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Union Army is defeated by Confederate army at Bull Run. Thomas Jackson's brigade resists Union attacks and he becomes known as "Stonewall." This defeat pushes Union troops back to Washington.
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Confederate does a suprise attack on General Grants troops at Shiloh on the Tennessee River. This attack results in 13,000 Union men and 10,000 Confederate men wounded and killed.
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Draft riots break out in New York as a result of Congress passing the draft affecting all male citizens between 20 and 45, but could pay a fine of 300 dollars to not be drafted. Poor immigrants reacted to the draft and murdered and injured many people.
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Congress ratifies the 13th Amendment, abolishing all slavery.
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Abolished slavery
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Race riots that occured as a result of Louisiana passing black codes. The riots brought national opposition to the moderate Reconstruction policies of president Andrew Johnson.
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The Fourteenth Amendment is ratified. It entitles all people born or naturalized in the United States to citizenship and equal protection under the laws of the United States.
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Granted Blacks the right to vote, even former slaves.
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Collapse of an investment bank which triggered nationwide financial panic and a economic depression.
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone. He transmits human voice over wire.
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people walk off job that led to a strike which shut down miles of track
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Self binding harvester is sold to farmers which is an advance in technology.
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First major law that restricted immigration in the US. It banned Chinese from living in America and set many regulations that discriminated against Chinese in America.
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Started by a rally of industrial workers going on strike and a bomb was thrown at police.
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Exploded in Harvana Harbor and was a catalyst to US declaring war on Spain.
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Spain declares war on US from tension between Cuba and US. The next day, US declares war on Spain.
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Treaty of Paris is signed and US annexs Puerto Rico, Guam, and Phillipines.
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand assisinated by Serbian nationalist which sparked WW1.
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Tanks are first intoduced into battle.
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Germany sends secret telegram to Mexico to get them to join war but Britain intercepts.
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Women are granted the right to vote.
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Republican Warren Harding is elected president by a landslide.
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Two italian immigrants are accused of murder with very little evidence leading to them.
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Stock Market crashes starting the Depression
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Roosevelts elected president and wins landslide over Herbert Hoover.
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established by FDR to put young men to work.
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, causing US to enter war.
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US and British troops land on Sicily, and later Allies gain control .
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US drop atomic bomb on Hiroshima
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Made by soviets cutting off rail and orad acces to capital.
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Truman is re-elected for president which causes upset because many people did not like him.
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Communist Military Alliance
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Johnson signed the Civil rights Act which prohibited racial discrimination and guarenteed equal rights.
