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Civil War: The Civil War starts
The civil was a bloddy war. It had many causes, including sectionalism, slavery, and differing views of states' rights. -
Civil War: Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in September 1862, freeing all slaves in states still in rebellion on January 1863. It was not a law passed by Congress. -
Civil War: civil war ended
Union defeated the south. Civil war ended slavery, preserved the Union, and strengthened the federal government. -
Reconstruction: Ku Klux Klan
This group and other groups terrorize African Americans. The first Ku Klux Klan flourished in the Southern United States in the late 1860s. -
Reconstruction: Reconstruction Act of 1867
This act didvied the South into military occupation zones. The reconstruction act of 1867 was a series of statutes meant to help reconstruct the United States after the devastation of the Civil War. -
Reconstruction: 14th amendment
This amendment guaranteed citizenship rights. People now have the chance to become a legal U.S. citizen. -
Gilded Age: Rockefeller Incorporates Standard Oil
John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company is incorporated in Ohio. Rockefeller has been active in the oil business since 1863. Standard Oil was first formed as a partnership in 1868. -
Gilded Age: Ulysses S. Grant Reelected
President Ulysses S. Grant is reelected to a second term as president of the United States. President Ulysses S. Grant was easily elected to a second term in office, with Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts as his running mate. -
Gilded Age: Alexander Graham Bell Invents Telephone
Inventor Alexander Graham Bell successfully transmits a human voice over a wire. The telephone will revolutionize personal and business communication. -
Industrialization: Phonograph
Thomas Edison created many inventions, but his favorite was the phonograph. The next time you listen to a favorite album, you can thank Thomas Edison for discovering the secret to recording sound. -
Industrialization: Motion Pictures
The Vitascope's first theatrical exhibition was on April 23, 1896, at Koster and Bial's Music Hall in New York City. Thomas Edison's idea is now well known over the world. -
Imperialism: Spanish American war
conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. Revolts against Spanish rule had occurred for some years in Cuba. -
Imperialism: Big stick Policy
Refers to U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy: "speak softly, and carry a big stick." Roosevelt attributed the term to a West African proverb, "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far," but the claim that it originated in West Africa has been disputed. -
Industrialization: Airplane
On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane. -
World War 1: Flashpoint of ww1
assassinationof Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary on June 28, 1914. Austria invaded serbia to teach the Serbs a lesson. -
World War 1: ww1 starts
First World War, was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914. There has never been a world war before ww1. -
Imperialism: Jones Act
U.S would eventually grant the philippines its independence. The law provides that the grant of independence would come only "as soon as a stable government can be established", which was to be determined by the United States Government itself. -
World War 1: ww1 ends
World War I Ended With the Treaty of Versailles. ww1 lasted about 4 years. -
The Roaring Twenties: Volstead Act
The Volstead Act provided for the enforcement of Prohibition. However, many Americans failed to obey it. -
The Roaring Twnties: Sacco and Vanzetti 1920-1927
Two italian anarchist were arrested for the murder of a guard during a robbery. Eventually they were found guilty, and they were executed. -
The RoaringTwenties: 19th Amendment
The 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. Women had increased opportunities in employment and education. -
Great Depression: Black Tuesday
On Oct 29, 1929, known as ''Black Tuesday'', The stock market crashed. Stock prices dropped suddenly. -
Great Depression: Agricultural Adjustment Act
This Act restricted agricultural production in the New Deal era by paying farmers to reduce crop area. AAA was an omnibus farm-relief bill embodying the schemes of the major national farm organizations. -
Great Depression: Social Security Act
The Social Security Act established a system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped. It effectively impacted people's lives in a positive manner. -
World War 2: Pearl Harbor
Japanese military causing the American entry into World War II. The attack was intended to prevent the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. -
World War 2: v-e day
Germany surrendered on may 7, 1945, known as V-E Day. It therefore marked the end of World War II in Europe. -
Cold War: cold war starts
Was a sustained state of political and military tension between powers. No one died in the cold war. -
World War 2: World War 2 ends
Millions of lives were taken in the war. Ultimately soldiers who were not deceased came home. -
Cold War: Truman Doctrine
Historians often consider it as the start of the Cold War, and the start of the containment policy to stop Soviet expansion. Providing help to those resisiting communism. -
Cold War: Marshall Plan
U.S would give economic aid to Europe, in which the United States gave economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism. The plan was in operation for four years beginning in April 1948. -
Civil Rights Movement: Brown v. Board of Education
The Supreme Court rules on the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans., unanimously agreeing that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. The ruling paves the way for large-scale desegregation. -
Civil Rights Movements: NAACP (Rosa Parks)
NAACP member Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white passenger, defying a southern custom of the time. Ultimately, she was arrested -
Vietnam War: Vietname War starts
Vietnam was the longest war in American history and the most unpopular American war of the 20th century. It resulted in nearly 60,000 American deaths and in an estimated 2 million Vietnamese deaths. -
Civil Rights Movement: March On Washington
(Washington, D.C.) About 200,000 people join the March on Washington. Congregating at the Lincoln Memorial, participants listen as Martin Luther King delivers his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. -
Vietnam War: War Powers Act
This law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of Congress. The resolution was passed by two-thirds of Congress, overriding a presidential veto. -
Vietnam War: vietnam war ends
The war was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from December 1956 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese, who reunited the country under Communist rule as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, ending the Vietnam War.
