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The Mining Frontier
Violence was part of everybody life in Boom Towns where many Minniors carried large amounts of cash and guns. -
California Gold Rush
Civil War Veterans and farmers went west to Californis in search of Gold -
Pikes Peak
Gold was descovered in Colorado Rockies 50,000 prospecterswent to Colorado when they found Gold -
Comstock Load
7 prospectors found a rich lode of silver- bearing are on the bankes of the carson river in Nevada in 1859 -
Plessy-vs-Feruson
On June 7, 1892, 30-year-old Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the "White" car of the East Louisiana Railroad. Plessy could easily pass for white but under Louisiana law, he was considered black despite his light complexion and therefore required to sit in the "Colored" car. He was a Creole of Color, a term used to refer to black persons in New Orleans who traced some of their ancestors to the French, Spanish, and Caribbean settlers of Louisiana before it became part of the United States. W -
17th amendments
senators were to be elected by the people -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African-American civil rights activist, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". Born: February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, AL Died: October 24, 2005, Detroit, MI Spouse: Raymond Parks (m. 1932–1977) Education: Highlander Folk School, Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes Awards: Presidential Medal of Freedom, More Parents: Leona McCauley, James McCauley -
16th amendments
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Franz Ferdinand
He was the archduke of Austria-Hungry but he was assainated -
Battle of the Marne
It stopped Germany from invading Paris.. -
The Lusitania
It was a passenger ship that was sank by Germany's U.boats -
Battle of Verdun
The largest and bloodiest battle.. -
The Sussex
Germany sunk the Sussex without warning and promised to warn ships from now on.. -
April 2nd, 1917
its the day the U.S declared war in Germany.... -
Chateau Theirry
The first major battle the U.S and Germany was at... -
Argonne Forrest
The last Battle of WW1... -
November 11th, 1918
The day we signed the armistice -
Kaiser Wilhelm 2
German Emperor... -
18th amendments
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19th Amendments
The 19th Amendments was was women suffrage. they often went in teaching, nursing, and medicine. people were afraid that if women were able to vote, it would lead to divorce and neglected children. -
Holocaust
A male who commits lewd and lascivious acts with another male or permits himself to be so abused for lewd and lascivious acts, shall be punished by imprisonment. In a case of a participant under 21 years of age at the time of the commission of the act, the court may, in especially slight cases, refrain from punishment. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. Much of the harbor and surrounding lands is a United States Navy deep-water naval base. It is also the headquarters of the United States Pacific Fleet. -
D-DAY
In the military, D-Day is the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. The best known D-Day is June 6, 1944 — the day of the Normandy landings — initiating the Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during World War II. -
Hitlers Dead
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party. He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945 -
Brown-vs-Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education (1954), now acknowledged as one of the greatest Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century, unanimously held that the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Although the decision did not succeed in fully desegregating public education in the United States, it put the Constitution on the side of racial equality and galvanized the nascent civil rights movement into a full revolution. In 1954, -
Rosa parks aresset
On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. This single act of nonviolent resistance sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, an eleven-month struggle to desegregate the city’s buses. Under the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr., the boycott resulted in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that public bus segregation is unconstitutional and catapulted both King and Parks into the national spotlight. -
Bus Boycott
Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks on 1 December 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) coordinated the boycott, and its president, Martin Luther King, Jr., became a prominent civil rights leader as international attention focused on Montgomery. The bus boycott demonstrated the potential for nonviolent mass protest to successfully -
Martin Lutrher King Jr. was arrested
As the events of the Birmingham Campaign intensified on the city’s streets, Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in Birmingham in response to local religious leaders’ criticisms of the campaign: “Never before have I written so long a letter. I’m afraid it is much too long to take your precious time. I can assure you that it would have been much shorter if I had been writing from a comfortable desk, but what else can one do when he is alone in a narrow jail cell, other -
I have dream speach
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. -
9/11
Where Immigrants high-jacked the American's air line plane and crashed into the Wide Trade Center.
