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Civil War Begins
The booldiest four years in america began when the Confederate shories battries under general P.G.T. Beauregard open fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Bay. -
Civil War: Battle of Gettysburg
The battle of gettysburg was fought from july 1 to july 3,1863 is considered one of the most inportant engagement of the american civil war.On July 3, Lee ordered an attack by fewer than 15,000 troops on the enemy’s center at Cemetery Ridge.On July 4 Lee withdrawn from the war after many casualties. -
Reconstruction:Freedmen's Bureau
Issued 30,000 rations a day for the next year to prevent mass starvation. The Bureau also helped those formerly enslaved to find work. -
Civil War Ends
The American Civil War began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate shore batteries under General Pierre G.T. Beauregard opened fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Bay. April 13 U.S. Major Robert Anderson, commander of the Union garrison, surrendered. Two days later, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for 75,000 volunteer soldiers to help quell the Southern "insurrection." -
Reconstruction:Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
On this day President Lincoln was killed at Ford's Theatre. His Vice-President, Andrew Johnson, became his successor. -
Reconstruction:Proclamation of Amnesty
All Southerners that took an oath of loyalty to the United States. Also, they were required to accept the new proclamations concerning slavery. If they did this they were pardoned. -
Civil Rights Movement:The 14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment granted due process and equal protection under the law to African Americans. -
Civil Rights Movement:The 15th Amendment
The 15th Amendment granted blacks the right to vote, including former slaves. -
Glided Age: Credit Mobilier Scandal
Vice President Schuyler Colfax and members of congress including future presdient James Garfield, recieved free stock in return fot protecting Credit Mobilier, a railroad construction company, from investigation. -
Gilded Age: Corruption in Grant Administration
President Grant's personal secretary, General O.E. Babcock, and whiskey distillers, were caught for conspiring to defraud the U.S. governement of tax revenues -
Industrialization:Industrial Expansion through Immigration
During the period from 1880 to 1900, a flux of immigrants came over to America and was called the age of mass immigration. Due to this immense population increase, industrial employers could now pay lower wages and make more profits, allowing companies to expand. -
Glided Age: Charles Guiteau shoots President Garfield
Mentally unstable, Charles Guiteau shot President Garfield, and cried out, "I'm a stalwart and Arthur is president." Garfield died three months later. -
Imperialism:Yellow journalism
Yellow journalism is method a journalism that would make up story to sell more newspapers. They would make up story about the president and many more. -
Imperialism:Spanish American War
The war was primarily Fought over Cuban independance even though It was mostly fought in the carribean and Pacific. The Naval Forces proved to be more than the Spanish forces could handle. -
Industrialization:Industry in the Twentieth Century
With industry rapidly expanding, more workers were needed to work in factories. This allowed women, blacks, and immigrants to join the work force. Companies usually payed them less however, and provided harsh working conditions. With companies mistreating their workers unions started to gain importance in the new century. -
Civil Rights Movement:The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded by a multi-racial group of activists in New York, N.Y. Initially, the group called themselves the National Negro Committee -
Industrialization:The Automobile and Industry
The automobile had astounding effects on industry. Industry employers and workers could now rapidly move about huge cities, saving them time and money. Also workers could now work farther distances from home allowing companies more selection in their employees. -
World War I: Sinking of the Lusitania
The RMS Lusitania was an ocean liner owned by Cunard Lines. She was attacked by a German U-boat and sank in eighteen minutes. 1,198 of the nearly 2,000 passengers aboard died. Many of the passengers were American citizens -
World War I:German Submarine Warfare
Germany adopted a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare in an attempt to starve Great Britain.So basicially this policy was a way for Germany trying to stop Great Britian from getting goods. -
World War I:The Treaty of Versailles
The official peace settlement known as the Treaty of Versailles was treaty forced Germany to accept full responsibility for the the war and pay reparations, give up territories and reduce the army size to a meager 100,000 souls, -
Roaring 20’s:Volstead Act
In the early 1920's alcohol was banned from everyone and everything in the untied states of america. I caused speakeasies and people who enjoy a drink to break the laws. -
Roaring 20’s:Teapot Dome Scandal
The teapot dome scandal was an oil scandal of 1921. It was a secret leasing of naval oil reserve lands to private compainies. It was in Wyoming , and they call it the teapot because next to the field was a rock that looked like a teapot. -
Roaring 20’s:Black Tuesday
The United States ecomomy was booming in the early 1920's. Until 1929 when the stock market experienced black tuesday when the stock market hit a "black hole" and stocks didnt last for long. -
Great Depression:President Roosevelt
President Roosevelt, under the Emergency Banking Act, orders the nation off of the gold standard. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) is established. Designed as a relief and employment program for young men between the ages of 17 and 27. -
Great Depression:Social Security Act
The Social Security Act of 1935 is signed into law by FDR. Among the most controversial stipulations of the act is that Social Security will be financed through a payroll tax. -
World war II:Nonaggression agreement
The Nazi Germany and Soviet Union sign a nonaggression agreement which is a secret agreement which divide the easter europe. -
World War II: The soviet union invades Finland
The Soviet Union invades Finland and called it Winter War. The finns sue for an armistice. -
Great Depression:Franklin Roosevelt is elected
Franklin Roosevelt is elected to an unprecedented third term as president, defeating Wendell Willkie. FDR's victory is seen as proof of the nation's support of his war policies. Roosevelt lobbies Congress to pass the Lend-Lease Act, which will aid Britain in its struggle to fend off Germany. -
World War II: The United States declares war on Japan
The United States declares war on Japan and they enter World War II.By April 1942, the Philippines, Indochina, and Signapore were under Japans control. -
Imperialism:Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism was a saying and philosophy by Charles Darwin "survival of the fittest" It was use to show the diffences between the poor and the rich. -
Cold War:Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was a meeting of FDR,Churchill,Satlin (The Big Three) when Soviet Union had control of Eastern Europe.The Cold War Beings -
Cold War:Marshall Plan
Marshall Plan was a plan to help countries in combat poverty,disease and malnutrition. -
Cold War: Korean War begins
Korean War begins. Stalin supports North Korea who invade South Korea equipped with Soviet weapons -
Vietnam War:the National Liberation Front (NLF)
the National Liberation Front (NLF) was formed in Hanoi though in the South, they were known as the Vietcong (VC) -
Vietnam War:President John F. Kennedy
President John F. Kennedy orders more help for the South Vietnamese government in its war against the Vietcong guerrillas. U.S. backing includes new equipment and more than 3,000 military advisors and support personnel. -
Vietnam War: The end
By the end of 1966, American forces in Vietnam reach 385,000 men, plus an additional 60,000 sailors stationed offshore. More than 6,000 Americans have been killed in this year, and 30,000 have been wounded. In comparison, an estimated 61,000 Vietcong have been killed. However, their troops now numbered over 280,000.
