H.A.M.M Test 3 Key Dates

By haydnaddie

  • Stamp Act

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Creation of the Fedralist papers

  • Alien and Sedition Acts

  • Civil War begins at Fort Sumpter (Charleston, SC)

  • Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation

  • Battle of Gettysburg (turning point in the war)

  • Civil War ends at Appomattox Courthouse, VA

  • Tarbell's History of Standard Oil

  • Steffins' The Shame of the Cities; Sinclair's The Jungle

  • Gulf of Tonkin resolution expands Pres. Johnson war powers in Vietnam

  • US starts to release Vietnam casualty figures to the press

  • Tet offensive; Cronkite’s “Report from Vietnam”

  • NY Times publishes The Pentagon Papers

  • Nixon’s secret “plumbers” unit breaks into Ellsburgs’s psychiatrist office in the Watergate complex

  • The Washington Post picks up the story, reports by Woodward and Bernstein - NIXON

  • Students protest the war at Kent State University - shootings

  • Vietnam cease-fire agreement reached

  • - Iranian revolution; 63 Americans taken hostage; ABC begins nightly special reports

  • Reagan elected President

  • US invades Grenada; press given no access by the military