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Final Timeline Project- LMiranda

  • Aug 9, 1074

    NIXON RESIGNS

    The cover up involvement in the Watergate Scandal forced Nixon to resign as president of the United Stated,
  • CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH

    CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH

    Gold rush that began when James Marshall found gold at a Sutter's Mill .
  • US ACQUIRES VAST TRACTS OF MEXICAN TERRITORIES

    US ACQUIRES VAST TRACTS OF MEXICAN TERRITORIES

    The Mexican War gave the United States 55 percent of their territory cause by accusations made by the United States stating that Mexico had attacked American soil when Mexico claimed that it was their territory.
  • HOMESTEAD RAILWAY

    HOMESTEAD RAILWAY

    President Lincoln signed the Pacific Railroad Act and Homestead Act that helped promote transportation, better education and the productivity of land.
  • CIVIL RIGTHS  ACT

    CIVIL RIGTHS ACT

    Civil Rights Act declared that everyone born in the United States of America would be citizens washout the distinction of color or race.
  • JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER FOUND STANDARD OIL

    JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER FOUND STANDARD OIL

    JDR entered a booming new oil industry by investing in a Cleveland refinery
  • FIRST TEN-STORY SKYSCRAPER

    FIRST TEN-STORY SKYSCRAPER

    Chicago city authorities were so worried that the building was going to collapse. Designed by William LeBaron Jenney.
  • HOMESTEAD STEEL STRIKE

    HOMESTEAD STEEL STRIKE

    Carnegie Steel Company fired workers giving as a result a bloody confrontations created by strikes organized by the workers asking for better wages and the creation of unions.
  • TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE

    TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE

    The unworkable conditions of this factory cause the death of 146 workers due to the blockage of doors and exist which was a common practice used in order to prevent workers from taking unauthorized breaks.
  • WWI

    WWI

    The United stated joins WWIon the side of the Allies declaring war on Germany.
  • WOMAN RIGHT TO VOTE

    WOMAN RIGHT TO VOTE

    Nineteenth Amendment allowed woman to vote
  • ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR OUTLAWED

    ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR OUTLAWED

    Sale, transportation, and Manufacture of alcohol was prohibited
  • GREAT DEPRESSION

    GREAT DEPRESSION

    Stock market crash
  • NEW DEAL

    NEW DEAL

    "New Deal" Recovery plan by FDR giving a relief to Americans.
  • DUST BOWL

    Massive dust bowl storm causing extreme damage to soil leading to a massive economic devastation.
  • WWII

    Germany invaded Poland.
  • RACIAL SEGREGATION

    RACIAL SEGREGATION

    Civil right for African Americans because a racial segregation outlawed in court in American schools.
  • CUBAN MISILE CRISIS

    CUBAN MISILE CRISIS

    A standoff over installation of nuclear weapons on Cuba by the Soviet Union.
  • WATERGATE SCANDAL

    This scandal involved the Nixon administration in covering up their involvement in the break of Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Office Building in Washington DC.