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Civil War: Secession of South Carolina.
When president Lincoln was elected in 1860 South Carolina Seceded, along with six other southern states. These states were the ones that made the Confederate States of America. -
Civil War: Attack on Fort Sumter.
Lincoln sent supplies to Fort Sumter, South Carolina fired upon the fort. This marked the begining of the Civil War. -
Civil War: Gettysburg Battle.
This battle was considered a turning point in the Civil war. General Robert E. Lee forced the confederate forces to retreat, the confederates never recovered. -
Reconstruction: The Thirteenth Amendment
The 13th amendment was passed by the senate. This amendment abolished slavery. -
Reconstruction: The Fourteenth amendment
Gave the citizenship to former slaves recently freed. This amendment also granted all citizens "equal protection of the laws" and "due process." -
Industralization: Telegraph Invention
On this day Thomas Edisons patented his Telegraph invention.His new creation increased words transmitted per minute from 25 to 40 words to as many as 1,000 words. -
Reconstruction: The Fifteenth amendment
The Fifteenth amendment, granted African American men the right to vote. It prohibited any denial of voting rights on the basis of race. -
Industrialization: Alexander Graham Bell
During the Industrialization period many inventions were made. One of the most recognized inventions was the telephone made by Alexander Graham Bell. -
Gilded Age: Railroad Strike of 1877
Workers walked out of their jobs and started a stike. This stike shut down thousands of miles of Railroad tracks along the Northeastern United States. -
Gilded Age: Haymarket Riot
The Haymarket Riot refers to when a bomb was thrown while people were supporting the stike from McCormick Harvester Works. It ended in 6 policemen being killed and over 60 wounded. -
Gilded Age: Homestead Steel Strike
The Homestead steel plant factory was shut down. Not only was the factory shut down but the employees were locked out. -
Imperialism: BattleShip Maine
The United States battle ship the U.SS Maine was sunk during the Spanish American war in the Havana. 266 out of 354 crew people sank, and obviously were killed. -
Imperialism: Open Door Policy
This policy suggested that it is okay if the USA still traded with China and other foreign powers. This policy was made by secretary of state John Hay. -
Industralization: Wilbur and Orville Wright
After their invention of the plane they had to test it out. On this date Wilbur and Orville had their very first flight. -
Imperialism: Dollar Diplomacy
The United States used its economic power to extend their influence. In this case the United States tightened their control over Latin America. -
WWI: The war begins
Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, Hungary was killed by a Serbian nationalist. The alliances came together and thats how the conflict began. -
WWI: The Zimmerman Telegram
Germany sent a Telegram to Mexico telling them if they helped them distract the USA from them, then they would take over the USA. If they took over the USA Germany would return the terretories in the USA that once belonged to MX, this was one of the causes of the USA entrerance in WWI. -
WWI: Treaty of Versailles.
The treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty that ended WWI. It basically made Germany take the blame for the war, it made them lose territory and make its navy smaller. They were made pay reparations to the Allied forces. -
Roaring 20's: Prohibition
Prohibition was a time where it was illegal to sell, manufacture, or consume alcohol. But speakeasys were made where the people hid and still drank and sold alcohol, but it had a certain password. -
Roaring 20's: The 19th amendment
This amendment gave women the right to vote. At this time Women also changed their morals a bit especially the way they dresses. -
Roaring 20's: Emergency quota act 1921.
The emergency quota act restricted the amount of immigrants that could come into the United States. The amount of people coming in before this act was lage, it droped alot after the act was passed. -
Great Depression: Black Tuesday
On this day of Black Tuesday the stock market crashed. Alot of people were trying to sell their stocks but not alot of people wanted to buy. -
Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt
FDR won the presidential election. He had a plan to end the Great Depression called the New Deal. -
Great Depression: Bank Holiday
The bank Holiday shut down banks for 4 days. He thought this would renew public confidence in the banks. -
WWII: Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japan preformed a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. It caused over 2,000 casualties and this marked the involvement of the United States in WWII. -
WWII: D-Day
American and British forces landed on the beaches of Normandy to fight against Nazi Germany. The Allies advanced into Germany from the East and West, to defeat Hitler. -
WWII: The Manhattan Project
Two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, one was on August 06 it was called Little boy. The other bomb droped was called Fat Man this was dropped on the 9th of August. Japan Surrendered. -
Cold War: Berlin Airlift
Berlin's western land routs to west Berlin were blocked and the USA brought them supplies. The USA brought them food, and other goods needed by air. -
Cold War: NATO forms
NATO is an organization in which 12 nations of the Atlantic pact to be with Greece, the Federal Republic of Germany, and Turkey.This was to deffend from agression. -
Civil Rights Movement: B.V.BOF
On this date the United States supreme court said decided that the school segregation was unconstitutional. Therefor schools were from there on integrated. -
Civil Rights Movement: Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was an African American woman who got arrested for not moving to the back of the city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. MLK then organized and conducted a boycott of the city busses. -
Cold War: Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs invasion was CIA trined people tried to take the power back in Cuba, to overthrow Fidel Castro. This plan was not sucessful and cost the USA alot. -
Civil Rights Movement: March on Birmingham
MLK and other important leaders did a march on Birmingham in Alabam. They got arrested and MLK wrote his famous letter "Letter from Birmingham Jail." -
Vietnam: Tet Offensive
It was one of the biggest campaigns that was launched by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army. It was set up against the South Vietnam, the United States, and allies. -
Vietnam: The 26th Amendment
On this day the 26th amendment was Ratified. This amendment lowered the national voting age from 21 to 18. -
Vietnam: Vietnam War Officially Ends
For the United states the war was finally over. Even if it was over some Military advisors and some Marines remained, but there was no more military involvement at all.
