U.S. Involvement in World War I 1915–1919
Wilson wins reelection on campaign promise of maintaining neutrality, but United States is soon...
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Progressive Era 1901–1914
Progressives agitate for far-reaching reform in politics, business, poverty relief, and...
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The Gilded Age 1878–1900
Corporations and trusts begin to accumulate large capital reserves, ushering in Era of Big...
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Reconstruction 1865–1877
Lincoln, radical Republicans clash over plans for postwar Reconstruction Union establishes...
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African Americans in Religion
1773 First known black Baptist church is founded in Sliver Bluff, South Carolina; other...
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African Americans in the Arts
1760 Poet Jupiter Hammon, an ex-slave living in New York, publishes his first poem, “An Evening...
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African Americans in Politics
1836 Alexander Twilight becomes the first African American elected to public office when he wins a...
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African Americans in Sciences and Professional Fields
1783 Former slave James Derham buys his freedom from his physician slave owner, who trains him as...
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African Americans in Education
1804 Lemuel Haynes receives an honorary master’s degree from Middlebury College in Vermont 1823...
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