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Radicals became angry at the Emperor and caused him to flee the country.
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The Fugitive Slave Acts were a pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States.
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A controversial ruling made by the Supreme Court in 1857, shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War
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Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency.
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At the end of May 1865, President Andrew Johnson announced his plans for Reconstruction, which reflected both his staunch Unionism and his firm belief in states’ rights.
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The Ku Klux Klan was one of a number of secret, oath-bound organizations using violence.
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Republican Ulysses S. Grant defeats Democrat Horatio Seymour and is elected president of the United States.
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the famous Golden Spike was driven into the ground to complete The First Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Summit in Utah.
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The Triple Entente was the alliance linking Russia, France, and the United Kingdom after the signing of the Anglo-Russian Entente.
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The collapse of Jay Cooke and Company, a Philadelphia investment bank, triggers a nationwide financial panic that leads to a broader economic depression which lasts until 1879.
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Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. The telephone was developed while Bell was trying to improve the telegraph.
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Inventor Alexander Graham Bell successfully transmits a human voice over a wire. The telephone will revolutionize personal and business communication.
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1877 Congress passes Electoral Count Act Hayes becomes president Hayes removes remaining troops from the South to end Reconstruction.
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The Triple Alliance was the military alliance among Germany, Austria–Hungary, and Italy that lasted from 1882 until World War I in 1914
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Karl Benz was granted a patent for an automobile powered by a gasoline engine.
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The McKinley Tariff of set the average ad valorem tariff rate for imports to the United States at 48.4%, and protected manufacturing. Its chief proponent was Congressman and future President William McKinley.
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The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the U.S. It was a brief, intense conflict that effectively ended Spain's worldwide empire and gained the United States several new possessions in the Caribbean and the Pacific.
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The Great White Fleet was the popular nickname for the United States Navy battle convoy that completed a circumnavigation of the globe by order of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
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This is a term for a series of revolutions in Russia during 1917. During these revolutions is when Russia became a comminist country.
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Germany and the Allies sign an armistice to end the fighting in World War I.
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During World War I, federal spending grows three times larger than tax collections, a severe recession results when the government cuts spending,
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Congress ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the sale of alcohol anywhere in the United States.
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Treaty signed between Germany and the Allied Powers stating all the complaints and reparations Germany was responsible for in World War II.
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The Great Steel Strike of 1919 ends with capitulation by the steelworkers.
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The first bank panic ensues causeing bankruptcies
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Franklin D. Roosevelt turned around America's Unemployment rate, when he became president the unemployment rate was 25 percent, and in 1937, it had fallen to 14.3 percent, a dramatic difference.
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This act gave Hitler dictatorial power.
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Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription and avoiding the weapon restirictions implaced by the Treaty.
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Nazis deploy thousands of German troops and occupying Norway. At the same time, other German forces occupy Copenhagen, among other Danish cities.
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very costly and brutal war between the U.S and the Soviet Union and Korea. The war was to controll Koreas goverement which ended up in the division of Korea.
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Rosa Parks is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her seat on the bus for a white person.
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South Vietnamese commandos attack two small North Vietnamese islands in the Gulf of Tonkin.
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martin Luther King Jr. was shot while standing on the balcony of his hotel room in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl ray was later found guilty of the crime.
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President Johnson sghned this bill ending the discrimination in finaincing of housing and rental and all sales.
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President Nixon authorizes Operation Menu, the bombing of North Vietnamese and Vietcong bases within Cambodia.
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President Richard M. Nixon resigns, leaving South Vietnam without its strongest advocate.
