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Freedmen's Bureau is established to help former slaves through the ensuing tough times.
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In Ford's Theater, only a few days after the end of the Civil War, John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln.
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Johnson attempts to follow in Lincoln's footsteps by isssuing a Reconstruction Proclamation.
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The Ku Klux Klan was founded by a group of people.
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The 14th Amendment guarantee's rights of blacks and ensured their citizenship.
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United States purchased Alaska from Russia.
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Ulysses S. Grant is elected into office after defeating Seymour.
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Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad connect the country by railroad.
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Fisk and Gould convinced the government not to release gold, and bought gold themselves. They drove the price very high, before Grant realized what had happened.
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The 15th Amendment guarantees citizens the right to vote without discrimination against race.
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"Boss" Tweed controls polictics in New York with one of the most well known and corrupt political machines to date.
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The Union Pacific Railroad Company hired themselves at inflated prices as the Credit Mobilier company.
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A panic in the market causes an economic depression.
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Republicans and Democrats agree on Rutherford B. Hayes becoming president, but only if soldiers are pulled from the South, thus ending Reconstruction.
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Thomas Edison develops efficient carbon filament lightbulb.
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Garfield defeats Hanock to become the 20th President.
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Chester Arthur becomes the third President to serve in the year 1881 after Garfield is assasinated.
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Charles J. Guiteau shoots President Garfield. He would die eleven weeks later on September 9.
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Samuel Gompers founds and leads the American Federation of Labor to relative success in skilled workers benefits.
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Grover Cleveland is elected President after defeating Blaine.
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Employees of Pullman Palace Car Company go on strike. It was the first time troops were used to break up a strike.
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After oppressive Spanish rule, Cubans begin their revolt.
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The 45th state admitted to the Union.
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Mysterious explosion of the U.S.S. Maine is final spark needed to start the Spanish-American War. It was later discovered that the Maine exploded due to a boiler room problem.
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America pledges that if they help Cuba to defeat Spain, they will let Cuba have its independence.
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After a dispute over Cuba and the Maine, President McKinley agrees to send American to war, and Congress declares a state of war.
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Theodore Roosevelt ordered George Dewey to attack the Spanish Philippines.
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Despite some discontent with the natives, Hawaii is annexed partly due to the work of buisnessmen with crops there.
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U.S. Senate ratifies the treaty with Spain and gains Philippines despite opposition from much of the public.
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The Philippines apparently did not want to be annexed and rebelled soon after. They were led by Emilio Aguinaldo.
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John Hay sent a request to the European powers to agree to trade with China but not monopolize the country.
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Granted Puerto Rico limited degree of popular government.
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McKinley defeats Bryan for the presidency by 292 to 155 electoral votes.
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McKinley assasinated while at the New York Exposition. Roosevelt would assume the presidency.
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The Filipino Rebellion officially ends, although scattered fighting would continue until 1913.
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US troops are pulled out of Cuba after Spanish-American War.
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Cubans were forced to write it into their Constitution after US helped them defeat Spain. It gave certain rights to the US.
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Roosevelt takes the Monroe Doctrine in a different light and said that if the Latin Nations got into financial trouble, the US would take them over and pay off their debts.
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Construction on the Panama Canal begins.
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Oklahoma was the 46th state admitted to the Union.
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Roosevelt thought he would show the Japanese that the US were not afraid of them with a huge fleet of ships.
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The Supreme Court ruled that the Standard Oil Company had used unlawful practices, and split it up.
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Taft pushes an anti-trust case against US steel. This greatly angers Roosevelt.
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Due to fire code violations and bad working conditions, many women were burned or jumped to their death.
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The 17th Amendment which meant that U.S. Senators would be elected directly by the people.
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Taft defeats Roosevelt for the Republican nomination.
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Woodrow Wilson is elected as President after Roosevelt and Taft split the Republican Party.
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The 16th Amendment allows the government to tax citizen's incomes.
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The act put the Federal Reserve into practice, which gave the United States a central banking system.
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Beginning with the assination of Franz Ferdinand, the first World War would include many countries and have many deaths.
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The Federal Trade Commission is established to protect the consumer and regulate any buisness practices determined to be unfair.
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The British passenger liner was torpedoed and sank, killing 1,198, 128 of whom were Americans.
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Woodrow Wilson narrowly defeats Charles Evans Hughes for the Presinecy.
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Pancho Villa and his men went into New Mexico and killed 19 Americans.
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Germany were forced to make the Sussex pledge after sinking ships with American civilians on it, which said that Germany wouldn't sink civilian ships without warning.
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The Zimmerman note was a secret note sent from Germany to Mexico, proposing an alliance if the US were to enter the war.
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The United States purchased the Virgin Islands from Denmark in the Treaty of the Danish West Indies.
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Woodrow Wilson makes the decision to enter WWI after being provoked by Germany numerous times.
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Law passed to make spying illegal.
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Politicians and people accused others of being communist and prosecuted communists.
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Wilson lays down his expectations for the war.
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Act that allowed the government to imprison anyone who goes against the government.
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The Treaty of Versailles ends World War I
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Law that enforced the 18th Amendment.
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Warren G. Harding becomes the president of the US
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Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested and executed, and many thought it was because they were communists.
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The 19th Amendment allows women the right to vote.
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European Leaders met in Washington to discuss the disarmament of the nations.
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Roosevelt leaves London Economic Conference, which Hitler will later use as propoganda against capitalism.
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US chooses to recognize Soviet Russia, in hopes that they will join with the Allied Powers against the Axis Powers.
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Plan to allow Philippine independence on July 4, 1946
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Italy invades Ethiopia under Mussolini and crushes them. Ethiopia fights back without success.
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Basically in response to Italy's take over of Ethiopia, US makes it clear that we will not interfere with other nations' problems.
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A civil war in Spain allows for another dictator to takeover. America chooses to stay uninvolved, which hurts us in the long run.
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Japan invades China in what has been called the first battle of WW2.
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US ship attacked by Japan, though they apologized.
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Hitler takes Austria without protest or violence.
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Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor forces America into the war.
