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Gilded Age to WWI
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13th Ammendment (POLITICAL)
On Janurary 31,1865 the 13 th ammendment was ratified and passed through congress. This ammendment made it so that slavery was abolished in America. -
14th Ammendment (Political)
On July 9th 1868 the 14th ammendment was passed and issued into law. The ammendment gave citizenship and equal rights to all people including former slaves after the civil war. -
Cinncinati Reds (SOCIAL)
The Cinncinati Reds become the first baseball team to have salaries when basesball as a sport became popular and baseball became the nations pastime. -
Popularity of College Football(SOCIAL)
Around the same time that baseball became popular college football aslo rose in popularity with many eople enjoying to watch it as a pastime. -
Ulysses S. Grant Presidency(POLITICAL)
On March 4 1869 Ulysses S Grant ebcame te 18th president of the United States of Aerica. Part of the reason why was his effort in leading the Union to victory in the civil war. -
15th Ammendment ( POLITICAL)
On Feburary 3 1870 the 15th ammendment was ratified in Congress. The essence of the ammendment was that the government had to ensure people's right to vote and could not deny people right to vote regradless of skin color. -
Invention of Telephone (Other)
The telephoe was invented by Alexander Graham Bell who was able to pass signals through wires and was succesful with it and due to his invention messages were able to be sent faster between people. -
The Great Railroad Strike ( Economic)
Railroad worker were angry about ages being contiously cut so they kept freight cars from going through however the miltary came and put and end to their strike. -
Progress and Poverty (SOCIAL)
It is a book that came out in 1879 by Henry George that aks the question why when there is economic advancment that poverty comes along with it for some people. -
Foundation of Knights of Labor (Other)
The Knights of Labor was a labor union during the 1880's that let women and colored eople in and allowed deskilled workers to join their ranks. However during a riot a bomb went off andtheir numbers went down when they were accused of it. -
James Garfield Presidency (POLITICAL)
James Garfield became the 20th president of America on March 4 1881 and served as president until he was alter assainated that year. -
Standard Oil Trust( ECONOMIC)
John D. Rockefeller made a trust called the StandardOIl Trust where the people in the trust owned stock in toher comapnies and wrked together for their own benefits. -
First Skyscaper (Other)
During 1865 in Chicago the first skyscraper was finsihed which would later lead to the emergence of skyscrapes all across the country. -
Haymarket Square Riot
At a labor demonstratin by the Knights of Labor a bomb went off and it as thought to be the work of the Knights of Labor who set the bomb off. -
The Interstae Commerce Act (ECONOMIC)
It was an act that was meant to helpp keep monoploes down and keep on comapny from getting too big like some of the railroad companies who had too much power. -
Hull House ( Social)
Was a tenemnet house for the poor founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr aand was also for immigrants. -
NAWSA founded (SOCIAL)
In 190 NAWSA was founded when the National Woman Suffrage Assocation merged with the American Woman Suffrage Assocation to form an even larger group. -
Sherman Anti-trust act(ECONOMIC)
Was an act that fought against anything that could be harmful to competion such as monoplies and gave the government the power to examine trusts. -
Wounded Knee Massacre(OTHER)
Was the last conflict between Americans and Indians and the las event of the Indian Wars. The Maericans thought the Native AMericans were ebing hostile so they killed them. -
Sierra Club (OTHER)
The Sierra Club is an enviromental organization that works to preserve wildlife and its first president was John Muir. -
Economic Depression of 1893 (ECONOMIC)
Banking and the stock markets fell that led to a very harsh economic depression where peope tried to wihdraw their money from banks but could not do so. -
Popularity of Ragtime(SOCIAL)
During this time ragtime rythm became very poular because of musicans such as Scott Joplin who made ragtime what it is. -
Atlanta compromise (POLITICAL)
Was an agreement between black leaders and white leaders where blacks would receive due process and education in exchange for submitting to white rule. There were someblack leaders like Dubois who disagreed with this. -
Plessy vs Ferguson ( Political)
Was a supreme court case that set the precedent of " seperate but equal" leading to segragration and discrimination. -
Boston Subway Line(Other)
The frst subway line opened in Bston in 1897 making transportation a lot easier. -
U.S Steel and J.P. Morgan (ECONOMIC)
J.P Morgan started the steel company and soon became very rich off of it because at the time steel was very high in demand for buildings and became one of the richest men alive. -
McKinley assasinated (POLITICAL)
On September 14 1901 President William McKinley was assainated in his secon term and was then succeded by his vice President Theodore Roosevelt. -
The Jungle(Social)
Was a book written by Upton SInclair that talked about the harsh reality the immigrants were living in when they come to America in the beginning. -
Atlanta Race Riot (Social)
During the riot mobs of white people went around killing blacks and destroying their buisness and property which were caused by rising tensions between the races. -
Shirt Waist Fire(OTHER)
Was a deadly industrial fire that took the lives of many workers who had been locked insdiee the factory by employersmany died from the flames or from jumping out the windows to escape. This led for the call for more people to join unions for workers rights. -
Federal Reserve Act ( ECONOMIC)
It established the Federal Reserve system and allowed the federal reserve to print money as legal money that could be used in everyday life was the succesor of the Sherman anti-trust act. -
Clayton Anti Trust Act(ECOMOMIC)
Was an act that further sought to get rid of trust and monopolies and anything other this that led to the lack of competiveness in the market.
