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bessemer process
it reduced the prices of steel while increasing the production of steel. More steel products were made, new inventions were made, more money was made, and general improvements were made. Made in 1856. Because of the Bessemer process more skyscrapers were made and buildings. -
13th amendment
On 23rd September, 1862 Abraham Lincoln 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 troops. -
reconstuction
from 1865-1877 it was the period to solve social, political, and economical problems. Abraham Lincoln was president during the reconstruction period but was assassinated in April 1865. The Fourteenth Amendment, defining national citizenship so as to include blacks, passed Congress in June 1866 and was ratified, despite rejection by most Southern states. It was mainly to try and bring back the south and north together. Though the north wanted to punish the south. -
telephone revolution
Bell's greatest success was achieved on March 10, 1876, marked not only the birth of the telephone but the death of the multiple telegraph as well. The communications potential contained in his demonstration of being able to "talk with electricity" far outweighed anything that simply increasing the capability of a dot-and-dash system could implyThomas A. Watson, in the next room, Bell utters these famous first words, "Mr. Watson -- come here -- I want to see you." -
wright brothers airplane
On December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the 1903 Wright Flyer became the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight with a pilot aboard. It flew forward without losing speed and landed at a point as high as that from which it started. With Orville Wright as pilot, the airplane took off from a launching rail and flew for 12 seconds and a distance of 37 meters (120 feet). The airplane was flown three more times that day, with Orville and his brothe -
triangle shirtwaste fire
275 girls were at the factory 146 died in the fire the fire escape fell down. 25 girls jumped down the elevator shaft showering the people who were in the elevator with blood and coins. 62 Girls jumped from nine stories to the ground. The tragic death of 146 girls, whose average age was 19, was needed before the politicians and the people saw for the need to regulate safety in the workplace. It was a turning point for regulations in factories like multiple fire exits, sprinklers -
panama canal
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lusitania
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prohibitation act
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Harlem Renaissance
it was a literary and intellectual flowering that fostered a new black cultural identity in the 1920s and 1930s. It was originally called the New Negro Movement. A critic and teacher Alain Locke described it as a "spiritual coming of age" in which the black community was able to seize upon its "first chances for group expression and self determination."
