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civil war: President Lincoln election
Abraham Lincoln is elected sixteenth president of the United States. he was the first Republican president in the nation who represents a party that opposes the spread of slavery in the territories of the United States. -
civil war: union and confederate in the east
A skirmish near Philippi in western Virginia. it the first clash of Union and Confederate forces in the east. -
civil war union takes over
Fort Hatteras at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, falls to Union naval forces. This begins the first Union efforts to close southern ports along the Carolina coast. -
Reconstruction: President Lincoln reconstruction plan
Lincoln issues the second Emancipation Proclamation. emphasized as a war measure, which frees all slaves in states or parts of states that were still in rebellion against the United States. -
Rconstuction: President Johnson end of reconstuction
President Johnson declares the reconstruction process complete. Outraged, Radical Republicans in Congress refuse to recognize new governments in southern states. -
reconstruction act
this act placed Southern states under military rule. it also barred former supporters of the Confederacy from voting. -
Imperialism: Mediterranean and Red Seas
Isma'il supported the building of the Suez Canal. It was a human-made canal that cut through the Isthmus of Suez. -
Industrialization: rail road
The project was authorized by President Abraham Lincoln under the Pacific Railway Act of 1862. The construction of the railroad would ultimately link the eastern railways with the Pacific Ocean. -
Gilded Age: Panic of 1873
The collapse of Jay Cooke and Company, a Philadelphia investment bank, triggers a nationwide financial panic that leads to a broader economic depression which lasts until 1879. -
Gilded Age: Corruption in Grant Administration
A federal grand jury indicts 238 people—including President Ulysses S. Grant's personal secretary, General O.E. Babcock, and dozens of whiskey distillers and revenue officials—for conspiring to defraud the United States government of tax revenues. -
INDUSTRIALIZATION: telephone
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. The telephone was developed while Bell was trying to improve the telegraph -
Gilded Age: Railroad Strike of 1877
Brakemen and firemen from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad walk off the job at Camden Junction, Maryland, initiating a wildcat strike that will shut down thousands of miles of track throughout the northeastern United States. -
Imperialism:Berlin Conference
During the Conference they agreed that any European country can claim land in Africa by notifying other nations of its claim. It had to show and prove that they could control the area. Every country was invited except Africa -
Industrailization: Sherman Antitrust Act
The Sherman Antitrust Act was signed into law in 1890, and was intended to prevent businesses from increasing the cost of goods to the consumer. it was signed into law on july 2 1890. -
imperialism: Spanish-American War
war that began in 1898 against the Spanish over treatment of Cubans by Spanish troops that controlled the island. As a result of this war, the United States annexed the Philippines, making America a major power in the Pacific. -
World War I: Greman block aid
germans block off the the waters around germany and great britian. they used u boats to sink any ships that passed by. -
world war I: battle of Gallipoli
The Battle of Gallipoli was a attempt by theAllie powers to taker over the seas of Europe to Russia. -
world war I: Treaty of Brest Litovsk
Russia signs the Treaty of Brest Litovsk, which is a peace treaty between Russia and the Central Powers. -
Roaring 20’s: Eighteenth Amendment
Congress ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the sale of alcohol anywhere in the United States. -
Roaring 20’s: Seattle Strike
In Seattle, local trade unionists affiliated with both the mainstream American Federation of Labor and the radical Industrial Workers of the World organize a general strike, halting economic activity in the city for five days -
Roaring 20’s: Palmer Raids
The Palmer Raids begin, launching a period of intense government persecution of radical political dissidents in response to the postwar Red Scare sweeping the nation -
Great Depression:Smoot-Hawley Tariff
Congress passes the Smoot-Hawley Tariff. This raised import duties in an attempt to protect American manufactures from foreign competition. -
Great Depression: FDR elected
Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover in a landslide to win the presidency. he is elected the next President -
Great Depression: Unemployment rates
Unemployment rates goes up 25%. people are forced to beg for food so they can live. many people lost their homes due to this. -
wwII: Attach on Pearl Harbor
Japanese did a secert attack on Pearl Harbor due to americans taking their oil. that attack had major affect on Americans. It killed more than 2300 people. -
wwII: D-Day
Americans invaded france and fought their way to Germany. more than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircrafts where used in the invasion. -
Cold War: First Atomic bomb
American scientist tested the firs Atomic bomb in New Mexico. Tjis group of scientist was supported by FDR. -
wwII: attach on Nagasaki.
united States drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki. the bomb was called Fatman. 70,000 people died instaly and 100,000 died from burns and radiation sickness. -
Cold war: Marshall Plan
The marshall plan was created to help European countries.They help rebuild the economy due to wwII. -
Vietnam War: Battle of Dienbienphu Begins
A force of 40,000 heavily armed Vietminh lay seige to the French garrison at Dienbienphu. Using Chinese artillery to shell the airstrip, the Vietminh make it impossible for French supplies to arrive by air. -
Civil Right Movement: Brown v. Board of Education
This case help segerate schools. It gave blacks a equal changes to learn. -
Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock 9
A group of students who tired going to a Central High school. They where forcused back by state troopers. -
Vietnam War: Kennedy Elected President:
John F. Kennedy narrowly defeats Richard Nixon for the presidency. He is now the new president of the Untied States. -
Cold war: Creation of Berlin wall
the Berlin wall was created to separte democracy and Communism during the Cold War. For 28 years it kept East Germans from fleeing to the west. -
Vietnam War: President Kennedy Assassinated
President JFK was assassinated in dalles. This meant that the problem of how to proceed in Vietnam fell squarely into the lap of his vice president, Lyndon Johnson. -
Civil Rights Movement: civil rights act of 1968
President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968. This prohibied discrimination in the sale, rental and financing of housing.
