H.A.M.M Test 3 Key Dates By haydnaddie Dec 11, 1765 Stamp Act Dec 11, 1776 Declaration of Independence Dec 11, 1777 Creation of the Fedralist papers Dec 11, 1779 Alien and Sedition Acts Dec 11, 1861 Civil War begins at Fort Sumpter (Charleston, SC) Dec 11, 1863 Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation Dec 11, 1863 Battle of Gettysburg (turning point in the war) Dec 11, 1865 Civil War ends at Appomattox Courthouse, VA Dec 11, 1902 Tarbell's History of Standard Oil Dec 11, 1904 Steffins' The Shame of the Cities; Sinclair's The Jungle Dec 11, 1965 Gulf of Tonkin resolution expands Pres. Johnson war powers in Vietnam Dec 11, 1967 US starts to release Vietnam casualty figures to the press Dec 11, 1968 Tet offensive; Cronkite’s “Report from Vietnam” Dec 11, 1971 NY Times publishes The Pentagon Papers Dec 11, 1971 Nixon’s secret “plumbers” unit breaks into Ellsburgs’s psychiatrist office in the Watergate complex Dec 11, 1972 The Washington Post picks up the story, reports by Woodward and Bernstein - NIXON Dec 11, 1972 Students protest the war at Kent State University - shootings Dec 11, 1973 Vietnam cease-fire agreement reached Dec 11, 1979 - Iranian revolution; 63 Americans taken hostage; ABC begins nightly special reports Dec 11, 1980 Reagan elected President Dec 11, 1983 US invades Grenada; press given no access by the military