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United States opens Japans port
Genral matthew perry from the United States sail day to the ports in japan to open their trade with them. When they arrived to bargain a trade at first they dint accept but then we showed them the fleet of ships that we brought. -
Lincoln's plan
Proclamation of amnesty and reconstruction
Pardon to all except high ranking officers
10 percent of the voting population had taken an oath -
Wade-Davis Bill
Didn't allow states to come back to the union unless 50% of the voters said that they in no way helped the confederates. Enacted safe guards for the freed mans liberties -
Freeman's bureau
Bureau of refugees, freedman, many southern risked their lives to help the southern freedman. They were called carpetbaggers -
End of civil war
The end of the civil war made many ask questions like how they would rebuild the south what to do with the slaves that are free now and how should the states be fought back into the union -
Jeff Davis arrest
Jefferson Davis fled Richmond ahead of the union army. On his rush in the way out he accidentally grabbed his wife's coat. When he was caught the media ridiculed him for wearing woman's clothes. -
Sharecropping
This was the new type of slavery. It inslaved families because of debt for sharing a crop with its owner. The owner always made sure that they couldn't come out of debt -
15th Ammendment
Allowed all men to be able to vote with out having race be a problem. -
Compromise of 1877
The election was tied so republicans and democrats both got to choose something
Republicans: chose the president
Democrats: choose to end reconstruction.
Blacks are the real looser -
Brooklyn bridge
This at the time was the longest suspension bridge ever built -
“Gospel of wealth” by Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie wrote a book so that he can justify big business. He also promoted the idea of helping the poor if you had a lot of money -
Ida B. Wells
She’s the woman who protested against lynching. -
Ellis island opens doors
Ellis island was an immigration point where foreigners came to the United States and came to live a better life to forget and start over again. They opened Ed their doors in 1892 -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
The case where they decided that we would be separate but equal because of Holmer plussey who sat in a white part of the train and he was 1/8th black -
Ellis island fire
In 1897 Ellis island or the building caught on fire and was shut down for a while, which slowed down the immigration until they could reopen their doors. -
General Valeriano Weyler
This was a general spain who was responsible for killing over 100,000 Cubans and detaining 500,000. -
Yellow journalists
These were popular journalist back in the day that would exaggerate stories and scare the Americans into believing something that wasn’t necessarily true. They were one of the reasons for the Spanish-American war -
Beginning of world war 1
5js isn’t the day that was marked as the beginning of the Great War. Many countries who teamed the side the allies and axis powers fought each other. WHich later became known as World War I -
Espionage act
the general mail master had to go through the mail so that there wasn’t any plans of a rebellion agaisnt the government -
America join the war
Although we were late to join the war. America gave the last push to end the war. As Americans we hadn’t massive propaganda to help push to win the war. Which we did. Americans were the main factor to winning the war. -
Selective service act
This act ensured that hat all all men in the United States of age had to enlist into the war. By the end of the war 24 million had enlisted but only 4 million served -
Alice’s Paul imprisoned
This was the day that Alice’s Paul a song put in prison for picketing in front of the White House, they put her in the slammer because she wasn’t picketing during the war. -
End of World War I
THIs is the day that the end of the Great War endend. Germany and their allies surrendered because they had no men to fight back. Germany took responsibility for the entire war and had to pay massive compensation for the damage. -
Flapper
A Flapper was a woman who kept up with the fashion a the time. THey usually had shorter skirts and more skin showing -
19th ammendment
Women we able to fight to get the right to vote finally. For several years and they fought with blood sweat Andy tears to get the right to vote, -
President Harding
Warren Harding dies in office and Calvin Coolidge becomes next president. -
Stock market crash
The fact that the stock market crashed was inevitable. It was bound to happen which is very sad and disturbing. But people were walking around as millionaires with no real value to back it up. It was just bound to crash with how fast and rich people were getting. -
AL capone
AL WAS A mob leader and a boot legged in Chicago at his time who built an empire on the law against a alchohal -
Herbert Hoover becomes president
Herbert Hoover comes into office and tries to fix economy from stock market crash. -
“How the other half lived” by Jacob Riis
Jacob Riis was a photojournalist who took picture of the poor people on the cities and made a. Book called “how the other half lived” and made sure that people saw how the poor people lived -
John D. Rockefeller
He made his fortune off of oil, and devoted his life to make the process of things more efficient and quick -
America adds Hawaii
The United States annexed Hawaii Andy made them the 50th state. They took Hawaii over by force because they wanted to avoid the tariff for tax on sugar -
Margaret sanger
Creator of planned parenthood. Which was a good thing but she was also racist so she promoted the abortion of black babies.
