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Death of President Taylor
President Taylor dies (July 9) and is succeeded by his vice president, Millard Fillmore. -
Stowe's novel
Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin is published. It becomes one of the most influential works. Was the best seller in the United States, Britian, Europe, Asia, and translated into over 60 languages... -
Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce is inaugurated as the 14th president.Gadsden Purchase treaty is signed -
U.S
U.S. acquires border territory from Mexico for $10 million -
Abraham
Abraham Lincoln is elected president .South Carolina secedes from the Union (Dec. 20). -
Vietnam War
: Prolonged conflict between Communist forces of North Vietnam, backed by China and the USSR, and non-Communist forces of South Vietnam, backed by the United States. President Truman authorizes $15 million in economic and military aid to the French, who are fighting to retain control of French Indochina, including Vietnam. As part of the aid package. -
Korean War
Cold war conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces on Korean Peninsula. North Korean communists invade South Korea. -
amendment
Twenty-Second Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, limiting the president to two terms. -
Joseph McCarthy
Senator McCarthy spent almost five years trying in vain to expose communists and other left-wing “loyalty risks” in the U.S. government.It was not until he attacked the Army in 1954 that his actions earned him the censure of the U.S. Senate.
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Vietnam War
More than 3 million people (including 58,000 Americans) were killed in the Vietnam War; more than half were Vietnamese civilians -
Emmett Till murder
Emmett Till visited relatives in Mississippi. At Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market, a store owned by a white couple. He was only foutheen years old. HE was murdered because he was flirting with a white woman -
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine, as the teens came to be known, were black students who sought to attend Little Rock Central High School in the fall of 1957. Some of them had securities to escort them. -
Space race
Sputnik is the world’s first artificial satellite and the first man-made object to be placed into the Earth’s orbit. Sputnik’s launch came as a surprise, and not a pleasant one, to most Americans. -
States
Alaska becomes the 49th state (Jan. 3) and Hawaii becomes the 50th (Aug. 21). -
The assassination of John F. Kennedy
38 revolver and rifle with a telescopic sight by mail order, and on April 10 in Dallas he allegedly shot at and missed former U.S. Army general Edwin Walker, a figure known for his extreme right-wing views. -
Civil Rights Act
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act -
WAR protest
North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked two U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin, and President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered the retaliatory bombing of military targets in North Vietnam. -
Union address
In his annual state of the Union address, President Johnson proposes his Great Society program -
MAlcolm X
He was a Civil right activist. and also an American muslim minister. Assassinated in New York City. -
Civil rights movement
half of people that followed, civil rights activists used nonviolent protest and civil disobedience to bring about change, and the federal government made legislative headway with initiatives like Civil Rights Act of 1968. -
Woodstock
The Woodstock Festival was a three-day concert (which rolled into a fourth day) that involved lots of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll - plus a lot of mud. The Woodstock Music Festival of 1969 has become an icon of the 1960s hippie -
AIDS
On September 17, President Ronald Reagan mentions AIDS publicly for the first time, vowing in a letter to Congress to make AIDS a priority. -
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and conservative spokesman who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989
