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The Louisiana Purchase was the purchase of imperial rights to the western half of the Mississippi River basin from France by the United States in 1803.

The total price was $27,267,622. It was ultimately the most significant land bargain in U.S. history.

The Louisiana Purchase eventually doubled the size of the United States, significantly strengthened the country materially and strategically, provided a powerful boost to westward expansion, and confirmed the doctrine of implied powers of the federal Constitution.

Many Native Americans occupied the land and in 1840the U.S. forced tens of thousands of those Natives from their lands along the Trail of Tears. More than 5,000 people died along the way. The significance of this date is that it was part of the beginning of the United States becoming a global power along with the United States' continuation of mistreatment of minority groups and the forced assimilation of those groups.

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The Dred Scott decision was the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that having lived in a free state and territory did not entitle an enslaved person, Dred Scott, to his freedom.

In essence, the decision argued that, as someone’s property, Scott was not a citizen and could not sue in a federal court. The Dred Scott Decision outraged abolitionists and the divide between North and South over slavery grew and culminated in the secession of southern states from the Union.

Being one of the causes of the Civil War it eventually led to the passing of the 13th amendment which abolished slavery.

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Plessy v. Ferguson was a legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court put forward the controversial “separate but equal” doctrine, according to which laws mandating racial segregation mostly between blacks and white in public accommodations were constitutional provided that the separate facilities for each race were equal.

Plessy v. Ferguson established the constitutionality of racial segregation preventing constitutional challenges to racial segregation for more than half a century until it was finally overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954).  Following the case ruling, the racial climate of the South got dramatically worse for African Americans.

It strengthened the use of Jim Crow laws which were to limit all the freedoms of African Americans. Plessy v. Ferguson essentially established the continuous separation between races and emphasis the racism in the legal system.

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October 29, 1929: Wall Street Crash of 1929

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October 29, 1929: Wall Street Crash of 1929

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The stock market crash of 1929 was one of the worst stock market crashes in the history of the United States where the value of stocks fell dramatically over the course of several days at the end of October. Many people lost all of their savings and ended up losing their homes. Businesses had to layoff employees or go bankrupt.

The crash led to the Great Depression and the public’s mistrust in the federal banks. The Great Depression led to many reforms of the United States which bettered its economy. The reform brought by the Great Depression were the New Deal which helped the people of America by creating new jobs, gaining trust in banking systems, and getting freedom from the effects of the Great Depression.

Programs of the New Deal still in affect currently are the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Federal National Mortgage Association, National Labor Relations Board, Securities and Exchange Commission, Social Security, Soil Conservation Service, and the Tennessee Valley Authority.

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A major political scandal that occurred in the US during the early 1970s following a break-in by 5 men at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 1972, and President Richard Nixon's administration's subsequent attempt to cover up its involvement. The scandal led to the discovery of multiple abuses of power by members of the Nixon administration.

Following the scandal, a significant amount of faith was lost in the government and in a restore that faith they tried to combat the corruption influence of money in politics, promote ethics and transparency in government, and limit certain exercises of presidential authority.

Acts enforced and passed to post- Watergate were the 1974 Amendments to the Freedom of Information Act,  Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972, Sunshine Act of 1976, Inspector General Act of 1978, Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, Ethics in Government Act of 1978, Presidential Records Act of 1978, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, Privacy Act of 1974, Tax Reform Act of 1976, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, and War Powers Act of 1973.