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Civil War:Missouri Compromise
Missouri admitted as a slave stae and Maine as a free state; slavery prohibited in the louisiana purchase north of 36 30 north -
Civil War: Presidential election of 1860
democrats were divided, helping republican candidate Abraham Lincoln to win the election 39% of the vote -
Civil War: Gettysburg
was the turning point of the war; Grant became Union commander; Lee surrendered at Appomatox in april 1865 -
Reconstruction: Reconstruction act
Divides the southy into military occupation zones -
Reconstruction: Empeachment of Johnson
It was the Radical Republicans who impeached President Johnson in 1868. The Senate, by a single vote, failed to convict him, but his power to hurt radical reform was destroyed. -
Gilded Age: Mark Twain
The captains of industry and commerce of The Gilded Age became wealthy beyond what most can imagine today. Considering the magnitude of change they effected and witnessed around them, their belief that anything was possible and even probable, given American ingenuity and hard work, is understandable. -
Reconstruction: Withdrawal of Union Troops in 1877
After ten years, Congress and the radicals grew weary of federal involvement in the South. they withdrew the troops which brought renewed attempts to strip African-Americans of their newly acquired rights. -
Industrilization: Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie vertically integrated his production process by buying out all of the companies—coal, iron ore, and so on—needed to produce his steel, as well as the companies that produced the steel, shipped it, and sold it. -
Industrilization: Rockefeller and Standard Oil
Oil was another lucrative business during the Gilded Age. Although there was very little need for oil prior to the Civil War, demand surged during the machine age of the 1880s, 1890s, and early 1900s. Seemingly everything required oil during this era: factory machines, ships, and, later, automobiles. -
Industrilization: Interstate Commerce Commission
Ensure that the railroad companies obeyed the new laws. The bill was riddled with loopholes, however, and had very little effect. In 1890, Congress also passed the Sherman Anti-Trust Act in an attempt to ban trusts, but this, too, was an ineffective piece of legislation and was replaced with revised legislation in the early 1900s. -
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Gilded Age: Gilded Age homes
While others might be considered part of this genre of Gilded Age homes, Hearst Castle, Wyntoon, Cairnwood, Rosecliff, Marble House, The Elms, The Breakers, Nemours, Fenway Court, Biltmore, Kykuit, Whitehall, Villa Vizcaya, and Ca'd' Zan all clearly belong. -
Gilded Age: Western Tradition
blending of the Western Tradition and America's spectacular technological growth found expression in The World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago. There America's most prominent architects and artists, backed by the wealth of America's technological revolution, built a literal representation of America's Gilded Age with its unique blend of technology and Western Tradition. -
Imperialism: Expantion in Hawaii
Spurred on by sugar planters, America expanded its influence in Hawaii and in 1896 annexed the islands. Americans also pushed for an "Open Door" trading policy in China. -
Imperialism:Spanish-American War
war that began in 1898 against the Spanish over treatment of Cubans by Spanish troops that controlled the island. As a result of this war, the United States annexed the Philippines, making America a major power in the Pacific. -
Imperialism:Roosevelt Corollary
policy that warned Europeans against intervening in the affairs of Latin America and that claimed the right of the United States to intervene in the affairs of Latin American nations if "chronic wrongdoing" was taking place -
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Clash of Cultures
Exploring topics such as prohibition, immigration, the KKK, the "New Woman," and the Scopes Trial. There a also a varied array of primary sources, including cartoons, flyers, posters, photographs and other documents. The cultural clash of the 1920s in many ways offers a historical backdrop to issues resonating in American society today. -
WWI: Start
was sparked by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 and ended with the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. Find out what happened in between these momentous events in this WWI timeline. -
WWI: Germany War Zone
Germany declares a "war zone" around Great Britain, essentially effecting a submarine blockade where even neutral merchant vessels were to be potential targets -
WWI: Zimmerman Telegram
Germany sends the secret Zimmerman Telegram to Mexico in an effort to entice Mexico to join the war. The British intercept and decipher the coded message -
Roaring 20s: Volstead Act
Volstead Act closed every tavern, bar and saloon in the United States. From then on, it was illegal to sell any “intoxication beverages” with more than 0.5% alcohol. This drove the liquor trade underground–now, people simply went to nominally illegal speakeasies instead of ordinary bars–where it was controlled by bootleggers, racketeers and other organized-crime figures such as Chicago gangster Al Capone. (Capone reportedly had 1,000 gunmen and half of Chicago’s police force on his payroll.) -
Raoring 20s: Consumer Society
The nation’s total wealth more than doubled between 1920 and 1929, and this economic growth swept many Americans into an affluent but unfamiliar “consumer society.” People from coast to coast bought the same goods listened to the same music, did the same dances and even used the same slang! -
Roaring 20s: Automobile Buisinesses
In 1929 there was one car on the road for every five Americans. Meanwhile, an economy of automobiles was born: Businesses like service stations and motels sprang up to meet drivers’ needs. -
Great Depression: Black Tuesday
stock market bubble finally burst, as investors began dumping shares en masse. A record 12.9 million shares were traded that day, known as “Black Thursday.” Five days later, on “Black Tuesday” some 16 million shares were traded after another wave of panic swept Wall Street. -
Great Depression: Inauguration Day
every U.S. state had ordered all remaining banks to close at the end of the fourth wave of banking panics, and the U.S. Treasury didn’t have enough cash to pay all government workers. Nonetheless, FDR (as he was known) projected a calm energy and optimism, famously declaring that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” -
WWII: Poland
To facilitate the quick conquest of Poland and break any blockade, he aligned Germany with the Soviet Union, assuming that concessions made to that country would be easily reclaimed when Germany turned east. -
Great Depression: Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 led to an American declaration of war, and the nation’s factories went back in full production mode. This expanding industrial production, as well as widespread conscription beginning in 1942, reduced the unemployment rate to below its pre-Depression level. -
WWII: D-Day
Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning. -
WWII: Atomic Bombs
American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of HiroshimaThe explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japanees Emperor announced his surreneder after that. -
Cold War: Truman Doctrin
A policy of President Truman, as advocated in his address to Congress on March 12, 1947, to provide military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey and, by extension, to any country threatened by Communism or any totalitarian ideology. -
Vietnam War: Domino Theory
A communist victory in one nation would quickly lead to a chain reaction of communist takeovers in neighboring states. -
Cold War: Warsaw Pact
alliance set up under a mutual defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, in 1955 by Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. -
Civil Rights Movement: Montgomery Bus Boycott
When Rosa Parks sat in the white section of the bus and refused to move when a white male asked her to. She was arrested. Shortly after all of the African Americans started a boycot. The boycot was to stop riding or using public transportation. The boycot lasted for one year. -
Civil Rights Movement: March on Washington
This act protect all US citizens the right to vote. Wether you were white black blue yellow or green. you had the right to vote and no one could deny you that right. -
Cold War: Bay of Pigs Invasion
an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles, supported by the U.S. government. On Apr. 17, 1961, an armed force of about 1,500 Cuban exiles landed in the Bahía de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs) on the south coast of Cuba. Trained since May, 1960, in Guatemala by members of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with the approval of the Eisenhower administration, and supplied with arms by the U.S. -
Vietnam War: Agent Orange
Agent Orang was a mixture of chemicals used by the US on Vietnam. It was dispenced from aircrafts on forests or villages that were suspected to be harboring viet cong troops. It was supposed to completely insinerate what ever it touched. -
Civil Rights Movement: Civil Rights Act of 1968
This act signed by Lndon Johnson provided equal housing apportunities for all races, creed, or national origin. But londlords were still able to turn down races they didnt like. -
Vietnam War: Vietnamization
Vietnamization was the policy of replacing american troops in Vietnam, vietnamis troops. Bringing our troops home.
