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YMCA organization
Young Men's Christian Association was founded in London, England. George Williams gathered 11 friends to organize this association, a refuge of Bible study and prayer for young man seeking escape from the hazards of life on the streets. -
Seneca Falls Declaration
The American women's rights movement began with a meeting of reformers in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. Out of that first convention came a historic document, the 'Declaration of Sentiments,' which demanded equal social status and legal rights for women, including the right to vote. -
Homestead Act
Granted adult families 160 acres of land for minimum pay. So people that overwise could not afford land, now could. -
Proclamation of Amnesty
This is the time when Abraham Lincoln offers his plan for reunification of the United States. Lincoln wanted Reconstruction to be a short process in which secessionist states could draft new constitutions quickly, so that U.S. could exist as it had before. -
13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
13th Amendment staes that: neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist within the United States. -
14th Amendment
14th Amendment forbids states from denying any person life, liberty, without due process of law; equal protection of law. -
Transcontinental railroad from east to west
Two companies raced toward each other (who could lay the most track). In Promontory, Utah, the two lines finally met on this date. -
New air brake
This is an important day, because such invention would save lives of many people in the future. In early trains, each railroad car had its own brakes and brake operator. The new air brake allowed an engineer to stop all the cars at once so that no car could crash into one another (because of stopping badly on its own at the wrong time). -
Gilded Age
The meaning as of Mark Twain: era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding. Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth. It was also an era of poverty and inequality of many immigrants. -
15th Amendment
"Right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied by the United States on amount of race, colour, or previous condition of servitude." -
Statue of Liberty
Statue of Liberty stands in the Upper New York Bay. It is a symbol of freedom which epresents the United States itself. The statue's official name represents "Liberty Enlightening the World". -
Battle of Little Bignorn
Led by Custer against two indian bands. Tensions arrose when two groupa have been rising since the descovery of gold on Native American lands. When a number of tribes missed the deadline of moving to reservations, Custer led the war on them without realizing how badly his army was outnumbered. -
Jim Crow laws
Jim Crow laws were any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction. These new laws required separation of whites from 'coloured people' in public places such as bus station, waiting rooms, railroad cars, restaurants, restrooms, movie theaters and many other. -
Standard Oil Trust
Standard Oil Trust was a company created by John Rockefeller which dominated 95% of the production, refining, and marketing of oil in the United States. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Signed by president Chester A. Arthur, the law, restricted immigration to United States. Specifically chinese people. -
Bureau of Immigration Elis Island
Was created in order to regulate immigration entry of foreign nationals in the country. Make sure immigrants that come in are beneficial to the country, don't bring any major disease that could cause people already living in the country to get really sick. Ellis Island was the place immigrants first arrived, then went through a series of checks, like medical exams, questions ect. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts. The Sherman Antitrust Act was based on the constitutional power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce. -
Wounded knee
The date of a big incedent, war, by white man. Pieceful indians had every right of their land, besides they were willing to share it, and most tribes were piecefull people. But no, new settlers didn't like it. The Ghost dance scared them so much, they had to go and kill everybody. This event is very saddening! -
Invention of basketball
Very significant to people now-a-days, a game basketball was first invented by James Naismith. Containing 13 rules, James was teaching his class this new invention. Of course later on it has improved till it became the second most played game in the United States. -
Yellow Kid
Considered first the most commercially successful newspaper comic strip. Featuring little kid known as 'Yellow Kid'. Was for entertainment purpose, aimed at humor. -
"Separate but equal"
Voting restrictions preventing freedman from voting. It was a way to separate races, and while it was said to be 'equal', it really wasn't because of racial issues and white people believing that they were better than black people and should be treated better too. -
Klondike gold rush
This was the year of a migration of people over to Yukon Canada, because gold was discovered. -
Spanish-American War
This year, fought between Spain and United States. Began after the exposion of the ship Maine, which was not Spanish people who caused the explosion, but the bomb itself. U.S. people though, thought it was Spanish attacking, so they declared a war on them. -
National Women's Party
It was an American women's organization which had been formed in 1913 by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns to fight for women's suffrage. The National Woman's Party prioritized the passage of a constitutional amendment ensuring women's suffrage throughout the United States. -
The beginning of WW1
World War 1, also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars was a global war originated in Europe which lasted for 4 years and 3 month. -
America joining WW1
This was the date when America stepped into the war. For the longest time it tried to be neutral and stay out of it, but the last threatening events made America get involved. -
Flapper
This was the year in which a new ideal for some women emerged. A Flapper was an emancipated young woman who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes. They generally had shorter hair and shorter skirts. Also these women could smoke and drink alcohol. -
Prohibition
This was the year in which a law came to order banning of alcohol use. Advocated argued that Prohibition improved individuals, strengthened families, and created better societies. Opponents argued that Prohibition did not stop people from drinking. While, it was true, this year was the year in which government tried to take control of this situation by passing such law. -
Scopes trial
A trial of of John Scopes, a high school teacher in Tennessee, for teaching the theory of evolution in violation of the state law. He was found guilty at the end. -
Jazz Singer
This was the first sound movie released in America. This was part of the entertainment which develoved and improved. -
Sports
This year, interest in sports remained strong. People such as: Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio we hugely popular. -
The Election of 1932
This was the year in which Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the Democratic Party's nomination. Americans got tired of President Hoover and hoped that Roosevelt would do as he promised in his years to get the country back on her feet. Roosevelt promised relief for the poor and mire public works programs to provide jobs. He attacked Hoover and the Republicans for their response to the Great Depression. -
21th amendment
The 21st Amendment was a direct response to the preexisting 18th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, which mandated the sale, possession, consumption, and transport of alcoholic beverages as illegal.
In addition to this amendment overturning statutes deeming alcoholic beverages to be illegal, the 21st Amendment allowed individual states to regulate all applicable legislature with regard to the commercial availability of alcoholic beverages. -
Second New Deal
The first major legislation that Roosevelt and Congress passed in the Second New Deal—in response to the critics—was the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Created in 1935, the WPA was an effort to appease the “Longites” who clamored for more direct assistance from the federal government. -
The War Starts in Europe
athe War started in this year with Germany envading Poland on this day. -
Lend-Lease Act
Proposed in late 1940 and passed in March 1941, the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. -
Mobilization of scientists
FDR created the Office of Scientifc Research and Developement to bring scientists into war effort. Focus on radar and sonar to locate submarines -
The Atlantic Charter
Roosevelt and Churchill signed a treaty of friendship this day. -
Pearl Harbor attack
This was the day that Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor which brought USA into the war against Japan and Germany. -
The Bonus Army
The World War Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924 had awarded veterans bonuses in the form of certificates they could not redeem until 1945. So finally in this year, these people got their bonuses -
Families in Crisis
Marriage and birth rates were the lowest this year. Fathers and some children left home to find work. -
Cold War
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc. It started this year although there are mulpitple opinions on when it really started. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13,000,000,000 in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
Berlin Blockade
Berlin Blockade was an attempt to starve the city into submission. It started on this day and ended in about a year. But Berlin survived because all the necessities where given to them by planes. -
Easter parade
Because of Berlin blockade, all the necessities of the city where entered the city by plane. This day was the biggest day where airlift sent 1,398 flights into Berlin; one every minute. -
The Vietnam War
This was the date of the start of another warin which America was involved as well. They fought it to hold the line against the spread of world Communism. It was later in the 1950's thought that America became involved again. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
This was the first civil rights legislation since reconstruction. It made sure that the voting of African Americans was protected by the U.S. Attorney General. -
Hawii as a state
Because Hawaii did not want to pay tarrifs for exporting sugar to America, they propose it to become part of the United States. This was the day Hawaii officially became a state. -
Viet Cong
This was the day, National Liberation Front was born. It brought together Communists and non-Communists in an umbrella organization that had limited, but important goals. -
White Paper
The report, known as the "December 1961 White Paper", argued for: an increase in militsry, technical, and economic aid; the introduction of large-scale American "advisers" to help stabilize the Diem regime and crush the NLF. -
I have a dream
Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" was a powerful speech in which he stated eloquently that he desired a world were blacks and whites could coexist equally. -
Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
As their vehicle passed the Texas School Book Depository Building at 12:30 p.m., Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly fired three shots from the sixth floor, fatally wounding President Kennedy and seriously injuring Governor Connally. Kennedy was pronounced dead 30 minutes later at Dallas’ Parkland Hospital. He was 46. -
Assassination of MLK
On this day, Martin Luther King was shot on the balcony of Lorraine Motel. The bullet severed his spinal cord, killing him. The assassin was James Earl Ray, who was sentenced to 99 years in prison.
