1776 : 13 colonies became __ 13 states 1783 : USA doubled its size 1803 : USA doubled its size again 1803 : The Lousianna Prurchase 1820 : improvemt in transports 1840 : Steamboats on th Mississippi 1850 : USA acquired its __ continental size 1862 : Homestead Act 1848 : "Boys, by God, I believe __ I have found a gold mine" __ James Marshall 1861 : South's secession 1865 : Southern defeat 1863 : Emancipation Proclamation 1865 : Thirteenth Amendment 1868 : Fourteenth Amendment 1870 : Fifteenth Amendment 1876 : The barbed wire invented 1880 : Ranching from __ Texas to Canada 1890 : former slaves -> 25% of __ western cowhands 1862 : Pacific Railroad Act 1830 : 23 miles of railroad 1890 : 200,000 miles of railroads 1910 : 1/3 of all railroad track worldwide 1900 : United States Steel Corporation 1890 : The Sherman Antitrust Act 1879 : John D.Rockefeller created __ Standard Oil of New Jersey 1867 : Typewriters 1876 : 1st telephone 1920 : Nineteenth Amendment (women can vote) 1870 : people fled to urban areas 1882 : The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 1920 : highest standard of living 1929-10-24 : Black Thursday 1932 : 1/4 working pop unemployed 1932 : Franklin D.Roosevelt 1935 : Social Security Act 1930 : 50% black people unemployed 1960 : Golden era of American capitalism 1954 : Brown vs Board of Education 1955 : Montgomery bus boycott (Rosa Parks) 1963 : MLKing led the massive March in Washington 1963 : Kennedy assassinated 1957 : Fight for space began by Soviets 1961 : Alan Shepard 1st USA in space 1969 : Neil Armstrong 1st USA to walk on the moon 1972-06-17 : Watergate scandal 1974-08-08 : Nixon resignment 1964 : U of California, Berkeley against Vietnam war 1969 : Woodstock 1954 : Contraceptive pill was "discovered" 1964 : Civil Rights Act 1967 : NOW by Betty Friedan
De 1750 à 1776 : America was Anglo-Saxon De 1829 à 1837 : Andrew Jackson De 1862 à 1900 : gov awarded __ 80million acres to individuals __ 521million acres to railroads/ranchers/speculators De 1861 à 1865 : Civil War De 1876 à 1965 : "Jim Crow laws" De 1865 à 1877 : "Reconstruction" De 1980 à 1988 : Ronald Reagan De 1877 à 1920 : Mechanization __ = __ Machine Age De 1929 à 1940 : Crisis due to Black Thursday De 1934 à 1936 : The Dust Bowl De 1920 à 1930 : from 4 million of immigrants to 1/2 million De 1961 à 1963 : John F.Kennedy De 1963 à 1969 : Lyndon Johnson De 1969 à 1974 : Richard Nixon