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President Lincoln won election in 1860, he was the first republican president. He was the 16th president of the United States.
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Emancipation Proclamation created by Abraham Lincoln. he announced that he would order the emancipation of all slaves in any state that did not end their rebellion against the Union by January.
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Battle of Vicksburg ended in July 4, 1863. The goal was to control the Mississippi river
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The 13th Amendment abolsihed slavery. it was ratified by the states on December 6, 1865
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Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders his army to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox. Only lasted for 1 day.
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president lincoln was assassinated. His killer was John Wilkes Booth.
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Founder of Standard Oil. Died May 23rd, 1937.
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone. Makes long distance comunication possible for everyone.
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Thomas Edison Inventor of the first light bulb. He first started as a telographer.
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Killed 6 police men, and wounding 60 others. By 1886 the group had 700,000 members.
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Henry Frick locks out employees from work. Strike ended on November 20.
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Nationwide railroad strike. It stopped trains from passing through.
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In Plessy v. Ferguson the United States Supreme Court upholds a Louisiana law that says "separate but equal" facilities for blacks and whites. This was taken to court.
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Conflict between Spain and the United States. 10 week war fought both in the Caribbean and the Pacific.
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The Great White Fleet was another name for the United States Navy. They did a circumnavigation of the globe for 2 years.
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Loans made to foreign countries. William Howard Taft was president at this time.
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Was assinated in Sarajevo. Which leads to WW1.
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British passenger U-boat sinks the Lusitania. Starts WW1 which led US entering.
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Congress ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment. Prohibiting the sale of alcohol.
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Treaty of Versailles ends World War One. Imposes heavy reparations payments on Germany.
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This was the post war Red Scare. The AFL and the Industrial Workers of the World organize a general strike
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Palmer raids were a number of attacks on the socialist and the communist in the United States from 1918 to 1921. Approximately 10,000 suspected radical leftist citizens and immigrants in the United States were arrested.
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Worst day in the history of the New York Stock Exchange. Signaled the Great Depression.
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the 37th quadrennial presidential election. FDR Defeated Herbert Hoover.
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Adolf Hitler was his real name. He was a dictatorial leader.
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Franklin roosevelt created it. Created because there was a banking panic.
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passed by the US congress on 1937.Growing turmoil which led to WWii.
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Japanese sinks Lusitania. America joins the war.
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Yalta Conference end Feb 11. Meeting for FDR, stalin, and Churchill.
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VE Day - Victory in Europe. Germany surrenders.
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United States drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The bomb was called "Little Boy".
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The United States drops an atomic bomb the first to be used in warfare. Kills 80,000 people appx.
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A second atomic bomb is dropped in Nagasaki. Japan Surrenders after.
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Japan Surrenders. Japan surrenders to the Allied Powers, officially ending World War II.
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Harry S. Truman was Pres. at the time. He issues Executive Order 9981 desegregating the armed forces.
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Desegregated schools. Happened in Topeka, Kansas.
