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the end of Civil War
(1865) the civil war ends w/ slaves being free and years of reconstruction yet to come.
War officially ended when the emancipation proclamation was signed
http://www.shelbycountyhistory.org/schs/blackhistory/1865endcivlwr.htm -
Lincoln Assination
(April 14, 1865) Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
While attending a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Lincoln had bullet put through his head by Booth and his
44-cal single shot derringer.
http://www.history.com/topics/abraham-lincoln-assassination -
Black suffrage
(1870) Black suffrage was finally granted stating "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
It still wasn’t fully realized until almost another century
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/15thamendment.html -
The Invention of the Lightbulb
(1880) Thomas Alva Edison developed the first incandescent light bulb.
Edison's lamp would consist of a filament housed in a glass vacuum bulb with a carbonized cotton thread filament.
http://www.fi.edu/learn/sci-tech/edison-lightbulb/edison-lightbulb.php?cts=electricity -
The maine Explosion
(1898) the USS Maine explodes leaving blame on Spain and its solders
This is one of the main causes of WWI
http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/spanishamerican/section3.rhtml -
Spanish-American War
(1898) The Maine Explosion helped cause the Spanish-American War
Yellow journalism escalated the war until it ended 4 months after it started
http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/remember.html -
World War 1
(1914-1918) the first world war lasted 4 long years.
it stared when archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by the Black Hand.
this started mass panic that escalated into a full scale war
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i
