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John Deere
John was the inventor of the first self-scouring steel plow which allowed for development in the mid west. He first started his career as a blacksmith. As he learned that the prairie soil of the new frontier was very heavy, he decided to design a plow that would improve on that design. The plow he created was made in 1837 by a broken saw blade. -
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Transforming the West
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Homestead Act
The Homestead Act was signed into law in May 1862. It allowed settlement in the western part of the United States. It also allowed any American and free slaves to claim up to 160 free acres of land. The Homestead Act was set to grant land to small farmers. -
Morill Land Grant College Act
The Morill Land Grant College Act is an act the U.S. Congress provided grants of land to states to finance the establishment of college. The Act granted every state 30,000 acres of land to make schools. The fund of the sale of the land were used by some states to make school. -
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Transcontinental Railroad: Union Pacific
The Union Pacific was to benefit the United States but it backed the company largely in order to make profits off the railroad. The Union Pacific started from the west from the Omaha, Nebraska to Utah. The railroad started on December 2, 1863 but didn't significant started until the end of the Civil War. -
Social Gospel Movement
The Social Gospel Movement was a religious movement that started when ministers began believing that good works would lead to salvation and believing that abandoning earthly desires and help others was the way to heaven. The movement itself was also an attack on the idea of Social Darwinism. -
Business: John Rockefeller
John Rockefeller is the founder of Standard Oil Company and became one of the world richest men. He was born in upstate New York and enter into the oil business in 1863 by investing in a Cleveland, Ohio refinery. He established Oil in 1870 and control 90 percent of the US refineries and pipeline. -
Conflict: Indian Appropriations Acts
The conflict for the Native American was that the United States began to migrate west and the government faced a problem. To make the American to migrate west, the government offer land for a very low price or even free. But those land they are giving away are occupied by Native American that lived there way before them. -
Conflict: Killing of the Buffalo
Killing of the Buffalo by the United States started in the west by thousands of men with 50 caliber rifles shooting every buffalo in their way. The Native American used every single part of the Buffalo for food, clothing, and shelter unlike the American killing the Buffalo as a sport. -
Farmers' Alliance
The Southern Farmers' Alliance was created in response to the troubles that farmers faced in the 1870's. Farmers in the West and South were both hit will falling prices, which caused them to experience mounting debt and climbing interest rates.The group focused on purchasing issues and marketing issues. -
Queen Liliuokalani
Queen Liliuokalani was the last sovereign of the Kamehameha dynasty, which had ruled a unified Hawaiian kingdom since 1810. She was born in Lydia Kamakaeha, she became crown princess in 1877, after the death of her youngest brother. By the time she took the throne herself in 1891. -
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The Great Upheaval of 1886
The Great Upheaval started with leaders of the Baltimore and Ohio company reduced worker's pay by 10% and more. The railroad workers in West Virginia retaliated by putting away the trains and saying they won't work until they get payed like they used to. President Hayes had to send in federal troops to stop the strike and it spread throughout Pennsylvania, and was hard to stop. -
Inventions/Products: Light bulb
The light bulb was invented by Thomas Alva Edison in 1879. The initial idea was to make a lamp with platinum filament but to keep the filament form overheating, Edison designed a complex regulating mechanism. -
Nativism
Nativism is the policy of protecting the interests of native born. In the United States, waves of 19th-century European immigration on the East Coast and with the arrival of Chinese immigrants on the West Coast. Nativism in the US has a strong anti catholic strain. -
Tenements
Tenements are usually narrow, low rise apartment buildings and many of them concentrated in the city’s Lower East Side neighborhood. They were all often cramped, poorly lit and lacked indoor plumbing and proper ventilation. -
Booker T. Washington
Born into slavery in Virginia in the mid-to-late 1850s, Booker T. Washington put himself through school and became a teacher after the Civil War. In 1881, he founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama. -
Assassination of President Garfield
President Garfield was assassinated by Charles Guiteau because Garfield denied him a government job and was assassinated at the railroad depot. President Garfield died from the shot is because they could not get the bullet out of his body so he died. The vice president who becomes the new president is Chester Arthur. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act was made to restrict immigration to the United States. Especially people from the West Coast of the United States because of the declining wages by the Chinese workers working for cheap. Even though Chinese population was just only .002%, Congress still passed the act to maintain white racial purity. -
Pendleton Act
Pendleton Act is a civil service reform that banned Federal candidates from requiring federal employees to work on their campaign or make a financial contribution. It extended to all federal civil service workers. -
Frances Willard
Frances Willard is an American educator, reformer, and founder of the World Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. An excellent speaker, a successful lobbyist, and an expert in pressure politics, she was a leader of the national Prohibition Party. -
Western Romanticism: Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
William F. Cody or also called Buffalo Bill opened the show at Omaha, Nebraska. He partner up with a dentist and exhibition shooter, Dr. W.F. Carver. Their show subtitled " Rocky Mountain and Prairie Exhibition" was popular that thrived for three decades and almost three more. -
William Randolph Hearst
William Hearst was born in San Francisco, California, on April 29, 1863. He was the founder of yellow journalism and at one point, he considered running for the U.S. presidency. The Great Depression took a hit on Hearst's company and his influence gradually waned, even though his company survived. Hearst died in 1951. -
Assimilation and Dissent: Dawes Severalty Act
The Dawes Severalty Act was signed by President Grover Cleveland to split up reservation that the Native American tribes held into smaller units and separated the units into individuals in the tribe. President Cleveland did this because he wanted the Native American to integrate into American culture. -
Inventions/Products: Kodak Camera
The Kodak Camera was first introduced commercially in May 1888 and was invented on September 4, 1888 by George Eastman and Henry A. Strong. The Kodak Camera is was a box camera for filming. -
Ida B. Wells
Ida Bell Wells better known as Ida B. Wells, was an African-American journalist, abolitionist and feminist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. A lynching in Memphis incensed Ida B. Wells and led to her to begin an anti-lynching campaign in 1892. -
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Slums
Slums are sections of a city or town, areas in which most inhabitants are in or near poverty, stores and residences are cheap and dilapidated, and streets are narrow and blighted. Slums are very crowded and not sanitary. -
Inventions/Products: Motion Picture Camera
Motion picture camera is designed to record images on a reel of film by Thomas Edison but the idea was from Eadward Mutbridge but Edison tweaked it. The Camera has a body, film transport system, lenses, a shutter, and a viewing focusing system. -
Populism
Populism is the movement to allowed farmers political power to increase and to work for their interest. It was created before the Civil War. It was formed because after the depression, a drought hit and cotton prices dropped dramatically and farmers fell in debt. -
Depression of 1893
The depression of 1893 is a very serious economic depression that was caused by rail road companies over extending causing bank failures. That depression was the worst economic collapse of that time. -
Henry Cabot Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge was born on May 12, 1850, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. He was a republican U.S. senator for more than 31 years and led the successful congressional opposition to his country’s participation in the League of Nations following World War I. He was one of the first to be granted a doctorate in history from Harvard University. -
Sears and Roebuck
Sears and Roebuck started when Richard Sears bought an a shipment of gold watches. Sears hired a watchmaker named Alvah C. Roebuck to help him. They eventually came together to create the Sears, Roebuck and Company. The company created a mail-order catalog to help farmers who had to pay high prices for products they bought from local merchants. -
Sanford Dole
Sanford Ballard Dole was born April 23, 1844, Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands. He was the first president of the Republic of Hawaii and was also the first governor of the Territory of Hawaii after it was annexed by the United States. -
W.E.B. DuBois
Scholar and activist W.E.B. Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In 1895, he became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909. -
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President McKinley
William McKinley is the 25th president of the United States. William McKinley served in the U.S. Congress and as governor of Ohio before running for president. McKinley led the nation into war with Spain over the issue of Cuban independence. -
Economy: Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush was in the north western region of Canada in Yukon and Alaska where 100000 people migrate to find gold. The region was harsh by winter climate making it very dangerous but people still come to find gold. It took a year for people to reach Klondike because of the climate. -
Election of 1896
The Election of 1896 was between William McKinley (Republican) and William J. Bryan (Democrat-Populist). William McKinley ended up winning both electoral vote and popular vote. McKinley focused on businessmen and skilled workers and received favor in the Northeast and Upper Midwest, while Bryan did the opposite and was favored by the others. -
George Dewey
George Dewey was born on December 26, 1837, Montpelier, Vt., U.S.. He was the U.S. naval commander who defeated the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War. After receiving periodic promotions, Dewey was assigned at his own request, to the U.S. Asiatic squadron. -
Treaty of Paris 1898
The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Spanish-American War and granting the United States its first overseas empire. The Spanish American War had its origins in the rebellion against Spanish rule that began in Cuba in 1895. In April, the U.S. Congress prepared for war, demanding a Spanish withdrawal from Cuba and authorizing President William McKinley to use force. -
Emilio Aguinaldo
Emilio Aguinaldo, born on March 22, 1869, near Cavite, Luzon, Philippines. He was the Filipino leader and politician who fought first against Spain and later against the United States for the independence of the Philippines. -
Siege of Santiago
The seige of Santiago de Cuba on July 3, 1898 concluding naval engagement, near Santiago de Cuba, of the Spanish-American War, which sealed the U.S. victory over the Spaniards. A Spanish fleet under Admiral Pascual Cervera arrived in Santiago harbour on the southern coast of Cuba and the Spanish fleet was immediately blockaded in harbor by superior U.S. warship. -
Boxer Rebellion
The boxer rebellion was caused by a Chinese secret organization called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists led an uprising in northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence there. The rebels, referred to by Westerners as Boxers because they performed physical exercises they believed would make them able to withstand bullets, killed foreigners and Chinese Christians and destroyed foreign property. -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was a pioneer crusader for the woman suffrage movement in the United States and president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Her work helped pave the way for the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote. -
Teddy Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States after the assassination of William McKinley. He was born on October 27, 1858 in a wealthy family in New York City.Known as “Teedie” later “Teddy”, he was frail and sickly as a boy, and as a teenager followed a program of gymnastics and weightlifting to build up his strength. -
Henry Ford
Henry Ford was an American automobile manufacturer who created the Ford Model T car in 1908 and went on to develop the assembly line mode of production, which revolutionized the industry. As a result, Ford sold millions of cars and became a world-famous company head. -
Wiliiam Howard Taft
William Howard Taft is the 27th president of the United States. William Howard Taft was born in 1857, the son of a distinguished judge. He graduated from Yale, and returned to Cincinnati to study and practice law. He come in politics through Republican judiciary appointments. -
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson, the 28th U.S. president, served in office from 1913 to 1921 and led America through World War I.Wilson was a college professor, university president and Democratic governor of New Jersey before winning the White House in 1912. -
Election of 1912
American presidential election held on November 5, 1912, in which Democrat Woodrow Wilson defeated Bull Moose candidate and former Republican president Theodore Roosevelt and Republican incumbent president William Howard Taft. -
17th Amendment
Passed in 1913, this amendment to the Constitution calls for the direct election of senators by the voters instead of their election by state legislatures. It changed the method by which senators were chose, from indirect election by state legislature to that of direct popular election. -
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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. This assassination caused World War I. -
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Tsar Nicholas
Nikolay Aleksandrovich was the eldest son and heir apparent of the tsarevich Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, the emperor as Alexander III and his consort Maria Fyodorovna, Dagmar of Denmark. Succeeding his father on November 1, 1894, he was crowned tsar in Moscow on May 26, 1896. -
Bolsheviks
Bolshevik are member of a wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party, which led by Lenin to seized control of the government in Russia on October 1917 and became the dominant political power. -
Espionage Act
The Espionage Act passed made it a crime for any person to convey information intended to interfere with the U.S. armed forces prosecution of the war effort or to promote the success of the country’s enemies. Anyone found guilty of this acts would be to fine $10,000 and a prison sentence of 20 years. -
Spanish Flu
The Spanish Flu was the deadliest flu in history infected around 500 million people across the world about one third of the planet population. The spanish flu killed around 20 million to 0 million people and 675000 were American. It started in Europe, the US and parts of Asia before spreading worldwide. -
Sedition Act
The sedition act was passed to aimed at socialists, pacifists and other anti-war activists. It imposed harsh penalties on anyone found guilty of making false statements that interfered with the prosecution of the war like insulting or abusing the U.S. government, the flag, the Constitution or the military. -
Treaty of Versailles
The treaty of versailles officially end world war I on June 28, 1919. It was negotiated among the Allied powers with little participation by Germany, its 15 parts and 440 articles reassigned German boundaries and assigned liability for reparations. -
Business: Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25, 1835, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland and died on August 11 1919, Lenox, Massachusetts. He was a industrialist who expand the American steel industry in the late 19th century. -
18th Amendment
Prohibition movements had sprung up across the United States, driven by religious groups who considered alcohol a threat to the nation. The movement reached its apex in 1920 when Congress ratified the 18th Amendment, prohibiting the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors. -
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19th Amendment
The 19th amendment granted US citizen women the right to vote. A right that was known as women's suffrage and was ratified on August 18, 1920 ending protest. -
Pancho Villa
Pancho Villa was a famed Mexican revolutionary and guerilla leader. He 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 escaped capture for about 11 month. -
Warren Harding
The 29th U.S. president, Warren Harding served in office for 2 years before dying of an apparent heart attack. Harding’s presidency was overshadowed by the criminal activities of some of his cabinet members and other government officials, although he himself was not involved in any wrongdoing. -
Assimilation and Dissent: American Indian Citizenship Act
The American Indian Citizenship Act is the act the U.S. government pass to allowed citizenship to all Native American that were born within the territorial limit of the country. Before the act, citizenship was only limited to Native American that is half or less Indian blood. -
Charles Lindberg
Lindbergh, Charles Augustus, an American aviator, made the first solo nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927. Other pilots had crossed the Atlantic before him. But Lindbergh was the first person to do it alone nonstop. -
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover, The United States 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. -
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Tuskegee Airmen
Tuskegee Airmen was the first black military aviators in the US AAC. They flew more than 15000 individual sorties during World War II and their performance earn them more than 150 Distinguished Flying Crosses and also it encourage integration of the US armed forces. -
Thomas Shipp
Thomas Shipp and two other African American teenager charged with the murder of a white women and the rape of a white women. They were beat down, pulled from their cell and lynched them on the tree. -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt was in his second term as governor of New York when he was elected as the nation’s 32nd president in 1932. With the country mired in the depths of the Great Depression, he restored the citizen confidence that everything is going to be alright. -
21st Amendment
The 21st amendment was passed because the eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is repealed. It also prohibited the transportation into any State in the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors. -
Emergency Relief Act
The Emergency Relief Act is to provide for cooperation by the Federal Government with the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia in relieving the hardship and suffering caused by unemployment, and for other purposes. -
20th Amendment
The 20th amendment sets the dates at which federal government elected offices end. In also defines who succeeds the president if the president dies. This amendment was ratified on January 23, 1933. -
Exchange Act
The Exchange Act was created to provide governance of securities transactions on the secondary market and regulate the exchanges and broker-dealers in order to protect the investing public. -
Wagner Act
The main purpose of the Wagner Act was to establish the legal right of most workers notably excepting agricultural and domestic workers to organize or join labor unions and to bargain collectively with their employers. -
Huey Long
Huey Long is the Louisiana governor and U.S. senator. A successful lawyer, he rose through the ranks of the Louisiana government to take over the state’s top post in 1928. He entered the U.S. Senate in 1935, where he developed a following for his promises of a radical redistribution of wealth. -
Social Security Act
The social security act was passed because it prohibit deceit, misrepresentations, and other fraud in the sale of securities and require investor to receive financial and other information for public sale. -
Fair Labor Standards Act
A law drafted by Senator Hugo Black of Alabama and signed into law in June 1938, it was designed to established maximum 40 weekly work hours, a minimum wage of 40 cents an hour by 1945, and prohibiting most child labor. -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow war born in April 18, 1857. He was a lawyer whose work as defense counsel in many dramatic criminal trials earned him a place in American legal history. He was also well known as a public speaker, debater, and miscellaneous writer. -
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Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey was an orator for the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements. He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. Garvey advanced a Pan-African philosophy which inspired a global mass movement, known as Garveyism. -
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was a short story writer and novelist considered one of the pre-eminent authors in the history of American literature due almost entirely to the enormous posthumous success of his third book, The Great Gatsby. At the age of 24, the success of his first novel, This Side of Paradise, made Fitzgerald famous. -
Vernon J. Baker
Vernon J. Baker was the first African American to go into war during World War II. He was one of the most decorated African American soldiers in the Mediterranean Theater earning him a Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and Distinguished Service Cross. Later he was also awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, and was the scene of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces. The Japanese destroy 20 naval vessels, 8 battleships, and over 300 airplanes. More than 2400 American died including civilians and 1000 wounded. -
Benjamin Davis
Benjamin Davis was born on December 18,1912. He was a pilot, officer, and administrator who became the first African general in the US air force. He studied at the University of Chicago before going in the United States Military Academy in New York. -
General Erwin Rommel
Erwin Rommel was one of Adolf Hitler's most successful generals and one of Germany's most popular military leaders. After he was implicated in a plot to overthrow Hitler, however, Rommel took his life on October 14, 1944, at age 52, in Herrlingen, Germany. -
Hitler
Adolf Hitler was a dictator and leader of the Nazi. Hitler policies precipitated WWII and that led to the genocide known as the Holocaust that resulted in 6 million Jews and 5 million noncombatants dead. Hitler committed suicide with his wife in his Berlin bunker. -
General George Patton
George Patton was born in San Gabriel, California on November 11, 1885. He was considered one of the most successful combat generals in U.S history, he was the first officer assigned to the Tank Corps in WWI. During WWII, he helped lead the Allies to victory in the invasion of Sicily. -
General John Pershing
U.S. Army general John J. Pershing commanded the American Expeditionary Force in Europe during World War I. The president and first captain of the West Point class of 1886, he served in the Spanish and Philippine American Wars and was tasked to lead a punitive raid against the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower led the massive invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe that began on D-Day. In 1952, leading Republicans convinced Eisenhower to run for president; he won a convincing victory over Democrat Adlai Stevenson and would serve two terms in the White House. -
bRobber Barons
Robber Barons is a term that was for industrialists and financiers in the 19th century that made fortunes by monopolizing huge industries through formation of trusts, business practices, and paying little to their customers and competition. -
John Scopes
John Scopes was born in Kentucky in 1900, John Scopes was a teacher in Tennessee who became famous for going on trial for teaching evolution. Scopes was part of an American Civil Liberties Union attempt to challenge a state law prohibiting the teaching of evolution. -
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is the leading trumpeter and one of the most influential artists in jazz history. When he was a child, he worked at jobs and sang in a boy quartet. -
President Harry Truman
Harry Truman is the 33rd president of the United States. He assumed office after the death of President Franklin Roosevelt. It was his decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan to retaliate from the bombing of Pearl Harbor -
Bernard Montgomery
Bernard Montgomery was among the most decorated military leaders of World War II. Montgomery became ground commander of the Anglo-American forces under Dwight D. Eisenhower and was essential to the Allies’ success on D-Day in 1944. -
Buisness: Sherman Anti-Trust Act
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first legislation passed by the United States Congress in 1890. The act was passed to curb the power that interfere with trade and reduce the economic competition between states and foreign nations.
