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Abraham Lincoln won election in 1860 as the first Republican president o. He wanted to keep slavery out of the territories, seven slave states in the deep South seceded and formed a new nation, the Confederate States of America.
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The war began when Confederate warships attack the Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861.
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Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in sept 1862. It announced the emancipation of slaves in those state still in rebellion on jan 1, 1863
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The battle of gettysburg was the turning point of the war it was comsider the most imporant engagement of the civil war.
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in 1865, the U.S. House of Representatives passes the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, getting ridof slavery in America. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude...shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
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In April 18695 General Robert E. Lee surrenderd to Grant at Appomattox. Less than a week later president lincol was killed.
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President Lincoln was assassinated in April 15 1865.Lincoln’s killer was, John Wilkes Booth
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Johnson impeached for removing his Secretary of War . He was the first president to be impeached
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Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876
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Thomas Edison ivented the phonograph (1877) ,electric light bulb (1879) motion pictures (1896) and improved battery , electric power station backed by J.P Morgan
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A rally in Chicago's Haymarket Square in support of striking workers from ends when a bomb is thrown, killing six policemen and hurting more than 60 others
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The interstate Commerce Act prevented unfair practices by railroads.
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the sherman antitrust act allowed the government to break up monopolies that engaged in harmful business practices against the public interest .
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Henry Frick shuts down the factory and locks out its employees
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The people party was created during the populist movement.1,000 delegates met in the Omaha Nebraska to form the people party.
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Based on the Teller Amendment Cuba remainedindependent but came under indirect U.S. control
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The U.S were motivated by both humanitarian concern and self-intresr to help cuba.
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Theodore Roosevelt mediated and war ended with the two sides agreeng on the Treat of Pourtsmouth
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A german u-boat sank the Lusitania , abritish passenger ship. It led to over a thousand death including 128 ameriucan and 94 children
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The ku klux klan experience a rebirth in 1915. Member was agaimnst blacks , immigrants,catholics, jews, union and women suffrage
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Germany sent a message to mexico promied the return of new Mexico ,Ariona, and Texas. The telegram outraged the U.S publics
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Espionage Act of 1917 allowed government cenorship of the mails imprisonment for those who interferd with the draft.
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AEF gave the allies overwhelming superiority.The german army surrenderd in Nov.1918
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Series of strikes and random bombing by anarchists led many americans to fear communist revolution
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Two italian man were arrest in 1920 for the murder of guard during a robbery. It was an unfair trail
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Booker urged African American to seek vocational training but Bois favord an immediate struggle for full civil rights
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Gave women the right to vote while flappers wore looser clothing and went out .Also women had more opportimities in jobs and education.
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Oct 29 1929 the stock market crash. Stock prices dropped everyone was trying to sell but no one wanted to buy.
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Franklin d. roosevelt won the the presidential election. He plan to end the great depression
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In 1933 Hitler became Chancellor.The german legislature gave Hitler emergency dictatorial powers.
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Roosevelt declared a bank holiday to prevent bank runs, allow federal inspection.
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the first new deasl from 1933-1935 was focused on relief and recovery.
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It was the most important and long lasting achievement of the new deal. it created a saftey net for americans.
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John Steinbeck novel depicted the plight of the okies. Langston Hughes was a black poet who wrote of the sufferings of the african american community
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Japan decided to attack the united states first and launched a surpise attack on the U.S Pacific Fleet at Pear Harbor.
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The nazi counterattack failed and america british and french foreces adavnced into germany from the west and the soviet advance from the east.Hitler commited suicide at the end of april 1945. Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945 known as V-E Day
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The u.s invested $2 billion in the Manhattan Project. It was a secret projevt to develop the atomic bomb.Scientist tested the bomb in new mexico in 1949 m then dropped an atomic bomb on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagaski in Aughust 1945
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The united states would give help to free people resisting communism , including military and economic assistance to Turkey and Greece
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The U.S. announced the Marshall Plan. the U.S willgive economic aid to the countries of Western Europe to help them rebuild theireconomies and etc.
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1950 senator joseph mccarthy claim to have evidence of communist spies in the state deparment
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The bus boycoot was a successful attemot to end segration .Rosa Park and NAACP member refused to sit in the colored part of the bus and was arrested.
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In Little Rock Arkansas the governor oreder the National Guard to prevent nine black students from entering in an all white school.
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The soviet Union success in sending Sputnik into space in 1957 caused the U.S to increase it spending on science education
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group of 12 blacks and whites rights activists launched Freedom Rides, aus trips through the South to protest segregation in interstate bus . The Freedom Riders were recruited by the Congress of Racial Equality
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A supposed attack on American ships, Congess passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. This gave Johnson extraordinary powers of intervention. He sent the first troops to Vietnam in 1965.
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Was formed by Bobby Seake and Huey Newton to proctect black neighborhoods in Oakland, California. They called for arming of blacks.
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1973 Dr. Henry Kissinger signed the paris peace accord with the North Vietnam . The U.S. withdre all the troopd but they still sent aid (dint know the day)
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Congressed passed this act limiting the President's power to commit troops overseas without Congressional approval (dont know the date or month)
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Workers employed at the Pullman Company, outside of Chicago, go on strike when the owner, George Pullman, refuses to reduce rents in the company housing to match announced wage cuts.
