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Immigration Started
The immigration increased between the industrial revolution begun. Thousands of immigrants found work on the trans-continal railroad, setting in towns along the way. -
Impacts of the century urban life
Between 1880 and 1890, almost 40 percent of the townships in the United States lost population because of migration. This increased the rate since of: suicide, insanity, crimes against property, divorce, illegitimate births, riots, and death. -
Economic Depression
An economic depression caused the collapse of many banks in the East. People lost their savings, wages fell and unemployment rose. -
Gold discovered in California
James Marshall, a carpenter employed by John Sutter to build a mill at Sutter’s Fort, discovered gold. Initially news of the discovery was kept secret but once it became known people from the East flocked to California hoping to find gold and make their fortune. Those who arrived in 1849 became known as the ‘Forty-niners’. -
Pacific Railways Act
This Act established two companies whose purpose was to construct a railway across America. The Union Pacific Railway was established in the East to build the railway to Missouri and then continue west. The Central Pacific Railway would build the railway from Sacramento and then continue east. -
Kkk creation
Koke created in Tenesse.
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for blacks. -
13th Amendment Aproved
Ratified in December. Abolished slavery in the U.S Congress stablishes Freed men’s bureau to provide assistance to the emancipated slaves. -
Red Cloud’s War
The Sioux chief, Red Cloud, was furious when white settlers began using the Bozeman Trail which passed through the Sioux hunting grounds and began attacking travellers. Red Cloud was further angered when a line of forts was constructed to protect the travellers and increased the attacks. By spring of 1868 the government were forced to withdraw the army and abandon the efforts. -
Freed men’s Bureaus Abolished
The Bureau was the least liked tool of Reconstruction and after only 7 years of providing government assistance to refugees of the civil war, it was given 74,000 disbanded and all remaining business was handed over to the war department. On June 28th, 1872 the Secretary of War issued an order discontinuing the bureau in accordance with a June 10th act of Congress. From June 30th 1872 onward the remaining actions of the bureau would be carried out by the general of the U.S. Army. -
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Force
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union was founded in 1874 by women who were concerned that the consumption of alcohol was having negative effects on American society. The women who joined this group pledged not to drink alcohol at all and publicly proclaimed their opposition to alcohol. Leaders like Carrie Nation protested saloons and destroyed bar windows. -
Civil right act
March 1--Civil Rights Act enacted by Congress. It provides blacks with the right to equal treatment in public places and transportation.
The Supreme Court later declared this Act unconstitutional. -
Urban and Suburban
Cities grew by about 15 million people in the two decades before 1900. Many of those who helped account for the population growth of cities were immigrants arriving from around the world. A steady stream of people from rural America also migrated to the cities during this period. Between 1880 and 1890, almost 40 percent of the townships in the United States lost population because of migration. -
Ellis island intervene immigration
The Federal government intervened and constructed a new Federally-operated immigration station on Ellis Island. While the new immigration station on Ellis Island was under construction, the Barge Office at the Battery was used for the processing of immigrants. -
Elli Island immigration station
It was the gateway for over 12 million immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station for over sixty years[8] from 1892 until 1954. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
In Plessy v. Ferguson, the United States Supreme Court established the "Separate but Equal Doctrine," holding that legal racial segregation does not violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. This happened during the Jim Crow Era. -
Annexation of Hawaii
U.S. wanted Hawaii for business and so Hawaiian sugar could be sold in the U.S. without Paying taxes, Queen Liliuokalani opposed so Sanford B. Dole overthrew her in 1893, William McKinley convinced Congress to annex Hawaii in 1898 -
The start of Spanish-American war
The U.S congress declares war on Spain. The reasons for war were many, but there were two immediate ones: America's support the ongoing struggle by Cubans and Filipinos against Spanish rule, and the mysterious explosion of the battleship U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor. -
Defeating The Spanish
U.S forces destroy the Spanish fleet off Santiago Bay, Cuba. -
The Panama Canal
After Panama claimed independence from Colombia, the U.S. declared the "Canal Zone", which would be the spot to dig a canal. America wanted control over the canal, so they agreed to pay Panama $10 million and an annual rent of $250,000. In 1914 the canal was finished and cut off 8000 miles from the tip between the west and eat coast of U.S. -
Food and Drug Act
Congress passes the Pure Food and Drug Act in response to exposés of the patent-drug, meatpacking, and food industries.
On the same day as it passes the Pure Food and Drug Act, Congress also approves its second Meat Inspection law to date. The U.S. Drug Administration must inspect all animals destined for human consumption before they are slaughtered. Carcasses are subject to post-mortem inspections and slaughterhouses and processing plants must uphold cleanliness standards. -
16,17 Amendments
In 1913, both the 16th and 17th Amendments were ratified. The 16th Amendment created a federal income tax. The 17th Amendment changed how senators were elected. It gave the people the power to elect senators in direct elections, rather than having senators appointed by state legislatures. -
World War I
The WWI also called the Great War started in 1914. Why did it started? By the assassination of Fran’s Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Those groups who fought were called Central Powers and Allies. It was mostly fought in Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, France, Great Britain, Russia. World War I was one of the great watersheds of 20th-century geopolitical history. It led to the fall of four great imperial dynasties (in Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey). -
Airplanes in WWI
Because they were large and slow, these aircraft made easy targets for enemy fighter aircraft. As a result, both sides used fighter aircraft to both attack the enemy's two-seat aircraft and protect their own while carrying out their missions. Many Americans fought with France at the beginning of WWI. -
Archduke Assasination
Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo. His death is the event that sparks World War I. -
The New Klan
A group of angry men revived the KKK. The original clan had been form inked the south during reconstruction largely to terrorize African American who sought vote. The clan targeted Jews, Catholics, immigrants, and African Americans. They opposed labor unions especially because many union members were immigrants and political radicals. -
Lusitania Sinking
Less than a year after WWI started, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the Lusitania, a British ocean liner en route from New York to Liverpool, England. Of the more than 1,900 passengers and crew members on board, more than 1,100 perished, including more than 120 Americans. Nearly two years would pass before the United States formally entered WWI, but the sinking of the Lusitania played a significant role in turning public opinion against Germany, both in the United States and abroad. -
Selective Service Act
The Selective Service Act or Selective Draft Act authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription. 24,000,000 men registered for the draft by the end of 1918. 4,800,000 men served in WWI and 2,000,000 saw active combat. -
Zimmerman Telegram
British intelligence gives Wilson the Zimmerman Telegram, a message from German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmerman proposing that Mexico side with Germany in case of war between Germany and the United States. In return, Germany promises to return to Mexico the "lost provinces" of Texas and much of the rest of the American Southwest. Mexico declines the offer, but the outrage at this interference in the Western Hemisphere pushes American public opinion to support entering the war. -
National Women's Party Arrested
Member of this particular movement are arrested when they were picketing the White House. They were charged for obstructing the traffic when they were actually just standing in the side walk and the people that were passing by were insulting them and throwing things at them. They were fined but they preferred to go to jail because they knew they didn't do anything wrong. When Alice Paul did the exact same thing she was arrested in front of the White House and they went for hunger strike. -
Racist attacks
Many whites, resentful of black demands for equality, attacked blacks. Chicago, Houston, Little Rock, Harlem, Washington D.C., New York, Baltimore, New Orleans, and many other cities had outbreaks of rioting as whites attacked blacks throughout the United States. This period is called the Red Summer. -
19th Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. -
18th Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal. -
Immigration Quota
Congress passes immigration restrictions, for the first time creating a quota for European immigration to the United States. Targeted at "undesirable" immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, the act sharply curtails the quota for those areas while retaining a generous allowance for migrants from Northern and Western Europe. -
Scopes Trial
Also known as the Monkey Trial. In March 1925 Tennessee passed the nations first law that made it a crime to each evolution. A man named John Scopes, he was arrested for teaching the evolution theory in a biology class, the trial opened n July 10, 1915 and became famous. He was find guilty and fined with $100. -
Rise of the Nazis
Once the depression hit German citizens had no where to go, the Nazi party showed promise and rose in votes. The influence is this allowed Hitler to rise in rank and end the Great Depression by going to war. -
Wall Street Crashes
The stock market crash of 1929 is a four-day collapse of stock prices that began on October 24, 1929. It was the worst decline in U.S. history. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 25 percent. It lost $30 billion in market value. That’s the equivalent of $396 billion today. It was more than the total cost of World War I. It destroyed confidence in Wall Street markets and led to the Great Depression. -
Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was caused by the soil being very dry and this along with high winds caused very big storms. The influence was that this added to the Depression and made living conditions unbearable for people. -
Major Bank Collapse
In December 1931, New York's Bank of the United States collapsed. The bank had more than $200 million in deposits at the time, making it the largest single bank failure in American history. In the wake of the stock market crash of October 1929, people were growing increasingly anxious about the security of their money. Bankruptcies were becoming more common, and peoples’ confidence in financial institutions such as banks was being rapidly eroded. -
Share our Wealth Society Founded
Huey Long founds the Share Our Wealth society, advocating outright seizure of the "excess fortunes" of the rich to redistribute to the poor. Huey Long's Share Our Wealth society has expanded to 27,000 clubs nationwide, with a mailing list of 7.5 million Americans. In 1935 Huey Long is assassinated inside the Louisiana Capitol Building. -
U.S lend-lease Act
Proposed in late 1940 and passed in March 1941, the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. It authorized the president to transfer arms or any other defense materials for which Congress appropriated money to “the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States.” -
Pearl Harbor Bombed
Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii. December 7, 1941. Just before 8 a.m. Sunday morning, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes descended on the base, where they managed to destroy or damage nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and over 300 airplanes. More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack, including civilians, and another 1,000 people were wounded. The day after the assault, FDR asked Congress to declare war on Japan. -
Operation Overlord
Operation Overlord or "D-Day" and the commander was American General Dwight D. Eisenhower. more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy. More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end, the Allies gained a foot-hold in Continental Europe.More than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded. -
FDR Dies
President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia. He didn't get to see V-E Day, his VP Harry Truman became the nation's 33rd president. -
V-E Day
After the suicide of Hitler on 30 April 1945, it was left to Grand Admiral Donitz, who had been President of the Third Reich for a week, to surrender. Donitz travelled to General Eisenhower's HQ at Reims in France, and, in the presence of senior officers from Britain, America, Russia and France, surrendered unconditionally to the Western and Russian demands on 7 May 1945. The war in Europe was finally over. -
Eisenhower Advances the Domino Theory
President Eisenhower refused to abandon Vietnam to the Communists saying that the fall of South Vietnam would inevitably lead to Communist expansion throughout the rest of Southeast Asia. -
Space Race
Beginning in the late 1950s, space would become another dramatic arena for this competition, as each side sought to prove the superiority of its technology, its military firepower and–by extension–its political-economic system. The US and Soviets had an intense rivalry about space and who can get the farthest first. Soviets started with the lead with Sputnik 1, however when the kept competing it actually brought them together and made the International Space Station. -
Reagan Visits the Wall
"Tear down this wall!" is a line from a speech made by US President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June 12, 1987, calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, this was the the closest to the US and the Soviets actually fighting. was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
John F. Kennedy Assassination
JFK was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas. -
The Tet Offensive
On the early morning of January 30, 1968, Viet Cong forces attacked 13 cities in central South Vietnam. Twenty-four hours later, PAVN and Viet Cong forces struck a number of other targets throughout South Vietnam, including cities, towns, government buildings and U.S. or ARVN military bases throughout South Vietnam, in a total of more than 120 attacks. -
Opposition to the Vietnam War
Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War began with demonstrations in 1964 against the escalating role of the U.S. military in the Vietnam War and grew into a broad social movement over the ensuing several years. This movement informed and helped shape the vigorous and polarizing debate, primarily in the United States, during the second half of the 1960s and early 1970s on how to end the war. -
Reunited Germany
In this day the Berlin Wall came down. Communism in the Soviet Republic and Eastern Europe began to crumble, pressure mounted on the East German authorities to open the Berlin border. The Wall was finally breached by jubilant Berliners on 9 November 1989, unifying a city that had been divided for over 30 years.
