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Everyone in the United States rushed to California hoping to be rich. This led to quick economic growth, creation of towns and transportation, and even helped California become a state. -
The American Civil War was between the Northern and Southern states. The war was created with the disagreement with slavery. -
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln was on April 14th of 1865. He was shot by actor John Wilkes Booth at a theater in Washington D.C. -
The First Transcontinental Railroad was finished in 1869. This is when the presidents of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads came together and connected railroads -
The Fifteenth Amendment was passed by Congress in 1869. It was then ratified in 1870 which allowed African American men the right to vote. -
The battle began because American settlers had trespassed on land owned by Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho natives. -
Thomas Edison invented the light bulb in 1879. He created the first long-lasting and practical incandescent bulb. -
This riot took place in Chicago on May 4th in 1886, when workers from all across America wanted to demand an eight hour workday instead of working the 10-12 hour days they were working. -
The Homestead Strike of 1892 was at the Carnegie Steel Mill in Homestead, Pennsylvania. The workers who went on strike were part of a union called the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. -
The Spanish American War in 1898 was a war between the United States and Spain. It was triggered by the explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor. -
World War I started in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by a Serbian nationalist. -
World War I ended on November 11, 1918, because Germany was exhausted by the Allied Hundred Days Offensive. -
On Black Monday, October 28, 1929, the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined nearly 13 percent. -
World War II began when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, which forced France and Britain to declare war on Germany. -
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise Japanese attack on the US Navy base at Pearl Harbor on December 7th in 1941. Hawaii encouraged President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war 24 hours later. -
D-Day was the name given to the June 6, 1944, invasion of the beaches at Normandy in northern France by troops from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and other countries during World War II. -
World War II ended with the surrender of Germany in May 1945 and Japan in September 1945. -
In June 1948, the Soviet Union blocked all road, rail, and canal access to West Berlin. In response, the U.S and its allies began flying supplies into West Berlin passing the blockade by air. -
Former President John F. Kennedy was on his way to the Trade Mart in Dallas to deliver a speech. -
The Voting Rights Act was signed into law on August 6, 1965.