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Ft Sumpter was the start of the civil war. There were no casualties until the end of the “battle”. Was in South Carolina. -
Bloodies single day battle. It was fought in north, the north won. Allow Lincoln to pursue the emancipation proclamation. -
Abraham Lincoln ran against George McClellan. Lincoln was not sure he was going to win. McClellan was sure he was going to win and he said he was going to end slavery right away. -
The 14th amendment ratified in July 1868. A provided a constitutional guarantee of the rights and security of freed people. It also guarantees citizenship for all Americans. -
On August 1, 1868, the United States purchased Alaska from Russia with this check for $7.2 million. For less than 2 cents an acre, the United States acquired nearly 600,000 square miles. -
In the election of 1872 Grant one. Grants rumors of corruption discredited the Republicans. Horace greely runs as a Democrat/liberal Republican candidate. He died November 29 1872 -
Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which prohibited discrimination in public places, including inns, theaters, public places on land or water, and other places of public amusement. -
The compromise of 1877 is the end of reconstruction. So the nurse can now vote again. Federal troops removed from the south. -
Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was elected President by the Electoral College after a deal was worked out with leading southern Democrats. The withdrawal of all remaining federal troops from the South marked the effective end of Reconstruction. -
"Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever." Chief Joseph spokes these words for his surrender. He was in the bear paw mountains of Montana. -
It was the longest suspension bridge in the world. The Brooklyn Bridge connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River. Probably about 21 men died building then bridge -
The United States Supreme Court ruled in Civil Rights Cases of 1883 that the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was unconstitutional. The Court ruled that the 14th Amendment prohibited states, but not citizens, from discriminating. This civil rights reversal was devastating for African Americans. -
The Statue of Liberty was a gift from the French people commemorating the alliance of France and the United States during the American Revolution. It was the hope of many French liberals that democracy would prevail and that freedom and justice for all would be attained. -
Thousands of white settlers rushed to claim two million acres of land that once belonged to Native Americans. This couple snuck onto the land early to get their piece of land, they cheated and didn’t end up getting caught. -
The slaughter of approximately 150 Lakota Native Americans by United States Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota. The death of the soldiers were 23 and 40 injured. They were fighting for their families and the soldiers kept shouting “remember Custer” -
Ellis Island officially opened as an immigration station on January 1, 1892. Seventeen-year-old Annie Moore, from County Cork, Ireland was the first immigrant to be processed at the new federal immigration depot. -
President McKinley sent the battleship. USS Maine explodes in Havana. Most Americans believe it was Spain’s fault. It was the spark that started the war. Remember the main becomes the rallying cry. In 1976 the U.S. Navy analyze the explosion and it was from the inside. 260 US sailors died. -
First major battle between Spanish and U.S. Forces:
U.S. Commodore Dewey and his Asiatic squadron defeat the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay in the Philippines. -
The Treaty of Paris is signed by representatives from the U.S. and Spain, ending the Spanish-American War. Under the treaty, Cuba gained independence from Spain, and the United States gained possession of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam. -
This event revived the push for a federal woman's suffrage amendment. While women had been fighting hard for suffrage for over 60 years, this marked the first major national event for the movement. -
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are shot to death by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. The killings sparked a chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I by early August. -
the Austro-Hungarians wanted to conquer them. However, Russia was sworn to protect Serbia, which meant Russia had to fight Austro-Hungary. -
Led by Alice Paul, the NWP began picketing the White House. NWP members criticized President Woodrow Wilson for going to war “to make the world safe for democracy” in World War I, while in the United States women were denied the right to vote. -
The Battle of Belleau Wood involving the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division begins. During the three-week fight against the Germans, Americans experience their first significant battlefield -
On Nov. 11, 1918, after more than four years of horrific fighting and the loss of millions of lives, the guns on the Western Front fell silent. Although fighting continued elsewhere, the armistice between Germany and the Allies was the first step to ending World War I. -
The Eighteenth Amendment was ratified in the hopes of eliminating alcohol from American life. They thought it would reduce crime in all parts. -
The scopes trial opened, it was about a man who taught evolution to students which was illegal, he did this because he was told to. It was supposed to bring attention to the cause. He lost the trial and was found guilty. -
The main cause of the Wall Street crash of 1929 was the long period of speculation that preceded it, during which millions of people invested their savings or borrowed money to buy stocks, pushing prices to unsustainable levels. -
A "Hooverville" was a shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States. The failure of Depression-era policies to alleviate unemployment and address the social crisis led to the creation of Hoovervilles -
Bonus Army, gathering of probably 10,000 to 25,000 WW1 veterans who, with their wives and children, converged on Washington, D.C., in 1932, demanding immediate bonus payment for wartime services to alleviate the economic hardship of the Great Depression -
The 21 amendment repealed the 18th, they did this because they figured out that the 18th amendment wasn’t being fully and strictly enforced and caused more bad than good. -
On January 3, 1959 the president signed the official proclamation admitting Alaska as the 49th state. Alaska was a Russian colony from 1744 until the USA bought it in 1867. It then ceded itself to the USA in 1898 and became a state in 1959. -
On this day in 1959, the modern United States receives its crowning star when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a proclamation admitting Hawaii into the Union as the 50th state.