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Civil War: Bleeding Kansas
The Border War was am series of violent political confrontations between abolishinists and pro-slavery elements. At the heart of the conflict was the question of whether Kansas would allow or outlaw slavery, and let the influence of the Union as a slave state or a free state. -
Civil War
The Civil War also known as the war between states was fought fought from April 12, 1861 to June 22, 1865. The war had its own origin in the expansion of slavery into the western territories -
Civil War: Anaconda Plan
The Anaconda Plan was a tatic used in the civil war by the Northern government to prevent the Confederacy from trading. This plan required the closure of 3,500 miles on the Atlantic and Gulf coastline to prevent the 12 major ports from reciving shipments or supplies. -
Reconstruction Era
The Reconstruction Era was known by two sense, the first sense covers the history from 1865 - 1877 and the second sense focuses on the transformation of the Southern United States into a nation as a whole. During the Civil War, the Radical Republican leaders argued that slavery and Slave Power had to be permanently destroyed, and that all forms Confederate nationalism had to be suppressed away. -
Civil War: Battle of Vicksburg
The Battle was the final major military actionin the Vicksburg Campaign of the Civil War. The Confederacy surrendered following the Siege at Vicksburg, one of the most significant points to the Civil War. -
Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch
The Battle at the Palmito Ranch was the last battle fought between the Union Army and Confederate States Army near Brownsville, Texas. In the end, Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith offically surrendered all confederate forces tin the Trans-Mississippi Deparment on June 2, 1865 -
Reconstruction Era: Johnson’s Impeachment
Pres. Andrew Johnson was in the U.S House of Representative on eleven articles of impeachment noting his "high crimes and misdemeanors in the trial. The trial concluded on May 16, 1868 with Johnson's acquittal, with the votes for conviction being one less than the required two-thirds tally. -
Reconstruction Era: The Depression of 1873
The Panic of 1873 was a financial crisis that triggered a depression in Europe and North America that lasted 1873 to1879 (six years). The failure of the Jay Cooke Bank, followed quickly by that of the Henry Clews ( 1836- Februrary 1, 1923) , set off a chain reaction of bank failures and temporarily closed the New York Stock Market. -
Reconstruction Era: Civil Rights Act of 1875
An act to protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights. The Civil Rights Act of 1875 is also notable for being part of the major pieces of legislation passed by Congress after the American Civil War. Also, the court held that the Thirteenth Amendment was meant to eliminate the "badge of slavery", but it did not abolish racial discrimination in public accomodations. -
Industrial Revolution
( 1875- 1901) The Second Industrial Revolution was a phase of the larger Industrial Revolution corresponding to the latter half of the 19th century until World War I. -
Industrial Revolution: Telecommunications
The telephone was patented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell, also he used it to make speedy business transactions. Bell was the first to obtain a patent, in 1876, for an "apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically". -
Industrial Revolution: Electrification
Electrification was called "the most important engineering achievement of the 20th century" by the National Academy of Engineering. It also allowed the inexpensive build of electro-chemical. -
Industrial Revolution: Automobiles
The first stationary gasoline engine developed by Carl Benz was a one-cylinder two-stroke unit which ran for the first time on New Year’s Eve 1879. Then, after the three- wheeled Benz Henry Ford and others went on to perfect the creation of the automobile.
