1. AP US History This Day in American History December 1 1862 – President Abraham Lincoln addresses the U.S. Congress and speaks some of his most memorable words as he discusses the Northern war effort.

2. AP US History This Day in American History December 1 1913 – Henry Ford installs the first moving assembly line for the mass production of an entire automobile. His innovation reduced the time it took to build a car from more than 12 hours to two hours and 30 minutes.

3. AP US History This Day in American History December 1 1955 – In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, a violation of the city's racial segregation laws. The successful Montgomery Bus Boycott, organized by a young Baptist minister named Martin Luther King, Jr., followed Park's historic act of civil disobedience.

4. AP US History This Day in American History December 1 1958 - A fire at a grade school in Chicago kills 90 students on this day in 1958.