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Signed by President Lincoln, encouraged Americans to embrace their Manifest Destiny and create a country that stretch completely from across the U.S. Thousands took up the governments offer of moving into the Fronteir West and accepted the federal land grant at hand.
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Two railroad companies, the Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad, were chosen for the first transcontinental railroad which was 1,907 miles of continuous railroad networking that streched across the western United States connecting the Pacific coast at San Francisco Bay with the existing Eastern U.S. railroads.
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The Pendelton Act created a federal civil service where workers could be hired based on competitive exams instead of political influence. This federal law ensured that government jobs would be awarded on the basis of merit. It swayed away from patronage.
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Officially the cause of the Spanish-American War was the sinking of the US battleship Maine in Cuba's Havana Harbor. However, if you look at it the military wanted to investigate what really happened rather than immediately go to war. Now the investigation at that time did say it was an exterior explosion that sunk the Maine, but by that time it was already too late. The major newspapers in the country had already stirred up the flames of war, declaring the Spanish had deliberately sunk the ship
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America’s annexation of Hawaii in 1898 resulted from economic integration and the rise of the United States as a Pacific power. It also extended U.S. territory into the Pacific. For most of the 1800s.
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The consolidation of Greater New York City occurred with the "merger" of Brooklyn and Manhattan. Before the merger Brooklyn had absorbed Williamsburg, Bushwick, Flatbush, Flatlands, and New Lots among other towns. The merger created a city of 3.4 million people. Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island were consolidated into New York City.
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The American Legion was chartered by Congress in 1919 as a patriotic veterans organization. Focusing on service to veterans, servicemembers and communities, the Legion evolved from a group of war-weary veterans of World War I into one of the most influential nonprofit groups in the United States.
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The treaty of versailles was signed in 1919 to come to a conclusion on what should be done now the war ended
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World War two was a 4 year long war. The U.S. was fighting against the Germans
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The Star Bangled Banner was made into the official national athem
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Al Capone was Mobster and was arrested for income tax fraud. He was in Prison for 11 years.
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The Dow Jones reaches it's lowest average of the depression, 41.22 points
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The French government officially joined in full partnership in the United Nations, three years after the French Committee on National Liberation agreed to participate in the international organization.
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The Turkish government broke off diplomatic relations with the empire of Japan.
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The Truman administration intervened in the Chinese Civil War by dispatching General George Marshall to negotiate a truce between the Nationalist and Communist Chinese.
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1950 was awarded to Bertrand Russell "in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought".
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The “5 A Day for Better Health Program” is a national program to encourage all Americans to eat 5 to 9 servings of fruits and vegetables every day for good health.
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The Palestinian National Authority was formed in 1994, pursuant to the Oslo Accords between the "Palestine Liberation Organization" (PLO) and the government of Israel, as a 5-year interim body during which final status negotiations between the two parties were to take place but never did.
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in 1994 Aleve, an anti-inflammitory drug, was a;llowed to be sold to the public for muscle pain.
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Fragments of the Tagish Lake[1] meteorite landed upon the Earth on January 18, 2000 at 16:43 UT (08:43 local time in Yukon) after a large meteoroid exploded in the upper atmosphere.
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In 2001, the World Trade Center was attacked by a hacked plane and both of the towers fell. Many people lost their lives and are remebered to this day.
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43 people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims were observing the Day of Ashura.
