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John J. Pershing
Commanded the american expeditionary force in europe during world war 1. he served in the spanish and philippine american wars and was tasked to lead a punitive raid against the mexican revolutionatry Pancho Villa. 1896-pershing was assigned to the froniter with the tenth cavalry, an allblack regiment.
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Warren G. Harding
Warren was the 29th preisdent of the united states a republican from ohio who served in the ohio senate and then in the united states senate. where he played a minor role. 1920-Harding was chosen as an inoffensive compromise canidate.
1921-Harding Signed the budget and accounting act of 1921.
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Glenn Curtiss
Glenn Curtis was an american aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S aircraft industry as early as 1904,he began to manufacture engines for airships. 1902-Curtis began manufacturing motorcycles with his own single cylinder engines.
1903-He set a motorcycle land speed record at 64 miles per hour.
1907-curtis set an unoffical world recorded 136.36 miles per hour on a 40 horsepower V8 powerded motorcycle. -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt was elected as the nation's 32nd preisdent in 1932, with the country mired in the depths of the great depression roosevelt immediatley acted to restore public confedence proclaming bank holiday. 1933-Roosevelt declares a four day "Bank Holiday" in order to stop the panic "run" on the nations banks
1934-Congress pass the gold reserve act allowing the president to fix the vaule of the u.s dollar at between 50 to 60 cents in term of gold. -
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Marcus Garvey
Marcus was a jamaican political leader who was a staunch proponent of the black nationalism and pan africanism movements. 1910-Marcus left jamaica and began traveling throughout the central american region.
1914-Garvey returned to jamaica where he organized the UNIA.
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Alvin C. York
In 1918, alvin york reportedly kills over 20 german soliders and captures an additional 132 at the head of a small detachment in argonne forest.He led a attack on a german machine gun nest. November 1917-York application was considerded he was drafted and began his army service at camp gordon in georgia.
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Dorothea Lange
Was a photographer who took photos of unemployed men who wandred the streets. 1934-Established her reputation as a skilled documentary photographer.
1940-She recived the guggenheim fellowship.
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Langston Hughes
Was an American poet,Social Activist,Novelist,Playwright,and columnist.He was one of the earliest innovators of the then new literary art form called jazz poetry. 1926-Hughes first book is published by alfred a. knopf publishing house book was called The Weary Blues.
1930-Hughes "Not Without Laughter" was published it earns hughes the Harmon Gold Medal. -
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Charles Lindbergh
Charles,Was a american aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist. as a 25 year old u.s air mail pilot charles emerged suddenly from virtual obscurity to instantaneous world fame. In the late 1920s and early 1930s charles used his fame to promote the development of both commerical aviation and air mail services in the unites states and american.
1932-His infant son charles jr was kidnapped and murdered in what was soon dubbed the "Crime Of The Century". -
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The Great Migration
The reason all theese people left to come to B.N.A is because there were more job oppertunities more land and more freedom. Black slaves were rescued and smuggles over to where we now know as Canada, because they couls live a better life. Between 1910 and 1970, blacks moved from 14 states of the South
A reverse migration has gathered strength since 1965.
1.4 million black southerners moved north or west in the 1940s followed by 1.1 million in the 1950s and another 2.4 million people in the 1960 -
Sussex Pledge
it followed a period of submarine warfare which saw many armed merchants ships attack by germany without warning, and led to the torpedoing of a french passenger ferry which killed around 50 people. 1917-germany became convinced they could defeat the allied forces by instituting unrestricted submarine warfare before the united states could enter the war.
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Red Scare
It came in the wake of World War I and the Bolshevik revolution It showed an excessive fear leading to violations of individual rights It was remembered during the McCarthy era as a precursor. In April 1919, authorities discovered a plot for mailing 36 bombs to prominent members of the U.S.
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Battle of the Argonne Forest
Was a part of the final allied offensive of world war 1 that stretch along the entire western front. 1918-The battle commenced again
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Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. june 28 1919-Treaty Was Signed
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Harlem Renaissance
refers to the flowering of African American literature, art, and drama during the 1920s and 1930s. Though centered in Harlem, New York City usa, the movement impacted urban centers throughout the United States. The Harlem Renaissance was a movement that spanned the 1920s.
it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925.
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The Great Depression
Serves as a natural debating point that justifies or refutes various economic policies T.G.D and the New Deal are complex topics that are open to many interpretations. 1929-Unemployment Averages 3.2% for the year.
1930-Unemployment Average 8.9% for the year.
1931-Unemplyoment Averages 16.3% for the year.
Dec 1931-Major Bank Collapse. -
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The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later. Many historians distinguish between a "First New Deal" 1933–34 and a "Second New Deal" 1935–38 with the second one more liberal and more controversial.
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The Dust Bowl
also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. The drought came in three waves, 1934, 1936, and 1939–40, but some regions of the High Plains experienced drought conditions for as many as eight years
The federal government encouraged settlement and development of the Plains for agriculture via the Homestead Act of 1862.
