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13 Amendment- freedom of the African Americans
On 23rd September, 1862 Abraham Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation. The statement said that all slaves would be declared free in those states still in rebellion against the United States on 1st January, 1863. The measure only applied to those states which, after that date, came under the military control of the Union Army. It did not apply to those slave states such as Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri and parts of Virginia and Louisiana, that were already occupied by Northern t -
Ku Klux Klan is formed
The first form of the Ku Klux Klan was in Pulaski, Tennessee, A year later a general organization of local Klan's was established in Nashville in April, 1867.
Most of the leaders were former members of the Confederate Army and the first Grand Wizard was Nathan Forrest, an outstanding general during the American Civil War.
they terrorised and killed black Americans. Their plan was to never let African Americans have the right to vote. Eventually the Klan targeted anyone they disliked - Jews, Cat -
second industrial revolution
The second industrial revolution changed America forever people were making new teconology and improving living conditions with the inventions of the cotton gin, reliable steam engine, and the transcontinental railroad ex. http://americanhistory.about.com/od/industrialrev/a/indrevoverview_2.htm -
new immigrants come to america
People from other countries had heard about the wonderful united states and how it was free and there was land and jobs some people had even heard that the roads were made of gold. So people from other countries began pouring into the united states by the millions
Also they were trying to Escape religious, racial, and political persecution, or seeking relief from a lack of economic opportunity or famine still pushed many immigrants out of their homelands this lead America to become very dirty a -
panama canal
The canal would link the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, it would cut off 8,000 miles of voyage Roosevelt believed the canal was necessary and that we needed it so he began working on it after the France had spent 300,000 million and 20,000 lives on it. At first it was not easy getting the Colombian senate to agree on the canal being built but eventually they said okay. The Panama Canal allowed the United States to be more involved with Latin America. (power point notes) -
WW1
world war one began for 4 main resons
-alliances
-impilisim
-militarism
nationalism
the usa got invovled with world war one because the sinking of Lusitania, world war one was called the great war. the cental countires were austria hungry and germany and the alliance countries were italy britan russia and the usa -
world war 1 ends
the usa had finally beat germany. and new countires formed in europe old ones were abolished, international organizations were established, and many new and old ideologies took a firm hold in people's minds -
prohibition
aftrer all the preachers and wemon for alcohol to be banished they had finally go what they wanted alcohol was no longer allowed in the united states this caused a rage in people and a disire to get it. the mafia took this in their own hands and began smuggling alcohol in the u.s where people would pay great money for it. the goverment soon relized they were loosing a great deal of money and the mafia was gaining a great deal of money so the law then went out -
wemons right to vote - the 19th amendment
wemon now have the right to vote after many strikes walks and paraides.
