History By 13ariordan May 3, 1847 The First Electricity May 3, 1856 Bessemer Process Apr 3, 1861 Civil War: Start May 3, 1862 Transcontinental Railroad Started being Built May 3, 1862 Land Grant Act of 1862 and Homestead Act Jan 1, 1863 Amancipation Proclemation May 3, 1863 13th Amendment Mar 3, 1865 Freedmens Bureu Apr 3, 1865 Civil War: End Apr 3, 1865 Reconstruction Starts Apr 3, 1865 Lincol's Reconstruction Plan Apr 14, 1865 Licoln Assassination Apr 25, 1865 Johnson's Reconstruction Plan May 3, 1866 KLU KLUX KLAN Formed to keed white sapremacy in the southern states May 3, 1867 Reconstrucetion Act of 1867 Jun 3, 1868 The Fourteenth Amendment was Ratified Mar 3, 1870 15th Amendment was Radified May 3, 1870 The First Black Leaders were elected into Government May 3, 1870 The Transcontinental Railroad was Finnished May 3, 1871 The First Telephone May 3, 1877 Reconstruction Ends May 3, 1877 Compromise of 1877 May 24, 1883 Brooklyn Bridge was Completed May 3, 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act May 3, 1890 Jim Crow Laws, Segragation, and Poll Taxes May 3, 1894 Pullman Strik May 12, 1898 Spanish American War May 12, 1904 Roosevelt Corollary May 12, 1909 The NAAC is Founded May 12, 1912 Titanic sinks May 12, 1914 World War I starts in Europe May 12, 1914 Clayton Antitrust Act May 12, 1919 Traty of Versailles May 12, 1920 The Nineteenth Amendment is Ratified May 20, 1920 The 18th Amendment goes into effect May 20, 1921 The Chinese Communist Party was Founded May 20, 1925 The Scopes Trial May 20, 1929 Apartheid starts in South Africa May 20, 1931 The Empire State Building- the worlds tallest building, opened May 20, 1932 FDR is Elected as 32nd President May 20, 1933 Prohibiton Ended May 20, 1933 Hitler takes over Germany May 20, 1933 The New Deal came into Effect May 20, 1935 The Second New Deal came into Effect May 20, 1935 The first Neutrality Act May 20, 1937 The Golden Gate Bridge was Built May 20, 1938 Germany Annexes Austria May 20, 1938 the Munich Conference May 20, 1939 Germany invade Poland- starting World War II May 20, 1941 The United States Enter the Second World War May 20, 1941 Pearl Harbor May 20, 1941 Hitler invade the Soviet Union May 20, 1944 D-Day May 20, 1945 Hitler Commits Suicide and Germany and Japan Surrenders May 20, 1945 Atomic Bomb is Droped May 20, 1945 The United Nations were Founded May 20, 1947 The Truman Doctrine May 20, 1948 The Marshall Plan and the Berlin Airlift May 20, 1949 NATO May 20, 1950 The Korean War Starts May 20, 1955 The Warsaw Pact is Formed May 20, 1955 Montgomry Bus Boycott May 20, 1957 The Eisenhower Doctrin May 20, 1957 Sputnik is Launced May 20, 1957 Little Rock Arkansas integration May 20, 1958 NASA was Founded May 20, 1961 Freedom Riders May 20, 1961 Berlin Wall was Built May 20, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis May 20, 1963 The United States backs out of Vietnam Nov 22, 1963 Kennedy Assassination May 20, 1964 Civil Rights Act of '64 May 20, 1964 Golf of Tolkin May 20, 1968 The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kenedy May 20, 1968 Tet Offensive May 20, 1969 Woodstock May 20, 1975 Helsinki Accords May 25, 1975 Vietnam Starts May 20, 1978 Camp David Accords May 20, 1984 Reagan Gives and Economic Boom May 20, 1990 Germany is Unified Once More May 20, 1991 Operation Desert Storm in Iraq and Gorbechev resign leaving the Soviets into the Russian republic May 20, 1996 Welfare Reform Act May 20, 1998 The House of Reps votes to impeach President Clinton Sep 10, 2001 Terrorist Attack at World Trade Center Oct 7, 2001 Afgahnistan Mar 19, 2003 Iraq