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Industrial Revolution
machines changed people's way of life as well as their methods of manufacture and helped people seek work and helped people achieve the American Dream Easier -
Andrew Carnegie is Born
Just as Rockefeller Carnegie was another success story and played an important role foe our country in the Gilded Age -
Rockefeller Is Born
This was one of the most important people foe our counties history, as the poster boy for capitalism he showed that even with nothing you can still be very successful. -
Railroad begn construction
In 1862 the beginning of the transcontinental railroad was beinging its construction, and would help transportation in the near future. -
The 13th Amendment is Ratified
In December 1865 Abraham Lincoln successfully put an end to slavery, with the 13th amendment, which from there on out abolished slavery for good in our country. -
Wyoming Allows women the right to vote
Before the 19th Amendment was created cretin states/territories allowed women the right to vote. The Wyoming territory the first official area to let women vote which thus began the women suffrage movement, letting all women in the country vote. -
Immagration during the gilded afge
n 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 -
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The Gilded Age
This was a time of rapid economic growth due to people coming to american to achieve the american dream -
Manifest Destiny
This was telling our country that expansion was inevitable and thus began the expansion of our country. -
Susan B Anthony Gets Arrested
Susan B Anthony voted on November 5 1872 and was then jailed for unexceptionable act. -
Jim Crow Laws
In 1890 all the way until civil rights were achieved these laws kept different races segregated and wouldn't let them gain independence -
The National Women's Suffrage Assassination was Founded
The NWSA was created with the help of Susan B Anthony tho help women gain independence and be treated equal as men were. Susan B Anthony became the president of the NWSA -
The NAACP is Created (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
In 1909 the NAACP was founded which offered people -
The 19th Amendment Gets Passed!
After all the certain areas allow women to vote, congress officially allows women to vote no matter where in the country you live. Women now can vote. -
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The Roaring twenties
This was a time where people were happy and our country started expanding its economy and everything was at an all time high -
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The Great Depression
This is when in 1929 when the stock market crashed sending our country into 10 years of debt -
The New Deal Created
the new deal was a document proposed by the current president a the time FDR who wanted to help end the great depression and help everyone. -
Rosie the Riveter Helps the Nations Work Force
Rosie the Riveter was a propaganda created by the US government to help women join the workforce, it then allowed women employment rates to go up 27% -
AAGPBL (All American Girls Professional Baseball League)
During WWII while the men had to go fight in the war, Philip K. Wriggly Started the AAGPBL. This was mostly for a source of entertainment while men were gone, so people could still watch so for of sports. This began and helped women rights get more noticed, and helped them gain their independence. -
First Black Baseball Player
Jackie Robinsons gets hired by the Brooklyn Dodgers to be the first colored player to play Baseball -
Montgomery Buss Boycott
Prior to the Buss boycott Rosa Parks sat in a white spot and not a black spot at the back of the buss, so now the Montgomery buss system was failing and it didn't' help the economy since n one would use the buss system. -
Equal Pay Act
The equal pay act was signed by President John F Kennedy whose plan was to abolish wage divergence and let women get equal pay rights so one sex wasn't dominate. -
Medgar Evers
Medgar Wiley Evers was an American civil rights activist from Mississippi who worked to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi and to enact social justice and voting rights -
Margot Smith Chase First Female Candidate(REP).
In 1964 Senator Margot Smith Chase from Maine Runs for president under the Rep. party. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
When this was created it allowed any person or minority to have the right to vote, and shall not undermined by anyone including the government. -
James Meridith in a White College
James Meredith was known as a civil rights advocate who helped minorities gain there rights, was assassinated -
Sandra Day O'Connor First Female Justice
In 1981 Ronald Reagan Appointed the first female justice to the supreme court. -
First Woman In Space
Sally Kristen Ride was an American physicist and astronaut. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American woman in space in 1983. -
First Black US President
In 2008 The US inaugurated their first black president -
The March On Selma
In 1965 Martin Luther King Jr. helped blacks gain independence by doing a march in Selma Alabama to gain voting rights.
