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The End of the Civil War
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Lincoln states the war is, "A people's contest..."
Lincoln, in a speech to Congress, states the war is..."a People's contest...a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form, and substance of government, whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of men..." The Congress authorizes a call for 500,000 men. -
Cofederates Suprise Attack
Confederate surprise attack on Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's unprepared troops at Shiloh on the Tennessee River results in a bitter struggle with 13,000 Union killed and wounded and 10,000 Confederates, more men than in all previous American wars combined. -
Bloodiest day in US history
The bloodiest day in U.S. military history as Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Armies are stopped at Antietam in Maryland by McClellan and numerically superior Union forces. By nightfall 26,000 men are dead, wounded, or missing. Lee then withdraws to Virginia. -
Final Emancipation Proclamtion
President Lincoln issues the final Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in territories held by Confederates and emphasizes the enlisting of black soldiers in the Union Army. The war to preserve the Union now becomes a revolutionary struggle for the abolition of slavery. -
Lee Surrenders
Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders his Confederate Army to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the village of Appomattox Court House in Virginia. Grant allows Rebel officers to keep their sidearms and permits soldiers to keep horses and mules -
Lincoln's Shot
The Stars and Stripes is ceremoniously raised over Fort Sumter. That night, Lincoln and his wife Mary see the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater. At 10:13 p.m., during the third act of the play, 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. -
15th AMendment
The fifteenth amendment that was made prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". -
Presidential Election
The incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant was easily elected to a second term in office, with Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts as his running mate, despite a split within the Republican Party that resulted in a defection of many Liberal Republicans to opponent Horace Greeley of the Democratic Party, which also nominated the candidates of the Liberal Republican ticket that year. -
Battle of Little Big Horn
The battle, which occurred June 25–26, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in eastern Montana Territory, was the most prominent action of the Great Sioux War of 1876. -
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U.S. History
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James A. Garfield
Garfield had served nine terms in the House of Representatives, and had been elected to the Senate before his candidacy for the White House, though he declined the senatorship once he was president-elect. He is the only sitting House member to be elected president.[2] -
Hitler was born
Hitler, one of the worst leaders of the world who killed many was born. -
Civil Rights Act
Civil Rights Act of 1875 declared unconstitutional. -
50th Congress still no black members
50th Congress has no Black members. Intimidation kept Black voters from polls. -
Battle of Wounded Knee
The battle between U.S. military troops and Lakota Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota on December 29, 1890, resulted in the deaths of perhaps 300 Sioux men, women, and children. The massacre at Wounded Knee was the last major battle of the Indian Wars of the late 19th century. -
Sherman Anti Trust Act
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was a federal law passed in 1890 to break up corporate trusts, or combinations of businesses which formed to stifle competition and fix prices. -
Fredrick Douglass
Feb 20, Frederick Douglass, Abolitionist and escaped slave, died in Washington, D.C. In 1881 Douglass authored "The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass." -
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U.S. Events
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President Grover Cleveland.
President Grover Cleveland arranged for a White House Christmas tree lit with Edison electric bulbs. -
Plessy Vs. Ferguson
May 18, 1896: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" principle of Jim Crow laws in the segregated American South is legal. -
William McKinley
March 4, 1897: William McKinley was inaugurated as president of the United States. -
US Declared War
US declared war on Spain. -
US population exceeds 75 million
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Theodore Rosevelt becomes president.
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The Wright brothers make their first powered flight in the Wright Flyer.
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Treaty of Portsmouth
Theodore Roosevelt negotiates Treaty of Portsmouth, receives Nobel Peace Prize -
U.S. Penny
The U.S, penny is changed to the abraham lincoln design. -
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Standard Oil Company is broken up
Standard Oil Co. Inc. was an American oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company. Established in 1870 by John D. Rockefeller as a corporation in Ohio, it was the largest oil refiner in the world of its time. Supreme Court ruled that Standard Oil was an Illegal Monopoly. -
New Mexico and Arizona become states.
New Mexico was admitted to the Union as the 47th state on January 6, 1912. Arizona was the 48th state to be admitted on February 14, 1912. -
Theodore Roosevelt Shot
Theodore was shot but not killed while campaining for the Bull Moose Act. -
Woodrow Wilson becomes President
Woodrow served as president from 1913- 1924. He was the 28th president and an American Politician. -
Henry Ford
Ford Devolops the modern assembly line by adding parts and sending them out unitl all parts are put together in sequence. By mechanically moving the parts to the assembly work and moving the semi-finished assembly from work station to work station, a finished product can be put together faster and with less labor than by having workers carry parts to a stationary piece for assembly. -
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Clayton Anti- Trust Act
The Clayton Antitrust Act is an amendment passed by the U.S. Congress in 1914 that provides further clarity and rules to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. -
Virgin Islands
The western island group of the leeward islands are aquired with the United States. The Spanish and British own the other islands aroudn these ones. -
First woman in congress
Jeannette Franklin is elected the first woman into congress. She wsas elected into the house of representatives in the state of Montana. She got her second term in 1940 as well. -
Railway Labor Act
The act, not passed unitl 1926, stated to bargain and make deals with as a way of resolving strike disputes on the railroad. -
WWI
The US enters World War I. It lasted a little more than 4 years beginning in July of 1914 and lasing until November of 1918. This was caused because of great powers and alliances. -
Treaty of Versailles
This was one of the peace treaties at the end of WWI. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. The other central powers on germany's side of WWI were dealt witht hrough different treaties. -
18th Amendment
The 18th amendment effectively establsihed prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the united states. It declared transportation, production, and sale of alcohol llegal. -
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19th Amendment
Womens right to vote is granted in 1920 with the 19th amendment. -
Warren G. Harding President
He was the 29th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1921 until his death. Harding died one of the most popular presidents in history, -
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
This was a law that raised American tariffs on many imported goods in order to protect factories and farms. Congress displayed a pro-business attitude in passing the tariff and in promoting foreign trade through providing huge loans to Europe, which bought more American goods -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that happened in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. -
Immigration Act Basic Law
The act was a United States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890, down from the 3% cap set by the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921, according to the Census of 1890 -
NBC
This was the founding of americas first major broadcast network. -
Charled Lindbergh First Flight
He flew the distance of nearly 3,600 miles (5,800 km) in a single-seat, single-engine, purpose-built Ryan monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis. As a result of this flight, he was the first person in history to be in New York one day and Paris the next. -
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Herbert Hoover
He was the 31st President of the United States. He was a professional mining engineer and was raised as a Quaker. A Republican, Hoover served as head of the U.S. Food Administration during World War I, and became internationally known for humanitarian relief efforts in war-time Belgium. -
Clyde Tombaugh
American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers the planet Pluto at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. Tombaugh was also known as one of the few serious astronomers to have claimed to sight UFO's. -
Star Spangled Banner
The Star-Spangled Banner, by Francis Scott Key, is approved by President Hoover and Congress as the national anthem. The lyrics of the anthem were inspired during the bombing of Fort McHenry by British ships at the head of Baltimore harbor in September of 1814 -
Franklin Roosevelt
Democratic challenger Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats incumbent President Hoover in the presidential election for his first of an unprecedented four terms. The landslide victory, 472 Electoral College votes to 59 for Hoover began the era of FDR that would lead the nation through the vestiges of the Great Depression and the ravages of World War II. -
21st Amendment
The 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed, ending prohibition. -
National Parks
The Historic Sites Act is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, declaring a national policy to preserve historic sites, including National Historic Landmarks -
Golden Gate Bridge Opens
The Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic and one day later, after a ceremonial press of a button from Washington, D.C. by President Roosevelt, receives its first vehicles. It created a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County -
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US Declares Neutral in War
The United States declares its neutrality in the European war after Germany invaded Poland, effectively beginning World War II after a year of European attempts to appease Hitler and the aims of expansionist Nazi Germany. -
Smith Act
This set criminal penalties for advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government and required all non-citizen adult residents to register with the government. -
Pearl Harbor
It was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the Territory of Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II. -
Office of Price Administration
The functions of the OPA were originally to control money and prices and rents after the outbreak of World War II. -
D Day
The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the liberation of German-occupied northwestern Europe from Nazi control, and contributed to the Allied victory on the Western Front. -
Change of Presidents
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United Nations
The United Nations is established. Its a governmental organization to promote and spread international cooperation. -
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Philippines becomes Independent
The Philippines, which had been given to the U.S. by Spain at the end of the Spanish-American War, becomes an independent republic. -
CIA
The Certified Intelligence Agency is established. This is also known as the CIA. This group gathers, analyzes, and processes national security information from all around the world. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO is formed as an alliance with 28 members. It is stationed in Brussels, Belgium. The treaty was meant to protect the freedom of the North Atlantic Community during the Cold War. -
Hydrogen Bomb
President Harry Truman orders construction of the hydrogen bomb. This bomb was said to be 100 times more powerful that the atomic bombs used in Japan during WWII -
Korean War Begins
This war began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations came to help South Korea. China and the Soviets aided south Korea. -
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Immigration and Nationality Act
This act was also known as the McCarran- Act. The acts controls mostly immigration and citizenship in the US. -
Desegregation
A father of a young African American girl took his case to court about going to the school near their house rather than the one across town. It went to supreme court and the law of desegregation in schools was passed. -
Sputnik
Soviets launched sputnik into space for the first time. This sparked the space race between the US and Soviet Union. The space race was a big part of the cold war. -
New Presidents
The election was between Kennedy and Nixon. Kennedy won the election with Johnson as his Vice President. -
Kennedy is Assassinated
He was killed while riding in a motorcade through Dealy Plaza in Dallas, Texas. By that fall, they were already preparing for another presidential campaign. -
USSR Nuclear Tests
456 atomic and thermonuclear devices were exploded at the Semipalatinsk Test Site under high secrecy. Many of the tests were unsuccessful and caused contamination in towns nearby. -
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Department of Transportation
The United States Department of Transportation is a federal Cabinet department of the U.S. government concerned with transportation. It was established by an act of Congress on October 15, 1966, and began operation on April 1, 1967. -
Muhammad Ali
He refuses to got to war. He then gets his world champion trophy taken away. He was also banned from boxing for more than 3 years. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by gun shot. He was an American Baptist minister and a civil rights movements activist for black rights. -
First Man to Walk the Moon
Neil Armstrong is the first man to walk the moon. He was the first American astronaut and flew on 2 space missions. -
Explorer 1
NASA's Explorer 1, the first American satellite and Explorer program spacecraft, reenters Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit. -
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Constitutional Amendment 26
This amendment lowered the voting age to 18 instead of 21. It was certified by president Nixon on July 5. -
Watergate Crisis Starts
Four men are arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee head quarters. -
Roe vs. Wade
Roe vs. Wade is ruled in and states that a woman can not be prevented by a state to have an abortion within the first 6 months of pregnancy. -
Big South Fork National River
Legislation is signed by President Nixon creating the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area along the Cumberland River in Kentucky and Tennessee. -
Evacuation of Saigon
Communist forces complete their takeover of South Vietnam, forcing the evacuation from Saigon of civilians from the United States and the unconditional surrender of South Vietnam. -
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Bicentennial
The Bicentennial culminated on Sunday, July 4, 1976, with the 200th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. -
Panama
The Senate votes to turn the Panama Canal over to Panamanian control on December 31, 1978. -
Refugee Act
This act reformed United States immigration law and admitted refugees on systematic basis for humanitarian reasons. -
Marines Killed By Suicide Bomb
241 US marines are killed by suicide bomb in Lebanon on a peace keeping mission. -
Presidential Election
Ronald Raegan is re-elected in the presidential election running against Walter Mondale. -
Ronald Raegan Into Office
Ronald Raegan the newly re-elected president is sworn into office privately a day before being publicly sworn in on the 21st. -
Tax Reform Act
The Tax Reform Act was made to simplify the income tax code, broaden the tax base and eliminate many tax shelters. -
Yellowstone Fires
Severe droughts and massive heat wave grip the Midwest and Rocky Mountain states. The crisis reaches its peak with the Yellowstone fires of 1988. -
Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990, and remains in operation even to this day.
