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European trade with Africa becomes well established
Europe and Africa is a significant event because this is somewhat the beginning of what led up to the Berlin Conference. Africa amongst the European nations and decrease the cost of transport back to their main land. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation. It frees all slaves in territory captured by the Union Army, and orders the enlistment of black soldiers. From this point forward, the Civil War is a war over slavery. -
Military Draft
Congress enacts the first draft in American history, requiring every man to serve in the army unless he can furnish a substitute or pay the government $300. These escape provisions are wildly unpopular with workers and recent immigrants, and lead to draft riots in New York and other northern cities. -
Military Gives 40 Acres
General William T. Sherman issues Special Field Order 15, setting aside confiscated plantation land in the Sea Islands and along the coast of South Carolina and Georgia for black families to settle in 40-acre plots. Some 40,000 freedmen and women are living on the land by June. -
Presidential Reconstruction
President Johnson announces his plan of Presidential Reconstruction (1865-7). -
Johnson Declares End to Reconstruction
President Johnson declares the reconstruction process complete. Outraged, Radical Republicans in Congress refuse to recognize new governments in southern states. -
Slavery Abolished
The Thirteenth Amendment is ratified by the States. Slavery is abolished. -
Rockefeller Incorporates Standard Oil
Oil was first formed as a parthnership in 1868. Rockefeller has been active in the oil business since 1863. -
Alexander Graham Bell Invents Telephone
Inventor Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone to transfer one's voice to the other without leaving your house. The telephone will revolutionize personal and business communication. -
Railroad Strike of 1877
Brakemen and firemen from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad walk off the job at Camden Junction, Maryland, initiating a wildcat strike that will shut down thousands of miles of track throughout the northeastern United States. -
Cleveland Elected President
Democrat Grover Cleveland defeats Republican James Blaine and is elected president of the United States. Greenback Labor Party candidate Benjamin Butler receives 175,370 votes; John St. John, candidate for the Prohibition Party, receives 150,369 votes. In the Electoral College, Cleveland receives 219 votes to Blaine's 182. -
Ethiopians defeat the invading Italians at the Battle of Adowa
Ethiopia is one of the only countries in Africa who was able to completely resist European rule. . King Menelik II played European countries against each other to maintain the Ethiopian independence. -
Industry in the Twentieth Century
With industry rapidly expanding, more workers were needed to work in factories. This allowed women, blacks, and immigrants to join the work force. Companies usually payed them less however, and provided harsh working conditions. With companies mistreating their workers unions started to gain importance in the new century. -
Most of Africa is under European control
Signifies when the European nations gained natural resources and began to industrialize Africa.Europe divides Africa amongst themselves with disreguard towards cultural or linguistic boundaries, -
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
Were shot dead in Sarajevo, by Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six assassins. The assassins' motives were consistent with the movement that later became known as Young Bosnia. -
Germnay declared war.
Germany declared war on France and invaded Belgium. Germany had to implement the Schlieffen Plan. -
Germany declares war
Germany declares a "war zone" around Great Britain, effecting a submarine blockade where even neutral merchant vessels were to be potential targets, which resulted in more war. -
Industrial Boom in WW1
When America entered WW1 industry, experienced an abundance of growth. Industry could not keep up with the demands of the government and had to expand. This expansion left a much higher percentage of people living in the cities as well as the development of tycoons. -
Volstead Act
Prohibited the production, sale, and transport of "intoxicating liquors." Which resulted in speakeasies. -
Black Tuesday
The U.S stock market was in great condition in the 1920's. Untill 1929 when the stock market hit a "black hole" and stocks didn't last for long. -
Roosevelt Inauguration
Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated into office as 32nd President of the United States. The inauguration marked the commencement of the first four-year term of Franklin D. Roosevelt as President and John Nance Garner as Vice President. -
Longshoremen Strike
A West Coast longshoremen's strike,.Conducted with significant aid from the Communist Party, paralyzes shipping and trade in California, Oregon, and Washington. -
Roosevelt Reelected
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to a second term as president, winning over Republican Alf Landon. Roosevelt wins every state but Maine and Vermont. -
Anti-Comintern Pact
Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact. Directed against the Soviet Union and the international Communist movement. -
United States declares war on Japan
The United States declares war on Japan, which entered them in World War II. Japanese troops landed in the Philippines, French Indochina and the British colony of Singapore. -
U.S. and British troops
The U.S. and British troops landed on the beaches in various parts of Algeria and Morocco in North Africa under French control. However Vichy French troops failed to defend against the invasion. -
V J Day
The Japanese surrendered bringing World War Two to an end. The term has also been used for September 2, 1945, when Japan’s formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay. -
Marshall Plan
This was a programme of economic aid offered by the United States to any European country.. Consequently the aid was only given to Western European Countries. -
Death of Stalin
oseph Stalin died at the age of 74. He was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev. Stalin was the dictator of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death -
Vietnamese Forces
Vietnamese forces occupy the French command post at Dien Bien Phu and the French commander orders his troops to cease fire. The battle had lasted 55 days. Three thousand French troops were killed, 8,000 wounded. The Viet Minh suffered much worse, with 8,000 dead and 12,000 wounded, but the Vietnamese victory shattered France's resolve to carry on the war. -
Brown v. Board of Education
The Supreme Court rules on the landmark case agreeing that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.The ruling paves the way for large-scale desegregation. The decision overturns the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling. -
Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed
Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Ala.; he writes his seminal "Letter from Birmingham Jail," arguing that individuals have the moral duty to disobey unjust laws. -
The 24th Amendment
The 24th Amendment abolishes the poll tax, which originally had been instituted in 11 southern states after Reconstruction to make it difficult for poor blacks to vote. Read more: Civil Rights Movement Timeline (14th Amendment, 1964 Act, Human Rights Law) | Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html#ixzz32SakrwKI -
U.S.S. Maddox
The captain of the U.S.S. Maddox reports that his vessel has been fired on and that an attack is imminent. Though he later says that no attack took place, six hours after the initial report, a retaliation against North Vietnam is ordered by President Johnson. American jets bomb two naval bases, and destroy a major oil facility. Two U.S. planes are downed in the attack. -
U.S. Presidential Election
Two days before the U.S. presidential election, Vietcong mortars shell Bien Hoa Air Base near Saigon. Four Americans are killed, 76 wounded. Five B-57 bombers are destroyed, and 15 are damaged. -
Satelite Business Systems
n 1975 SBS (Satelite Business Systems) provided industry with the use of private satelites for business. Satelites provided communication with anyone around the world in seconds and helped further globalize industries. Industries could now get their ideas and products virtually anywhere.
