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Reconstruction
The new era of events was just forming it was a fresh start to a new begining. -
Electional commission decides disputed presidental election between Rutherford Hayes & Samuel Tilden
Electors representing both parties appeared before the state returning boards claiming to be the winners.Hayes won the election and made some drastic changes to the U.S. The two people involved were Rutherford Hayes & Samuel Tilden -
Brooklyn Bridge completed
Took 14 years to complete the structure.There were over 600 workers and cost more than $320 million in today's dollar. Over two dozen people died in process including its designer. -
National Association of colored women founded
American organization formed at a convention in Washington, D.C., -
Roosevelt corollary to monroe doctrine issued
Main person involved was President Theodore Roosevelt. He talked to many people to bring in more postive new things that made the United States better for the people -
New ku klux klan (KKK)
Its members waged an underground campaign of intimidation and violence directed at white and black Republican leaders. The civil rights movement of the 1960s also saw a surge of Ku Klux Klan activity, including bombings of black schools and churches and violence against black and white activists in the South. It was a very negative thing and bought more harm to the blacks. -
F.Scott Fitz geralds the great gasby published
a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922 -
First neutrality act passed
Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Neutrality Act, or Senate Joint Resolution No. 173, which he calls an "expression of the desire...to avoid any action which might involve [the U.S.] in war." The signing came at a time when newly installed fascist governments in Europe were beginning to beat the drums of war. -
Franklin Roosevelt dies in office
Nobody knew how he died or exactly when it happened during the day. President Franklin Roosevelt suddenly dies in office. -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up bus seat
Rosa Parks was an African American woman who at the time was only allowed to sit at the back of the bus or sit in the front unless a white man were to come in the front seat would be released to him. Rosa Parks was told to move out of the seat by a white man and refused to get up and move. She was arrested and the whole situatuation brought more problems with discrimination -
Race riots erupt in L.a Neighborhood of Watts
routine traffic stop ignited a six-day race riot in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts. The riots left 34 dead and more than 1,000 injured. -
Evacuation of lost Americans from Vietnam
The people who were injured were dieing to get a escape. Everyone gathered together in large amounts whenever they would see a helicopter about to appear. -
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of soviet union
Mikhail Gorbachev was born in the small village of Privolnoye (in the Stavropol Territory) to Sergei and Maria Panteleyvna Gorbachev. His parents and his grandparents had all been peasant farmers before Stalin's collectivization program. He thought it was time for him to show his power and became the leader of the soviet union -
Budget impasse shuts down federal government.
From November 14 through November 19, 1995 and from December 16, 1995 to January 6, 1996 the U.S. government was shut down as a result of a budgetary impasse between Congress and the White House. The shutdown was precipitated by a dispute between Democratic President Bill Clinton and Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich over domestic spending cuts in the fiscal year 1996 budget and resulted in a bipartisan agreement to balance the budget in seven years' time. -
Hurricane Katrina floods New Orleans
struck the Gulf Coast of the United States. When the storm made landfall, it had a Category 3 rating on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale–it brought sustained winds of 100–140 miles per hour–and stretched some 400 miles across. The storm itself did a great deal of damage, but its aftermath was catastrophic. Levee breaches led to massive flooding, and many people charged that the federal government was slow to meet the needs of the people affected by the storm. Hundreds of thousands of people in -
Assasination of Osama Bin Laden
In the 2000 era not in 2014 but two years earlier Obama and his crew of troops found and killed Osama Bin Laden after he was in hidding for many of years. It was a big deal in the United States and was a positive event that helped us overcome many things.
