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First Official battle of the Civil War where the first shots were fired. It was a major Confederate victory but was soon followed by victories by the North.
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The south won and General Jackson got the nickname Stonewall Jackson. The North realized that the war was pretty serious and would not be an easy victory.
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6 battles in seven days between Robert E. Lee and George McClellan. Union won and then withdrew, allowing confederates to escape
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Ended Lee’s invasion of the North and was considered the bloodiest day in the Civil War. There were 227,17 dead, wounded, or missing.
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A turning point in the war where the North won. Picketts charge was made and Lee's second campaign on the North was shut down.
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Final major battle fought at Appomatix courthouse where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Grant.
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Enacted by Congress to protect against monopolizing buisnesses. Persecuted bad trust companies like the Northern Trust company created by J.P Morgan who monopolized transport.
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Theodore Rossevelt became the youngest president who used the Square Deal to distinguish good and bad corporations. He believed in use of government intervention in the economy.
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This followed the Sherman Act of 1890 giving Interstate Commerce Comission power to regulate railroad rates and observe rail road companies books.
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By Taft who thought corporations were good unless they stifled competition. Income tax ment the government did not have to rely on liquor taxes anymore.
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A time in America with jazz music, cars and illegal iquor consumption. They brought prosperity, credit, anti-immigrant feelings and the worst economic crisis.
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New fields like airplanes, chemical engineering and more. Also old corporations took up fordism and assembly lines. Change in economy was temporary and brought by increased productivity.
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Charles Lindbergh was the first to fly solo across the Atlantic without stopping. This made him a celebrity-one of the first of his time, a man as a buisness.
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The US Congress enacted the first peacetime draft for the military,which was the first step to involvement in the second World War. This mustered an army to be used. America became the Arsenal of Democracy and with the Lend Lease act which gave money and aid to countries fighting the Nazis to be paid later.
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After the Americans froze all Japanese assets here and essentially ended all trade, the japanese bombed pearl harbor in Hawaii. Japanese pilots attacked Pearl Harbor naval base destroying 187 aircraft, 18 naval vessels, and more than 2000 American servicemen were killed
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78000 American and Filipino soldiers surrendered in one of the greatest surrender ever and contributed to a large amount of deaths during the march to prison camps.
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First Battle where American troops fought against europeans in World War 2. It was fought in Northern Africa.
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Americans, British, and Canadian soldiers joined together to fight at Normandy.That was the beginning of the end for the Nazis and a major accomplish for the allied forces.
