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Inaugurated as th 16th Presdient.Gave a stark warning to the south he will not tolarte secession
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Take splace at Fort Sumter in Charlseton, Souht Carlionia. Confedarate forces under general P.G,T Beauregard bombard Major Rohert Anderson and his soldiers.
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The turning point of the civil war.One of the bloodiest battles of the war .
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A terroist group formed to intimidate blacks and other ethnic and religious minorities.First met in Pulaski, Tennessee.
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Revoked the three-fifths compromise in the consititution.Creates a new federal category of citizenship
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Grant defeats Seymour in the election. Grants recieves 214 of 294 votes in the Electoral College
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Rockefeller has been in the active oil business since 1863. Stanard oil was first formed as a partnership in 1868
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Hayes withdraws the federal troops from the south. The last radical state governments collapse and the Redemption period begins.
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Bell successfully transmitis a human voice over a wire. The telephone revolutionize personal and business communication
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a message from German secretary Arthur Zimmermann proposing that Mexico side with Germany in case of war between Germany and the U.S . Mexico refuses the offer.
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Congress declers war against Germany. The United States enters World War I on the side of France and Britain.
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Congress passes the Selective Service Act authorizing the draft. President Wilson claims he sees no other option and signs the bill into law.
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President Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke, leaving him largely incapacitated for the final 18 months of his term. He later dies on Feb.3, 1924
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The strike ultimately fails when workers, threatened with state violence and undermined by their own cautious labor leaders, return to their jobs.Seattle General Strike terrifies many Americans
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Italian-born anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during the armed robbery of a shoe factory in Northampton, Massachusetts. Sacco and Vanzetti had been unfairly tried and convicted and that "any disgrace should be forever removed from their names.
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inaugurated into office as 32nd President of the United States. The speech was located East Portico,U.S. Capitol Washington, DC
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conducted with significant aid from the Communist Party, paralyzes shipping and trade in California, The strike ends with a victory for the longshoremen's union; cooperation between the longshoremen and West Coast Communists
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Japanese warplanes dive-bomb the American gunboat Panay in the Yangtze River in China. Japan apologizes and pays reparations for the lives lost.
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Britain and France declare war on Germany honoring their commitment to Poland.President Franklin D. Roosevelt invokes the Neutrality Act
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Little Boy attacked the japanese city of Hiroshima.The bomber is an amercian named Enola Gay
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At the end of world war 2 Korea occupied during the war by japanese forces. North Korea is run by communist Kim ll-sung.
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Nationalist Ho Chi Minh decleras vietnams independence from france. Ho's declaration quotes the american decleration of 1776
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Viet Minh attacks french forces occupying Hanoi in Northeren Vietnam. Also called the Franco-Vietnamese.
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Eisenhower refuses to commit American troops to the Franco-Vietnamese War. he states, "I cannot conceive of a greater tragedy for America than to get heavily involved now in an all-out war in any of those regions."
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military advisors are killed by Viet Minh guerilla soldiers in a raid at Bien Hoa in South Vietnam.These are the first American deaths (non-combat) reported in Vietnam.
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KKK bombs the 16th street baptist church killing 4 young girls attending sunday school.Thomas Blanton Jr. is convicted for the crime in 2001, 38 years after the muder.
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Riding in motorcade through Dallas, Texas president JFK was shot and killed.Vice pres. Johnson assumes the presidency
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Fatal shooting of a 15 year old african amercian boy by a white police officer. One person killed, 100 injurd and several hundred arrested
