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The California Gold Rush was a period of rapid immigration and migration to California more as gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill. The gold rush increased California's population vastly and the westward expansion started. -
The 13th amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude among the country. Intending to leave the slavery and discrimination period behind the US. -
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was a domestic terror organization which targeted African Americans and their ability to be freed and vote. The KKK would murder, lynch, attack, whip, sneak up on, and commit arson to African Americans and their belongings. -
The 14th amendment gains citizenship to anyone born or naturalized in the United States including formally enslaved people. The amendment also enacted equal protection under law. -
The first transcontinental railroad was completed and reduce the time travel across the U.S. by a large amount and boosted the use of railroads. This was a prime example of industries and construction expanding. -
The 15th amendment prohibited the U.S. government and each states legislation from denying a citizen the right to vote based color, race, and previous condition of servitude. -
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in Southern states. The laws mandated segregation in education, waiting rooms, water fountains, public areas, transportation, and more. -
The Spanish-American War was a conflict between the U.S. and Spain stemming from Cuba's fight for independence and sinking the USS Maine. Spain ended up losing its colonies and the U.S. became a superpower country. -
The Zimmerman Telegram was a communication between Germany to Mexico proposing to form an alliance against the United States that Britain intercepted. This leaked telegram was a big part of the neutral U.S. deciding to join World War I. -
The 19th amendment granted women the long awaited right to vote. Concluding that women can no longer be denied the right to vote because they are a man or woman. -
The stock market crash of 1929 was a sudden and drastic decline in stock prices. Black Tuesday was when billions of dollars in stock value wiped out, resulting in economic and financial hardship and the start of the Great Depression. -
The Dust Bowl was a 10 year period of severe dust storms in the U.S. The drought and unsustainable farm land resulted in damage to native grass, the environment, agriculture, and humans. This caused a mass migration of people moving to cities. -
The New Deal were multiple economic programs enacted by President Roosevelt which lasted till 1939. The economic programs were created to provide recovery, relief, and reform from the Great Depression. -
The bombing of Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack by the Japanese Navy Air Service on the U.S. naval base. The bombing killed about 2,400 Americans, destroyed multiple ships and aircrafts, and led the U.S. to end World War II. -
D Day was when the allied forced invaded Normandy, France during World War II, becoming a turning point in the war and a big defeat for Germany. The U.S. lead the assaults on two beaches named Utah and Omaha while also securing the Cotentin Peninsula. -
"Fat Man" was an atomic bomb that was dropping on Nagasaki, Japan but was intended for Kokura, Japan. The atomic bomb was a plutonium implosion weapon, killed around 40,000 instantly, injured many, and one of the main reasons Japan surrendered ending World War II. -
Brown v Board of education was a Supreme Court case that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional and overturned the separate but equal doctrine. This decision declared the end of legal segregation in the education system and asserted that segregated schools would never be equal. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a battle between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War. The United States captured pictures of the Soviet Union building missiles in Cuba and this escalated into multiple nuclear encounters. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination of sex, color, religion, race, or national origin. This act outlawed segregation in schools, voting rights, workplaces, and in general. -
There was a break in at the Democratic National Committee Headquarters located in the Watergate Hotel. President Nixon covers up the break in just to be found out that the people who broke in and covered up the scandal were a part of Nixon's reelection campaign. After lies, court rooms, and security tapes are released Nixon is forced to resign.