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E-grāmata: 100 Turning Points in American History

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Arnold J. Toynbee, the most famous professional historian of the twentieth century, is widely quoted as having declared that History is just one damn thing after another. This book argues that history is not about things at all but is all about turning pointsthe decisions, acts, innovations, errors, ideas, successes, and failures on which the shape of a nations lifeour livesdepends. It presents the 100 points at which Americas path decisively turned on its way to where we find ourselves today.



Columbus arrives in the New World The first slaves arrive in America Independence is declared The Indian Removal Act is passed Female suffragists meet in Seneca Falls Harpers Ferry is raided Fort Sumter falls A transcontinental railroad is completed Edison lights his first electric lamp Prohibition makes America a nation of lawbreakers FDR offers a New Deal The B-29 Enola Gay drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima The Supreme Court decides Brown v. Board of Education Neil Armstrong sets foot on the moon President Nixon creates the EPA 9/11 Obama Sandy Hook Russian election meddling the Age of Trump

These and many more are the crucial plot points in our grand national story, and best-selling historian Alan Axelrod presents them here.
Introduction 1(2)
Columbus Arrives in the "New World" (1492)
3(5)
Jamestown Is Founded (1607)
8(4)
The First African Slaves Are Sold in America (1619)
12(4)
The Mayflower Arrives (1620)
16(3)
Tisquantum---Squanto---Saves the Pilgrims (1621)
19(4)
A Massachusetts Settler Kills an Indian, Touching Off King Philip's War (1675)
23(6)
Salem Tries Its People for Witchcraft (1692)
29(4)
Young George Washington Ignites the French and Indian War (1754)
33(4)
The Boston Massacre Is Followed by a Trial (1770)
37(5)
A Minuteman Fires the Shot Heard 'Round the World (1775)
42(4)
The Continental Congress Adopts the Declaration of Independence(1776)
46(5)
Victory at the Battle of Yorktown Assures Independence (1781)
51(6)
Delaware Becomes the First State to Ratify the Constitution (1787)
57(4)
The Bill of Rights Is Drafted (1789)
61(3)
The Supreme Court Decides Its Supremacy (1803)
64(3)
Thomas Jefferson Purchases Louisiana from Napoleon (1803)
67(4)
The British Burn Washington (1814)
71(4)
Ground Is Broken on the Erie Canal (1817)
75(2)
South Carolina's John C. Calhoun Launches the Nullification Crisis (1828)
77(3)
Congress Passes the Indian Removal Act (1830)
80(4)
Andrew Jackson Wages War on the Second Bank of the United States (1832)
84(3)
Samuel F. B. Morse Demonstrates His Telegraph (1844)
87(3)
James Marshall Finds Gold in California (1848)
90(5)
Female Suffragists Meet in Seneca Falls (1848)
95(3)
The Supreme Court Hands Down Its Verdict in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
98(3)
William Smith Strikes Oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania (1859)
101(4)
Abolitionist John Brown Leads a Raid on the Federal Arsenal at Harpers Ferry (1859)
105(4)
The Confederacy Goes to War against the United States (1861)
109(4)
The Homestead Act Becomes Law (1862)
113(4)
Abraham Lincoln Issues the Emancipation Proclamation (1862)
117(4)
The Union Army Prevails in the Battle of Gettysburg (1863)
121(5)
John Wilkes Booth Assassinates President Lincoln (1865)
126(4)
The Cowboy Becomes an American Icon (1866)
130(4)
The Transcontinental Railroad Is Completed (1869)
134(4)
Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse Triumph in the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876)
138(5)
Thomas Edison Demonstrates His Incandescent Electric Lamp (1879)
143(3)
The "Battle" of Wounded Knee Ends the Indian Wars (1890)
146(4)
William Jennings Bryan Refuses Crucifixion on a "Cross of Gold" (1896)
150(3)
To Hell with Spain (1898)
153(5)
Edwin S. Porter Directs The Great Train Robbery (1903)
158(3)
The Jungle Aims for America's Heart but Hits It in the Stomach (1906)
161(3)
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Kills 146 Immigrant Workers (1911)
164(5)
Ford's Moving Assembly Line Begins Operation in Highland Park, Michigan (1913)
169(2)
The Zimmermann Telegram Is Revealed (1917)
171(4)
A Worldwide Influenza Pandemic Begins in the United States (1918)
175(2)
Prohibition Becomes a Federal Case (1919)
177(4)
Congress Rejects the League of Nations (1919)
181(4)
Americans Ratify the Nineteenth Amendment, Giving Women the Vote (1920)
185(3)
Congress Cracks Down on Immigration (1924)
188(109)
The Stonewall Uprising in New York City Begins the Gay Liberation Movement (1969)
297(2)
Neil Armstrong Sets Foot on the Moon (1969)
299(3)
The Woodstock Festival Becomes an Icon of 1960s American Youth Culture (1969)
302(4)
ARPANET, Precursor to the Internet, Is Launched (1969)
306(3)
Sesame Street Debuts on Public Television, Becoming an Instant Media Landmark in Culture and Education (1969)
309(3)
Richard Nixon Creates the Environmental Protection Agency (1970)
312(3)
President Richard M. Nixon Takes the United States off the Gold Standard (1971)
315(3)
Nixon's Plumbers Are Nabbed at the Watergate (1972)
318(2)
Richard M. Nixon Resigns the Presidency (1974)
320(4)
AIDS First Clinically Observed in the United States (1981)
324(3)
Motorola Releases the DynaTAC 8000X, First Commercial Cellular Telephone (1983)
327(3)
The Berlin Wall Falls (1989)
330(3)
Federal Officers Lay Siege to the "Branch Davidian Compound" in Waco, Texas (1993)
333(4)
Terrorists Attack the United States (2001)
337(3)
Human Genome Project Is Completed (2003)
340(3)
Facebook Is Launched (2004)
343(4)
Lehman Brothers Collapses, Triggering a Global Financial Crisis (2008)
347(3)
Barack Obama Is Elected the Nation's First African American President (2008)
350(4)
Donald Trump Defeats Hillary Clinton to Become the Forty-Fifth President of the United States (2016)
354(5)
Russia Is Accused of "Meddling" in the US Presidential Election (2016)
359(4)
Amid a New Nationalism, the United States Withdraws from the Paris Climate Accords (2017)
363(4)
Index 367
Alan Axelrod is the author of more than 100 books on history, military history, leadership, management, corporate history, career, general business, and other nonfiction. After receiving his Ph.D. in English (specializing in early American literature and culture) from the University of Iowa in 1979, Axelrod taught early American literature and culture at Lake Forest College (Lake Forest, Illinois) and at Furman University (Greenville, South Carolina).

He has been a creative consultant (and on-camera personality) for The Wild West television documentary series (Warner Bros.), Civil War Journal (A&E Network), and The Discovery Channel, and he has appeared on MSNBC, CNN, CNNfn, CNBC, Fox Network affiliates in Philadelphia and Atlanta, and numerous radio news and talk programs, including National Public Radio. He and his work have been featured in BusinessWeek, Fortune, Mens Health, Cosmopolitan, Inc., Atlanta Business Chronicle, and many newspapers, including Atlanta Journal-Constitution and USA Today. Axelrod has served as consultant for the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum (Rochester, New York), the Airman Memorial Museum (Suitland, Maryland), and the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum (Winterthur, Delaware).