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U.S History Midterm

By Josiah Flores69

  • 1865 Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

    1865 Abraham Lincoln's Assassination
    Abraham Lincoln the 16th president of the united states was assassinated by John Wilkes booth in a theatre. This Was a big Event for the simple reason that we had just won the civil war under lincoln. He was making plans to change and better America and his assassination set us back as far as development goes.

  • 13th Amendment Ends Slavery

    13th Amendment Ends Slavery
    Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. this was important because slavery had been so dominant in the US for a long time.

  • Alaska Territory purchased from Russians

    Alaska Territory purchased from Russians
    The United States of America bought Alaska from Russia for 7.2 million dollars and this was important because they didn't know of all the natural resources that it had including Oil,Gold Etc....

  • Great Chicago Fire

    Great Chicago Fire
    A large Fire that killed three hundred people The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned from Sunday, October 8, to early Tuesday, October 10, 1871. Destroyed roughly 3.3 miles

  • Civil Rights Act

    Civil Rights Act
    Granted African Americans equal treatment and public accommodations.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act
    The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act
    it prohibits certain business activities that federal government regulators deem to be anti-competitive, and requires the federal government to investigate and pursue trusts.

  • Ford Motor Company

    Ford Motor Company
    Big Automotive Company. one of the first ever to mass produce cars using an assembly line.

  • Panama Canal

    Panama Canal
    connects the atlantic to the pacific ocean.

  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression
    was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors.