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Civil War: Dred scott decision
Dred Scott, an African American was not a citizen and had no right to sue in court.
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Civil War: Lincoln Elected President
Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of United States.
Divided the Denocratic party was the first Republican to win the presidency. -
Civil war:Fort Sumter Attacked
PIERRE BEAUREGARD open fire with 50Cannons upon Fort Sumter in Charleston,SouthCarolina. -
Reconstruction: 13th Amendment
Freedman Bureau was set up to help freedman.
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Reconstruction: Civil Right Bill
Congress passes the Civil Rights Bill because blacks were not included as citizen.all citizens were equally protected by the law. -
Reconstruction: 14th Amendment
United States granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves. -
Gilded Age: John.D Rockefeller
secret rebates from railroads.incorporated in Ohio. Rockefeller. Standard Oil was first formed as a partnership in 1868. -
Gilded Age:Pendleton Act
The distribution of government jobs , examination system for selecting federal civil servants. only 10% are selected for the system. -
Gilded Age:Haymarket Riot
A riot in Chicago support of workers striking for an eight-hour day and in reaction to the killing of several workers by the police. McCormick Harvester Works ends when a bomb is thrown, killing six policemen wounded some people. -
Civil Rights Movement:Plessy v. Ferguson
In Plessy v. Ferguson the United States Supreme Court upholds a Louisiana law that mandates separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites. -
Imperialism: Spanish- American War
American newspapers yellow journalism to create more public support for the Cubans. Spain declared war on the U.S. because the U.S. supported Cuba's wish to be independent of Spanish rule. -
Imperialism: RUSSO- JAPANESE
The Treaty of Portsmouth formally ended the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05. The negotiations took place in August in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and were brokered in part by T -
Imperialism:Treaty Of Portsmouth
President Theodore Roosevelt was instrumental in the negotiations, and won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts. -
Industrialization:Seventeenth Amendment
The Seventeenth Amendment is allowing for the direct election of U.S. Senators instead of through state legislators. -
WorldWar l:Lusitania Sinks
A German submarine sinks the american ship.The ship carries 1,198 people, 128 of them Americans. 1,198 died, -
Industrialization:Keating Owens Act
Woodrow Wilson signs the Keating-Owen Act, which fights child labor by making it illegal for companies to ship goods produced by children across state lines. -
World War l:Zimmerman Telegram
Germany wanted Mexico to side with them because they wanted invaded the U.S so they can gain land. Germany promise Mexico their lost land that U.S taken, if Mexico would help. -
World War l:The Fourteen Points
President Wilson created the Fourteen Points, which reflected his viewa that the war was a crusade for democracy. They included: self-determination for the people of Europe, freedom of the seas, equal trade terms, reduced armaments, an end to secret diplomacy, and the creation of the League of Nations. -
Industrialization:Sedition Act
Congress passes the Espionage , interferes with government bond sales, or criticizes the government, the Constitution, service uniforms, the flag, or the war or even wartime production levels. -
RoaringTwenties:Volstead Act
The 18th Amendment Prohibition the production, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages.
Andrew J. Volstead, Republican made this act. -
Roaring Twenties:Women's Rights
Gave women the right to vote.
women had increased opportunities in employment and education. -
Roaring Twenties:Sacco & Vanzetti trail
Two Italian who were convicted of murdering two men during the armed robbery of a shoe factory in Northampton, Massachusetts.
the jury found Sacco and Vanzetti guilty of first-degree murder ,later on found innocence. -
Great Depression: Stock Market Crash
The American stock market collapses,remain employed, wages fell and buying power decreased. -
Great Depression: Black Tuesday
The stock market crashed ,stock prices dropped. everyone wanted to sell but didnt wanna buy. -
Great Depression: Roosevelt Elected
Franklin D. Roosevelt won against Republican President Herbert Hoover. win the presidency with the vote so he can stop the Great Depression. -
World War II: Pearl Harbor
Japanese fighter planes attack the American base at Pearl Harbor destroying U.S. aircraft and naval vessels, and killing 2,355 U.S. servicemen and 68 civilians. -
World War ll:D-Day
The first of nearly 3 million Allied soldiers arrive in Normandy, on the northern shores of France. -
World War ll:Hiroshima
The United States drops an atomic bomb, the first to be used in warfare on Hiroshima, killing 75,000 people , and hurting more than 100,000. -
Cold War:Truman Doctrine
Harry Truman made a speech about u.s helping Trukey and Greece. Military and economic assistance prevent them from joining the soviet union. -
Cold War: Marshall Plan
U.S give economic aid to europe. rebuild their economies ,resistance of communism and restore trades with U.S. -
Vietnam War: Vietnam War
Ho Chi Minh and his communist in North Vietnam, President Richard Nixon ordered the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973. Americas ways of containing communism -
Cold War: Eisenhower Doctrine
Sent troops to Lebanon to oppose the spread of communism.
The soviet sending the "Sputnik" into space because U.S enter a space race and increase on science education. -
Civil Rights Movement:Kennedy Assassination
While riding in a car through Texas President John F. Kennedy is shot and killed. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson become the next president. -
Civil Rights Movement:Harlem Riot
Fatal shooting of a fifteen-year-old African-American boy by a white police officer in New York. One person is killed, 100 injured, and several hundred are arrested. -
Vietnam War:Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
After a supposed attack on American shipd, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Which gave Johnson extraordinary powers of intervention. -
Vietnam War: Vietnamization
President Nixon's plan for gradual withdrawl of United States forces with South Vietnamese. He also increased bombing in Vietnam.
