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The start of the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln, who had declared "Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free" is elected president, the first Republican, receiving 180 of 303 possible electoral votes and 40 percent of the popular vote. -
Emancipation Proclamation
1863 President Lincoln issues the final Emancipation Proclamation freeing all the slaves in places held by Confederates and emphasize the enlisting of black soldiers in the Union Army. The war to kept the Union now becomes a revolutionary struggle for the abolition of slavery. -
Reconstruction
President Johnson makes plans for Reconstruction. He called the process of reconstruction "restoration". -
President down
The Stars and Stripes is ceremoniously raised over Fort Sumter. Lincoln and his wife Mary went to go see the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater.Then John Wilkes Booth shoots the president in the head. Doctors attend to the president in the theater then move him to a house across the street. He never regains consciousness. -
8 hour work day
Congress does an 8-hour workday for workers employed by the government. This is the start of better working enviorments. -
14th Amendment ratified
It gave citizenship to all people born in the united states regardles of race or ethnicity or background. All African Americans became citizens. -
Commanche Chief Toch-a-way
When Commanche Chief Toch-a-way informs Gen. Philip H. Sheridan that he is a "good Indian," Sheridan reportedly replied: "The only good Indian is a dead Indian. -
Comstock Act
The Comstock Act prohibits the mailing of obscene literature. so no bad Thing being sent. -
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell makes the telephone. Being able to speak to people over a telephone wire greatly changes the way the world communicates. -
The Brooklyn Bridge opens.
it took 13 years of construction, the Brooklyn Bridge is finished in New York City. it was the longest suspension bridge in the world. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson upholds Louisiana statute requiring "separate but equal" accommodations on railroads. Court said that segregation is not discrimination. Justice Harlanís dissent fights that segregation is discrimination this argument will be used in the opinion in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. -
Imperialism - Open Door Policy
All major powers should have equal trade rights to China. This was supported ny the U.S. -
Panama Canal
Started in 1904 and ended in 1914. Enabled America to expand its economic and military influence to other places. -
Henry Ford makes the Model T.
Henry Ford makes a type of car called the Model T. It is much cheaper than other cars because it is made on an assembly line, making many more people to buy cars. -
Impieralism
This is important because this signifies when the European nations got alot of natural resources and started to industrialize Africa. This also demonstrates how when Europe split up Africa and its people. -
Germany declared war on France
Germany declared war on France and invaded Belgium. Germany had to put in the Schlieffen Plan. -
Turkey enters
Turkey enetered the war on Germany’s side. Trench warfare started to dominate the Western Front. -
End of WW1
Germany signed an armistice with the Allies. The official date of the end of World War One. -
United States census
For the first time more people lived in urban areas more then rural areas for the first time. Urban is defined as people living in towns with over 2,500. -
Garvey Conference
There was a charismatic black nationalist leader. Marcus Garvey a Jamaican immigrant does the first International Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World in New York's Madison Square Garden. -
Scopes Violates Ban
Tennessee schoolteacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution. In violation of new state law banning the teaching of Darwin. -
Wall Street Crash
The American stock market brakes, signaling the start of the Great Depression. People became broke. -
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
Congress passes the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, steeply raising import duties to protect American manufactures from foreign competition. The tariff increase has little push on the American economy, -
Townsend and the Pension Plan
Dr. Francis Townsend sends a letter to the Long Beach Press-Telegram asking for state-funded pensions for the elderly to boost consumption and employment. It was a success. -
Adolph Hitler succeeds Hindenburg
Adolph Hitler succeeds Hindenburg as leader of Germany. He has full power of Germany. -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese launch surprise attack on U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor U.S.
United States enter the War Shortly after. -
Cold War
Yalta Conference meeting of the FDR, Churchill, Stalin - the 'Big Three' Soviet Union had control of Eastern Europe. The Cold War starts. -
Hitler commits suicide
Adolf Hitler commits suicide in Berlin; Karl Dönitz appointed leader of Germany. WW2 leading to an end. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks did not give up her seat. She was on the bus and she was told to the back by the buss driver. she refused, and was arrested. -
Spy Plane
Soviet Union reveals that U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory. Things are getting more tensed. -
"I Have A Dream"
More than 250,000 people join in the March on Washington. Congregating at the Lincoln Memorial, participants listened as Martin Luther King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream'' speach. -
Vietnam War
The first U.S. combat troops arrive in Vietnam. To help aid South Vietnam. -
Tet Offensive
The North Vietnamese join forces with the Viet Cong to launch the Tet Offensive, attacking almost one hundred South Vietnamese cities and towns. -
Death of MLK
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., at age 39, was shot as he was standing on the balcony outside his hotel room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. Escaped convict and committed racist James Earl Ray was convicted of the crime. The networks then put on tv President Johnson's statement in which he called for Americans to "reject the blind violence," yet cities were mad from coast to coast. -
South Vietnam Defeated
South Vietnam has lost. They were defeated and became a comunist country. -
End of Cold War
End of Soviet Union and the Cold War Ends. It lasted 50 years.
