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Colorado Gold Rush
(http://www.ushistory.org/us/) The Colorado Gold Rush was the boom in gold prospecting and mining in the Pike's Peak Country of western Kansas Territory and southwestern Nebraska Territory of the United States that began in July 1858 and lasted until roughly the creation of the Colorado Territory on February 28, 1861. -
Sand Creek Massacre
(http://www.ushistory.org/us/) The Sand Creek massacre was an atrocity in the American Indian Wars that occurred when a 700-man force of Colorado Territory militia attacked and destroyed a peaceful village of Cheyenne and Arapaho in southeastern Colorado Territory, killing and mutilating an estimated 70–163 Indians, mainly women and children. -
The Gilded Age
The Gilded AgeTime period when the American economy nearly doubled in size. New technologies and new ways of organizing business led a few individuals to the top. (1877-1893) -
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Chinese Exclusion Act
The Rush of ImmigrationBoth Chinese and Japense immigration was restricted by executive agreement. These two Asian groups were the only ethnicities to be completely excluded from America. -
Development of Model T
The Decade that RoaredThe automobile was first and foremost among these products. The practices of Henry Ford made these horseless carriages affordable to the American masses. Widespread use of the automobile ushered in changes in work patterns and leisure plans. -
Bombing at Pearl Harbor
(http://www.ushistory.org/us/50.asp) Japanese bombers fire on the USS Nevada at Pearl Harbor. The surprise attack of December 7, 1941, left President Roosevelt with no choice but to enter World War II. -
American Soldiers Enter WWI
America in The First World War American soldiers entered the bloody trenches and by November 1918, the war was over. Contributions to the war effort were not confined to the battlefield. The entire American economy was mobilized to win the war. From planting extra vegetables to keeping the furnace turned off, American civilians provided extra food and fuel to the war effort. -
Treaty of Versailles Signing
America in the First World War World War I officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919. Negotiated among the Allied powers with little participation by Germany, its 15 parts and 440 articles reassigned German boundaries and assigned liability for reparations. After strict enforcement for five years, the French assented to the modification of important provisions. -
The Stock Market Crash
The Great Depression The stock market crash of 1929 touched off a chain of events that plunged the United States into its longest, deepest economic crisis of its history. It is far too simplistic to view the stock market crash as the single cause of the Great Depression. -
Bombing at Hiroshima
(http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki) On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
(http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/lessons/coldwar/coldwar_cuba.html) The Missile Scare was a 13-day (October 14–28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba. It played out on television worldwide and was the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. -
Protesters Attcked in Alabama
(https://courses.govhs.org/d2l/le/content/184225/viewContent/1963928/View) Protesters in Birmingham, Alabama, USA, on 3 May 1963, being hit by a high-pressure water hose being used to disperse people during a civil rights protest. -
Martin Luther King Jr. I Have A Dream Speech
(*http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm)"I Have a Dream" is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. on August 28, 1963, in which he calls for an end to racism in the United States. Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, the speech was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. -
Development of Internet
(http://www.ushistory.org/us/60d.asp) The internet was developed during the 1970s by the Department of Defense. In the case of an attack, military advisers suggested the advantage of being able to operate one computer from another terminal. -
Iran Hostage Crisis
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG1iCCS7gD) Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days (November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981), after a group of Iranian students, belonging to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, who were supporting the Iranian Revolution, took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. President Jimmy Carter called the hostages "victims of terrorism and anarchy," adding that "the United States will not yield to blackmail." -
President Reagan's Attempted Assassination
(http://www.ushistory.org/us/59.asp) The attempted assassination of United States President Ronald Reagan occurred on March 30, 1981, 69 days into his presidency. While leaving a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., President Reagan and three others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley, Jr. The most seriously wounded victim, James Brady, died decades later of complications related to his injuries. Brady's death was subsequently ruled a homicide. -
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
(http://www.ushistory.org/us/60e.asp) Disasters such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989 and rising gasoline prices in 2000 illustrated America's embarrassing dependency on fossil fuels and the ecological and economic havoc that resulted. -
Invention of Email
(http://www.ushistory.org/us/60d.asp) New forms of communication were introduced. Electronic mail, or email, was a convenient way to send a message to associates or friends. Messages could be sent and received at the convenience of the individual. -
The Lewinsky Scandal
(http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/popup?id=257755) The Lewinsky scandal was an American political sex scandal emerging from a sexual relationship between 49-year-old President Bill Clinton and a 22-year-old White House employee, Monica Lewinsky. The news eventually led to the impeachment of President Clinton in 1998 by the U.S. House of Representatives and his subsequent acquittal on all impeachment charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in a 21-day Senate trial. -
Columbine High School Massacre
(http://www.ushistory.org/us/60e.asp) When two students entered Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado in April 1999 with weapons, they murdered thirteen people before taking their own lives.
