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Imperialism: Caribbean Region
The Monroe Doctrine stated that the United Stated would opposed any kind of European intervention in the Western Hemisphere. This happening the Latin American nations were unable to pay for European investors. -
Industrialization: First Oil Well Drilled.
Edwin Drake born in Greenville New York. Edwin Drake drilled the first oil well in Pennsylvania. -
Civil War: Abolition of Slavery
-In September 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. This issued that slaves in certain states are free. -
Civil War: Bull Run 1st Battle
Gen. Mcdowell leads 30,000 men against Gen. Johnston and his 22,000 men. The meaning of the battle was the south wanted to defeat the rebels and go on to richmond. -
Civil War: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
-In 1865 Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. The man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln was John Wilkes Booth. -
Reconstruction: Ku Klux Klan Organization
The Ku Klux Klan is a organization that terrorized African Americans. This prevent African American from their political rights. -
Reconstruction: The Ratification Of The 14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment forbids states from denying any person 'life, liberty or property with due of prcess of the law. This Amendment was ratified ( banned ). -
Reconstruction: Voting Rights
In the near 1870s the 15th Amendment prohibited any denial of voting right, no matter of race. This let African American have the right to vote. -
Industrialization: Electric Light Bulb
This electric light bulb was made by Thomas Edison. This was use for every day things so we can see in the dark. -
Imperialism: Hawaii
Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii began doing her reign, she also sought to rewrite her country of Hawaii constitution. By this happening the U.S Marines, also American landowners in Hawaii removed the queen and set up for Republic. -
Glided Age:Theodore Roosevelt
During this time Theodore Roosevelt believe a President was a steward in the people's interest. By this he expanded the powers of his Presidency. -
Industrialization: First Airplane
Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first ever airplane. This made them had there first successful flight. -
Gilded Age: William Howard Taft
He continued many of Roosevelt's polices but was a clumsy politican. By this happening he had conflictwith Roosevelt. -
Glided Age: Woodrow Wilson
He lowered tariffs and also made graduated income tax, which is the Federal Reserve System. By him doing this he strengthened the antitrust legislation with Clayton Antitrust Act. -
World War I: Flashpoint
This was by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. The people who did this was Serb nationalists. -
Imperialism: Panama Canal
This idea was from Alfred Thayer Mahan and also experience by the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt and other U.S. leaders wanted to make a American-controlled canal threw Central America for easier acess. By this Roosevelt supported the Panamaniam revolution, in exchange for recognition and protection and U.S. have control of the Pana,a Canal zone. -
World War I: Lusitania
A German submarine sank the Lusitania, by a British passenger ship. This attack led to over thousands and thousands of deaths, also including 128 Americans and 94 children, also stirred anti-German feeling towards Americans. -
World War I: Zimmerman Telegram
This was the time Germany promised to return New Mexico,Arizona, and Texas to Mexico, only if they help Germany. The telegram went out to the public in the U.S. newpaper and this outraged the public. -
Roaring 20's: Palmer Raids
Attorney General Palmer, assisted by J.Edgar Hoover. This cause only foreign-born radicals to be arrested and deported out of the country. -
Roaring 20's: Sacco and Vanzetti
It was about two Italian anarchists were arrested for murdering a guard during a robbery they were doing. They had unfair trial and were convicted on flimsy evidence and were executed. -
Roaring 20's: John Scopes
John Scopes was on trial and convicted for teaching the theory of evolution to hiigh school students in Tennessee. There were also some people who were in his trial they were Clarence Darrow and also William Jennings Bryan. -
Great Depression: Black Tuesday
This was when the stock market had crashed, also when stocks dropped suddenly. This cause everyone who sold thing to sell them but no one truly wanted to buy. -
Great Depression:Smoot-Hawley Tariff
The high tariffs like Smoot-Hawely Tariff protected Americans markets from any kind of foreign competition. This always prevented a surplus of American good or certain thing that were sold abroad. -
Great Depression: Election of President Roosevelt
When he was elected at this time he wanted to end the Depression so he made up the 'New Deal", he had three goals for this which are relief, recovery, and reform. By Roosevelt declareding "Bank Holiday" this help bank run and also renew confidence with what the bank had. -
World War II: Nazi Invasion of Poland
After Hitler signed the Nazi-Soviet Pact with Stalin, he order to invasion of Poland. This cause France and Britain to declare war on Germany for what they have done to Poland. -
World War II: Pearl Harbor
During this time Japan launched a surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet. This is a date that will live in infamy forever. -
World War II: Atomic Bomb
The Atomic bomb was drop on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This made Japan surrender on V-J Day. -
Cold War: Truman Doctrine
This would allow the United States to provide assistance to free people resisting Communism. This result in giving economic and military assistance to Turkey and Greece. -
Civil Rights Movement: Brown v Broad of Education
This was overturned by Plessy v Ferguson which this happenn to permitted "separate but equal". This result in segregation should have no place in public education because it was inherently unequal to others. -
Civil Rights Movement: Freedom Riders
These were groups that refused to sit in segregated sections of the buses traveling to the South. This result in them getting attacked by mobs at certain stops and after that they were protected by federal marshals. -
Cold War: Berlin Wall
The Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev order to build the Berlin Wall. The result of this was to prevent East Germans from escaping West Berlin. -
Cold War: Cuban Missile Crisis
This is the time where Americans discovered that the Soviet nuclear missiles where installed in Cuba. The result in the missiles threatening Florida and other parts of the United States. -
Civil Rights Movement: Letter from Birmingham Jail
This is when Matin Luther King and other leaders led a march in Birmingham, Alabama. When King was arrested he wrote this letter demanding equality for people. -
Vietnam War: Tet Offensive
Vietcong launched the Tet Offersive, even though the attack driven out and show there stregnth, This result in Johnson announced he would not run another term as the president. -
Vietnam War: Paris Peace Accords
Dr.Henry Kissinger singed the Paris Peace Accords with North Vietnam.This result in the U.S. takes away al the troops but still sends aid. -
Vietnam War: War Powers Act
Congress pass this to limit the President's power to send troop overseas. The result of this was to send the troops without the Congressional approval.
