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On April 19, 1775, British and American soldiers fired upond each other in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord.
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Constitutional Convention approved the documents over which they had labored since May.Before the Constitution could become the law of the land, it would have to withstand public scrutiny and debate
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Abraham Lincoln takes presidential office and Civil war starts.
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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war.
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In the 1910s and early '20s, the IWW achieved many of their short-term goals, particularly in the American west, and cut across traditional guild and union lines to organize workers in a variety of trades and industries.
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On April 6, 1917, the U.S. joined its allies--Britain, France, and Russia--to fight in World War I.
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"Joint Resolution of Congress proposing a constitutional amendment extending the right of suffrage to women."
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The Davis–Bacon Act of 1931 is a United States federal law that establishes the requirement for paying the local prevailing wages on public works projects for laborers and mechanics.
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"On August 20, 1866, the National Labor Union, made up of skilled and unskilled workers, farmers, and reformers, called on Congress to order an eight-hour workday."
