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Cornelius Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt was a self-made multi-millionaire who became one of the wealthiest Americans of the 19th century. when he was little he would work on boats with his father who operated a boat that ferried cargo between state island, New York, where they lived in Manhattan. After years of working as a steamship captain, Vanderbilt went into business for himself in the late 1820s, eventually, he became one of the largest steamship operators. later he shifted his focus to the railroad industry -
Spoil Systems
The term was in use in American politics as early as 1812, but it was made famous in a speech made in 1832 by Senator William Marcy of New York. In defending one of President Andrew Jackson’s appointments, Marcy said, “To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.” In Marcy’s time, the term spoils referred to the political appointments, such as cabinet offices or ambassadorships, controlled by an elected official. -
U-Boats
U-boats were a big revolution when it came to fighting and exploring. This was a new way to fight back. The were Submarines that were used underwater and would sink allied ships around the British Isles as a way to fight back. The U bots were the reason the HMS and Lusitania and the Sussex sank. The Germans named the boats "U-boats" in short for "undersea boat". These boats are very important and take an important place in the war. The U-boats played an important role in drawing the U.S into war -
Pilanthropy
The practice of giving money to help make life better for others. This was practiced by Captains of Industry during the Progressive Era. Both Andrew Carnegie and John D Rockefeller gave money to charity to help. -
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Lassez Faire
in 1848 Lassez Faire was used to describe the belief that the government should keep their hands off the economy, supported by liberals who believed "there were bound to be poor people in society" a typical laissez-faire factory means of production owned by capitalist, owners want to maximize production, low wages expensive products, if there is an excess of labor people are fired. workers are seen as a piece of machinery, -
Indian Appropriations Act
The Indian Appropriation Act was also known as the Appropriation Bill For Indian Affairs, it authorized the establishment of Indian reservations in Oklahoma and inspired the creation of reservations in other states as well. The US federal government envisioned the reservations as a useful means of keeping Native American tribes off of the lands that white Americas wished to settle. Basically, it was created to keep Native Americans off of lands that europeans wished to settle. -
Bessemer Process
The Bessemer process was the first method discovered for mass production of steel.it was named after Sir Henry Bessemer of England even though it evolved from the help of many investigators before it could be used on a broad commercial basis. This invention made it faster for carbon, silicone, and other impurities to be removed from the molten pig iron by oxidation in a blast of air. The Bessemer process helped the steel company immensely by helping the steel making process a lot faster. -
Homestead Act
The Homestead Act was passed in the middle of the civil war, it was one of the most long-lasting and impactful pieces of legislation in the 19th century. The purpose of the homestead act was to provide up to 168 acres of free land to western settlers who promised to help the land prosper agriculturally, and it remained in effect until 1976 when it began to be replaced by other domestic legislation. During the Homestead act over 10% of US lands were covered by the homestead promise. -
Morill Land Grant College Act
The Morrill Land Grant College Act was established on July 2 1862, its purpose was to provide education to the people in the states that were involved in agriculture, home economics, mechanical arts, and other professions that were a part of the states at the time. The Land Grant act was introduced by a congressman from vernom named Justin Smith Morrill. -
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Transcontinental Railroad
1862 the Pacific railroad act chartered the central Pacific and the union pacific railroad companies and tasked them with the building of a transcontinental railroad that would connect the united states from east to west, for the next 4 years the two railroad companies would race towards each other from Sacramento on the other side of Omaha, Nebraska on the other struggling against great risk before they met at promontory, utah, on may 10, 1869. -
Entrepreneurship
Someone who runs and organizes a business or businesses; taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so. Entrepreneurs ran many businesses during the Industrial Revolution because they had all the money and payed all of the workers during that time period. Entrepreneurs also had a great say in political issues because they had a lot of the countries wealth. "the pursuit of opportunity without regard to the resource currently under ones control. -
Robber Barons
Robber Baron was a term applied to a businessman in the 19th century who engaged in unethical and monopolistic practices, wielded widespread political influence, and amassed enormous wealth.The term itself dated back centuries, and was originally applied to noblemen in the Middle Ages who functioned as feudal warlords and were literally “robber barons.” In the 1870s the term began to be used to describe business tycoons, and the usage persisted throughout the rest of the 19th century. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. he also led one of the most important philanthropists of his era. Carnegie would make trips to Britain and meet steelmakers to help launch his career as the biggest steelmaker of his time, which eventually evolved into the "Carnegie Steel Company". he built the first steel plants in the US and used the new Bessemer steelmaking process that he borrowed from the british. -
Red River War
The red river war was a military campaign that was established by the United States Army in 1874 to remote native American tribes from the southern plains and force them to relocate to reservations in Indian territory. it went on from 1874 into the spring of 1875 in the Texas Panhandle region. -
George Armstrong Custer
George Armstrong Custer was a U.S calvary officer who served with distinction in the American Civil War, he is better known for leading more than 200 men to their deaths in the battle of the little big horn in June 1876. The battle was also the last part of the Black Hills War against a confederation of plains indians, including the Cheyenne and Dakota Sioux. -
Battle Of The Little Big Horn
The battle of big horn happened on June 25, on the year 1876, on this day native American forces led by chiefs crazy horse and sitting bull defeat the U.S army of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer in a bloody battle near southern Montanas Little Bighorn River. In 1875, after gold was discovered in south dakota the us ignored previous army treaty agreements and invaded the region.This betrayal led many sioux and cheyenne tribesmen to leave their reservations. -
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Pancho Villa ( my mexican prince)
Pancho Villa (1878-1923) was a famed Mexican revolutionary and guerilla leader. He joined Francisco Madero’s uprising against Mexican President Porfirio Díaz in 1909, and later became leader of the División del Norte cavalry and governor of Chihuahua. After clashing with former revolutionary ally Venustiano Carranza, Villa killed more than 30 Americans in a pair of attacks in 1916. That drew the deployment of a U.S. military expedition into Mexico, but Villa eluded capture during the 11-month -
Exodusters
The Exodusters was the name given to the African Americans that migrated from state to state along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late 19th century. The reason the Exodusters chose to move to Canada was when a former slave from Tennessee named singleton who managed to escaped to the north back to Tennessee to fulfill his dream of helping other former slaves to improve their lifes, soon after Singleton began to encourage his people to move to kansas and beggin an improved life. -
Light Bulb
In 1878, Thomas Edison began serious research into developing a practical workable lamp and on October 14, 1878, Edison filed his first patent application for "Improvement In Electric Lights". However, he continued to test several types of material for metal filaments to improve upon his original design and by Nov 4, 1879, he filed another U.S. patent for an electric lamp using "a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected to platina contact wires. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first significant law that didn't allow immigration into the United States. It was passed by the U.S Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. The law was established for those on the west coast, especially to those prone to attributions declining wages and economic ills on the despised Chinese workers. In 1902 the ban against the immigration of Chinese laborers was made permanent. -
Kodak Camara
George Eastman was born on July 12, 1854. In 188o he opened the eastman dry plate and film company. His first camara, The Kodak and was sold in 1888 and consisted of a box camara with 100 exposures. He came up with the advertising slogan, "You Press the Button, We Do the Rest." Eastman wanted to simplify photography and make it available to everyone, not just trained photographers. So in 1883, Eastman announced the invention of photographic film in rolls. -
Ghost Dancers
The Ghost Danced first started when the Natives Americans were against the U.S government. The ghost dances were made to represent their traditional culture and they believed this was their way to stand up for themselves an their shortage of food and other problems they had. They made this dance also to bring hope to their tribe. The dance was destined to bring back their ancestors into the contemporary day to help them in a crisis. This dancing was in a circular pattern which excited them. -
Sherman Anti Trust Act
One of the act’s main provisions outlaws all combinations that restrain trade between states or with foreign nations. This prohibition applies not only to formal cartels but also to any agreement to fix prices, limit industrial output, share markets, or exclude competition. A second key provision makes illegal all attempts to monopolize any part of trade or commerce in the United States. These two provisions, which comprise the heart of the Sherman Act, are enforceable by the Department. -
Populism
In the United States the term was applied to the program of the Populist Movement, which gave rise to the Populist, or People’s, Party in 1892. Many of the party’s demands were later adopted as laws or constitutional amendments (pogressive tag system). The populist demand for direct democracy through popular initiatives and referenda also become a reality in a number of U.S. states. -
World Colombian Exposition
The Colombian exposition act took place in 1893 in Chicago, Illinois and it had been the celebration of Christopher Columbus voyage to America. The act was a celebration towards the discovery of America where many people attended.More than 27 million people had attended the exposition during the six months the exposition was going on for. It included almost 200 new deliberately temporary buildings and many cultures came together to celebrate together, about 46 countries and cultures together. -
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Plessy V. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson was a supreme court case that was very popular and controversial. The case focused on Jim Crow railroad cars in Louisiana;the Court had decided by 7 to 1 that legislation could not overcome racial attitudes because of how people had been used to racism during the decade and this was constitutional to have "separate but equal" schools, hospitals, and facilities for black and whites because it was about time that everyone was treated the same and things would be fair to blacks -
Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush got its name when over 100,000 people from the Klondike region in Canada in the Yukon were migrating. It is also called the Yukon Gold Rush,The Last Great Gold Rush and The Alaska Gold Rush. It was the year 1896 and gold was discovered throughout the Klondike river which then made news around and everyone wanted to suddenly become gold-diggers, many even quit their jobs and began their way to their destination in hopes to become rich.The travel to reach the river was harsh -
Yellow Journalism
Yellow Journalism was started to dramatize and exaggerate news and scandal to create controversy and to attract readers in to reading and buying the magazine or tabloid. This was very popular in the nineteenth century by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst This was also popular to describe sensationalist newspaper writing during the time of the Spanish American War. Yellow journalism got its name from the yellow cheap paper it was being printed out of, this was considered half-truths -
USS Maine
In 1898 the battleship main had caused a big accident and it exploded and sank in the Havana Harbor. This tragic incident caused 260 americans to die. Their were many theories about what caused the incident and was never confirmed, some thought different things but was then confirmed that the explotion was caused by a fire in the coal bunker and the sinking of the U.S.S maine provided an excuse for people who were eager for war with spain. The "remember the main!" was a famous war cry for them -
Treaty Of Paris 1898
The treaty of paris is one very important treaty that brought the end to the long going Soanish American war. The newly signed Treaty of paris confirmed the terms that the armistice concerning Cuba ,Puerto Rico and Guam. This had concluded that commissioners from the U.S were sent to Paris on October 1st 1898 to produce and sign the treart because they despretly wanted an end to the war after six long months of hostility from the treaty of the other countries. They had paid 20 million dollars. -
Battle Of Manilla Bay
The battle of Manila Bay was the first battle of the spanish american war. The U.S asiatic Squadron destroys the spanish pacific fleer in the first battle and 400 spanish sailors were killed and 10 spanish warships wrecked and captured. The Philippines desieved US victory under Commodore George Dewey (US steel ships vs. Spanish wooden ships. Theodore Roosevelt ended up taking matter into his own hands ans told Dewey to go to hong kong if war was to happen and McKinley confirmed Teddys actions -
Phillipine American War
In the years 1899-1902 The United States and the Filipino revolutionaries had a war. This was caused by an insurrection that may be seen as a continuation of the Philippine Revolution against the Spanish rule. The war had lasted three years and resulted in the death of 200,000 Filipino civilians. Not only did they die from war but they died from violence,famine,and disease. This outbreak was caused when the treaty of Paris was signed and this made american forces to lash out.4,200 americans died -
Election Of 1900
The United States 1900 presidential election was the 29th quadrennial presidential election ans was held on a Tuesday on November 6,1900. This was a rematch of the 1896 race. The republican president at the time, William Mckinley defeated his democratic challenger William Jennings Bryan. Mckinley won the election and made him the first president to have a reelection since Ulysses S.Grant when he did the same thing in 1872. -
Tenements
In the 19th century, more and more people began crowding into America’s cities, including thousands of newly arrived immigrants seeking a better life than the one they had left behind. In New York City where the population doubled every decade from 1800 to 1880 buildings that had once been single-family dwellings were increasingly divided into multiple living spaces to accommodate this growing population. -
Immigration
"Old" Immigration In the beginning of the nineteenth century German, Irish, Chinese, Mexican, Scandinavian and French Canadians flooded into the United States in search of better work and a better life in this so-called "New World". The largest groups were by far the German, Irish and Mexican. "New" Immigration The japanese and Chinese settlers relocated to the American West Coast. A lot of them settled in places such as Chinatown, Greek Town, and Little Italy. -
Open Door Policy
The open door policy was a statement of principles that were initiated by the United States.The protection of equal privileges for all countries that trade with china support of the Chinese territorial and administrative integrity. This had been issued by the U.S.A secretary of State John Hay to Great Britain, Germany,France, Italy, Japan and Russia. This policy was received to be almost as a universal plan but had to be approved in the Unites States.The goal was for everyone to have fair trade -
Teddy Roosevelt
The rising young Republican politician Theodore Roosevelt unexpectedly became the 26th president of the United States in September 1901, after the assassination of William McKinley. Young and physically robust, he brought a new energy to the White House, and won a second term on his own merits in 1904. Roosevelt confronted the bitter struggle between management and labor head-on and became known as the great “trust buster” for his strenuous efforts to break up industrial combinations. -
Pure Food And Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act was an act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. The Pure Food and Drug Act was signed by Theodore Roosevelt on the same day as the Federal Meat Inspection Act. It was a law passed in order to remove harmful foods and drugs from the market and regulate the manufacture and sale of drugs and food involved in trade. -
Model t
The Model T car was invented and designed by Henry Ford and had been the first production Model T Ford that completed. Ford went on to build 15 million Model T car after the successful car gained popularity. The Model T was one of the longest production run of any automobile in history until a new famous car came along. When the Model T first came to be it was seen as a Luxury car that was very expensive at first and was built for peoples ordinary lifes but then kept prices low with prices. -
Americanization
Americanization is the process of an immigrant to the United States of America becoming a person who shares American values, beliefs, and customs and is fully assimilated into American society. This was most common in the US in the early 20th century when America was being flooded by immigrants from all over the world so they began to force them to assimilate to American culture because they were afraid of losing it to all of the different cultures that were making a home in America. -
Bull Moose Party
Theodore Roosevelt, the former U.S. president, is nominated for the presidency by the Progressive Party, a group of Republicans dissatisfied with the renomination of President William Howard Taft. Also known as the Bull Moose Party, the Progressive platform called for the direct election of U.S. senators, woman suffrage, reduction of the tariff, and many social reforms. Roosevelt, who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909, embarked on a vigorous campaign as the part -
Election Of 1912
The United States presidential election of 1912 was fought among three major candidates. Incumbent President William Howard Taft was renominated by the Republican Party with the support of the conservative wing of the party. After former President Theodore Roosevelt failed to receive the Republican nomination, he called his own convention and created the Progressive Party (nicknamed the "Bull Moose Party"). It nominated Roosevelt and ran candidates for other offices in major states. -
17th Amendment
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislatures. When vacancies happen in the representation of any state in the Senate, the executive authority of such state shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided. -
Henry Ford
While working as an engineer for the Edison Illuminating Company in Detroit, Henry Ford built his first gasoline-powered horseless carriage, the Quadricycle, in the shed behind his home. In 1903, he established the Ford Motor Company, and five years later the company rolled out the first Model T. In order to meet overwhelming demand for the revolutionary vehicle, Ford introduced revolutionary new mass-production methods, including large production plants, the use of standardized interchageable -
Archduke Franz
In an event that is widely acknowledged to have sparked the outbreak of World War I, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, nephew of Emperor Franz Josef and heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is shot to death along with his wife by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on this day in 1914.The great Prussian statesman Otto von Bismarck, the man most responsible for the unification of Germany in 1871, was quoted as saying at the end of his life that “One day the great European War will come out of some -
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson, the 28th U.S. president, served in office from 1913 to 1921 and led America through World War I. An advocate for democracy and world peace, Wilson is often ranked by historians as one of the nation’s greatest presidents. Wilson was a college professor, university president and Democratic governor of New Jersey before winning the White House in 1912. -
Barbed wire
Barbed wire was very popular and was used often from both sides during the World War I. Trenched had been stabilized and they had stretched from the coast of France all the way to Switzerland. Because before world war I mass production of barbed wire for cattle farms had flourished during earlier time. It was invented in France in 1860 and it was furthered developed in the United states this was also used as a prompted imaginative responses from war duty to serious literature. -
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Marcus Garvey
Born in Jamaica, Marcus Garvey became a leader in the black nationalist movement by applying the economic ideas of Pan-Africanists to the immense resources available in urban centers. After arriving in New York in 1916, he founded the Negro World newspaper, an international shipping company called Black Star Line and the Negro Factories Corporation. During the 1920s, his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) was the largest secular organization in African-American history. -
Great Migration
The Great Migration was the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from about 1916 to 1970. Driven from their homes by unsatisfactory economic opportunities and harsh segregationist laws, many blacks headed north, where they took advantage of the need for industrial workers that first arose during the First World War. It had a huge impact on urban life in the united states. -
Zimmerman Telegram
The Zimmerman Telegram was an invention created to communicate. This was a diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office and said that this from of communication would help in war.This was sent from the Germany's secretary from Zimmerman to the Prime minister of Germany.Zimmerman urged Mexico to join the Central Powers and in return they would help mexico get back the land the U.S has stole from them but in reality this caused a huge mess and scandal and got the U.S involved WWI -
Henry Cabot Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge was an American Republican Congressman and historian from Massachusetts. A member of the prominent Lodge family, he received his PhD in history from Harvard University. He is best known for his positions on foreign policy, especially his battle with President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 over the Treaty of Versailles. The failure of that treaty ensured that the United States never joined the League of Nations. -
14 Points
The fourteen points were a principle that was made for peace negotiations to end World War I.The fourteen points were outlined on January 9th 1918 in a a speech given over the war and over war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by president Woodrow Wilson.The fourteen points believed that this would help to promote peace and called for self determination,freedom of seas,free trade,end of secret engagements, reduction of arms and a league of nations.Wilson was passionate over this -
18th Amendment
The 18th Amendment prohibited the production, transport, and sale of alcoholic beverages making them illegal.The 18th Amendment to the Constitution was to ratified in January 1919 and enacted in January 192. It was illegal to sell or make alcoholic beverages like beer, wine, and liquor. The Eighteenth Amendment is the only Amendment to ever have been repealed from the United States Constitution. The motivation for the 18th amendment was the desire to make a better society by outlawing alcohol. -
Treaty Of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. Furthermore, the Treaty of Versailles was the Peace Settlement between the Allies and Germany. The Treaty of Versailles ended WWI and started WWII less than 20 years later, because of how harshly it treated Germany and how angry Germans were about this. They forced Germany to admit all guilt for the war and required Germany to pay a large amount of money in reparations to the Allies. -
Nativism
In the 1920s a wide national consensus sharply restricted the overall inflow of immigrants, especially those from southern and eastern Europe. The second Ku Klux Klan, which flourished in the U.S. in the 1920s, used strong nativist rhetoric, but the Catholics led a counterattack. Basically the people that were called nativists where the people that opposed to immigration based on fears that the immigrants will spoil americas cultural values -
Darwinism
Social Darwinism, the theory that human groups and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin had perceived in plants and animals in nature. According to the theory, which was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the weak were diminished and their cultures delimited while the strong grew in power and in cultural influence over the weak. Social Darwinists held that the life of humans in society was a struggle for existence ruled. -
Texas Courthouse
By 1872 Tammany had an Irish catholic boss and in 1928 a Tammay hero, new york governor Al Smith, Won the Democratic presidential nomination and also the started of Political Machines that were the strategy that politicians would use to bribe people into voting for them. basically, they would offer jobs, housing and sometimes even favors if they agreed on voting for them. The political machines played a major role in the politics of New York City -
Harlem Rennaisance
The Harlem renaissance was a huge movement that occurred in the 20th century that started of in the Harlem neighborhood in New York City as a black cultural mesa and celebrated the social and artistic explosion that resulted.This was considered the golden age in African American culture manifesting in literature ,music,stage performance and art. Jazz was one of the huge celebrations at this time and this was African-Americans significant music that was very popular at the time and was enjoyable. -
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19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment gave men and women with equal voting rights and was adopted on August 18,1920 The Nineteenth Amendment prohibited any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. At the time the U.S. was founded, its female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men, including the right to vote. Furthermore, the 19th amendment also unified suffrage laws across the United States. Overall, this amendment to the constitution gave women the right to vote in 1920. -
Soviet Union
After overthrowing the centuries-old Romanov monarchy, Russia emerged from a civil war in 1921 as the newly formed Soviet Union. The world’s first Marxist-Communist state would become one of the biggest and most powerful nations in the world, occupying nearly one-sixth of Earth’s land surface, before its fall and ultimate dissolution in 1991. -
Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan became a huge organization during the 1900's. It was a secret militant groups in the United States and it organized the southern states and eventually having national scope that supported white supremacy and terrorist across the nation. This organization even had their own uniform, wearing colonial hats,masks and white robes. he KKK targeted black people, Jews, ther minorities and people who oppose roman Catholics. If you talked against them you would be murdered or tortured. -
Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire, empire created by Turkish tribes in Anatolia (Asia Minor) that grew to be one of the most powerful states in the world during the 15th and 16th centuries. The Ottoman period spanned more than 600 years and came to an end only in 1922, when it was replaced by the Turkish Republic and various successor states in southeastern Europe and the Middle East.At its height the empire encompassed most of southeastern Europe to the gates of Vienna, including present-day Hungary. -
Albert B. Fall
Albert B. Fall. Albert Bacon Fall was a United States Senator from New Mexico and the Secretary of the Interior under President Warren G. Harding, infamous for his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal. His acceptance of bribes for the leases resulted in the scandal. Fall accepted a large bribe to lease to private oil interests, without competitive bidding, naval oil reserve lands in the Teapot Dome reserve. He was convicted of bribery and served nine months of a one-year prison sentence. -
Immigration Act Of 1924
The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed into the United States. The Immigration Act of 1924 was passed in response to political and public opinion calling for restrictions on immigration from South-Eastern Europe following events in the US. One of the most important effects and significance was by using the US 1890 census. As a result, it excluded the foreign-born from South-Eastern Europe from quotas truly proportionate to their new numbers in the population. -
American Indian Citizenship Act
The Indian American act was proposed and signed into law on June 2nd ,1924. The Indian had received citizenship by fighting in the military, by special treaties or special statues but then Congress found this unfair and demanded for them to be granted citizenship to all Native Americans that were born in the United States. This did not come easy, before congress decided to grant them citizenship they had protested and did many things to get attention from Congress for the act to get approved. -
American Indian Citizenship Act
The American Indian Citizenship Act happened on June 2, 1924, when Congress gave citizenship to every native American that was born in US land. Before the civil war, citizenship was often limited to the native Americans but Congress worked hard to speed up the granting of citizenships to native Americans that were a part of friendly tribes, although they had the privilege of citizenship they were largely governed by state law, and the right to vote was often denied to the native americans. -
Valentines Day Massacre
On Valentines Day 1929 a well known gangster at the time that went by the name "Al Capone" had eliminated his enemies. He was known to killing his rivals in the illegal trades of bootlegging,gambling, and prostitution. The massacre had taken place in Chicago in a garage on the city's north side. His enemies known as the "bugs", who were involved with an Irish gangster were gunned down while standing lined up facing the wall of the garage on the street. The gangsters were dressed as police. -
Black Tuesday
On October 29, 1929, Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. In the aftermath of Black Tuesday, America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the Great Depression, the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world up to that time. -
herbert hoover
Herbert Hoover America’s 31st president, took office in 1929, the year the U.S. economy plummeted into the Great Depression. Although his predecessors’ policies undoubtedly contributed to the crisis, which lasted over a decade, Hoover bore much of the blame in the minds of the American people. As the Depression deepened, Hoover failed to recognize the severity of the situation or leverage the power of the federal government to squarely address it. A successful mining engineer before entering -
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The Great Depression
The great depression is one of the worst economic downfalls in American History and history itself. The depression lasted from 1929 to 1939. The stock market had crashed on October of 1929 and had sent wall street into panic and wiped out millions on investors. Not only did it affect banks and money but it affected Americans, families, businesses and jobs. In 1933 the great depression got worse and reached its lowest point causing 15 million people to be unemployed and half of U.S banks failed. -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl refers to the drought-stricken Southern Plains region of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during a dry period in the 1930s. As high winds and choking dust swept the region from Texas to Nebraska, people and livestock were killed and crops failed across the entire region. The Dust Bowl intensified the crushing economic impacts of the Great Depression and drove many farming families on a desperate migration in search of work and better living conditions. -
Influence Of Booker T. On Marcus
Marcus was born on august 17,1887 and was an influential 20th century black nationalist pan African leaders and his influence had been Booker t. because of the influence Booker T. had and how he helped and fought hard to support industrial education,economic segregation that would help the "black race". His goal was to continue Booker T. Washington work and wanted to fight for african american civil rights and spoke out about the injustice, unfairness and the things they deserved as humans -
Election Of 1932
The United States presidential election of 1932 was the thirty-seventh quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1932. The election took place against the backdrop of the Great Depression. Incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover was defeated in a landslide by Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Governor of New York. The election marked the effective end of the Fourth Party System, which had been dominated by Republicans. -
Emergency Relief Act
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) was the new name given by the Roosevelt Administration to the Emergency Relief Administration (ERA) which President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had created in 1933. FERA was established as a result of the Federal Emergency Relief Act and was replaced in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). -
Eleanor Roosevelt
First lady Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), the U.S. president from 1933 to 1945, was a leader in her own right and involved in numerous humanitarian causes throughout her life. The niece of President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), Eleanor was born into a wealthy New York family. She married Franklin Roosevelt, her fifth cousin once removed, in 1905. By the 1920s, Roosevelt, who raised five children, was involved in Democratic Party politics and numerous -
20th Amendment
The 20th amendment which is also known as the "same duck" period following election day in November. The amendment had been ratified in 1933 and the amendment had shortened the period of time of lame duck members of Congress could stay in office after an election was handled. The amendment includes two principle sections, the first one fixes the start dates for the regular term of members and the second section states that Congress shall commence a new session each year on January 3. -
21st Amendment
The 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibited alcohol. The 21st Amendment to the Constitution was passed and ratified. The 21st amendment was also an admission of the failure of prohibition, which led to people disrespecting the law and criminals to do well selling illegal alcohol to those that wanted it. Repealing the 18th amendment didn't make alcohol completely legal through the entire country. -
Neutrality Acts
On this day in 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Neutrality Act, or Senate Joint Resolution No. 173, which he calls an “expression of the desire to avoid any action which might involve in war.” The signing came at a time when newly installed fascist governments in Europe were beginning to beat the drums of war. In a public statement that day, Roosevelt said that the new law would require American vessels to obtain a license to carry arms, would restrict American. -
Migrant Mother Photograph
The Migrant Mother photograph was taken by Dorothea Lange and was focused and interested in capturing things around her and at the time The Great Depression was one of the problems the United States was facing.She said that around the area crop had been destroyed by freezing rain and she saw a woman sitting in a tent with her seven children and asked if she could photograph her. The migrant Mother was 32 and said that her and her children had been living on frozen vegetables and birds to survive -
Charles Father Coughlin
Charles Edward Coughlin was a controversial Canadian-American Roman Catholic priest based in the United States near Detroit at Royal Oak, Michigan's National Shrine of the Little Flower church. Commonly known as Father Coughlin, he was one of the first political leaders to use radio to reach a mass audience, as up to thirty million listeners tuned to his weekly broadcasts during the 1930s. He was forced off the air in 1939. -
John Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller became the founder of the Standard Oil Company, and also became one of the world’s wealthiest men and a major philanthropist. John was born into modest circumstances in upstate New York, he was in the then-fledgling oil business in 1863 by investing in a Cleveland, Ohio, refinery. In 1870, he established Standard Oil, which by the early 1880s controlled some 90 percent of U.S. refineries and pipelines.In 1911, the U.S. Supreme Court found Standard Oil in violation of anti-tru -
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Battle Of Moscow
The Battle of Moscow was started on October 2nd, 1941 and the German had code named it the "operation Typhoon". The Battle of Moscow had began after Hitler had turned to his city and the Russian winter had suddenly came and the Germans were in summer uniforms but Hitler had ordered :No Retreat" and cause Hitler to gain little to nothing, The battle had taken place in Moscow Oblast and was fought between Germany and Soviet Union. This battle was known to be the turning point of World War II. -
Pearl Harbor
On December 7th 1942 hundreds and thousands of Japanese fighter airplanes had left base and then damaged a total of about 20 american naval vessels which also included eight huge and useful battleships and over 300 airplanes. Due to the outrageous attack more than 2,400 American citizens had died and over 1,00 american troops were wounded and injured. Franklin D. Roosevelt had been truly upset over the attack and asked congress to declare war on Japan the day after the horrible attack. -
Navajo Code Talkers
in early 1942, World War II was not going well for the Allies. France had fallen. Britain was still staggering from the Blitz. Japanese forces had crippled the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, attacked the Philippines and Guam, and were seizing territory in the south and central Pacific in assaults that included sinking British battleship Prince of Wales and battle cruiser Repulse off Malaya. Germany armies had advanced deep into the Soviet Union. -
General George Patton
Educated at West Point, George S. Patton began his military career leading cavalry troops against Mexican forces and became the first officer assigned to the new U.S. Army Tank Corps during World War I. Promoted through the ranks over the next several decades, he reached the high point of his career during World War II, when he led the U.S. 7th Army in its invasion of Sicily and swept across northern France at the head of the 3rd Army in the summer of 1944. -
Kamikaze
Kamikaze, any of the Japanese pilots who in World War II made deliberate suicidal crashes into enemy targets, usually ships. The term also denotes the aircraft used in such attacks. The practice was most prevalent from the Battle of Leyte Gulf, October 1944, to the end of the war. The word kamikaze means “divine wind,” a reference to a typhoon that fortuitously dispersed a Mongol invasion fleet threatening Japan from the west in 1281. -
Battle Of Anzio
The 1944 Battle of Anzio stemmed from the Allied attempt to draw German troops off the Gustav Line during Operation Shingle. An expeditionary force commanded by U.S. Major General John P. Lucas secured a beachhead near Anzio and Nettuno on Italy’s west coast, but his divisions were quickly contained by German Field Marshall Albert Kesselring. A succession of attacks resulted in heavy casualties on both sides, though no budge in the stalemate for four months. The Allies finally broke out of the -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta conference was known to be the second wartime meeting between the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The meeting had led to three leaders agreeing to demand Germany's unconditional surrender and it began its plans for post-war world.This meeting was held when World War II had been dying down and things were settling into place. Three of the agreements from the Yalta Conference had ended up being kept a secret -
Battle Of Berlin
The Battle of Berlin had been designated to the Berlin strategic offensive operation by the Soviet Union and this had been the final major offensive of the European Theater of World War II. On April 16th 1945 the red army had reached the German front and the soviet fronts, also from as the army groups had ataacked Berlin from the east and the south and found a way to overrun German forces and positioned north of Berlin and advance. Hitler and many of his followers committed suicide before battle -
Siege Of Santiago
The Battle of Santiago also known as the siege of Santiago was a war from the Spanish American war that sealed the U.S victory over the Spaniards. There was an outbreak of hostilities between the two powers and a Spanish fleet under the Admiral Pascual Cervera and it arrived at Santiago harbor. But as soon as the war started everyone wanted to end the campaign and then surrendered on July 13th. On July 16th both governments agreed to terms of capitulation for "surrender" to be avoided.
