Major Events in U.S. History - Part 2
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1. The American Civil War began. 1935
2. World War I ended. 1929
3. The U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia. 1914
4. U.S. soldiers massacred Native Americans at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. 1861
5. World War I began. 1918
6. The Spanish-American War began and ended; the U.S. annexed Hawaii. 1867
7. The Social Security Act was passed. 1913
8. The Constitution was amended to guarantee women the right to vote; Prohibition began (the sale and transport of alcohol was made illegal). 1890
9. The New York stock market crashed, beginning a long economic downturn known as the Great Depression. 1917
10. The American Civil War ended; the Constitution was amended to prohibit slavery; the Reconstruction Era began. 1865
11. The Reconstruction Era ended. 1933
12. Prohibition ended (the sale and transport of alcohol was again declared to be legal). 1920
13. The U.S. entered World War I. 1877
14. The Constitution was amended to permit taxing income from any source, and to allow the popular election of Senators; the Federal Reserve Act was passed. 1898



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