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The Industrial Revolution
The time of history when the U.S. made the Erie canal. Ford Motor company was also started during this time. Railroads were built. Those things had a really great impact on the technology and immigration of the country. -
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U.S History 1865-2003
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Reconstruction Era
14th Amendment is adopted on July 9, 1868 and it addressed citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws. The Jim Crow Laws were passed during 1865-1876 and they adopted segregation. -
Appomattox Court House
The Confederate army commander Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses Grant, the Union army commander. -
Imperalism
The U.S wanted more land and power, so they caused a war agaisn the Spanish and they won to gain areas like New Mexico and Texas. America's annexation of Hawaii in 1898 extended U.S. territory into the Pacific and highlighted resulted from economic integration and the rise of the United States as a Pacific power. The Panana Canal was officially opened in 1914. -
World War 1
In late June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia. An escalation of threats and mobilization orders followed the incident, leading by mid-August to the outbreak of World War I, which pitted Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire (the so-called Central Powers) against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy and Japan (the Allied Powers). The Allies were joined after 1917 by the United States. -
The Roaring 20's
The 1920s were an age of dramatic social and political change. For the first time, more Americans lived in cities than on farms. Young women started wearing flappers to show more skin. Prohibition in the United States was a national ban on the sale, production, and transportation of alcohol, in place from 1920 to 1933 -
The Great Depression
People had a lot of unemployment problems.Peoplepanickedand withdrew money. Banks foreclosed and businesses laid off workers or workers went bankrupt. Dust storms destoyed crops, so farmers couldn't pay for their debt and banks foreclosed on small farmers. -
World War 2
World War 2 was triggered by the Pearl Harbor attack by Japan on the U.S on. New weapons and technologies were made (aircrafts, bombs). The U.S dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1045. Then on August 9, three days later, the U.S dropped anther atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. -
Attacks of Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941 (December 8 in Japan). The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II. -
The Cold War
The U.S and Russia were at war against each other to see who had more power over the world. The U.S were the capitalist superpower and Russia was the communist superpower. Both countries were trying to go into space first. Cuba and Russia also threatened to use nuclear missiles against the U.S. -
The Korean War
The Korean War was a war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, at one time supported by the People's Republic of China. The Korean War ended on July, 27 1953 -
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War started was the longest war in United States history. The war started around November, 1st 1955 and ended on April 30, 1975. The Vietnamese army won the conflict with the withdrawal of the American forces. -
The Gulf War
The Persian Gulf War was an armed conflict that took place between Iraq and a coalition of nations as a result of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990. The Iraqi Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion and occupation of neighboring Kuwait. -
Attack of 9/11
The September 11 attacks (also referred to as September 11, September 11th, or 9/11 were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks launched by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. -
Operation Enduring Freedom
Operation Enduring Freedom or OEF is the official name used by the U.S. government for the War in Afghanistan, The invasion began as a way to find Osama bin Laden and other terrorists of the Taliban regime who resided in Afghanistan. -
Operation Freedom
Operation Iraqi Freedom is also known under the name "The Iraq War". It began March 19, 2003. When President George W. Bush revealed the objectives of the invasion in a radio address. The objective of this operation was to invade Iraq.
