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"Depression" lasting from 1873 to 1879.
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On March 1st, 1875, president Ulysses S. Grant signed a bill passing a law that African Americans have equal treatment in public places, transportation, and prohibit exclusion from jury service.
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Places US currency on Gold Standard.
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First major oil discovery
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Leads to formation of the Carnegie Institution in Washingon D.C.
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Opened by Mary McLeod Bethune in Daytona, California.
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Theodore Roosevelt is inaugurated for his second term as president of the United States
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Gave ICC power to set maximum railroad rates and extend its jurisdiction.
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Prevented manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated, misbranded, poisonous, or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors.
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Gave congress the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes without apportionment on the several States, and without regard to any census.
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Central banking system created after the financial panics prior to 1913 to maintain central control of monetary system in case of another crisis.
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The Lusitania was sunk by German submarines and killed 1,198 passengers, including 128 Americans, leading to the involvement of the U.S in WW1.
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The United States joined alongside Britain, France, and Russia to fight in the first world war.
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Ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied powers. Made Germany accept that they were guilty and had to pay for the damages caused in WW1 in the War Guilt Clause.
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Germany formally surrenders during WW1
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Refers to the fear of communists coming to America.
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Prohibition was the ban on alcohol in the twenties.
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The Republican candidate appealed to voters by his promise to "return to normalcy", and lower tax rates.
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Henry Ford invents the first affordable car.
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When Harding died, Calvin Coolidge becomes president.
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Nellie Tayloe Ross is elected governor of Wyoming, and Miriam "Ma" Ferguson for Texas.
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First woman passenger to cross the Atlantic
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The U.S. signs a naval disarmament treaty with other European nations.
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RFC established to help stimulate banking and jobs.
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FDR gives his first inauguration speech, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself".
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Augusta National Golf Club held this in Augusta, Georgia.
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FDR issues this to protect national forests and monuments.
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First African American to become Fed. Judge
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Sets national minimum wage as $0.25.
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Albert Einstein alerted President Roosevelt of an A-bomb opportunity which eventually led to the creation of the Manhattan Project.
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The United States declares it's neutrality in the beginning of World War 2, following Europe's failure to appease Hitler and the Nazi's any longer.
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The same day that Paris had fallen to Germany,and Auschwitz gains its first Polish prisoners, FDR signs the Naval Expansion Act into law. This act increased the navy by 11%.
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Roosevelt is reelected into office with a win of 449 to 82 electoral college votes over Republican candidate Wendell Wilkie. He becomes the first person to hold office for three terms.
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The attack on Pear Harbor commenced at 7:55 am, with Japanese fighter planes launched a surprise attack, destroying the U.S. Naval fleet docked there. This attack claimed the highest amount of naval lives, 1,177 sailors killed.
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The U.S. declares war on Italy and Germany in response to their declaration of war.
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FDR signs the order that confines 110,000 Japanese, including 75,000 citizens, to relocation camps on the West coast. These camps would last 3 years.
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The battle was fought on Midway Islands in the Pacific and would last 3 days. The Japanese fleet would experience their first defeat of the war, and on June 7, the U.S. would see the first invasion on American soil in 128 years.
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The development of the first atomic bomb was signed in by the Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill, and President FDR.
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The U.S. encounters its first major defeat in WW2 in the Battle for Kasserine Pass in Tunisia.
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155,000 Allied troops land in France and stormed the beaches to liberate Paris.
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President Roosevelt dies suddenly, leaving vice president Harry Truman to assume the position.
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The Trinity Test explodes in Alamogordo, New Mexico after its production in Los Alamos.
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President Truman gives the OK for the use of atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan. On August 15th, the leader of Japan surrenders.
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The first general meeting of the 51 nations.
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The Philippines is granted their independence by the United States, ending 425 years of western dominance.
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Truman announces the doctrine to Congress to grant $400 million to Greece and Turkey to fight Communist terrorism.
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The Theodore Roosevelt National Park is established along the Little Missouri River and badlands of North Dakota by president Truman.
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This order ended segregation in the U.S. military.
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Alger Hiss is indicted for perjury for denying passing government secrets to communist spy rings.
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Captain James Gallagher lands the B-50 Lucky Lady II in Texas, completing the first non-stop round-the-world flight.
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The Korean War begins, eventually leading to U.S. involvement. The U.S. Navy and Airforce were ordered in by President Truman.
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35 military advisors are sent to South Korea to provide military and economic aid to the non-Communist government
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg found guilty of conspiracy of wartime espionage and sentenced to death.
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The first winter Olympic games are held in Helsinki, Finland.
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Eisenhower takes an easy victory over Democratic opponent Adlai E. Stevenson.
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The Cold War continues after Eisenhower signs a top secret document stating the U.S. nuclear arsenal needs to be expanded to combat communist threats.
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The first color televisions go on sale
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The first large scale vaccination of children for polio begins.
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Joe McCarthy begins televised Senate hearings into alleged communist influence in the American army.
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The Supreme Court rules that public schools be integrated immediately.
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Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat on a bus up to a white man who asked for it.
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A repeat challenge ends the same, leaving Eisenhower in office.
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Congress signs the first Civil Rights bill since reconstruction.
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The first attempt from the U.S. to launch a satellite into space fails when it explodes in fire on the launch pad.
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First U.S. satellite is successfully launched into space.
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Alaska is admitted into the United States as the 49th state.
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Hawaii is admitted into the U.S. as the 50th state.
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4 black college students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College stage a sit-in at a lunch counter that refused their service.
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The first 50 starred flag is flown in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania following the admission of Hawaii into the U.S.
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The entire U.S. figure skating team is killed in a plane crash, a total of 73 deaths.
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President Kennedy announces plans to land a man on the moon before the end of the decade.
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First signs of Vietnamese conflict arises when Kennedy says that we will engage enemy if fired upon.
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3,000 troops hold back crowds as James Meredith was led by Federal marshals into the University of Mississippi.
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The remaining 27 prisoners of Alcatraz are ordered to be removed as the prison is shut down.
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The supreme court rules that laws requiring the recitation of the Lord's prayer or Bible verses in public schools are unconstitutional.
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Kennedy is mortally wounded in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Ali wins the World Heavyweight Champion Boxing match.
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Bans discrimination in jobs, voting, and accommodations.
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Reagan wins reelection over Mandale.
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Lyndon B. Johnson orders the continuous bombing of North Vietnam.
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Kevlar is developed by Dupont scientist Stephanie Louise Kwolek.
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U.S. warplanes begin their bombings of North Vietnam
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Medicare begins for people over 65.
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The Outer Space Treaty is signed by the U.S., Great Britain and Soviet Union.
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Thurgood Marshal is sworn into office as the first black Supreme Court judge.
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Ford's theater reopens to the public.
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Nixon recaptures White House over Herbert Humphrey.
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Four-party Vietnam war peace talks begin
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14 Indians inhabit Alcatraz Island in a stand off for Indian causes.
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The 1970 census confirms over 200 million citizens in the United States.
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The first Earth Day celebration is held
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A ban is placed on t.v. ads for cigarettes.
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Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida
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Court rules that a woman can not be denied having an abortion within the first 6 months of pregnancy.
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President Nixon embarks on his Journey for Peace trip.
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Legislation is signed by Nixon creating the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area in Kentucky and Tennessee.
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Nixon resigns to avoid impeachment after admitting his role in the Watergate.
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The Wheel of Fortune premiers.
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Viking 1 space probe lands on Mars
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29 people attending the meeting die from a mysterious ailment.
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New York City blackout results in looting and destruction of the city.
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15 nations sign the act to slow development of nuclear weapons throughout the world.
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Senate votes the Panama Canal should be returned to Panama.
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FRS changes their policy goals from interstate rate to money supply target orientation.
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Begins when 26 Americans are abducted from the American Embassy.
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Attempts to rescue the American hostages in Iran fail, resulting in 8 American deaths and 5 wounded in an air collision.
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Reagan beats President Carter in a landslide victory.
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Reagan survives an assassination attempt, being shot in the chest while walking to his limo in Washington D.C.
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Sandra Day O'Connor is the first female Supreme Court associate justice in history.
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Senate passes a bill that virtually eliminates the practice of busing to achieve racial integration.
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Veterans memorial is dedicated in Washington D.C. that holds the names of 58,000 killed or missing in combat.
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She becomes the first woman to travel in space.
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A terrorist truck bomb killed 241 U.S. peacekeeping troops in Lebanon.
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Walter Mandale chooses Geraldine Ferraro as his vice president candidate.
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GEC agrees to buy RCA for $6.28 billion, the largest corporate merger outside of the oil industry.
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The first Martin Luther King day is observed.
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5 million people hold hands to make a stand against world hunger.
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New York Stock Markets crash 22.6% in one day.
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A patent for GE animals is issued to Harvard University.
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Bill was signed by George H. W. Bush. Would cost $400 billion over 30 years.
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The Berlin wall begins to crumble.
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2 thieves posed as policemen and stole 12 paintings worth $100-$200 million.
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Launched and became operational a month later.
