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Reconstruction
What: known as an era of corruption and misgovernment
When: 1865-1877
Where: Untied States (south)
Who: South, trying to restore the south
Why: it was important because it was the era of ending slavery and getting African Americans civil rights -
13th Amendment
What: Banned slavery from the United States
When: December 6, 1865
Where: United States (north and south)
Who: African Americans
Why: it was important because it ended slavery for african americans and gave them freedom -
15th Amendment
What: Granted all US born people citizenship
When: July 9, 1868
Where: United States
Who: African Americans
Why: its important because it gave all African American people citizenship -
Light Bulb Is Invented
What: Thomas Edison Invents Light bulb
When: October 22,1879
Where: his lab in Menlo Park, New Jersey
Who: Thomas Edison
Why: its important because it revolutonaized peoples everyday lives. They could now work in the dark and did not have to us oil or lamps to light their homes. It was also more efficient, and easier to use. -
New Immigrants
What: new immigrants were immigrants that came from mostly asia and southern eastern europe instead of the original northern western europeans
When: 1880-1920
Where: United States, Ellis Island, Angel Island
Who: Asian and southern eastern europeans
Why: its important because it introduced the idea of ellis and angel island -
Muckrakers
Event 7.) Muckrakers
What: writers who dug up the stories of political, social scandels
When: late 1800s to early 1900s
Where: Urban Cities
Who: Jacob Riis- How the Other Half Lives (Urban Poor 1890)
Upton Sinclair- The Jungle (Meat Industry 1906)
Lincoln Steffens- The Shame of the Cities (Political Corruption 1903)
Why: it was important because it got America to realize what happens in urban cities. It also inspired new laws such as the Food and Drug administration Act and tenement laws -
Homestead Strike
What: Andrew Carnegie would not allow unions in his buisness
When: 1892
Where: Homestead, Pennsylvania
Who: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Frick
Why: its important because it promted the idea of workers fighting for certain privliges in union
