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Cross country rail road
The cross country rail road was a rail road that when all the way across the U.S. It was important for travel because now people had a way to get all the way across the states without having to go by wagon. It was also good for trade because we can now ship objects faster and more efficient. -
Henry Ford
) was a prominent American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. As owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. He is credited with "Fordism": mass production of inexpensive goods coupled with high wages for workers. Ford had a global vision, with cons -
Reconstructions
In the History of the United States, the term Reconstruction Era has two senses; the first covers the entire nation in the period 1865–1877 following the Civil War; the second one, used in this article, covers the transformation of the Southern United States from 1863 to 1877, with the reconstruction of state and society in the former Confederacy. Three amendments to the Constitution affected the entire nation. In the different states, Reconstruction began and ended at different times; federal -
Boom of steel Bessemer process
The Bessemer process was the mass production of steel in the 20th century.
It was important for the rail road. The cities across the U.S. and many other reasons -
Statue of liberty
is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886. The statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue has become an icon of fr -
Ww1
Ww1 was a war including all the super powers during 1914 to1918 in Europe because of the tensions of other countries. It was important because it involved all the worlds’ super powers. -
Prohibition
On November 18, 1918, before the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment, the United States Congress passed the temporary Wartime Prohibition Act, which banned the sale of alcoholic beverages having an alcohol content of greater than 2.75%.[5] (This act, which was intended to save grain for the war effort, was passed after the Armistice was signed on November 11, 1918.) The Wartime Prohibition Act took effect June 30, 1919, and July 1, 1919 became widely known as the "Thirsty-First".[6]
