served as a crucial spark that sparked the Progressive movement -
One of the most significant events in history was World War I, which took place between 1914 and 1918 and involved almost all of the major powers of the world. -
The Allied forces were nearly depleted when the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917 and began sending troops to Europe in the summer. . A significant amount of debt had already been incurred by Great Britain and France in order to purchase essential American military supplies. -
end of World War I in 1918 -
The Great Depression created unprecedented economic hardship for millions of people across the United States, and its impact would be felt for decades. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal was a collection of initiatives, public works projects, financial reforms, and rules. Aimed at combating the Great Depression, the New Deal transformed the American economy by introducing a variety of reforms, creating jobs and providing relief to those in need -
world war 2 started by Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland in September 1939. -
The First World War was, in many ways, a war of attrition, and the United States needed a large army to help the Allies. To meet the country's need for soldiers, Congress passed the Selective Service Act in May 1917, which required all male citizens between 21 and 30 years old to register for military service. -
On September 2, 1945, Japan formally signed the surrender papers that put an end to World War II in the Pacific. -
The cold war was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, lasting from 1945 until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 -
In Dallas, Texas, President John F. Kennedy is killed. The same day, Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson takes the Oath of Office as President.
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President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law. The law prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, or gender in employment and also prohibits it in public areas like parks and public accommodations like hotels and restaurants.
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President Lyndon Johnson affixed his signature to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Local and state governments used literacy tests and other exams to keep African Americans from voting.