6 grade history

  • telegraph

    Samuel Morse invented the telegraph
  • war with Mexico

    we fought Mexico
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    6 grade timeline

  • California Gold Rush

    gold was found in California
  • seneca falls convention

    womenb want the right to vote
  • Pikes Peak

    gold was found in Colorado
  • The Comstock Lode

    silver was discovered in Nevada
  • oil wells

    Edwin L. Drake discovered oil wells
  • homestead act

  • alaska

    seward buys alaska
  • Transcontinental Railroad

    made traveling easier
  • telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone
  • Littlebig Horn

    Custer got all his men killed
  • news states enter the union

    states enter the union
  • lightbulb

    Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb
  • transformer

    George Westinghouse invented transformers
  • dawes act

  • kodak

    George Eastman invented the kodak
  • new state

    Wyoming becomes a state
  • Wounded Knee

    final battle between indians and settlers
  • Plessy vs Ferguson

    Supreme Court ruled separate but equal
  • vaccum

    John Thurman invented the vaccum cleaner
  • hawaii

    hawaii is a territory
  • president

    roosevelt becomes president
  • panama canal starts

    panama canal starts being built
  • panama canal problem

    mosquitoes come and spread diseases
  • building continues

    the mosquitoes die
  • u.s. forest service

    roosevelt creates the u.s. forest service
  • ford

    Henry Ford invented the Model T car
  • president

    taft becomes president
  • challenge

    roosevelt challenges taft
  • 17 amendment

    allowed people to choose who represented them
  • 16 amendment

    gave goverment the power to tax income
  • alliances

    alliances were made
  • Franz Ferdinand

    prince Franz Ferdinand gets killed
  • Austria Hungary

    Austria Hungary declares war
  • Germany

    Germany declares war
  • Belgium

    Germany invades Belgium
  • panama canal is done

    panama canal has been finished
  • Battle of the Marne

    first battle
  • russia

    russia declares war
  • Lusitania

    The Lusitania was sunk
  • Sussex

    Sussex got sunk and Sussex pledge was made
  • Verdun

    longest and deadliest battle
  • Somme

    first battle Allies were on the offensive side
  • Sussex pledge

    Germany reversed its policy
  • Zimmerman Telegraph

    America receives the Zimmermann Telegraph
  • America

    America enters the war
  • Selective Service Act

    law that established a military draft
  • Communists take over Russia

    The Bolsheviks took over Russia
  • Brest-Litovsk

    treaty that let Russia leave the war
  • War Labor Board

    War Labor Board was founded
  • Chatteau-Theirry

    first battle America was in
  • Agonne Forest

    last battle of WW1
  • Kaiser

    Kaiser Wilhelm gets replaced
  • War Industries Board

    the War Industries Board was founded
  • war ends

    armistice begins
  • eightteenth amendment

    ratified
  • ninetenth amendment

    women get the right to vote
  • Armistice Day

    day honoring veterans
  • new president

    Harding becomes president
  • first commercial broadcast

    the first commercial radio broadcast was sent out
  • emergency quota act

    act that placed a limit on the number of immigrants in the U.S.
  • the Five-Power Treaty

    Treaty that limited the size of one nations' navies
  • Harding dies

    Harding dies of a heart attack
  • Coolidge

    Coolidge becomes president
  • Charles Lindbergh

    first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone
  • Wrning

    Albert Einstein warn Roosevelt
  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invaded Poland and started World War 2
  • Pearl Harbor

    Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor
  • To War

    Roosevelt asked Congress for a declaration of war against Japan
  • Battle of Coral Sea

    strategic win for the Allies
  • Battle of Midway

    the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II
  • D Day

    the Allies stormed the coast of Normady
  • Battle of the Bulge

    Hitler attempted to split the Allies
  • FDR Dies

    Roosevelt died
  • Hitler Dies

    Hitler killed himself
  • V-E Day

    Allies declare Victory in Europe
  • Bomb

    Atomic Bomb was tested
  • Hiroshima

    Enola Gay drops the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima
  • Nagasaki

    Enola Gay drops Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki
  • V-J Day

    proclaimed Victory in Japan Day
  • Berlin Blockade

    Stalin cuts off Berlin's supply trade
  • Berlin Airlift

    American and British cargo planes airlfted supplies to Berlin
  • Korean War

    North Korea invades South Korea
  • U.S. in Korea

    troops are sent to stop the Communist advance
  • Korean War Ends

    demilitarized zone is established
  • Brown vs Board of Education

    Supreme Court ruled it was unconstitutional to separate schoolchildren by race
  • Bus Boycott

    black people boycotted the bus
  • Rosa Parks

    refused to give up her seat for white people
  • Little Rock Nine

    nine black students attempt to enter Central High but are turned away by the National Guard
  • N.A.S.A.

    N.A.S.A. is created
  • Freedom Riders Attacked

    they were attacked in Anniston, Alabama
  • Ole Miss is integrated

    James Meredith arrived to register at Ole Miss
  • James Meredith

    first black person to enroll at Ole Miss
  • MLK arrested

    MLK was arrested
  • Civil Rights March

    they marched on Washington
  • George Wallace

    Wallace attempted to halt enrollment of black people
  • I Have a Dream Speech

    Martin Luther KIng Jr gave one of the most famous speeches ever
  • 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing

    bomb exploded on Sunday morning in church killing four black girls
  • Vivian Malone

    first black graduate
  • MLK Assasinated

    At 6p.m. MLK was shot while standing on a balcony
  • terrorists attack america

    terrorists crash planes into the twin towers, and the pentagon and one other was supossed to hit the white house but was forced down by passengers

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