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Abraham Lincoln Assassination
Lincoln is assassinated (April 14)Abraham Lincoln’s killer, John Wilkes Booth, was a Maryland native born in 1838 who remained in the North during the Civil War despite his Confederate sympathies. -
President Johnson is impeached by the House of Representatives
The U.S. House of Representatives votes 11 articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson.. The House vote made President Johnson the first president to be impeached in U.S. history. -
Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified
The amendment grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" which included former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War. The amendment had been rejected by most Southern states but was ratified by the required three-fourths of the states. -
Fifteenth Amendment
citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude -
Chicago fire kills 300 and leaves 90,000 people homeless
flames spark in the Chicago barn of Patrick and Catherine O’Leary, igniting a two-day blaze that kills between 200 and 300 people, destroys 17,450 buildings, leaves 100,000 homeless and causes an estimated $200 million in damages. -
Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty, officially named Liberty Enlightening the World, is a monument symbolizing the United States, and is one of the most recognizable symbols in the world. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Supreme court case that violated the 14th amendment ; jim crow laws were set up because of this -
Theodore Roosevelt's second inauguration
President Roosevelt took his first oath of office after President McKinley’s assassination on Sept. 14, 1901, his first inaugural address was in 1905, after his landslide victory in 1904. -
William Howard Taft is inaugurated as the 27th president
William Howard Taft served as the 27th President of the United States and as the tenth Chief Justice of the United States he was the only person to have held both offices. Taft was elected president in 1908, the chosen successor of Theodore Roosevelt, but was defeated for re-election by Woodrow Wilson in 1912 -
U.S. enters World War I
Two days after the U.S. Senate votes 82 to 6 to declare war against Germany, the U.S. House of Representatives endorses the decision by a vote of 373 to 50, and the United States formally enters the First World War.