HIST152 Final Timeline Project

By jdugger
  • California Gold Rush started

    California Gold Rush started
  • The 13th amendment

    The 13th amendment
    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 was formed

    The Ku Klux Klan was formed
    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

    The 14th amendment
  • First Transcontinental Railroad Completed

    First Transcontinental Railroad Completed
  • The 15th amendment

    The 15th amendment
  • First Jim Crow law is passed

    First Jim Crow law is passed
  • The Spanish-American War

    The Spanish-American War
  • American Entry into World War I

    American Entry into World War I
  • The 19th amendment

    The 19th amendment
  • The Stock Market Crash

    The Stock Market Crash
  • The start of the Dust Bowl

    The start of the Dust Bowl
  • The New Deal

    The New Deal
  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Bombing of Pearl Harbor
  • D Day

    D Day
  • The atomic drop of "Fat Man"

    The atomic drop of "Fat Man"
    "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

    Brown v Board of Education
    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.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    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.
  • Civil Rights Act

    Civil Rights Act
    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.
  • Watergate crisis

    Watergate crisis
    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.