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The deadliest natural disaster in American History. A category 4 hurricane descended on the town and it destroyed more than 3,600 buildings with winds going above 135 miles per hour. -
The Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in New York City burned, killing 146 workers. This tragedy brought widespread attention the dangers of the sweatshop conditions in factories. It also led to the development of a series of laws and regulations that better protected the safety of workers. -
Gave women the right to vote. -
Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. The aftermath caused America to go into the Great Depression from 1929-1939. -
It was a U.S. government research project that produced the first atomic bombs. -
It was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
In March 1979, a series of mechanical and human errors at the plant caused the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history. This resulted in a partial meltdown that released dangerous radioactive gasses into the atmosphere. -
A series of volcanic explosions and pyroclastic flows began at Mount St. Helens in Skamania County, Washington, United States -
This was in response to an acquittal of all but one charge of four white police men in Los Angeles. This was connected to the severe beating of an African American motorist in March 1991. This resulted in several days of of rioting, more than 50 people were killed, more than 2,300 were injured, and thousands were arrested. About 1,100 buildings were damaged, and total property damage was about $1 billion, which made the riots one of the most-devastating civil disruptions in American history.