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The civil was a bloddy war. It had many causes, including sectionalism, slavery, and differing views of states' rights.
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Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in September 1862, freeing all slaves in states still in rebellion on January 1863. It was not a law passed by Congress.
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Union defeated the south. Civil war ended slavery, preserved the Union, and strengthened the federal government.
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This group and other groups terrorize African Americans. The first Ku Klux Klan flourished in the Southern United States in the late 1860s.
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This act didvied the South into military occupation zones. The reconstruction act of 1867 was a series of statutes meant to help reconstruct the United States after the devastation of the Civil War.
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This amendment guaranteed citizenship rights. People now have the chance to become a legal U.S. citizen.
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John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company is incorporated in Ohio. Rockefeller has been active in the oil business since 1863. Standard Oil was first formed as a partnership in 1868.
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President Ulysses S. Grant is reelected to a second term as president of the United States. President Ulysses S. Grant was easily elected to a second term in office, with Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts as his running mate.
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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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Thomas Edison created many inventions, but his favorite was the phonograph. The next time you listen to a favorite album, you can thank Thomas Edison for discovering the secret to recording sound.
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The Vitascope's first theatrical exhibition was on April 23, 1896, at Koster and Bial's Music Hall in New York City. Thomas Edison's idea is now well known over the world.
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conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. Revolts against Spanish rule had occurred for some years in Cuba.
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Refers to U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy: "speak softly, and carry a big stick." Roosevelt attributed the term to a West African proverb, "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far," but the claim that it originated in West Africa has been disputed.
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On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane.
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assassinationof Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary on June 28, 1914. Austria invaded serbia to teach the Serbs a lesson.
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First World War, was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914. There has never been a world war before ww1.
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U.S would eventually grant the philippines its independence. The law provides that the grant of independence would come only "as soon as a stable government can be established", which was to be determined by the United States Government itself.
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World War I Ended With the Treaty of Versailles. ww1 lasted about 4 years.
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The Volstead Act provided for the enforcement of Prohibition. However, many Americans failed to obey it.
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Two italian anarchist were arrested for the murder of a guard during a robbery. Eventually they were found guilty, and they were executed.
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The 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. Women had increased opportunities in employment and education.
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On Oct 29, 1929, known as ''Black Tuesday'', The stock market crashed. Stock prices dropped suddenly.
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This Act restricted agricultural production in the New Deal era by paying farmers to reduce crop area. AAA was an omnibus farm-relief bill embodying the schemes of the major national farm organizations.
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The Social Security Act established a system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped. It effectively impacted people's lives in a positive manner.
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Japanese military causing the American entry into World War II. The attack was intended to prevent the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States.
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Germany surrendered on may 7, 1945, known as V-E Day. It therefore marked the end of World War II in Europe.
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Was a sustained state of political and military tension between powers. No one died in the cold war.
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Millions of lives were taken in the war. Ultimately soldiers who were not deceased came home.
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Historians often consider it as the start of the Cold War, and the start of the containment policy to stop Soviet expansion. Providing help to those resisiting communism.
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U.S would give economic aid to Europe, in which the United States gave economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism. The plan was in operation for four years beginning in April 1948.
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The Supreme Court rules on the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans., unanimously agreeing that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. The ruling paves the way for large-scale desegregation.
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NAACP member Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white passenger, defying a southern custom of the time. Ultimately, she was arrested
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Vietnam was the longest war in American history and the most unpopular American war of the 20th century. It resulted in nearly 60,000 American deaths and in an estimated 2 million Vietnamese deaths.
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(Washington, D.C.) About 200,000 people join the March on Washington. Congregating at the Lincoln Memorial, participants listen as Martin Luther King delivers his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
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This law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of Congress. The resolution was passed by two-thirds of Congress, overriding a presidential veto.
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The war was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from December 1956 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese, who reunited the country under Communist rule as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, ending the Vietnam War.
