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1440
The Invention of the Printing Press (https://www.livescience.com/43639-who-invented-the-printing-press.html)
Europeans, however, took to movable type quickly. Before the invention of the printing press — sometime between 1440 and 1450 — most European texts were printed using xylography, a form of woodblock printing similar to the Chinese method used to print "The Diamond Sutra" in 868. -
Oct 12, 1492
The Arrival of Christopher Columbus to the Caribbean (Handout/Google Slides)
Columbus began his first voyage to the Carribean where no one had yet to discover. His purpose for his voyage was to find the fastest route to India to trade, but he ended up in the Carribean and then in the Americas. He was the first European explorer to arrive in the Carribean. [Columbus reports on his first voyage, 1493 worksheet] -
1500
Puritans (Handout/Google Slides
The Puritans were separated from other Anglicans (a distance of belief), they were religious. In the 1500's they moved from England to the United States, hopeing to change ways of Christianity. -
French and Indian War (Subheading Handout)
The war began in 1753 and the war ended in 1763. There were many different battles fought in the war and many soldiers died. Both the French/Indian and British won and lost big battles. The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the French and Indian War between Britain and France. -
The Declaration of Independence (http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/)
The Declaration of Independence is one of the most important documents in the history of the United States. It was an official act taken by all 13 American colonies in declaring independence from British rule. -
The Invention of the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney invented the first cotton gin, this made it so the demand for slaves would decrease becasue now the cotton gin sped up the process of growing cotton, and the master could use less slaves to get the same amount of cotton. -
Manifest Destiny (Manifest Destiny photo and handout)
In the 1800's the words Manifest Destiny meant the God-given right to expand west for the United States. It then helped the U.S. expand west and gain land, power and population. -
The Invention of the Camera (Wiki)
The first partially successful photograph of a camera image was made in approximately 1816 by Nicéphore Niépce, using a very small camera of his own making and a piece of paper coated with silver chloride, which darkened where it was exposed to light. -
Underground Railroad (Handout)
The Underground Railroad was a trail where both black and white abolitionists helped slaves escape servitude to the north. It also was a smart thought out way for all humans; whites, blacks to come together and free thousands of slaves. Harriet Tubman helped free hundreds of slaves, and Frederick Douglass even wrote a paper about the Underground Railroad. -
Indian Act Removal (Handout/OPTICS)
The Indian Act removal was passed by Congress while Andrew Jackson was the president. The Act stated that all Native Indians were to be relocated to present-day Oklahoma due to Manifest Destiny and the United States' expansion west. The picture protrays the darkness these Natives went through and the orginization the U.S. soldiers led the Natives into a new land. -
The Reconstruction Era
Abraham Lincoln started planning for the reconstruction of the South during the Civil War as Union soldiers occupied huge areas of the South. He wanted to reunify the Confederacy and Union as one. -
The North Wins the Civil War
Throughout the Civil War Lincoln, the president at the time, and the North had a strong advantage and secret weapon. That secret weapon was the telegraph and the railroads. With the telegraph, he could easily receive information about the war and send information also. The railroad helped because he could send both troops and supplies to the direct battle cite. -
The Periodic Table of Elements
Dimitri Mendeleev created the thought of the periodic table and made many intelligent hypothesis about future elements that were infact true statements. -
Transcontinental Railroad (Handout)
The Transcontinental Railroad connected the country form the east to the west with railroads, it helped settlements spread throughout the country and made it so trade became more important. Also, the Transcontinental Railroad caused the demand for labor in the United States to build the railroad. Many Chinese came in demand for labor. Businesses gained advantages from the railroad because now it was easier to trade, and they gained land and territory. -
The Invention of the Phone (Elon Edu)
While Italian innovator Antonio Meucci (pictured at left) is credited with inventing the first basic phone in 1849, and Frenchman Charles Bourseul devised a phone in 1854, Alexander Graham Bell won the first U.S. patent for the device in 1876. -
The Invention of the Light bulb
Thomas Alva Edison invented the light bulb. -
New Immigrants/Old Immigrants (Google Slides)
Old Immigrants had arrived in the United States before 1880 and were skilled. Mostly English and others were from northern and western Europe. New Immigrants arrived between 1880 and 1920 and most came for the demand for labor, most were not skilled. Mostly from eastern and southern Europe. These immigrants had a harder time fitting in and often got homesick or were not involved in the United States community. They often established ethnic neighborhoods to live in to hlp them with the change. -
World War One (Outbreak of WWI Google Slides)
M.A.I.N. causes (militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism)
The assassination of Archduke of Austria
Allied Powers vs. Central Powers
Zimmerman Telegram
The sinking of the Lusitania
The War started out small, but because of the alliance it just kept growing bigger and bigger with the amount of leaders and armies. -
The Automobile (Packet)
henry ford built the Model T, the car that would be available to all people no matter what economic class. In 1903 he started the Ford Motor Company. The automobile changed the lives of many citizens in the U.S. because now they did not have to work near their living area, and they could get around much faster. Also, many citizens without jobs or immigrants looking for jobs could get a job making Model T's because they were very easy to make in a moving line of workers. -
Computer
The first computer was called a Z1. Invented by German Konrad Zuse. He built it in his parents living room. It was the first modern computer. -
The Invention of the Printer (https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-computer-printers-4071175)
The history of computer printers started in 1938 when Chester Carlson invented a dry printing process called electrophotography commonly called a Xerox, the foundation technology for laser printers to come. In 1953, the first high-speed printer was developed by Remington-Rand for use on the Univac computer. -
World War Two (Outbreak of WWII & Pearl Harbor (Google Slides)
Dictators going into the War:
Hitler --> Germany
Mussolini --> Italy
Tojo --> Japan
Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939 -
Cold War
•US vs. USSR
•US: Containment policy
•Defense spending on the rise (arms race).
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
COmmunism in Eastern Europe ends in 1989
Cold War officaily ends December 25m 1991 -
Computer Mouse
The first computer mouse was revealed to the world in 1968. It was invented by Douglas C. Engelbart. He had built it two years before in 1966 but began shipping to the world in 1968 with Apple Macintosh (a computer) -
Video Game Console
Magnavox Odyssey was the first video game console on a "Brown Box" a prototype invented by Ralph Baer -
Immigration Process (Immigration and Naturalization WS)
Step 1 Petition for a Visa
a visa is a legal right to go to another country
Step 2 Submit forms to the National Visa Center
there are a lot of fees and forms to discourage people from coming, security, time to identify the person entering the country, fees pay people to work in progress, to see if you have wealth.
Step 3 Interview
the people who attend the interview are the spouses, children of the person wanting to get in.
they want to make sure you match the person on paper
