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This treaty ended the Mexican-American War and promised U.S. citizenship to about seventy-five thousand Hispanics living in the American Southwest. -
Issued by President Abraham Lincoln declaring that "all persons held as slaves" withing the United States "are and shall be free". -
The first amendment to the Constitution of the United States that ended the argument about whether slavery was legal in the United States -
This amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including formerly enslaved people. It also granted all citizens "equal protection of the laws". -
This gave the right to vote to all citizens of the United States regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Recognized as one of America's biggest achievements and one of man kind's biggest accomplishments as it encouraged further settlement in the West and the development of towns along the railroad, as the railroad made the west less isolated. -
The purpose of the AFL was to organize skilled workers into national unions consisting of others in the same trade. Their purpose was not political and aimed simply at shorter hours, higher wages, and better working conditions. -
The NAWSA wanted a constitutional amendment to secure the vote for women, but it also supported a variety of reforms that aimed to make women equal members of society. -
A case in which the Court held that state-mandated segregation laws did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. -
Its mission is to ensure political, educational, equality of minority citizens of the U.S. and to eliminate discrimination -
This is one of the darkest moments in America's industrial history, killing 146 workers -
As the U.S. was determined to remain uninvolved in WW1, this event is what prompted the U.S. to join the war -
Helped make Missouri a leader in the developing world of aviation. It also laid the foundation for the future development of aviation. -
The Great Depression began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. This was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. -
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression between 1929 and 1939 that began after a major fall in stock prices in the United States.
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The United States stock market crash of 1929 -
Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor would drive the United States out of isolation and into World War II -
This Bill provided WWII veterans with funds for college, unemployment insurance and housing. -
The first postwar organization for gay and lesbian civil rights -
A landmark civil rights case that sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore was unconstitutional -
Strengthened the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. This led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. -
Signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson, it prohibited discrimination in public areas, and integrated schools, and made employment discrimination illegal. -
A landmark case which argued that a state law that banned abortion was unconstitutional. . The decision said that a woman's right to privacy extended to the fetus/unborn child she was carrying.