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Civil War: Kanas-Nebraska Act
Popular sovereignty to determine the slavery question in remaining territories of Lousiana Purchase. Pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers rushed to Kansas, each side hoping to determine the results of the first election held after the law went into effect. -
Civil War: Dred Scott vs. Ferguson
Supreme Courtruled that Dred Scott was not a citizenand had no right to suw in court. The court also ruled that congress had no right to forbid slavery in the territories. -
Start of Civil War
On April 12, after Lincoln ordered a fleet to resupply Sumter, Confederate artillery fired the first shots of the Civil War. It was The Confederate Vs. The Union. -
Reconstruction: Abolishment of Slavery
The 13th amendment abolished slavery.The goal of the abolitionist movement was the immediate emancipation of all slaves. -
Reconstruction: Civil Rights Act
Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act, granting freedmen their civil rights. This federal law later became the basis for the 14th amendment. -
Railroad Strike of 1877
Brakemen and firemen from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad walk off the job at Camden Junction, and Maryland initiating a wildcat strike that had shut down thousands of miles of track throughout the northeastern United States. -
James Garfield Elected President
Republican James Garfield was elected president of the United States. His popular-vote margin victory over Democrat Winfield Hancock is 7,018 votes out of more than 9 million votes. -
Railroads create time zone
America's railroads put in the standardized time zones (Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific) split up by William F. Allen from the General Time Convention. -
Berlin Confrence
The Berlin Conference is significant because it marks when King Leopold II decided to carve up Africa so Belgium expanded, and the rest of the European nations. They did not think cultural boundaries when they chose which land to conquer, so this caused wars in the people of Africa later in the future. -
Industrialization: Haymarket Riot
After an explosion during a demonstartion in Haymarket Square, labor leaders were arrested and put on trial. Four of them were hunged. -
Industrialization: The Sherman Antitrust Act
Allowed the government to break up molopolies that engaged in harmful business practices against the public interst -
Industrialization: Pullman Strike
Pullman workers went on strike when Pullman lowered wages but not prices in his compay town. President Cleveland sent in federal troops to end strike. -
Imperialism: Explosion of the U.S.S. Maine
A massive explosion of unknown origin sinks the battleship USS Maine in Cuba's Havana harbor. Killing 260 of the fewer than 400 American crew members aboard. -
Imperialism: The Spanish- American War
Theodore Roosevelt organized the "Rough Riders," who fought in Cuba. Commodore Dewey defeated Spanish naval forsces in the Pjillippines. -
Imperialism: Treaty of Portsmouth
The Russo-Japanese War comes to an end as representatives of the two nations sign the Treaty of Portsmouth.Russia, defeated in the war, agreed to cede to Japan the island of Sakhalin and Russian port and rail rights in Manchuria. -
Schlieffen Plan
Germany declared war on France and invaded Belgium. Germany had to put in the Schlieffen Plan. -
Trench Warfare
Turkey entered the war on Germany’s side. Trench warfare started to dominate the Western Front. -
Lusitania
The “Lusitania” was sunk by a German "U Boat". There were American pasangers on board. -
Roaring Twenties: Red Scare
The Red Scare led to a range of actions that had a profound and enduring effect on U.S. government and society. Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States intensified in the late 1940s and early 1950s -
The Great Depression: Black Tuesday
The stock market crashed. People tried to sell their stocks but few were willing to buy them. -
The Great Depression: New Deal
President Franklin Roosevelt took office in 1933, he acted swiftly to try and stabilize the economy and provide jobs and relief to those who were suffering. Over the next eight years, the government instituted a series of experimental projects and programs, known collectively as the New Deal. -
The Great Depression: The National Recovery Administration
With the country of the Great Depression, Roosevelt immediately acted to restore public confidence.Proclaiming a bank holiday and speaking directly to the public. -
WW2: Pearl Habor
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack. -
WW2: D-Day
American and British forces landed on the beaches of Normandy. They advanced across France but faced a German counter-attack at the Battle of the Bulges. -
Cold War: Atomic Bombing
America dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second bomb dropped on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. -
Cold War: NATO
The United States and 11 other nations establish the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). A mutual defense pact aimed at containing possible Soviet aggression against Western Europe. -
Civil Rights Movement: Brown v. Board of Education
United States Supreme Court handed down its ruling in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. The Court’s unanimous decision overturned Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which had allowed for “separate but equal” public facilities. -
Vietnam War: Divison of Vietnam
When Japan surrendered in World War II, Vietnamese communist Ho Chi Minh declares the independence of Vietnam from France. -
Cold War: Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact. A mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states. -
Cold War: Sputnik
The Soviet Union inaugurates the "Space Age" with its launch of Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite. The spacecraft, named Sputnik after the Russian word for "satellite," . -
Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave broad congressional approval for expansion of the Vietnam War. Military planners had developed a detailed design for major attacks on the North. -
Vietnam War: Viet Cong
Viet Cong guerillas attacks the U.S. Embassy in Saigon -
Civil Rights Movement: Assassintion of Dr.King
Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers' strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him.
