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George Washington
First President of the United States of America -
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt, also known informally as "Commodore Vanderbilt", was an American business magnate and philanthropist who built his wealth in railroads and shipping. -
John Adams
Supported the 11th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. 11th Amendment states that individuals suing each other that live in different states will not do so in the Federal Courts. -
Thomas Jefferson
A spokesman for the democracy, an American Founding Father, the principal author to the Declaration of Independence and the 3rd president of the U.S. -
James Madison
James Madison and the United States declared war on England on June 18, 1812 after England continued to attack U.S. ships headed to France. -
James Monroe
The Missouri Compromise, forbade slavery above 36 degrees 30 minutes latitude. This meant that slavery was legal in Missouri and illegal in Maine. Slavery was also prohibited in the Louisiana Territory. -
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams was known for his opposition to slavery and his strong support of freedom of speech. -
Temperance Movement
The Temperance movement is a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Temperance movements typically criticize alcohol intoxication, promote complete abstinence, or use -
Andrew Jackson
Jackson signs Treaty of New Echota. With the signing of this treaty Jackson was then allowed to force the Cherokees to move to land in what is now Oklahoma. 4,000 Native Americans die on this journey, also known as the Trail of Tears. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and is often identified as one of the richest people ever. -
Martin Van Buren
Banks closed in Philadelphia and New York City on May 10, 1837. It was the beginning of the Panic of 1837 that caused a depression which lasted throughout Van Buren's term. -
Baseball as National Pastime
You may have heard that a young man named Abner Doubleday invented the game known as baseball in Cooperstown, New York, during the summer of 1839. Doubleday then went on to become a Civil War hero, while baseball became America's beloved national pastime. -
John D. Rockefeller
Founder of the Standard Oil Company -
William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison was known for delivering the longest inaugural address on March 4, 1841. It was an extremely cold day and Harrison did not wear a hat. He contracted pneumonia and died in the White House one month later. -
John Tyler
After a treaty with China was signed trade was opened with the United States. -
James K Polk
The Treaty of 1848 is signed with Mexico. It gave the U.S. control over California, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and parts of Colorado and Wyoming. -
Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor refused any correspondence that was due postage. He did not received word that he had been elected until several days after word was sent because he did not receive the letter telling him. -
Millard Fillmore
The Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act was passed. -
Franklin Pierce
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed. -
James Buchanan
He was unable to stop the southern states drive towards secession. -
Abraham Lincoln
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, freeing all slaves in the states that had seceded and that were not yet under Northern control. -
Andrew Johnson
He become President when Lincoln was assassinated. -
Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan, commonly called the KKK or simply the Klan, is three distinct movements in the United States that have advocated extremist reactionary positions such as white supremacy, white nationalism -
Ulysses S. Grant
Youngest President in history at that point. -
Farmers Revolt
The Revolt of the Farmers. American farmers faced a myriad of problems in the late nineteenth century. Agricultural prices steadily declined after 1870 as a result of domestic overproduction and foreign competition. -
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Gilded age
It was the great fortunes created during this period -
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J.P. Morgan
His impacts still affect us today -
Panic of 1873
A financial crises that caused the depression -
Rutherford B Hayes
Federal troops withdrew from the South ending Reconstruction. -
James A. Garfield
Garfield was the first left handed President. He was shot and killed while serving as President. -
Chester Alan Arthur
He was President because Garfield was assassinated. -
Invention of Machine Gun
The first practical self-powered machine gun was invented in 1884 by Sir Hiram Maxim. ... Maxim's gun was widely adopted and derivative designs were used on all sides during the First World War. The design required fewer crew and was lighter and more usable than the Nordenfelt and Gatling guns. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American politician, diplomat and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, having held the post from March 1933 to April 1945 -
Grover Cleveland
The only President to serve non-consecutive terms. -
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison is the only Grandson; Grandfather (William Henry Harrison) to hold office. -
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Hitler begins the Nazi Party
Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, or Nazi Party, grew into a mass movement and ruled Germany through totalitarian means from 1933 to 1945. -
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and Führer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. -
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Progressive
The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States, from the 1890s to the 1920s. The main objectives of the Progressive movement were eliminating problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and corruption in government. -
Grover Cleveland
The Panic of 1893 started during Grover Cleveland's term as President. -
Invention of the Radio
1920s Radios 4: Guglielmo Marconi Marconi invented of the first practical radio signaling system in 1895 and is therefore generally credited as being the inventor of the radio. The Birth of public radio broadcasting is credited to Lee de Forest. It was described as the "sound factory." -
Babe Ruth
George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr. was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. Wikipedia -
William McKinley
The Spanish-American War began during William McKinley Presidency. -
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and author. -
Sanish American War
The Spanish–American War was fought between the United States and Spain in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba -
Imperialism
The Age of Imperialism. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the United States pursued an aggressive policy of expansionism, extending its political and economic influence around the globe. That pivotal era in the history of our nation is the subject of this online history. -
USS Maine
At 9:40pm on February 15, 1898, the battleship U.S.S. Maine exploded in Havana Harbor, killing 268 men and shocking the American populace. -
Automobile Industry
In the early 1900's, the United States had about 2,000 firms producing one or more cars. ... Henry Ford produced the Model T to be an economical car for the average American. By 1920 Ford sold over a million cars. At the beginning of the century the automobile entered the transportation market as a toy for the rich. -
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Gilded
Mark Twain called the late 19th century the "Gilded Age." By this, he meant that the period was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath. ... It is easy to caricature the Gilded Age as an era of corruption, conspicuous consumption, and unfettered capitalism. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Thought to have been the inspiration for the "teddy bear" due to a cartoon showing President Roosevelt on a bear hunting trip. -
Monopoly
The history of the board game Monopoly can be traced back to the early 20th century. The earliest known version of Monopoly, known as The Landlord's Game, was designed by an American, Elizabeth Magie, and first patented in 1904 but existed as early as 1902. -
Invention of Air Plane
Wilbur and Orville Wright were American inventors and pioneers of aviation. In 1903 the Wright brothers achieved the first powered, sustained and controlled airplane flight; they surpassed their own milestone two years later when they built and flew the first fully practical airplane. -
“Electrify your home!”--Electric home goods invented (curling iron, vacuum cleaner, toaster, doorbell)
In the early 1900s, electric and gas appliances included washing machines, water heaters, refrigerators and sewing machines. The invention of Earl Richardson's small electric clothes iron in 1903 gave a small initial boost to the home appliance industry. -
Tanks
The history of the tank began in World War I, when armoured all-terrain fighting vehicles were first deployed as a response to the problems of trench warfare, ushering in a new era of mechanized warfare. Though initially crude and unreliable, tanks eventually became a mainstay of ground armies -
The Jungle was written
The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities -
William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft a chief justice of the Supreme Court, and president of the United States. He was the only person to have done this. -
Triangle Shirt Waist Factory
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911 was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in US history. -
Woodrow Wilson
World War I stated when Woodrow Wilson was President. -
16th Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census. -
Invention of Submarines
Dutchman CORNELIUS DREBBEL, hired in 1603 as "court inventor" for James I of England, built what seems to have been the first working submarine. -
Central Powers
World War One is a conflict between the Central Powers and the Allies. The Central Powers (red) consist of Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire. Important allied powers (yellow) are Serbia, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium and the United States. -
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Trench Warfare
Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied fighting lines consisting largely of military trenches, in which troops are well-protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. -
World War I
World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. -
Poison Gas
On April 22, 1915, German forces shock Allied soldiers along the western front by firing more than 150 tons of lethal chlorine gas against two French colonial divisions at Ypres, Belgium. This was the first major gas attack by the Germans, and it devastated the Allied line. -
17th Amendment
Alaska, and Hawaii, admitted to statehood in 1959, have never chosen a U.S. Senator legislatively. The first direct elections to the Senate following the Seventeenth Amendment being adopted were: In Maryland on November 4, 1913: a class 1 special election due to a vacancy, for a term ending in 1917. -
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Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers -
Paris Peace Conferance
The Paris Peace Conference, also known as Versailles Peace Conference, was the meeting of the victorious Allied Powers following the end of World War I, to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers. -
18th Amendment
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League of Nations
The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organisation founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. -
Communism
In political and social sciences, communism is the philosophical, social, political and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, -
Motels
The original concept of a motel as a motorist's hotel which grew up around the highways of the 1920s is of American origin. ... In France, motel-style chain accommodations of up to three stories (with exterior hallways and stairwells) are marketed as "one-star hotels". -
Roaring 20s
The Roaring Twenties was the period of Western society and Western culture that occurred during and around the 1920 -
Women's Suffrage
Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Limited voting rights were gained by women in Finland, Iceland, Sweden and some Australian colonies and western U.S. states in the late 19th century. -
19th Amendment
Women are given the right to vote. -
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Prohibition
Banned alcohol -
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Jazz Age
The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s, ending with the Great Depression, in which jazz music and dance styles became popular, mainly in the United States, but also in Britain, France and elsewhere. ... The Jazz Age is often referred to in conjunction with the Roaring Twenties. -
Nazi Party
The National Socialist German Workers' Party, commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party, was a far-right political party in Germany that was active between 1920 and 1945 and practised the ideology of Nazism -
Warren G. Harding
In 1921 peace between Germany and Austria was declared. -
Calvin Coolidge
America enjoyed great economic growth during the Coolidge Presidency known as the "Roaring Twenties". -
Great Gatsby was publishesd
It was a book about fictional characters -
Air Commerce
On this day in 1926, Congress passed the Air Commerce Act, placing in federal hands responsibility for fostering air commerce, establishing new airways, improving aids to navigation, and making and enforcing flight safety rules. -
First Solo Non-stop Trans-Atlantic Flight
The First Solo, Nonstop Transatlantic Flight. On May 21, 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh completed the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight in history, flying his Spirit of St. Louis from Long Island, New York, to Paris, France. -
Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, originating in the United States. -
Herbert Hoover
In 1929 the Stock Market Crashed which caused the start of the Great Depression. -
Black Tuesday
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday, the Great Crash, or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began on October 24, 1929, and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history -
Hoovervilles
A "Hooverville" was a shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States of America. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United States of America during the onset of the Depression and was widely blamed for it. -
New Deal
The New Deal was a series of federal programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted in the United States during the 1930s in response to the Great Depression. -
Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought -
Hollywoods Golden Age
Revolutions in Communication. Golden Age of Hollywood.
Golden Age of Hollywood. By the 1930s, Hollywood was one of the most visible businesses in America, and most people were attending films at least once a week. -
Bonus Army
Bonus Army was the name for an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 U.S. World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Known for implementing the "New Deal" that helped to bring America out of the Great Depression. -
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Fireside Chats
Fireside chats is the term used to describe a series of 28 evening radio addresses given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944. -
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Concentration Camps
Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its allies established more than 40,000 camps and other incarceration sites. The perpetrators used these sites for a range of purposes, including forced labor, detention of people thought to be enemies of the state, and mass murder. The total number of sites is based upon ongoing research in the perpetrators' own records. -
Holucaust
The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide during World War II in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews -
Seabiscuit
Seabiscuit was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse in the United States. A small horse, Seabiscuit had an inauspicious start to his racing career, but became an unlikely champion and a symbol of hope to many Americans during the Great Depression -
War Admiral
War Admiral was an American thoroughbred racehorse, best known as the fourth winner of the American Triple Crown and Horse of the Year in 1937, and rival of Seabiscuit in the 'Match Race of the Century' in 1938. -
Boxing (Jim Braddock--Cinderella Man)
He was a boxer during the great depression. -
Nuremburg Laws
The Nuremberg Laws were antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany. They were introduced on 15 September 1935 by the Reichstag at a special meeting convened at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party -
Child Labor Laws
Georgia's child labor law was written in 1878 whereas the federal child labor law is provided for under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) enacted in 1938. -
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Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht or Reichskristallnacht, also referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, Reichspogromnacht or simply Pogromnacht, and Novemberpogrome, was a pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany -
World War II (Pacific and European)
The European theatre of World War II, also known as the Second European War, was a huge area of heavy fighting across Europe, from Germany's and the Soviet Union's joint invasion of Poland in September 1939 until the end of the war with the Soviet Union conquering much of Europe -
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Cold War--Red Scare
Following World War II (1939-45), the democratic United States and the communist Soviet Union became engaged in a series of largely political and economic clashes known as the Cold War. -
Wizard of OZ release
It was a movie about a girl from Kansas who was taken to another world by a tornado. -
People moved to Ghettos
Millions of Jews lived in eastern Europe. After Germany invaded Poland in 1939, more than two million Polish Jews came under German control. After Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, several million more Jews came under Nazi rule. -
Killing Centers
The first killing center was Chelmno, which opened in the Warthegau (part of Poland annexed to Germany) in December 1941. -
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Nuremburg Trials
Nuremberg, Germany, was chosen as a site for trials that took place in 1945 and 1946. Judges from the Allied powers—Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States—presided over the hearings of twenty-two major Nazi criminals. Twelve prominent Nazis were sentenced to death. -
Red Scare
A "Red Scare" is promotion of widespread fear by a society or state about a potential rise of communism, anarchism, or radical leftism. The term is most often used to refer to two periods in the history of the United States with this name -
Alaska joins the union
On January 3, 1959, President Eisenhower signs a special proclamation admitting the territory of Alaska into the Union as the 49th and largest state. The European discovery of Alaska came in 1741, when a Russian expedition led by Danish navigator Vitus Bering sighted the Alaskan mainland. -
Hawaii joins the union
Statehood became effective on August 21, 1959. Hawaii remains the most recent state to join the United States.
