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It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders
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Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation. It frees all slaves in territory captured by the Union Army, and orders the enlistment of black soldiers.
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Congress enacts the first draft in American history, requiring every man to serve in the army .
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Southern legislatures begin drafting Black Codes to re-establish white supremacy.
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An organization primarily composed of Confederate Army veterans found the Ku Klux Klan, a terrorist group formed to intimidate blacks and other ethnic and religious minorities
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Passed over Johnson's Veto , Grants freedmen rights to citizenships, overturning Black codes.
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Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone The telephone was developed while Bell was trying to improve the telegraph.
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Democrat Grover Cleveland defeats Republican James Blaine and is elected president of the United States.
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Karl Benz is credited with the invention of the modern automobile, several other German engineers worked on building automobiles at the same time.
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A rally in Chicago's Haymarket Square in support of striking workers from McCormick Harvester Works ends when a bomb is thrown, killing six policemen and wounding more than 60 others
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A strike In U.S History that bitterly fought labor dispute, workers of steel and iron went on a protest .
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The Spanish and american war happend between spain and the united states Because of american intervention .
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In 1901 the platt amendment gave the U.S Military bases in cuba and the right to intervene in cuban affairs at any time,the amendment was passed in 1903 which was a treaty between the united states and cuba that attempted to protect cubas independence.
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Orville and Wilbur Wright had their first successful flight. The craft soared to an altitude of 10 feet and traveled 120 feet.
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A German submarine sinks the passenger liner Lusitania. The ship carries 1,198 people, 128 of them Americans.
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Congress authorizes a declaration of war against Germany. The United States enters World War I on the side of France and Britain.
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Congress passes the Selective Service Act authorizing the draft.
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Congress ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the sale of alcohol anywhere in the United States.
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The Nineteenth Amendment is ratified, granting women the right to vote.
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The Sacco-Vanzetti trial begins , immigrant Italian radicals Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted of murder and executed.
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President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, as chancellor of Germany.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated into office as 32nd President of the United States.
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Huey Long is assassinated inside the Louisiana Capitol Building
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The neutrality act of 1937 allowed americans to sell non military goods to countries at war on a cash and carry basis.
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Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II.
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The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor draws United States into World War II.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt suddenly suffers a cerebral hemorrhage and dies, leaving his vice president, Harry Truman, to assume the presidency.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb the first to be used in warfare on Hiroshima, killing 75,000 people instantly, and injuring more than 100,000.
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The American bomber Enola Gay drops an atomic bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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The American plane Bockscar drops an atomic bomb nicknamed "Fat Man" on the Japanese city of Nagasaki.
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Democrat John F. Kennedy defeats Republican candidate Richard M. Nixon to become the 35th president of the United States.
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Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was fatally shot by a sniper while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Texas in a presidential motorcade
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In Oakland, California, Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, and David Hilliard found the Black Panther Party for Self Defense.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. His assassin, James Earl Ray, pleads guilty and is sentenced to 99 years in prison.
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Just minutes after claiming victory in the California Democratic primary election, Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
