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Dred Scott, an African American was not a citizen and had no right to sue in court.
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Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of United States.
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PIERRE BEAUREGARD open fire with 50Cannons upon Fort Sumter in Charleston,SouthCarolina.
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Freedman Bureau was set up to help freedman.
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Congress passes the Civil Rights Bill because blacks were not included as citizen.all citizens were equally protected by the law.
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United States granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves.
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secret rebates from railroads.incorporated in Ohio. Rockefeller. Standard Oil was first formed as a partnership in 1868.
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The distribution of government jobs , examination system for selecting federal civil servants. only 10% are selected for the system.
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A riot in Chicago support of workers striking for an eight-hour day and in reaction to the killing of several workers by the police. McCormick Harvester Works ends when a bomb is thrown, killing six policemen wounded some people.
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In Plessy v. Ferguson the United States Supreme Court upholds a Louisiana law that mandates separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites.
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American newspapers yellow journalism to create more public support for the Cubans. Spain declared war on the U.S. because the U.S. supported Cuba's wish to be independent of Spanish rule.
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The Treaty of Portsmouth formally ended the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05. The negotiations took place in August in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and were brokered in part by T
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President Theodore Roosevelt was instrumental in the negotiations, and won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts.
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The Seventeenth Amendment is allowing for the direct election of U.S. Senators instead of through state legislators.
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A German submarine sinks the american ship.The ship carries 1,198 people, 128 of them Americans. 1,198 died,
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Woodrow Wilson signs the Keating-Owen Act, which fights child labor by making it illegal for companies to ship goods produced by children across state lines.
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Germany wanted Mexico to side with them because they wanted invaded the U.S so they can gain land. Germany promise Mexico their lost land that U.S taken, if Mexico would help.
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President Wilson created the Fourteen Points, which reflected his viewa that the war was a crusade for democracy. They included: self-determination for the people of Europe, freedom of the seas, equal trade terms, reduced armaments, an end to secret diplomacy, and the creation of the League of Nations.
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Congress passes the Espionage , interferes with government bond sales, or criticizes the government, the Constitution, service uniforms, the flag, or the war or even wartime production levels.
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The 18th Amendment Prohibition the production, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages.
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Gave women the right to vote.
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Two Italian who were convicted of murdering two men during the armed robbery of a shoe factory in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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The American stock market collapses,remain employed, wages fell and buying power decreased.
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The stock market crashed ,stock prices dropped. everyone wanted to sell but didnt wanna buy.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt won against Republican President Herbert Hoover. win the presidency with the vote so he can stop the Great Depression.
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Japanese fighter planes attack the American base at Pearl Harbor destroying U.S. aircraft and naval vessels, and killing 2,355 U.S. servicemen and 68 civilians.
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The first of nearly 3 million Allied soldiers arrive in Normandy, on the northern shores of France.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb, the first to be used in warfare on Hiroshima, killing 75,000 people , and hurting more than 100,000.
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Harry Truman made a speech about u.s helping Trukey and Greece. Military and economic assistance prevent them from joining the soviet union.
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U.S give economic aid to europe. rebuild their economies ,resistance of communism and restore trades with U.S.
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Ho Chi Minh and his communist in North Vietnam, President Richard Nixon ordered the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973. Americas ways of containing communism
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Sent troops to Lebanon to oppose the spread of communism.
The soviet sending the "Sputnik" into space because U.S enter a space race and increase on science education. -
While riding in a car through Texas President John F. Kennedy is shot and killed. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson become the next president.
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Fatal shooting of a fifteen-year-old African-American boy by a white police officer in New York. One person is killed, 100 injured, and several hundred are arrested.
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After a supposed attack on American shipd, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Which gave Johnson extraordinary powers of intervention.
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President Nixon's plan for gradual withdrawl of United States forces with South Vietnamese. He also increased bombing in Vietnam.
