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The Paris Peace Conference was the formal meeting in 1919 and 1920 of the victorious Allies after the end of World War I to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers -
The California Gold Rush started on January 24, 1848, when James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The discovery of gold attracted around 300,000 people from all over the United States and the world to California. -
The United States Constitution's Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime. -
The stormy years between the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century are known as "the Gilded Age." The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today was named after Mark Twain's classic satirical novel set in the late 1800s. During this time, America became more rich and experienced tremendous industrial and technological advancement. -
The 1877 Compromise was an unwritten agreement reached informally among United States Congressmen to resolve the bitterly contested presidential election of 1876. As a result, the US federal government withdrew the final troops from the South, bringing the Reconstruction Era to a close. -
Cities in the United States grew at a rapid rate between 1880 and 1900. Cities in the United States grew by around 15 million people in the two decades preceding 1900, owing largely to the rise of industry. -
From the 1890s to World War I, the Progressive Era in the United States of America was marked by broad social action and political reform.
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The Spanish–American War was a time when Spain and the United States were at odds. Following the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor, Cuba, hostilities erupted, prompting US engagement in the Cuban W -
The Open Door Policy is the United States diplomatic policy established in the late 19th and early 20th century that called for a system of equal trade and investment and to guarantee the territorial integrity of Qing China. -
The Square Deal was Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program, which reflected his three major goals: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. These three demands are often referred to as the "three Cs" of Roosevelt's Square Deal
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The Panama Canal is an 82-kilometer manmade waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and separates North and South America. The Panama Canal runs through the Isthmus of Panama and serves as a seaport. -
World War I was a global conflict that took place between 1914 and 1918. Also known as the Great War or First World War, it was fought mainly in Europe, but it also spread to the Middle East, Africa, and Asia -
The stock market crash of 1929—considered the worst economic event in world history -
Smoot–Hawley Tariff or Hawley–Smoot Tariff, was a law that implemented protectionist trade policies in the United States -
Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942 -
The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons -
June 6, 1944, the date of the invasion of Normandy, France, by British, Canadian, and American forces, which opened a second front in Europe -
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, which began following World War II. -
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred over $13 billion in economic recovery programs to Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
The Fair Deal was an ambitious set of proposals put forward by U.S. President Harry S. Truman to Congress in 1945 and in his January 1949 State of the Union address.
