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1887 - Dawes Severality Act
denies tribal rights, advances forces assimilation, opens lands to whites -
1890 Wounded Knee
Federal forces massacre 200 Sioux Indians -
1896 - Plessy vs. Ferguson
seprate but equal is constitutional (overturned by Brown vs. Board of Education -
1898 - Grandfather Clause
voting rights of blacks challenged with literacy tests and poll taxes -
1898 - Spanish-American War
Teddy Roosevelt leads Rough Riders, U.S. crushes Spain's Navy -
1898 - Treaty of Paris
ends the Spanish-AMerican War -
1901 - President McKinley assassonation
Teddy Roosevelt now 26th President -
1906 - Pure Food and Drug Act
Meat Inspection - Set food quality standards -
1908 - Henry Ford introduces the Model T car
assembly lines introduced -
1920 - 19th Amendment
women's suffrage (right to vote) -
1913 - 16th Amendment
establishment of income tax, 17th Amendment direct election of senators -
1914
World War I begins in Europe -
1917 - Zimmerman Telegram
intercepted by British, asks for Germany/Mexico alliance against the U.S -
1919 - 18th Amendment
outlaws purchase, sale, and transport of alcohol -
1919 - Treaty of Versailles
ends WWI; Calls for heavy reparation on Germany, disarmament, and creation of League of Nations; U.S. Senate rejects it -
1927 - Charles Lindbergh
completes world's first solo flight across Atlantic - seen as a hero -
1929 - Stock Market Crash
Black Tuesday' - launches Great Depression -
1932 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected president
Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected President -
21st Amendment
repeals 18th amendment (prohibition) -
1935 - Social Security Act
Social Security Act - establishes funds for unemployed and elderly -
December 7, 1941
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor - U.S. enters the war -
1942 - Battle of Midway
U.S. defeats Japan, seen as turning point in the war in the Pacific -
1945 - U.S drops atomic bombs
(Aug. 6) and Nagasaki (Aug 9) - Japan surrenders -
1954 - Brown vs. Board of Education
overturns Plessy vs. Ferguson; says separate but equal is unconstitutional -
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis - standoff U.S. and USSR after Soviets placed missiles in Cuba pointed at the United States; no fighting icurs -
1964 - Civil Rights Act of 1964
bans dicrimination in education, employment, & public places -
1965 - Malcom X (Nation of Islam)
blamed whites for African American problems; assassinated