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The Bessemer Process Is Patented
Makes steel production simple and cheap. -
Drake Strikes Oil
In Titusville PA. -
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President Abraham Lincoln
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End of Civil War "Reconstruction" Begins
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Thirteenth Amendment
Slavery is abolished. -
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President Andrew Johnson
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Ku Klux Klan forms
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The Fourteenth Amendment
Grants blacks citizenship and outlaws "black codes". -
Johnson Is Impeached
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President Ulysses S. Grant
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First Transcontinental Railroad Is Finished
First Railroad to connect the east and west coasts. -
The Knights of Labor form
Hoped to organize to demand better working conditions. -
The Fifteenth Amendment
Gives blacks the right to vote. -
"Reconstruction" Ends
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Thomas Edison Improves the Lightbulb
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John Rockefeller Forms Standard Oil Trust
Soon dominates the nation's oil industry. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Closes the door for asian immigration. -
Haymarket Strike
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Andrew Carnegie establishes the Carnegie Steel Company
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Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act
Outlaws industry monopolies. -
Homestead Strike
Carnegie's plant strikes for better working conditions. -
Pullman Strike
Railroad strike. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
"Seperate but equal" -
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President William Mckinley
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USS MAINE SUNK!
Start of Spanish American War -
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President Theodore Roosevelt
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N.A.A.C.P.
Founded by WEB Du Bois. (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) -
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President Woodrow Wilson
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World War I Starts In Europe
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Archduke Ferdinand Assassination
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Lusitania Sunk
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19th Ammendment
End of women's suffrage -
Treaty of Versailles
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Sacco and Vanzetti
Red Scare effects immigrants -
Eighteenth Amendment
Prohibition - bans alcohol -
Scopes Trial
Evolution Vs. Creation -
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President Herbert Hoover
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Black Tuesday
Stock Market Crashes -
Hawley Smoot Tariff
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Empire State Building Built
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1st Bonus Army March
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Election of 1932 - FDR
New Deal -
Twenty-First Amendment
Repeals Prohibition -
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President Franklin Delanor Roosevelt
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First New Deal
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Second New Deal
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Neutrality Act is Passed
Banning sale of arms to countries at war. -
FDR Court Packing Fiasco
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Munich Conference
Appeasement -
Germany invades Poland
Start of WWII -
United States Enters WWII
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Lend Lease Act
Repeals Neutrality Acts and aids Allies. -
Attacks at Pearl Harbor
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Battle at Midway
Americans defeat Japanese. -
D-Day
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End of WWII
Hitler commits suicide and Japan surrenders. -
FDR dies
Truman takes office. -
First and Second Atomic Bombs are Dropped
Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
United Nations Is Founded
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President Harry Truman
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Truman Doctrine is Created
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Marshall Plan is Created
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Berlin Airlift
Brings aid to West Germany -
NATO Is Created
North Atlantic Trade Organization -
Korean War begins
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Korean War Ends
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Brown vs. Board of Education
Rules seperate but equal is unconstitutional. -
Murder of Emmit Till
Civil Rights Movement -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Troops facilitate integration in Little Rock
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Eisenhower Doctrine is Created
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NASA is Created
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Bay of Pigs Fails
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President John F. Kennedy
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Cuban Missle Crisis
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Kennedy is Assassinated
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President Lyndon B. Johnson
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated
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Vietnam Escalates
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First Moon Landing
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President Richard Nixon
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SALT I Treaty
Detente begins -
Watergate Scandal and Nixon's Resignation
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President Gerald R. Ford
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Vietnam Ends
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President Jimmy Carter
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Camp David Accords
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Soviets Invade Afghanistan
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American Hostages in Iran are Returned
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President Ronald Reagan
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Berlin Wall Comes Down
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Period: to
President George H. Bush
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Persian Gulf War
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Gorbachev Resigns and the Soviet Union Collaspes
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1st Attempted Terrorist Attack on WTC
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President Bill Clinton
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Clinton is Impeached
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Bush vs. Gore
Bush's victory by recounts in FL -
Patriot Act
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President George W. Bush
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September 11th
Terrorist attacks kill 3,000 -
United States Invade Iraq
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Stock Crash
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President Barack Obama
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Osama Bin Ladin Dies