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After a victory of the Mexican-American War, the United States gained 55% of Mexico's territory awarded in the treaty. -
Confederate troops open fire on Union Army solders at Fort Sumter. This was proceeded by years of southern states threatening secession -
The four-year war had finally came to an unofficial end when Robert E. Lee surrendered his Northern Virginia Army to Ulysses S. Grant. -
After one term, and before he got to preside over the reconstruction of the United State, Lincoln was murdered in a theater in Washington, DC. -
During this time, the country grew rapidly economically, culturally, and industrially.
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Protesters and Policeman came to a violent skirmish, when a homemade bomb was thrown at police. The protesters were there to fight for an 8 hour work day. -
The first of its kind, the Sherman Anti Trust Act was the first piece of legislation that outlawed monopolistic practices in the United States. This would go on to set the state for Teddy Roosevelt's trust busting. -
The Plessy v/ Ferguson Supreme Court ruling had decided that segregation was not an infringement on the 14th amendment. This basically legalized segregation in the US. -
The USS Maine was sunk which was attributed to the Spanish fleet docked close by in Cuba. This event started the Spanish American War -
WWI was the first war of it's kind. Due to many alliances in Europe, there was an unprecedented number of countries involved. The United States would join the war in 1917. -
The 19th amendment was put into law after the hard work of many women during the progressive era. -
This era marks the worst economic period in US history. Starting with Black Tuesday in September of 1929 and ending with the start of WWI in 1939.
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The US Stock Market crashed due to many factors. This event began the start of the Great Depression -
FDR introduces many pieces of legislature that go own to create some of the most important social programs and federal agencies. -
Germany invades Poland starting WWII. The Axis Powers of Germany, Japan, and Italy battled through Europe and the South Pacific. -
Japan launched a surprise attack on the United States in Hawaii. This would led the United States to join the war against Japan and the other Axis Powers. -
The United States dropped an atomic bomb, the first of it's kind, on Hiroshima. 70,000 people were killed. 3 days later, Nagasaki was hit with a similar weapon, killing another 40,000. -
Tensions are high between the Soviet Union and the United States. Both believe they're economic and political systems are superior to the other, and each's growing nuclear arsenal raise the stakes.
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This Supreme Court ruling outlawed segregation in public schools. This was an end to the "Separate but equal" standard in the US. -
Martin Luther King was murdered on a hotel balcony in Memphis Tennessee. Seven days later, the Civil Rights act of 1968 would be signed into law