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13th Amendment
The 13th amendment Passed by Congress banned slavery in the United States and provides that slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where as the party shall have been convicted, should exist within the United States. This was a very exciting thing for most African American people. Without it people in America would still be abused and segregated. -
14th Amendment
The 15th amendment was passed by Congress it was made to grant citizenship of the recently freed slaves. Most Southern states refused to go along with this amendment. Congress passed the first Reconstruction Act on March 2nd of 1867. the South was now divided into five military districts, each of them under a major general. If you were born in the U.S you should be a citizen -
second industrial revolution
The second Industrial Revolution made more inventions, social, and government policies and reforms all over the U.S. The power of electricity to help see, to make other inventors be able to see there inventions in the dark. the invention of the telephone. The discovery of radioactivity, the first airplane, cars, and a lot of other interesting things. The industrial revolution was a good thing that happened to the U.S with out it we would still be riding in carriages having horses drag us around -
child labor
Children had always worked, especially in farming. But factory work was hard. A child with a factory job might work 12 to 18 hours a day, six days a week, to earn a dollar. Many children began working before the age of 7, tending machines in spinning mills or hauling heavy loads. The factories were often damp, dark, and dirty. Some children worked underground, in coal mines. The working children had no time to play or go to school, and little time to rest. They often became ill. Child labor was -
new immigrants
334,203 immigrants arrived in the United States in 1886,The immigrants who would catch a glimpse of the statue would mainly come from eastern and southern Europe. In 1900, 14 percent of the American population was foreign born, compared to 8 percent a century later. Passports were unnecessary and the cost of crossing the Atlantic was just $10 in steerage. it was a hard time for americans and the new immigrants, -
pure food and drug act
The first Pure Food and Drug Act was passed in 1906. The purpose was to protect the public against adulteration of food and from products identified as healthful without scientific support. The original Pure Food and Drug Act was amended in 1912 President Theodore Roosevelt began the process by ensuring the passage of the Meat Inspection Act of 1906, which was followed by the Pure Food and Drug Act, passed in 1906 to become effective at the start of 1907. -
death of archduke
the spark was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. Ferdinand's death at the hands of the Black Hand, a Serbian nationalist secret society, set in train a mindlessly mechanical series of events that culminated in the world's first global war. Austria-Hungary's reaction to the death of their heir was three weeks in coming. Arguing that the Serbian government was implicated in the machinations of the Black Hand, this was a
