https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9 en-us 2016-12-13 19:20:03 UTC 2016-12-16 18:36:07 UTC hello@padlet.com emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143465625 A charter agreed to by King John of England]]> 2016-12-13 19:21:37 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143465625 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143465824 An act that the Parliament of England passed on December 16, 1689. ]]> 2016-12-13 19:22:13 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143465824 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143467313 Jamestown was the first permanent settlement of the English in American

]]> 2016-12-13 19:26:52 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143467313 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143467588 The first legislature assembly in American colonies. The first assembly met July, 30 1619. ]]> 2016-12-13 19:27:46 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143467588 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143467869 signed by 41 English colonists on the ship Mayflower on November 11, 1620, it was the first written framework of government established in what is now the United States.]]> 2016-12-13 19:28:43 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143467869 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143468106 1660 passed on September 13. It added a twist to Oliver Cromwell's Act: ships' crews had to be three-quarters English, and "enumerated" products not produced by the mother country, such as tobacco, cotton, and sugar were to be shipped from the colonies only to England or other English colonies.]]> 2016-12-13 19:29:31 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143468106 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143468481 An armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.]]> 2016-12-13 19:30:48 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143468481 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143469711 Was an evangelical and revitalization movement that swept Protestant Europe and British America, especially the American colonies, in the 1730's and 1740's. ]]> 2016-12-13 19:34:55 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143469711 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143470051  a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin, then a senior leader and a delegate from Pennsylvania, at the Albany Congress on July 10, 1754 in Albany, New York.]]> 2016-12-13 19:36:02 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143470051 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143470315 Comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War ]]> 2016-12-13 19:37:03 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143470315 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143470499 Issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.]]> 2016-12-13 19:37:50 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143470499 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143470664 Passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed.]]> 2016-12-13 19:38:30 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143470664 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143470919 An incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others.]]> 2016-12-13 19:39:32 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143470919 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143471125 Sons of Liberty dump British tea. On this day in 1773, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships moored in Boston Harbor and dump 342 chests of tea into the water. Now known as the “Boston Tea Party,” the midnight raid was a protest of the Tea Act of 1773]]> 2016-12-13 19:40:27 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143471125 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143471268 Were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance of throwing a large tea shipment into Boston Harbor in reaction to being taxed by the British.]]> 2016-12-13 19:41:05 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143471268 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143471572 Was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.]]> 2016-12-13 19:42:19 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143471572 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143471802 It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met between September 5, 1774 and October 26, 1774, also in Philadelphia. The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.]]> 2016-12-13 19:43:16 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143471802 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143472205 Drafted on July 5, 1775, was a letter to King George III, from members of the Second Continental Congress, which represents the last attempt by the moderate party in North America to avoid a war of independence against Britain.]]> 2016-12-13 19:44:56 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143472205 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143472287 The statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen.]]> 2016-12-13 19:45:14 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143472287 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143472408 as a small but pivotal battle during the American Revolutionary War which took place on the morning of December 26, 1776, in Trenton, New Jersey. ]]> 2016-12-13 19:45:40 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143472408 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143472646 A surrender to American forces at the Battle of Saratoga marked a turning point in the Revolutionary War. The Battle of Saratoga was the turning point of the Revolutionary War. The scope of the victory is made clear by a few key facts: On October 17, 1777, 5,895 British and Hessian troops surrendered their arms.]]> 2016-12-13 19:46:31 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143472646 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143472726 Was the military camp 18 miles northwest of Philadelphia where the American Continental Army spent the winter of 1777–78 during the American Revolutionary War. ]]> 2016-12-13 19:46:51 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143472726 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143472861 The Siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the Surrender at Yorktown, German Battle or the Siege of Little York, [a] [b] ending on October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army. ]]> 2016-12-13 19:47:20 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143472861 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143473285 The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United States, on November 15, 1777. However, ratification of the Articles of Confederation by all thirteen states did not occur until March 1, 1781.]]> 2016-12-13 19:48:48 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143473285 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143473380 The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio, and also known as the The Ordinance of 1787) was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States (the Confederation Congress), passed July 13, 1787.]]> 2016-12-13 19:49:12 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143473380 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143473566 Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in Massachusetts during 1786 and 1787. Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays led four thousand rebels in an uprising against perceived economic and civil rights injustices.]]> 2016-12-13 19:49:51 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143473566 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143473719  In September 1786, at the Annapolis Convention, delegates from five states called for a Constitutional Convention in order to discuss possible improvements to the Articles of Confederation. The Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia on May 14, 1787.]]> 2016-12-13 19:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143473719 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143473801 The Connecticut Compromise(also known as the Great Compromise of 1787 or Sherman's Compromise) was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States]]> 2016-12-13 19:50:33 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143473801 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143473918 The population of slaves would be counted as three-fifths in total when apportioning Representatives, as well as Presidential electors and taxes. The Three-Fifths Compromise was proposed by James Wilson and Roger Sherman, who were both delegates for the Constitutional Convention of 1787.]]> 2016-12-13 19:50:52 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143473918 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143474132 Is the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.]]> 2016-12-13 19:51:32 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143474132 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143474304 When a bill of rights was proposed in Congress in 1789, North Carolina ratified the Constitution. Finally, Rhode Island, which had rejected the Constitution in March 1788 by popular referendum, called a ratifying convention in 1790 as specified by the Constitutional Convention]]> 2016-12-13 19:52:11 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143474304 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143474537 It was responsible for the forced migration of between 12 - 15 million people from Africa to the Western Hemisphere from the middle of the 15th century to the end of the 19th century.]]> 2016-12-13 19:53:01 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143474537 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143474735 A landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution.]]> 2016-12-13 19:53:42 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143474735 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143474930 The Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John Marshall, decides the landmark case of William Marbury vs. James Madison, Secretary of State of the United States and confirms the legal principle of judicial review–the ability of the Supreme Court to limit Congressional power by declaring]]> 2016-12-13 19:54:24 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143474930 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143475093  In 1801, Spain signed a secret treaty with France to return Louisiana Territory to France.]]> 2016-12-13 19:55:04 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143475093 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143475199 Great Britain was locked in a long and bitter conflict with Napoleon Bonaparte's France. In an attempt to cut off supplies from reaching the enemy, both sides attempted to block the United States from trading with the other.This is also the battle where Andrew Jackson earned his name as a "common man"]]> 2016-12-13 19:55:29 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143475199 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143475292 The Star-Spangled Banner was performed on original instruments from the National Museum of American History's collection.]]> 2016-12-13 19:55:48 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143475292 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143475752 Best known U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere. Buried in a routine annual message delivered to Congress by President James Monroe in December 1823, the doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs.]]> 2016-12-13 19:57:22 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143475752 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143475901 In 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free.]]> 2016-12-13 19:57:51 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143475901 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143476048 The 11th quadrennial presidential election, held from Friday, October 31, to Tuesday, December 2, 1828. It featured a re-match between incumbent President John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Jackson, who won a plurality of the electoral college vote in the 1824 election.]]> 2016-12-13 19:58:20 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143476048 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143476166 Was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy.]]> 2016-12-13 19:58:45 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143476166 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143476378 As part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects.]]> 2016-12-13 19:59:22 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143476378 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143476579 Ensued after South Carolina declared that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of the state.]]> 2016-12-13 19:59:56 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143476579 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143476771 Was a Protestant religious revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States. The movement began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800 and, after 1820, membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations whose preachers led the movement.]]> 2016-12-13 20:00:36 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143476771 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143477113 was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831. Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed from 55 to 65 people, the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the Southern United States.]]> 2016-12-13 20:01:48 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143477113 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143477193  A pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission]]> 2016-12-13 20:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143477193 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143477836 passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-soilers.]]> 2016-12-13 20:04:40 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143477836 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143478018  A package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War (1846–1848).]]> 2016-12-13 20:05:26 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143478018 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143478081  A 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased via a treaty signed on December 30, 1853 by James Gadsden, American ambassador to Mexico at that time.]]> 2016-12-13 20:05:42 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143478081 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143478179  began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter'sMill in Coloma, California. The first to hear confirmed information of the gold rush were the people in Oregon, the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), and Latin America, and they were the first to start flocking to the state in late 1848.]]> 2016-12-13 20:06:07 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143478179 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143478325 A network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century enslaved people of African descent in the United States in efforts to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.]]> 2016-12-13 20:06:41 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143478325 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143478506  A Midwestern state that epitomizes the U.S. heartland with its Great Plains setting of rolling wheat fields. The Museum of World Treasures in Wichita, the state's largest city, covers world history from dinosaurs to Elvis, while the open-air Old Cowtown Museum traces the city's pioneer past. In nearby Hutchinson, the Cosmosphere displays the Russian Vostok and Apollo 13 spacecrafts.]]> 2016-12-13 20:07:20 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143478506 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143478683  the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian", or "southern yankees" elements in Kansas between 1854 and 1861, including "Bleeding Congress".]]> 2016-12-13 20:07:55 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143478683 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143478836 Known simply as the Dred Scott case, was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on US labor law and constitutional law. ]]> 2016-12-13 20:08:31 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143478836 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143479016 American presidential election held on Nov. 6, 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell.]]> 2016-12-13 20:09:06 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143479016 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143479081 Formed in February 1861, the Confederate States of America was a republic composed of eleven Southern states that seceded from the Union in order to preserve slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. ... The war that ensued started at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, on April 12, 1861, and lasted four years.]]> 2016-12-13 20:09:23 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143479081 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143479202  A sea fort in Charleston, South Carolina, notable for two battles of the American Civil War.]]> 2016-12-13 20:09:50 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143479202 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143479496 The name applied to an outline strategy for suppressing the Confederacy at the beginning of the American Civil War. Proposed by General-in-Chief Winfield Scott, the plan emphasized the blockade of the Southern ports, and called for an advance down the Mississippi River to cut the South in two.]]> 2016-12-13 20:10:48 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143479496 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143479632 Also known as the Battle of Pittsburgh Landing, was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee.]]> 2016-12-13 20:11:10 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143479632 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143479764 Also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South, was fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland Campaign. ]]> 2016-12-13 20:11:34 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143479764 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143479921 a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863.September, 22 1862]]> 2016-12-13 20:12:09 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143479921 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143480168 Fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.]]> 2016-12-13 20:13:09 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143480168 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143480282 In May and June of 1863, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's armies converged on July, 4 1863 Vicksburg, investing the city and entrapping a Confederate army under Lt. Gen. John Pemberton. On July 4, Vicksburg surrendered after prolonged siege operations. This was the culmination of one of the most brilliant military campaigns of the war.]]> 2016-12-13 20:13:36 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143480282 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143480495 The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, one of the best-known in American history.]]> 2016-12-13 20:14:33 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143480495 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143480684 Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

]]> 2016-12-13 20:15:20 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143480684 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143480882 Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.]]> 2016-12-13 20:16:04 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143480882 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143480980 Laid out the process for readmitting Southern states into the Union. The Fourteenth Amendment (1868) provided former slaves with national citizenship, and the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) granted black men the right to vote.]]> 2016-12-13 20:16:28 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143480980 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143481102 The Bureau of Refugees, Freedman, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedman's Bureau, was a U.S. federal government agency established in 1865 to aid freedman (freed slaves) in the South during the Reconstruction era of the United States, which attempted to change society in the former Confederacy.]]> 2016-12-13 20:16:55 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143481102 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143481224 Laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War. These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.]]> 2016-12-13 20:17:23 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143481224 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143481332 All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.]]> 2016-12-13 20:17:49 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143481332 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143481526 The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.]]> 2016-12-13 20:18:41 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143481526 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143481608 Founded in 1866, the Ku Klux Klan extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for blacks. Its members waged an underground campaign of intimidation and violence directed at white and black Republican leaders. ]]> 2016-12-13 20:19:00 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143481608 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143481756 Was a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. It resulted in the national government pulling the last federal troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era.]]> 2016-12-13 20:19:33 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143481756 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143481939 s a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. The Act required that railroad rates be "reasonable and just," but did not empower the government to fix specific rates.]]> 2016-12-13 20:20:19 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143481939 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143482032  a landmark federal statute in the history of United States antitrust law (or "competition law") passed by Congress in 1890.]]> 2016-12-13 20:20:49 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143482032 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143482119 A national federation of labor unions in the United States. It was founded in Columbus, Ohio, in December 1886 by an alliance of craft unions disaffected from the Knights of Labor, a national labor association.]]> 2016-12-13 20:21:14 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143482119 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143482583  the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago.also known as the Homestead Steel Strike or Homestead Massacre, was an industrial lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892.]]> 2016-12-13 20:23:14 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143482583 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143482883 Also known as the Homestead Steel Strike or Homestead Massacre, was an industrial lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892.]]> 2016-12-13 20:24:30 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143482883 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143483294 A nationwide railroad strike in the United States on May 11, 1894 and a turning point for US labor law. It pitted the American Railway Union against the Pullman Company, the main railroads, and the federal government of the United States under President Grover Cleveland. May 11, 1894]]> 2016-12-13 20:26:07 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143483294 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143483690 A massacre in the American Indian Wars that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 675-man force of Colorado U.S. Volunteer Cavalry attacked and destroyed a village of Cheyenne ]]> 2016-12-13 20:28:04 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143483690 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143483770 Adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.]]> 2016-12-13 20:28:29 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143483770 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143483833 In 1862, the Pacific Railroad Act chartered the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad Companies, and tasked them with building a transcontinental railroad that would link the United States from east to west. Over the next seven years, the two companies would race toward each other from Sacramento, California on the one side and Omaha, Nebraska on the other, struggling against great risks before they met at Promontory, Utah, on May 10, 1869.]]> 2016-12-13 20:28:47 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143483833 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143483902 After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.]]> 2016-12-13 20:29:12 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143483902 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143483999
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 by Moorfield Storey, Mary White Ovington and W. E. B. Du Bois. ]]> 2016-12-13 20:29:46 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143483999 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143484079 The Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 (FMIA) is an American law that makes it a crime to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.]]> 2016-12-13 20:30:11 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143484079 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143508038
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration]]> 2016-12-14 00:31:15 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143508038 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143508084 The Boxer Rebellion, Boxer Uprising or Yihequan Movement was a violent anti-foreign and anti-Christian uprising that took place in China between 1899 and 1901, towards the end of the Qing dynasty.]]> 2016-12-14 00:32:17 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143508084 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143508192  Is a term in foreign affairs initially used to refer to the United States policy established in the late 19th century and the early 20th century, as enunciated in Secretary of State John Hay's Open Door Note, dated September 6, 1899 and dispatched to the major European powers.]]> 2016-12-14 00:34:48 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143508192 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143508229 Big Stick Diplomacy or Big Stick policy refers to U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy: "speak softly, and carry a big stick."]]> 2016-12-14 00:35:36 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143508229 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143508285 Was an addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union address in 1904 after the Venezuela Crisis of 1902–03.]]> 2016-12-14 00:36:29 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143508285 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143508316 The Panama Canal is an artificial 48-mile waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a key conduit for international maritime trade. ]]> 2016-12-14 00:37:11 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143508316 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143628740 he use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence.]]> 2016-12-14 15:40:08 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143628740 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143629129 is a form of diplomacy proposed by US President Woodrow Wilson in his 1912 election. Moral Diplomacy is the system in which support is given only to countries whose moral beliefs are analogous to that of the nation.]]> 2016-12-14 15:41:03 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143629129 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143629234 Also known as the First World War, or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. ]]> 2016-12-14 15:41:22 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143629234 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143629370 Was a British ocean liner that a German submarine sank in World War I, causing a major diplomatic uproar. ]]> 2016-12-14 15:41:46 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143629370 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143629992 Was an internal diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States' entering World War I against Germany.]]> 2016-12-14 15:43:20 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143629992 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143630241 Was a statement of principles for world peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918 speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson.]]> 2016-12-14 15:44:01 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143630241 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143631044  series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled.]]> 2016-12-14 15:46:17 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143631044 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143631413 Was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding.]]> 2016-12-14 15:47:16 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143631413 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143631559 Is a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise.]]> 2016-12-14 15:47:37 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143631559 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143631987 The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school]]> 2016-12-14 15:48:54 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143631987 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143632294 In the United States it was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933.

]]> 2016-12-14 15:49:49 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143632294 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143632685 Was the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930's. During this period Harlem  was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars.]]> 2016-12-14 15:50:55 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143632685 emmarie_hogan https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143633548 October 29, 1929. On this date, share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed, becoming a pivotal factor in the emergence of the Great Depression.]]> 2016-12-14 15:53:23 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143633548 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143691596 Was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors.]]> 2016-12-14 18:37:17 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143691596 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143691683 Also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930's; severe drought and a failure to apply dry land farming methods to prevent wind erosion (the Aeolian processes) caused the phenomenon.]]> 2016-12-14 18:37:35 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143691683 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143691793 A series of programs, including, most notably, Social Security, that were enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later.]]> 2016-12-14 18:37:54 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143691793 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143692004 is the U.S. corporation insuring deposits in the United States against bank failure. The FDIC was created in 1933 to maintain public confidence and encourage stability in the financial system through the promotion of sound banking practices.]]> 2016-12-14 18:38:28 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143692004 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143692070 An act to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits, and by enabling the several States to make more adequate provision for aged persons, blind persons, dependent and crippled children, maternal and child welfare, public health, and the administration of their unemployment.]]> 2016-12-14 18:38:41 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143692070 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143692348 Were laws passed in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939 to limit U.S. involvement in future wars. They were based on the widespread disillusionment with World War I in the early 1930's and the belief that the United States had been drawn into the war through loans and trade with the Allies.]]> 2016-12-14 18:39:24 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143692348 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143692697 Military aid to Britain was greatly facilitated by the Lend-Lease Act of March 11, 1941, in which Congress authorized the sale, lease, transfer, or exchange of arms and supplies to 'any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the United States.'"]]> 2016-12-14 18:40:14 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143692697 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143692988 Was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941 following a meeting of the two heads of state in Newfoundland. The Atlantic Charter provided a broad statement of U.S. and British war aims.]]> 2016-12-14 18:40:51 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143692988 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143693514 The attack on Pearl Harbor, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor, the Hawaii Operation or Operation AI by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, and Operation Z during planning, was a surprise.]]> 2016-12-14 18:41:57 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143693514 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143693928 Was an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical spread during the Cold War. It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S.Truman on March 12, 1947 :547-9 and further developed on July 12, 1948 when he pledged to contain Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey.]]> 2016-12-14 18:42:56 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143693928 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143694124 Was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion (approximately $120 billion in current dollar value as of June 2016) in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World ...]]> 2016-12-14 18:43:24 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143694124 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143694311 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.]]> 2016-12-14 18:43:54 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143694311 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143694699 June 24, 1948- May, 12 1949
The Berlin Airlift, 1948–1949. At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany.]]> 2016-12-14 18:44:57 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143694699 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143694956 Formally the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance and sometimes, informally, WarPac. was a collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet]]> 2016-12-14 18:45:37 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143694956 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143695173 The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea. China, with assistance from the Soviet Union, came to the aid of North Korea.]]> 2016-12-14 18:46:09 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143695173 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143695730 Also named the Tripartite Aggression and the Kadesh Operation, was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France.]]> 2016-12-14 18:47:37 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143695730 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143696136 A "Red Scare" is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism. In the United States, the First Red Scare was about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism.]]> 2016-12-14 18:48:43 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143696136 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143696372 Julius Rosenberg was arrested in July 1950, a few weeks after the Korean War began. He was executed, along with his wife, Ethel, on June 19, 1953, a few weeks before it ended. The legal charge of which the Rosenbergs were convicted was vague: “Conspiracy to Commit Espionage.”]]> 2016-12-14 18:49:19 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143696372 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143696581 Is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. It also means "the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques, especially in order to restrict dissent or political criticism."]]> 2016-12-14 18:49:57 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143696581 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143696789 The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. ]]> 2016-12-14 18:50:37 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143696789 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143696962 The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American.]]> 2016-12-14 18:51:07 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143696962 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143697308 The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic, starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding]]> 2016-12-14 18:52:02 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143697308 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143697505 Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennae to broadcast radio pulses. ]]> 2016-12-14 18:52:32 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143697505 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143697886 JFK was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Whether you were alive at the time or not, you probably know that Lee Harvey Oswald killed the President, only to be fatally gunned down by Jack Ruby two days later.]]> 2016-12-14 18:53:22 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143697886 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143698141 The Normandy landings (code-named Operation Neptune) were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 (termed D-Day) of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War 2. The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the liberation of German-occupied northwestern Europe from Nazi control, and contributed to the Allied victory on the Western Front]]> 2016-12-14 18:54:05 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143698141 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143698272 The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. ]]> 2016-12-14 18:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143698272 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143698680 Was a research and development project that produced the first nuclear weapons during World War II. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada.]]> 2016-12-14 18:55:50 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143698680 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143699130 The United States, with the consent of the United Kingdom as laid down in the Quebec Agreement, dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, during the final stage of World War II. ]]> 2016-12-14 18:57:03 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143699130 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143699309 The United States, with the consent of the United Kingdom as laid down in the Quebec Agreement, dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, during the final stage of World War || The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history.]]> 2016-12-14 18:57:28 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143699309 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143699693 Were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, which were most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political.]]> 2016-12-14 18:58:37 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143699693 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143713100 Kristallnacht or Reichskristallnacht, also referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, Reichspogromnacht or simply Pogromnacht, and Novemberpogrome, was a pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany on ]]> 2016-12-14 19:39:43 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143713100 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143713607 sometimes called the Crimea Conference and code-named the Argonaut Conference, held from February 4 to 11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister]]> 2016-12-14 19:41:14 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143713607 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143714168 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.]]> 2016-12-14 19:42:50 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143714168 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143714525 December, 1 1955
On December 1, 1955, four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. She was arrested and fined. The boycott of public buses by black Montgomery began on the day of Parks' court hearing and lasted 381 days.]]> 2016-12-14 19:43:47 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143714525 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143714731 Were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses.]]> 2016-12-14 19:44:23 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143714731 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143714917 The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington, was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and demanded civil and economic rights for African Americans. ]]> 2016-12-14 19:44:43 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143714917 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143715229 A landmark piece of civil rights and US labor law legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.]]> 2016-12-14 19:45:42 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143715229 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143715416 The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.]]> 2016-12-14 19:46:19 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143715416 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143715595 original name Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, African American revolutionary party, founded in 1966 in Oakland, California, by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. The party's original purpose was to patrol African American neighborhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality.]]> 2016-12-14 19:46:53 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143715595 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143715745 April, 4 1968
Ray began plotting the assassination of revered civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in early 1968. He shot and killed King in Memphis on April 4 confessing to the crime the following March.]]> 2016-12-14 19:47:24 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143715745 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143716282 Authorized the formation of local Community Action Agencies as part of the War on Poverty. These agencies are directly regulated by the federal government.]]> 2016-12-14 19:48:45 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143716282 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143716311 The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from]]> 2016-12-14 19:48:48 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143716311 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143716665 Or the Southeast Asia Resolution, Pub.L. 88–408, 78 Stat. 384, enacted August 10, 1964, was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident.]]> 2016-12-14 19:49:44 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143716665 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143716832 The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968, by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces ]]> 2016-12-14 19:50:12 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143716832 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143717146 Is a permanent, intergovernmental Organization, created at the Baghdad Conference on September 10–14, 1960, by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and ]]> 2016-12-14 19:51:14 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143717146 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143717408 Watergate was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970's, following a break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. in 1972 and President Richard Nixon's administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement.]]> 2016-12-14 19:52:09 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143717408 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143717615 February, 10 1789
In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.]]> 2016-12-14 19:52:50 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143717615 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143717818 Reagan and economics attributed to Paul Harvey) refers to the economic policies promoted by U.S. President Ronald Reagan during the 1980's.]]> 2016-12-14 19:53:33 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143717818 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143717914
The Gulf War, code-named Operation Desert Shield for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia and Operation Desert Storm in its combat phase, was a war waged by coalition

]]> 2016-12-14 19:53:52 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143717914 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143718292 The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.]]> 2016-12-14 19:54:30 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143718292 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143718581 The USA PATRIOTIC Act is an Act of Congress that was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001. With its ten-letter abbreviation (USA PATRIOTIC) expanded, the full title is "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001".]]> 2016-12-14 19:55:06 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143718581 https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143718692 The United States presidential election of 2008 was the 56th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. Democratic Party nominee Senator Barack Obama and running mate Senator Joe Biden defeated Republican Party nominee Senator John McCain and running mate Governor Sarah Palin.]]> 2016-12-14 19:55:19 UTC https://padlet.com/emmarie_hogan/aexnayibi6z9/wish/143718692