120-116: The Right To Vote
120: Homegrown terrorists Timothy McVeigh and accomplice Terry Nichols set of a bomb at the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK killing 168 people including 19 children
119: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter’s Mill setting off the California Gold Rushft. Elizabeth MacMillan Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Anthea Hartig.
118: Construction on the Hoover Dam is completed
117: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Women’s Suffrage Association in New York. Three years later in 1872, Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time in defiance of law. She is arrested and fine $100 dollars – which she never paysft. Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University & author of the prize-winning book,The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Dr. Lisa Tretault.
116: The Teapot Dome land scandal cripples the Harding Administration
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