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Commodore Perry
Matthew C. Perry was a Commodore of the United States Navy and commanded a number of ships. In 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Tokyo Bay with a bunch of warships
and tried to open up trade with Japan, who was very isolationist at this time. With a combination of the threat of the gunboats in the harbor, and the showering of gifts to the Emperor, the Japanese finally signed a trade agreement with America. -
The Sand Creed Massacre
The Sand Creek massacre was a massacre in the American Indian Wars that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 675-man force of Colorado U.S. Volunteer Cavalry[3] attacked and destroyed a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho in southeastern Colorado Territory about two-thirds of whom were women and children. The location has been designated the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site and is administered by the National Park Service. -
The beginning of Reconstruction
Andrew Johnson became president after Lincoln was assassinated. And the 13th Amendment also came out. -
The freedman' Burea
A federal agency designed to aid freed slaves and relieve the South's "carpetbaggers" immediate needs free food, clothing, jobs, medical and etc. -
Alaska
Secretary of State
William Seward
bought Alaska from
Russia for $7.2
million in 1867. -
Ulysses Grant
Ulysses Grant became president in 1868 -
14th Amendment
The 14th amendment ratified in 1868. It was about citizen. -
The Transcontinental Railroad
It was finished in 1869. The CPR and UPR met at Promontory, Utah. -
The 15th amendment
The 15th amendment ratified in 1870. It allowed that men could vote . -
The Little Bighorn
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass[10] and commonly referred to among white Americans as Custer's Last Stand. Regiment of the United States Army. The battle, which resulted in the defeat of US forces. It took place on June 25–26, 1876, along the Little Bighorn River in the Crow Indian Reservation in southeastern Montana Territory. In the end, Custer and all his men died -
The Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and built by Gustave Eiffel. -
The end of reconstruction
Republicans got the presidency with Hayes. Rutherford Hayes became president in 1876. -
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age, the period
between the end of Radical
Reconstruction (1877) and
the beginning of the
Progressive Era (1901), was
dominated by big business,
political corruption, and
extremes of wealth and
poverty. During the Gilded Age, the
United States changed from
a predominantly rural
agrarian nation to an urban
industrial one. -
Jim Crow laws
Jim Crow law, in U.S. history, any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s. -
The Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
The Dawes Act
The Dawes Act of 1877 promoted assimilation of Indian into mainstream culture. -
The Ghost Dance
The Ghost Dance was a new religious movement incorporated into numerous American Indian belief systems. According to the teachings of the Northern Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka, proper practice of the dance would reunite the living with spirits of the dead, bring the spirits of the dead to fight on their behalf, make the white colonists leave, and bring peace, prosperity, and unity to Indian peoples throughout the region. -
Ellis Island
Federal Government establishes Bureau of Immigration & selects Ellis Island as site of new immigration station for port of New York -
Wounded Kenn
The Wounded Knee Massacre occurred on December 29, 1890,near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the U.S. state of South Dakota. -
Basketball
Basketball was invented by James Naismith in 1891 -
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells began a newspaper attacking lynchings and racism. Her
newspaper store was burned, and she was forced to flee to the
North, where she started a national anti-lynching campaign. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal as long as facilities were“separate but equal”. -
The explosion of Maine
The United States Navy battleship Maine was mysteriously sunk in Havana harbor on 15 February 1898;[c] political pressures from the Democratic Party pushed the administration of Republican President William McKinley into a war that he had wished to avoid. -
Hawaii
Hawaii became one of the U.S. territory when McKinley became the President in 1898. Then it became one of the 50th state of America in 1959. -
The Teller Amendment
The Teller Amendment gave Cuba their independence in 1899 at the conclusion of the Spanish – American War. -
The Progressive Era
The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States, from the 1890s to the 1920s.[1] The main objectives of the Progressive movement were eliminating problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and corruption in government. -
Theodore Roosevelt
When President William McKinley was assassinated six months into his second term, Theodore Roosevelt became the nation’s 26th president -
The Roosevelt Corollary
There was concern that European nations would
decide to interfere in the Americas as a result in
some instability in areas, despite the Monroe
Doctrine.
So in 1904, Roosevelt declared to Congress his
new Latin America policy.
This new policy, the Roosevelt Corollary, was
meant to update the Monroe Doctrine, essentially
making the US the police power of the Americas
and allow them to intervene when deemed
necessary. -
William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft served as the 27th President of the United States (1909–1913) and as the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930), the only person to have held both offices. Taft was elected president in 1908, the chosen successor of Theodore Roosevelt, but was defeated for re-election by Woodrow Wilson in 1912 after Roosevelt split the Republican vote by running as a third-party candidate. -
The Brooklyn Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City and is one of the oldest bridges in the United States. Started in 1869 and completed fourteen (14) years later in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River. -
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party. Wilson's victory in the 1912 presidential election made him the first Southerner elected to the presidency since Zachary Taylor in 1848. He also led the United States during World War I, establishing an activist foreign policy known as "Wilsonianism." He was a major leader at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. -
The First World War
World War I was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918, which was between the central powers and Allies. It was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, and paved the way for major political changes, including revolutions in many of the nations involved. -
Kaiser Wilson
During World War I, militant suffragists, demanding that President Wilson reverse his opposition to a federal amendment, stood vigil at the White House and carried banners such as this one comparing the President to Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. -
Espionage Act
Espionage Act forbade actions that
obstructed recruitment or
efforts to promote
insubordination in the military, ordered the Postmaster General
to remove Leftist materials
from the mail. -
Sedition Act
Sedition Act it was a crime to speak against the
purchase of war bonds or willfully
utter, print, write or publish any
disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or
abusive language about this form of US
Govt., the US Constitution, or the US
armed forces or to willfully urge, incite,
or advocate any curtailment of
production of things necessary or
essential to the prosecution of the
war…with intent of such curtailment to
cripple or hinder, the US in the
prosecution of the war. -
Influenza Outbreak
Three waves of a severe flu epidemic broke out between
1918 and 1919 in Europe and in America. On the Western Front, crowded and unsanitary trenches helped flu spread among troops, then to American military camps in Kansas and beyond. This strain of influenza was deadly and during the month of October 1918, influenza killed nearly 200,000 Americans. By the time it passed, over 600,000 Americans lost their lives in both America and Europe. -
The Treaty of Versailles (The end of the war)
After the Central Powers were exhausted by the war, especially after the USbegan fighting, it sought an armistice (the end of fighting). This happened on Nov. 11, 1918. The Treaty of Versailles was signed between the Allied powers and Germany.This treaty so destroyed the German economy and the morale of the German people, that within 20 years, they would start another world war -
Wilson’s 14 Points
The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918 speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson. Europeans generally welcomed Wilson's points but his main Allied colleagues were skeptical of the applicability of Wilsonian idealism -
The 19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment became part of the United States Constitution when Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify it. It allowed the women have right to vote. Alice Paul, who played a important role in the women suffrage fought unsuccessfully for an equal rights amendment (ERA) until her death. -
The 18th Amendment (Prohibition)
The Eighteenth Amendment (1920) banned the making or selling of alcohol, which became known as prohibition. -
Al Capone
Al Capone, sometimes known by the nickname Scarface, was an American mobster, crime boss, and businessman who attained fame during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit. His seven-year reign as crime boss ended when he was 33 years old. Prohibition encouraged gangsters to smuggle liquor. He was one of the most famous bootleggers. -
Scopes Trial
The Scopes Trial was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John T. Scopes which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution. During his trial, attorney Clarence Darrow defended Scopes, and William Jennings Bryan represented the state. Finally, Scopes was convicted and fined, and the law against teaching the theory of evolution remained. -
Jazz Singer
The Jazz Singer is a 1927 film, the first feature-length motion picture with talking sequences -
Lucky Lindy (Charles Lindbergh)
In 1927, Charles Lindbergh flew the Spirit
of St. Louis on a solo
flight across the Atlantic
from Long Island
(Roosevelt Field) to
France. This was the first solo transatlantic flight and the first non-stop flight between North America and mainland Europe. -
Steamboat Willie
Steamboat Willie was the first animated with sound. -
Black Thursday
The stock market crashed -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. -
The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of federal programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted in the United States during the 1930s in response to the Great Depression. -
The 21st Amendment
Prohibition’s fate was sealed by the government, which failed to
budget enough money to enforce the law. Many felt Prohibition caused more problems than it solved. The 21st Amendment finally repealed Prohibition in 1933. -
The start of World War II
Germany invades Poland on September 1, 1939 -
Lend-Lease Act
The lend-lease policy, formally titled "An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States", was a program by which the United States supplied Free France, the United Kingdom, the Republic of China, and later the Soviet Union and other Allied nations with food, oil, and material between 1941 and August 1945. -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese
attack on
US navy
at Pearl
Harbour
brings the
USA into
the war
against
Japan and
Germany. -
The battle of Midway Island
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II which occurred between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 (termed D-Day) of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the liberation of German-occupied northwestern Europe from Nazi control, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front. -
The YALTA conference
In February 1945,
as the Allies
pushed toward
victory in Europe,
an ailing FDR met
with Churchill and
Stalin at the Black
Sea resort of Yalta
in the USSR -
V-E Day
On May 8, 1945, the
Allies celebrated V-E
Day – victory in
Europe Day.The war in Europe
was finally over -
The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947 and further developed on July 12, 1948 when he pledged to contain threats to Greece and Turkey. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13,000,000,000 in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949. -
The Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea . The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact, formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. -
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War and also known in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. -
Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. -
Yuri Gagarin
On April 12, 1961, the Soviets succeeded in launching the first
human into space, Yuri Gagarin, and returning him safely to
Earth -
Alan Shepard
Alan Shepard becomes the first American
astronaut to enter space, aboard the
Freedom 7 spacecraft, on May 5, 1961 -
White Paper
In 1961, President Kennedy
sent a team to Vietnam to report on
conditions in the South and
to assess future American aid
requirements. The report, known as the "December
1961 White Paper," argued for:(1)An increase in military, technical, andeconomic aid. (2) The introduction of large-scale American
"advisers" to help stabilize the Diem regime
and crush the NLF. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
Kennedy Assassination
John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza. -
1968 Democratic Convention
The 1968 National Convention of the U.S. Democratic Party was held August 26–29 at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois. As President Lyndon B. Johnson had announced he would not seek re-election, the purpose of the convention was to select a new presidential nominee to run as the Democratic Party's candidate for the office. -
The Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968, by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States Armed Forces, and their allies. -
Neil Armstrong
On July 20,
1969, astronauts
Neil Armstrong
and Buzz Aldrin
became the first
men to reach the
moon. -
The Paris Peace Agreement
The Paris Peace Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam, was a peace treaty signed on January 27, 1973 to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War. -
Berlin Wall falls
Gorbachev renounced the Brezhnev
Doctrine, which pledged to use Soviet
force to protect its interests in
Eastern Europe. On September 10, Hungary opened its
border with Austria, allowing East
Germans to flee to the West. After massive public demonstrations in
East Germany and Eastern Europe, the
Berlin Wall fell on November 9. -
The Fall of the Soviet Union
On December 25, 1991, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, the
eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, resigned, declared his
office extinct, and handed over its powers – including control of
the Soviet nuclear missile launching codes – to Russian
President Boris Yeltsin.
