Final Project

Cotton Gin

Mar 14, 1793

This device helped cotton picking productions enormously.

Railroads

Dec 21, 1830

Americans dreamed of linking the Atlantic and pacific oceans by rail.

Andrew Carnegie

Nov 25, 1835

Created largest steel manufacturer in the country. Born In the United kingdom came to the states when he was 13 from scotland to Pennsylvania .

John Pierpont Morgan

Apr 17, 1837

Famous banker who dominated cooperations.

John D. Rockefeller

Jul 8, 1839

He was America's first billionaire.Poster child of capitalism.Rockefeller was born in Moravia, a small town in western New York.

Manifest Destiny

Dec 21, 1840

belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.

Industrial Revolution

Dec 21, 1850

the movement in which machines changed people's way of life as well as their methods of manufacture.

The American Dream

Dec 21, 1850

This is the belief that everyone who comes to the untied states will have equal rights and the same opportunities as everyone.

Gilded Age

Period: Dec 21, 1850 to Dec 22, 1900

Industrial Revolution, most Americans worked for themselves during this time.

Jim crow laws

Dec 21, 1880

segregation laws against African Americans.

NAACP

Feb 12, 1909

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Rosa Parks

Feb 4, 1913

African American civil rights activist

John F Kennedy

May 29, 1917

He gave civil rights to African Americans.

Womans right to vote

Aug 18, 1920

Women earned their right to vote in 1920

Martin Luther King Jr.

Jan 15, 1929

activist who was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement

Rosie the Riveter

Dec 21, 1943

Example of hard working women during world war 2

The Space Age

Oct 4, 1957

We were in a technology race with Russia

Sit ins

Dec 21, 1960

African Americans would protest segregation by sitting down when told to move

Motown music

Dec 21, 1960

inspiring music from the 1960 that brought attention to African American artist.

KKK

Dec 21, 1960

Radical group from the 1960´s that terrorized African Americans.

Freedom Rides

May 4, 1961

African Americans rode into the south to get attention about segregation.

Segregation ends

Dec 21, 1964

This marks the end of segregation for the most part

The Tampon Tax

Dec 21, 2016

Women up to this day are paying more for the same cleaning products men use.