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Industrial Wave
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8000 B.C. to 1750 A.D
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DeweyJohn Dewey belived that humans use truth to solve problems and learning is active.
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QueenQueen Victoria dies.
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MorganJ.P. Morgan merged the Carnegie Steel Company and several other steel and iron businesses to form the first billion dollar corporation in America.
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McKinleyPresident McKinley begins second term as president and is fatally shot.
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WrightFirst flight at Kitty Hawk by the Wright Brothers
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The Wright Brothers flew the first controlled airplane near Kitty Hawk, N.C.
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PavlovThe first type of learning to be discovered in the early 1900's. Ivan Pavlov played a key role in the development of classical conditioning.
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FordHenry Ford built the automobile using a method of mass production called the assembly line.
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AngelAngel Island in San Franciso, an immigration station, opens to Asian Immigrants coming to America.
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BoyBoy Scouts of America was incorporated in the United States. It is the largest youth organization in the world.
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TriangleA factory in New York caught fire killing an estimated 500 workers. The led to the beginning of strikes and labor unions.
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FordThe 16th amendement allows Congress to collect income tax.
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HenryHenry Ford brought down the price of the Ford Model T with the use of the assembly line. The assembly increased the speed of the production of cars.
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WWIThe United States enters WWI.
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WilsonPresident Wilson enters the United States in World War I.
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SocialThis takes place when individuals share common goals.
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Women'sWomen's Suffrage was ratified granting nation-wide suffrage to women.
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radioThe first radio broadcast by a radio station.
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MussoliniBenito Mussolini starts facist government and marches on Rome.
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KKKWidespread Klu Klux Klan violence erutped in the United States.
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BessieSinger Bessie Smith makes her first blue's album
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PiagetPiaget developed the stages of cognitive development for children ages birth to eleven and up.
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StockThis day is known as Black Tuesday.
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The Dust Bowl occured when topsoil was blown from barren lands and carried in storms.
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televisionAmerica's new form of entertainment is invented.
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Star“The Star-Spangled Banner” was made the national anthem by Congress.
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Frederic C. Bartlett wrote a book titled "Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology/" that focused on memiories of the past.
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AmeliaAmelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly.
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Dr. William Bennett Kouwenhoven esearch led to the creation of the closed defibrillator to jump start the heart.
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Hitler Becomes Chancellor
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Franklin Rooselvelt creates New Deal Programs to put Americans back to work.
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The 21st amendment that repealed prohibition was ratified.
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Skinner introduces his theory of operant conditioning.
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Sir Winston Churchhill becomes Britain's Prime Minister
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Japan attacks U.S. at Pearl Harbor causing us to enter WWII.
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Congress lowers the draft age to 18.
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The atomic bomb deveolpment was known as the Manhattan Project. It was used during World War II to make Japan surrender.
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Edgar Dale created the Cone of Experience. Its purpose was for educators to provide a visual learning experience using materials.
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Jackie Robinson played in his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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South Africa institutionalizes apartheid.
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The first polaroid camera was invented by Edwin Land. It was first sold to the public in Nov. of 1948.
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Ralph Tyler published this book based on four principles and those principles still live on in education today.
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Korean War begins between North and South Korea over communism.
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Dr. Jonas Salk invented a successful vaccine for polio.
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Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower inaugurated president of United States.
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The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the Brown vs. The Board of Education case in favor of Brown. The court rules that seperate but equal is unconstitutional.
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USS Nautilus is the name of the first submarine launched in the United States.
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McDonalds was founded by Ray Kroc.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. leads the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Birmingham, Alabama. This was after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man.
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Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives includes six levels of knowledge.
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When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, President Dwight Eisenhower initiated federal funds to education in math and science.
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Theodore Maiman invented the first working laser.
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John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as president of the U.S.
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Volunteers in the Peace Corps take on serveral different roles and serve over 139 countries in the world.
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Levi Strauss introduces jeans
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Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his famous "I Have a Dream Speech."
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The Beatles make their debut on the Ed Sullivan show.
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Neil Armstrong walks on the moon.
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This is where small groups work collaboratively to solve problems.
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NASDAQ opens as world's first electronic stock market
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Watergate scandal that later caused President Richard Nixon to resign from office.
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Vietnam War ends.
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Duke Ellington's, Music Is My Mistress, is published.
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Bill Gates and Paul Allen forms Microsoft to write computer software.
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Supreme Court rules that blacks and other minorities are entitled to retroactive job seniority.
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Personal stereo cassette player by Sony in invented by Akio Morita.
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Smallpox was eliminated.
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The Iran-Iraq War begins.
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Ronald Reagan becomes the 40th president of the U.S.
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AIDS is identified in the U.S.
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The first space shuttle was launched.
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IBM released their own personal computer.
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T.H. Bell, Secretary of Education, created the National Commission on Excellence in Education to examine America's educational public school system.
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Howard Gardner developed seven intelligences that deal with the way people learn and how we all learn differently.
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Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) states that children with disabilities are entitled to a free public education.
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Persian Gulf War was a result of Iraq invading Kuwait for oil reserves.
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South Africa frees Nelson Mandela. Mandela served twenty-seven and a half years in prison.
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Two police officers convicted on federal civil rights charges in Rodney King beating that took place in Los Angeles.
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Jerome Bruner reminds educators that education is about more than just knowledge, but strategies to construct meaning.
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Princess Diana dies in car accident.
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Terriosists attack the U.S. by hijackers ramming jetliners into the twin towers of New York City's World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A fourth hijacked plane crashed 80 mi outside of Pittsburgh.
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This act was signed into law by President Bush to require annual testing of all students in public schools.
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Space shuttle Columbia explodes killing all astronauts on board.
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School boards across the country met to discuss the controversial issue of how to teach students the origin of the earth.
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ObamaBarack Obama Is Elected President. He is the first African-American male elected president of the United States.
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The U.S. falls into a rrecession.
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Robert Mager developed this type of instruction in order for it to be used for training purposes.
