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Jamestown
Jamestown was first established in the Virginia Colony at Jamestown, on May 13, 1607 it was the first permanent English settlement in North America. When they arrived colonists started constructing a fort to protect themselves from the nearby Virginia Indian tribes and from a potential attack from the Spanish settlements. Jamestown was the capital of the Virginia Colony. During Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, much of Jamestown was burned down, but the town was rebuilt. -
Plymouth
Plymouth Colony was the first permanent English colony in New England. It was settled by the passengers on the Mayflower. The impact Plymouth had on the United States is that it set the stage for the settlement of the New England Colonies. After seeing Plymouth become successful many others would come to the area. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion held by Virginia settlers. It was led by Nathaniel Bacon against Colonial Governor William Berkeley after Berkeley refused Bacon's request to drive Native American Indians out of Virginia. The impacts of this event was the decline of indentured servitude and the rise of slavery. -
First Great-Awakening
The First Great-Awakening was brought over by Europeans. Christians were feeling complacent with their methods of worship, and some were disillusioned with how wealth and rationalism were dominating culture This period of time had people who believed in this movement as well as people against it. The biggest impact of the First Great-Awakening was its altered religious views in American Colonies. -
The Plantation Act of 1740
The Plantation Act was enacted to systematize naturalization procedures in all localities as well as to encourage immigration to the American colonies. It provided a workable naturalization procedure by empowering colonial courts to administer the oath of allegiance to aliens. The biggest impact of The Plantation Act was the domination by wealthy white men and the exploitation of slave labor. -
Seven Years War
The Seven Year War lasted 9 years. The native Americans helped the French because the native Americans didn't like the British. The British tried to get native american allies too because the French have them but it never worked out because there was too much hate for each other. They came together and they put in the Albany plan of union which was denied in the courts but the people that voted yes for it became leaders. All of this provided great gains in North American land to the British. -
The Royal Proclamation of 1763
British-produced boundary that marked the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide. The Proclamation Line prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War. It was largely ineffective in stopping westward expansion. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a protest for the British Parliament's tax on tea. The demonstrators boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. The impact of these events included the Parliament responding in 1774 with the Intolerable Acts or Coercive Acts which among other provisions ended local self-government in Massachusetts and closed Boston's commerce. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was an official act taken by all 13 American colonies in declaring independence from the British. The Declaration of Independence also included three major ideas which were People have certain Inalienable Rights including Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness. All Men are created equal. Individuals have a civic duty to defend these rights for themselves and others. The Impact of the Declaration of Independence was the start of the United States and equality. -
Battle of Saratoga
The Battle of Saratoga was the turning point in the Revolutionary War. The American defeat of the British army lifted patriot morale, furthered the hope for independence, and helped to secure the foreign support needed to win the war. It was a turning point of the American Revolution because the defeat of the British encouraged France to enter into a military alliance with the newly formed United States. -
The Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown was the final battle of the American Revolution. The British were out-manned and outfought in which they sustained great losses, British troops surrendered to the Continental Army and their French allies. This led to negotiations for peace with the British and the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783. -
The Treaty of Paris 1783
The Treaty of Paris 1783 officially ended the revolutionary war. The newly created United states of America are granted all British lands between the Atlantic Ocean & the Mississippi river and north to British Canada. This led to westward expansion. -
Northwest Indian War
The Northwest Indian War was an armed conflict between the United States and the Native Americans for the Northwest territory. The War happened because the federal government decided the United States should launch a military expedition to punish the aggressive Indian tribes. This lead to the Northwest Indian War which the United States won eventually. -
Shays Rebellion
Shays Rebellion was a violent act in the Massachusetts countryside. Shays Rebellion was brought about by a monetary debt crisis at the end of the American Revolutionary War. Shays Rebellion exposed the weakness of the government under the Articles of Confederation and led many to call for strengthening the federal government. -
Northwest Ordinance
The Northwest territory included the states known today as Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. When each state had 60,000 people they were able to become a state and get a representative. Slavery was not allowed in the Northwest territory. The impact of the Northwest Ordinance was westward expansion. -
Whiskey Rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion was a violent tax protest in the United States. The whiskey tax was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government. The Whiskey Rebellion was the first test of federal authority in the United States. -
The United States Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights is the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution. It spells out Americans rights. It guarantees civil rights and liberties to the individual like freedom of speech, press, and religion. The reaction to the Bill of Rights varied between people but the federalists opposed it saying it was unnecessary. -
Cotton Gin
The Cotton Gin was invented by Eli Whitney. Slavery was on its way out of the United States because cotton was not profitable in the south until the invention of the Cotton Gin. This led to the boom of cotton in the south because it became profitable and slavery was on up-rise in the south again. -
Jay Treaty
Jay's Treaty was an agreement by the United States and Great Britain that helped avert war between the two nations. The impact of Jays Treaty was American exports tripled from 1792 to 1796. After the dust settled, opposition to Jay's Treaty subsided as Americans began to see the economic benefits of Jay's Treaty. -
Treaty of Greenville
The Treaty of Greenville aimed to end the hostilities that had engulfed the Great Lakes. It was an imperfect agreement not agreed upon by all the tribes but it ended violence at least temporarily and established Indian lands. It ended violence temporarily and established Indian lands. -
XYZ Affair
The XYZ Affair was a diplomatic incident between French and United States diplomats that resulted in a limited undeclared war known as the Quasi-War. The Impact of the XYZ Affair was that American merchants lost money from confiscated goods. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
The Alien and Sedition Acts tightened restrictions on foreign born Americans and limited speech critical of the government. Also the Alien and Sedition Acts raised the residency requirements for citizenship from 5 to 14 years authorized the president to deport aliens and permitted their arrest, imprisonment, and deportation during wartime. -
Convention of 1800
The Convention of 1800 officially ended The Quasi-War. Negotiating between France and the United States the agreement ended the Treaties of Alliance and Commerce. The impacts of the Convention of 1800 were also that the United States re-asserted the right to free trade. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
The Lewis and Clark Expedition was a federally funded trip to explore the United states West of the Mississippi. The expedition's objective was to discover a way to connect the continental interior to the Pacific Ocean. The expedition aided the expansion of the fur trade. The expedition also strengthened the United States to claim the Pacific. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase gave the United States 530,000,000 acres of territory. The United States purchased it from France in 1803 for $15 million. They wanted the land because they wanted control of New Orleans because it was a port city but the French said they would have to buy the whole Louisiana Territory, which they did in 1803. -
Embargo Act of 1807
Jefferson passed the Embargo Act in 1807. All United States ports were closed to export shipping. All foreign vessels, and restrictions were placed on imports from Great Britain. This affected United States ports on the East coast heavily, people lost their jobs because of this and ruined the United States economy. It also had some good things about it like the United States made products that started to become regular in the United States. -
War of 1812
The war was fought between the United States and Great Britain. primarily over the impressment of American sailors by the British Navy, as well as disagreements over trade, western expansion, and Native American policy. The impact of this war on the United States was it gained international respect. it also instilled a greater sense of nationalism among its citizens in America because the United States was standing head to head with one of the greatest military powers in the world. -
Treaty of Ghent
The Treaty of Ghent was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom. The Treaty of Ghent did not declare a clear winner. It established peace between Great Britain and the United States, and that peace eventually led to a long-term alliance between the two nations. -
Panic of 1819
The Panic of 1819 was the first widespread financial crisis in the United States that slowed westward expansion in the Cotton Belt and was followed by a general collapse of the American economy. The impact of the Panic of 1819 was unemployment and banks failed. The major cause of the Panic of 1819 was irresponsible banking policies. -
The Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was in a routine annual message delivered to Congress by President James Monroe. The doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs. The impact of this was it provided precedent and support for United States expansion on the American continent. -
Erie Canal Completion
The Erie Canal was completed in 1825, making it the longest artificial waterway in North America. It was 4 feet deep, 40 feet wide, and 363 miles long when completed. The impacts of the completion of the Erie Canal were very beneficial it made the shipping process from the East Coast to the Midwest way cheaper and easier. -
Tariff of 1828
The tariff of 1828 raised taxes on imported manufactures so as to reduce foreign competition with American manufacturing. Southerners, arguing that the tariff enhanced the interests of the Northern manufacturing industry at their expense, referred to it as the Tariff of Abominations. The impact of this Tariff. -
Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act was signed by President Andrew Jackson. It authorized the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. Few of the Indians tribes went peacefully most of them resisted the relocation. -
Tariff of 1832
The Tariff of 1832 was a protectionist tariff in the United States. The purpose of this tariff was to act as a remedy for the conflict created by the Tariff of 1828. The Tariff of 1832 was still deemed unsatisfactory by some in the South, especially in South Carolina. -
Texas War for Independence
Texas War for Independence, war was fought between Mexico and Texas colonists that resulted in Texas's independence from Mexico and the founding of the Republic of Texas. The impact of this war gave Texas its independence from Mexico and helped continue westward expansion of the United States. -
Panic of 1837
The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that started off a major depression, which lasted until the mid-1840s. The impacts of this was Profits, prices, and wages dropped, westward expansion was stopped during this time, unemployment rates were up. -
Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail was a wagon road stretching 2170 miles from Missouri to Oregon. The trail went through prairies, deserts, and mountains. The trail was used by thousands of American pioneers in the 1800s to emigrate west. -
Telegraph
The telegraph was a system of sending messages over long distances by electricity. The first telegraph message was sent by Samuel Morse from Washington to Baltimore. The impact that the telegraph had on the United States was huge it was the first way to send messages around the United States fast. It Improved communication greatly in the United States. -
Seneca Falls Convection
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention in the United States. The meeting launched the women's suffrage movement, which more than seven decades later ensured women the right to vote. The impact this had on the United States was good for women because it gave them rights they never had before. -
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Passed by Congress The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 required that slaves be returned to their owners even if they were in a free state. The act also made the federal government responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves. Many Northerners were angry about this Act because they were for free slaves but now they would need to cross the boarder to Canada. -
Kansas–Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories and allowed for popular sovereignty. It also produced a violent uprising. The impacts this act had on the U.S. was it repealed the Missouri Compromise, which had outlawed slavery above the 36 degree & 30 degree latitude in the Louisiana territories and reopened the national struggle over slavery in the western territories. -
Comstock Lode
The Comstock Lode is a lode of silver located in the eastern slope of Mount Davidson in Virginia City, Nevada. Which was the first major discovery of silver ore in the United States.The impact of the Comstock Lode contributed to economic development in the west and to population growth in the region. -
Pacific Railway Act 1862
The Pacific Railway Act of 1862 authorized the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad to build a railroad beginning in Omaha, Nebraska, and ending in Sacramento, California. The act also provided land from the public domain and government bonds to help pay for the construction. The track was completed 3 years ahead of schedule. The impact of the railway really connected the East and West coast and made it easy to travel from coast to coast for the first time ever in the U.S. -
Sand Creek Massacre
700 federal troops attacked a village of 500 Cheyenne and Arapaho on Sand Creek in Colorado. An unprovoked attack on people, the massacre at Sand Creek marked a turning point in the relationship between American Indian tribes and the Federal Government. The impact this had on the United States was that it made more humane policies relating to Indian tribes following the Civil War. -
Typewriter Invented
The typewrite helped to accelerate social change, opening up new jobs for women in the office. Changes in Business and the workplace. The typewriter reduced the time and expense involved in creating documents. It also encouraged the spread of systematic management. -
Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone was established as the world's first national park by an act of Congress and signed by President Ulysses S. Grant. The impact on the United States was huge back then before the park was created people hunted for food. After the park was created that became an illegal act called poaching. Back then in history that changed the way of living for people drastically because they were used to hunting for their own food but that became illegal. -
The Battle of Little Big Horn
The battle was a momentary victory for Lakota and Cheyenne. The death of Custer and his troops became a rallying point for the United States to increase their efforts to force native peoples onto reservation lands. The impact of this battle was the thought whites were having about Native Americans. It outraged many white Americans and confirmed their image of the Indians as wild and bloodthirsty. -
Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act provided that federal government jobs would be awarded on the basis of merit and that government employees be selected through competitive exams. The act also made it unlawful to fire someone for political reasons employees who were covered by the law. The impact this had was the reduction of corruption in the federal government. -
The Dawes Act 1887
Native Americans are able to claim individual homesteads of 160 acres to own and farm which are championed as an olive branch to the Native Americans tribes. The land was taken from Indian reservations. All land not claimed by individuals would then be open to white settlers. The act was seen by some as a great opportunity to be given to the Native people. However by giving people individual natives a stake in the success of their land harvest. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
Plessy V. Ferguson was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling that racial segregation laws did not violate the United States. The Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as separate but equal. The impact this had was it strengthened racial segregation in public accommodations and services throughout the United States. -
USS Maine explosion
The USS Maine was a United States Navy ship that sank in Havana Harbor in 1898. It was a big contribution to the outbreak of the Spanish–American War. -
The Annexation of Hawaii
Hawaii was declared an independent republic. Spurred by the nationalism aroused by the Spanish-American War, the United States annexed Hawaii in 1898 at the urging of President William McKinley. Hawaii was made a territory in 1900. -
Assassination of William McKinley
William McKinley the 25th president of the United States, was assassinated in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, six months into his second term. He was killed by Leon Czolgosz who shot him twice in the abdomen. His vice president Theodore Roosevelt became his acting intern after his assassination. -
The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty was an agreement between the United States and Panama granting the United States exclusive canal rights to the Isthmus of Panama in exchange for financial reimbursement and guarantees of protection to the newly established republic. -
Theodore Roosevelt Second inauguration
Theodore Roosevelt gets inaugurated for a second term after former president McKinley was assassinated and he became his intern president because he was the vice president at that time. -
The Antiquities Act
The Antiquities Act was the first U.S. law to provide general legal protection of cultural and natural resources of historic or scientific interest on federal lands -
Root-Takahira Agreement
The Root-Takahira Agreement pledged for mutual respect for each nation's Pacific possessions and support for the Open Door Policy in China. -
The Founding of the NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), wanted the abolition of segregation and discrimination in housing, education, employment, voting, and transportation. They wanted to ensure African Americans there constitutional rights. -
The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the movement of African Americans from Southern states of the United States to Northern states because many white people left their jobs in the factories to fight in the war so African Americans were able to take there place in the factories. -
Triangle Fire
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in Manhattan, New York City in 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history.
The fire is widely considered a pivotal moment in history, leading to the transformation of the labor code of New York State and to the adoption of fire safety measures that served as a model for the whole country. -
Henry Ford Invents the Assembly Line
Henry Ford made the assembly line because it allowed for the work to be taken to workers rather than the worker moving to and around the vehicle. The vehicle began to be pulled down the line and built step-by-step. It was much faster and changed the way we built things for the rest of time. -
The Zimmermann Telegram
This secret message from Arthur Zimmermann, Germany's foreign secretary, to the Mexican government proposed a Mexican-German alliance if the United States declared war on Germany. The intercept and publication of the telegram caused outrage and pushed the United States toward war. -
Sedition Act of 1918
The Sedition Act imposed penalties for dissenting speech, including speech abusing the U.S. government, the flag, the Constitution, and the military. These laws were directed at socialists, pacifists, and other anti-war activists. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was signed by Germany and the Allied Nations in 1919, formally ending World War I. The treaty required that Germany pay financial reparations, disarm, lose territory, and give up all of its overseas colonies. -
The Red Scare
The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government. This scare was caused by fears of subversion by communists in the United States after the Russian Revolution. -
Immigration Act of 1924
The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. The quota provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States. -
Dust Bowl
During the Great Depression a series of droughts combined with bad agricultural practices led to devastating dust storms, diseases and deaths related to breathing dust. -
The New Deal
The New Deal was FDR's response to the Great Depression. The New Deal focused on three general goals which were relief for the needy, economic recovery, and financial reform. These three goals helped with the great depression. -
The Second New Deal
President Roosevelt had to make the Second New Deal after the first New Deal was not working. The economy was still struggling and this led to the creation of the Second New Deal that included the problems of the elderly, the poor, and the unemployed, created new public-works projects, helped farmers and enacted measures to protect workers' rights. -
Executive Order 8802
Executive Order 8802 banned discriminatory employment practices by federal agencies and companies engaged in war related work. The order also established the Fair Employment Practices Commission to enforce the new policy. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was the site of aerial attack on the United States in 1941. Many people believe that it was because the United States wouldn't give oil to Japan. Before the attack many Americans were reluctant to become involved in the war in Europe. This all changed when the United States declared war on Japan, bringing the country into World War II. -
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 used the national origins quota system established by the Immigration Act of 1924 using the controversial system of immigrant selection. It opened the doors to those who can contribute most to this country to its growth. The new law created a preference system that focused on immigrants skills and family relations with citizens or U. S. residents -
D-day
Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. it is the largest seaborne invasion in history but it helped the United States win the war and was the turning point in World War II. -
The G.I. Bill
The GI Bill was a federal effort to provide financial and social benefits to World War II veterans after they returned home. It helped them get jobs and be able to buy houses after World war I and World war II. -
The Bombing of Hiroshima
The Bombing of Hiroshima happened in 1945 when the United States detonated two bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people most of whom were civilians, and it is the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. -
The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine that President Harry S. Truman established would mean that the United States would provide political help, military help and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from other countries forces. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was a United States program that was created to help and aid the economies of seventeen European countries in order to create better conditions in which democratic institutions could survive in after World War II concluded. -
NATO
949 Ten west European countries and the United States and Canada sign the Washington treaty which created the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) an alliance which brings together free and sovereign countries. NATO provides defense against any non NATO country and it helps to maintain a secure environment for the development of democracy and economic growth. -
Brown v. the Board of Education
Brown v. the Board of Education was a movement that involved segregation in 1954 Earl Warren delivered the ruling in the civil rights case Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional therefore overthrowing Plessy v. Ferguson. -
The Lynching of Emmett Till
The Lynching of Emmett TIll was when Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam kidnapped and murdered Till, dumping his body in the Tallahatchie River. This was a spark in the activism and resistance of the Civil Rights movement. -
National Interstate and Defense Highways Act
The National Interstate and Defense Highways Act that was enacted under the Eisenhower administration authorized the building of highways throughout the nation. This was the biggest public works project in the nation's history. It created highway and interstate systems but it also helped make cities more accessible and get some travelers off of some of the unsafe roads they are traveling on. -
The National Defense Education Act of 1958
The National Defense Education Act of 1958 established the legitimacy of federal funding of higher education and made substantial funds available for low-cost student loans that boosted public and private colleges and universities. -
The U-2 Incident
The U-2 Incident was a spy plane that was shot down over the soviet union and its pilot Gary Powers captured and put on trial. The United States traded one of there Soviet Union captures in for him but he was always seen as a trader because you were supposed to commit suicide and destroy the plane so other countries cant get any advantages on the United States so when he got back to the States there were many assassination attempts on him but he later crashed and died in a helicopter accident. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was when the Soviet Union began to secretly install missiles in Cuba to launch attacks on cities in the United States.This brought the two superpowers to the brink of war before an agreement was reached to withdraw the missiles. -
JFK Assassinated
President JFK is assassinated while riding in a motorcade in downtown Dallas, Texas. JFK was allegedly assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. JFK's assassination can he largely attributed with the passage of the important Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1964. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing. Many people liked this act but also there were also people who very much disliked this act. -
The Gulf of Tokin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorized President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society
The main goal of the Great Society was the total elimination of poverty and racial injustice. New major federal programs that addressed civil rights, education, medical care, urban problems, rural poverty, and transportation were launched during this period. -
Voting Right Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act is a law enacted in 1965 to remove race-based restrictions on voting. It was the country's most important voting rights law. It changed the landscape for voting rights in America for ever. -
My Lai Massacre
My Lai Massacre was a mass killing of 500 unarmed villagers by U.S. soldiers in the hamlet of My Lai during the Vietnam War. The massacre prompted global outrage. It contributed to domestic opposition to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, both because of the scope of killing and attempts to cover up the events. -
Martin Luther King Jr is Assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in 1968. He was shot by James Early Ray. At the time Martin Luther King Jr was the most prominent leader of the American civil rights movement. He came to lead a march by striking sanitation workers in Memphis TN when he was killed. In response to King’s death more than 100 American inner cities exploded in rioting, looting, and violence. -
Clean Air Act 1970
The Clean Air act established federal standards for air pollution and their fuels and for sources of hazardous air pollutants. It also established a program for the emissions that caused acid rain . It establishes a comprehensive permit system for all major sources of air pollution -
Operation Ranch Hand
Operation Ranch Hand forced new war crimes laws. This operation occurred as the United States dumped millions of gallons of herbicide on the ground and vegetation with the intent to wipe out plant life. This act of near chemical warfare was even worse because of the chemical that we used known as agent orange. It had many health issues that could kill you if you were to breath it in. -
Watergate
The Watergate scandal was a break in at the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate complex in Washington and was carried out under the direction of White House employees. Disclosure of the White House involvement in the break-in and subsequent cover-up forced President Nixon to resign in 1974 to avoid impeachment. -
Camp David Accords
The Camp David Accords is a comprise with two separate agreements one is a Framework for Peace in the Middle East and the other is a Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel. The Accords also created stronger security and economic relationships between the United States and other people in the agreements. -
Three Mile Island Meltdown
The Three Mile Island Meltdown accident began with failures in the non-nuclear secondary system, followed by a stuck-open pilot-operated relief valve in the primary system, which allowed large amounts of water to escape from the pressurized isolated coolant loop. The effect was some radioactive gas was released but not enough to cause adverse health effects. -
The State of Union Adress
President Reagan's State of the Union was originally scheduled for the day of the Challenger explosion but was postponed by a week in response to the accident. Reagan begins his message by paying tribute to "the brave seven" Challenger crew members their commitment to the space program. The President normally talks about important issues facing Americans and offers his ideas on solving the nation's problems, including suggestions for new laws and policies. -
Ronald Reagan Inaugural Address
In his first Inaugural address President Ronald Reagan addresses major issues affecting the nation, including rising inflation, the Iran hostage crisis, and unemployment. His speech points out that the government was part of the problem in that present economic distress, not just the nation alone. By defining and keeping in check the power and influence of the government, Americans could work together to recover and build a better future. -
Reaganomics
Reaganomics was a plan that Ronald Reagan created that Cut federal income taxes, U.S. government spending budget. Also cutting programs, scaling down the government work force, maintaining low interest rates, and keeping a watchful inflation hedge on the monetary supply was Ronald Reagan's formula for a successful economic turnaround. -
Beirut Barracks Bombing
The Beirut Barracks Bombing was a terrorist bombing attack against the Untied States and French armed forces in Beirut on October 23, 1983 that claimed 299 lives. The attacks, which took place amid the sectarian conflict of the extremely damaging Lebanese civil war, hastened the removal of the international peacekeeping force from Lebanon in February 1984.