Important dates through history By filern 1848 California Gold Rush 1862 Homestead and Pacific Railway Acts 1865 Thirteenth Amendment ratified 1866 Congress passes Civil Rights Act 1883 Pendleton Civil Service Act Apr 6, 1917 US enters into WW1 Nov 11, 1918 End of WWI 1920 Nineteenth Amendment-Women's right to vote 1920 Harding elected to President in a landslide vote 1929 Stock Market Crash 1929 Great Depression 1930 Dustbowl Dec 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor-US enters WWII 1944 GI Bill of Rights 1945 US drop Atomic Bomb on Japan-Ending WWII Dec 5, 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott 1957 Little Rock High School Intergrates 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 1964 Civil Rights Act 1964 1974 1974-Watergate Scandal
