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Industrialization: Cottin Gin
The cottin gin was invented by Eli Whitney. Its a machine designed to remove cotton from its seeds. -
Civil War: Presidential Election
In the presidential election of 1860, the Democrats were divided. Abraham Lincoln won the election with only 39% of the popular vote and no electoral votes from the southern states. -
Civil War: Fort Sumter
Lincoln sent supplies to Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. Confederate forces thenn fired on the Fort starting the Civil War. -
Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg
The battle of Gettysburg was the turning point of the Civill War. General Ulysses S. Grant became the union commander and in April 1865 General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox. -
Reconstruction: Freedmen Bureau
The Freedmen Bureau was created to help freedmen. The federal government offices through the south helped the freedmen adjust and set up schools to educate them. -
Reconstruction: Presidential Reconstruction
Abraham Lincoln wanted to readmit southern states. Johnson insisted confederate leaders to seek personal pardons but liberally grants them. -
Reconstruction: Impeachment of president Andrew Johnson
Johnson was the first president to be impeached. He impeached for removing his secretary of war, when tried in the senate, Johnson was saved from removal by one vote. -
Gilded Age: Grant elected President
Republican Ulysses S. Grant defeats Democrat Haratio Seymour and is elected president of the United States. The support of 500,000 recently released southern black voters accounts for Grants victory. -
Industrialization: Spread of Railways
The spread of railways provided cheaper transporttion cost for carrying raw materials and finished goods. It provided a boost to iron coal and steal industries. -
Gilded Age: Rocketfeller Standard Oil Company
John D. Rocketfeller standard oil company was assimilated in Ohio. He has been in the oil company since 1863 and his first oil was formed as a partnership in 1868. -
Gilded Age: Reeclection of Ulysses S. Grant
Grant is reeclected as president of the United States defeating Horace Greeley. Grant recives 50% of the popular vote and 286 of 352 electorial college votes. -
Imperialism: The Spanish American War
A conflict between the United States and Spain that ended the spanich colonial rule and resulted in the U.S addition of territories in the western pacific and Latin America. The war started in the cuban struggle for independence from spain. -
Imperialism: Platt Admendement
Treaty between the United States and Cuba. The admendment attempted to protect Cuba's independence from foreign interveen. -
Industrialization: Invention of the first Airplane
The inventors of the first airplane were Orville and Wilbur Wright. The invention of the airplane created another means of transportation to get from place to place or transport goods. -
Imperialism: Treaty of Portsmouth
This treaty ended the Rosso-Japanese war. President Roosevelt helped Japan and Russia negotiate the treaty -
World War 1: Archduke Ferdinand Assasination
Archduke Ferdinand of Australia was assasinated by serb nationalist. His death was the event tha sparks ww1. -
World War 1: Sinking of the Luisitania
A german submarine sank the Luisitania , a British passenger ship. The attack led to over a thousand deaths including 128 Americans and 94 children. -
World War 1: Zimmerman Telogram
Germany Published the Zimmerman telogram, promising the return of U.s territories to Mexico if they allied with them. Mexico denied it and this was one of the reasons why the U.S entered the war. -
Roaring 20s: Immigration Quota act 1921
The immigration quota act of 1921 and national origions act of 1924 placed new restrictions on immigration to keep out eastern and southern Europeans. The quota favored countries from northern ans western Europe. -
Roaring 20s: Sacco and Vanzetti trial
Two Italian immigrants were convicted of murder with flimsy evidence. They were then executed. -
Roaring 20s: U.S Foreign Economic Policies
While denying to join the league of nations, the republican presidents attempted to promote world peace. They created treaties and pacts to promote world peace. -
Great Deppression: The Stock Market Crashed
Businesss went bankrupt and laid off workers, creating mass unemployment. People lost their savings and could not pay off loans. Banks failed. -
Great Deppression: Franklin D. Roosevelt New deals
Roosevelt introduced the first and second new deal programs to get the economy flowing again. The first new deal focused on relief and recovery. The second new deal aimed more to reform and security. -
Great Depression: Dust Bowl
On the great plains a series of droughts combined with the effects of unsuitable plowing techniques caused the disaster known as the Dust bowl. Farmers could not grow their crops, livestock died, and farmers lost their feild and homes. -
World War 2: Attack On Pearl Harbor
Japan planned a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor killing many people. Japan did this because they had only limited oil supplies after a U.S embargo was imposed. -
World War 2: The Manhattan Project
The americans convinced Roosevelt to begin a program to build an atomic bomb. The secret american program to build an atomic bomb was code-named "the Manhattan project". Headed by General Leslie R. Grooves. -
World War 2: Drop of Hiroshima and Nagaski
On August 6 1945 the U.S dropped an atomic bomb code-named "little boy" on Hiroshima, Japan an important industrial city. Tree days later on August 9th, the U.S dropped another atomic bomb code-named "fat man" on the city of Nagaski killing between 35,000-74,000 people. -
COld War: Marshall Plan
George C. Marshall proposed the Marshall plan which would give European and American countries aid to rebuild their economies. It pumped billions of dollars in supplies, machinary and food into western Europe. -
Cold War: The creation of NATO
An agreement has been made to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) a mutual defense alliance. NATO included 12 countries and they agreed to come to aid of any member who was attacked. -
Civil Rights Movement: Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. board of education was a court case of Linda Brown that took place in Topeka Kansas to integrate public schools. It started as a result of black schools being over populated and under founded like white schools. -
The Vietnam War: SEATO Establishes
South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is an alliance to contain any communist aggression in the free teritories of Vietnam. These territories included Laos and Cambodia or South East Asia in general. -
Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock
9 African American students were chosen to attend Little Rock Centre High school, them being known as little rock 9. Faubus then sent troops to prevent the 9 students from entering the school. After entering, 2 African Americans were beaten by some white people. -
Cold War: Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile crisis was the closest the world ever came to a nuclear war. It was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the U.S and Soviet Union. -
Civil Rights Movement: March On Washington
This is where Martin Luther King gave his famous "I have a Dream" speech. Between 200,000-300,000 people attended the march in front of the Lincoln Memorial. -
The Vietnam War: Tonkin Gulf Resolution
The United States senate approves the Tonkin Gulf Resolution authorizing the president to gtake all necessary measures to repel attacks against U.S forces to prevent further aggression in the area. It gave president Johnson a blank check to take any action he needs. -
The Vietnam War: Bombing Halts
The U.S Halts the bombing of North Vietnam. During the Halt the U.S engages in a massive peace offinsive aimed at finding a diplomatic settlement to the war.
