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The California Gold Rush was sparked when James Wilson Marshall found flakes of gold in the American river at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Coloma, California. A total of $2 billion worth of gold was extracted from the ground by the time the gold Rush peaked in 1852, although they stilled mined until about 1857. -
This treaty ended the Mexican-American war. Mexico ceded 55 percent of its territory, including the present-day states California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming.
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Marks the end of slavery. Now known as Juneteenth and widely celebrated. -
This was a book written by Mark Twain and his neighbor Charles Dudley Warner. It discus's the corpus politics and lust for power in the American society during that time period. This is the only book Mark Twain ever co-authored. -
The first official game of baseball in the United States took place in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1846. In 1876 William Hulbert formed the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs. -
The Homestead strike or also known as the Battle of Homestead happened in 1892 at the Carnegie Steel mill in Pennsylvania. After 5 months, Carnegie crushed the union at homestead with the help of state officials. Carnegie had help from the governor of Pennsylvania, sending 8,500 National Guard soldiers to put an end to the strike. -
The Spanish-American war was the first international military conflict since the war against Mexico in 1846. The united states succeeded in seizing territory from Spain's empire aiding in the development of their own empire. -
Between the end of the war and the beginning of the great depression, almost 2 million African American's fled the south to seek new opportunities. -
For four years, from 1914 to 1918, World War I raged across Europe's western and eastern fronts after growing tensions and then the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria ignited the war. -
During the first world war, congress passed the selective service act. This act required all men ages 21-30 years old to register for the draft. -
In the 1920s, Flappers were viewed as energetic women embracing an outrageous, immoral or dangerous lifestyle. Flappers wore what was called the flapper dress, which revealed the calves and had low necklines. -
New dances and new music—especially jazz—also characterized the Jazz Age. Born out of the African American community, jazz was a uniquely American music. The innovative sound emerged from a number of different communities and from a number of different musical traditions such as blues and ragtime.
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In 1924, Henry Ford was able to perfect the assembly line for the Model-T car, making them more affordable for the average American. Prices dropped from $850 in 1908 to $300 by 1924. -
The Depression was triggered by the stock market crash of October 29, 1929, known as Black Tuesday. This event marked the beginning of a period of economic turmoil characterized by widespread unemployment, poverty, and a collapse in industrial production and international trade. -
Roosevelt won by a popular count of twenty-three million to fifteen million. He carried all but six states while winning over 57 percent of the popular vote.
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The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1938.
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World War II, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history, involved more than 50 nations and was fought on land, sea and air in nearly every part of the world. The war began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939 -
The first atomic bomb was built in Los Alamos, New Mexico, during World War II under a program called the Manhattan Project. -
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension marked by competition and confrontation between communist nations led by the Soviet Union and Western democracies including the United States. -
The civil rights movement was a social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country.
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