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Confederates attack Fort Sumter in Charelston, South Carolina. This attack starts the Civil War.
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The war turns towards the south. Condererate troops are defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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General Robert Lee surrenders his confederate troops at the village of Appomattox Court House in Virginia. General Ulysses Grant allowed Confederate soldiers to keep their war nessecities like, their sidearms and thier horses.
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As the Civil War was coming to an end President Abraham Lincoln was shot whilst watching a play. The former president's murderer whas John Wilkes Booth.
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President Andrew Johnson was impeached because of a violation of the Tenure of Office Act. This was the first impeachment of an American president.
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Jim Crow laws required racial segregation between whites and blacks in public places. The laws were upheld by the "Plessy vs. Ferguson" case of 1896.
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President Roosevelt built a canal through the Isthmus of Panama for easier access between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Panama later gave the US control of the canal zone in exchange for protection.
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The US declares war on Spain because of a sinking of the Battleship Main. The war is ended with the signing of a treaty.
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Anti-Imperialists believed that Americans should not become imperialists because they had previously fought against British imperialists. Anti-Imperialists also argued that imperialism was against their democratic government.
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The Zimmerman telegram was one of the main causes of America entering WWI. The note cotained stated that if America was to enter WWI that Germany would gain Mexico as an ally. The publication of the telegram outraged Americans.
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The US officially entered WWI in alliance with Britain, France, and Russia after attempting to not become involved. The ultimate cause of the US entering the war was the Zimmernam telagram.
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The treat of Versailles was signed by German and the allied powers officially ending the war. As a resultt Germany was to agree to the war guilt clause aking the blame and accepting to pay reparations to the allies.
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The market floods with new electronic gadgets and tos due to assembly lines, which are causeing mass production therefore lowering prices. The spread of auto mobiles is also a contrabution of economic prosperity.
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two wrongfull accused italian ment were arrested and charged with robbbery and murder.Sacco and Vanzetto were executed on August 23, 1927
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One of the worst race riots was in Rosewood Florida. This riot was started bt the rumor that a black man, Jesse Hunter, sexually assulted a white woman.
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Marks the start of The Great Depression. The day the stock market crashed.
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The Holocaust lasted for 12 years (1933-19450. During these years Jews were forced from their homes into 'ghettos" and ultimately were transported into concentration campe where they were first shaved of their heads and were either worked to death or killed instantly.
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To stop banks from caving into themselves financially Roosevelt developed the bank holiday. From March 6-10 all bank transactions were suspended to give banks, that were labled by the government as unfit, time to either close of find another way to finance themselves.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt came up with the new deal shortly after being elected president. In his plan to end The Great Depression Roosevelt had three goals: relief, recovery, and reform.
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This act allowed the US to provide Britian with war supplies that were to be returned or paid for after the war. This act allowed the US to supply other countries with wartime supplies, if they were important to the defense of the United States.
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Japan conducts a suprise attack on the United States Naval base in Hawaii. This is the ultimate cause of Americas entry to WW2.
