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John A. Roebling
German-born American engineer. He designed and built wire rope suspension bridges, in particular the Brooklyn Bridge. At the time he built the Brooklyn Bridge, it was the longest suspension bridge at the time. -
Potato famine
The Great Famine or the Great Hunger was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852 -
Frederick Taylor
American mechanical engineer who sought to improved industrial efficiency. He is believed ti have been one of the first management consultants. -
The Ten percent plan.
Lincoln's idea for Reconstruction included the Ten-Percent Plan, which specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters (from the voter rolls for the election of 1860) swore an oath of allegiance to the Union. -
James Naismith
Canadian and American sports coach and innovator. He invented the game of basketball in 1891. He penned the first basketball rule book, and established the basketball program at University of Kansas. -
Transcontinental Railroad
The First Transcontinental Railroad completed in 1869, was joined with the ceremonial driving of the "Last Spike" at Promontory Summit in Utah. The track was laid over a (1,756 mi) gap between Sacramento and Omaha, Nebraska. -
George Pullman
George Pullman was an American engineer and industrialist (born March 3, 1831, Brocton, New York, U.S.—died October 19, 1897, Chicago). He designed and manufactured the Pullman sleeping car and founded a company town, Pullman, for the workers who manufactured it -
Wade Davis Bill
The Wade–Davis Bill of 1864 was a bill proposed for the Reconstruction of the South written by two Radical Republicans, Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and Representative Henry Winter Davis of Maryland. Basically an alternative to Abraham Lincoln's ten percent plan. -
Freedmen Bureau Established
The U.S. Bureau of Refugees, popularly known as the Freedmen's Bureau, was established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War -
Ku Klux Klan Begins
An organization primarily composed of Confederate Army veterans founds the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), a terrorist group formed to intimidate Blacks and other ethnic and religious minorities. It first meets in Pulaski, Tennessee. The Klan is the first of many secret terrorist organizations organized in the South for the purpose of reestablishing white authority. -
Sharecropping
Sharecropping is a form of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land. -
Exoduster Movement
Exodusters was a name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century, as part of the Exoduster Movement or Exodus of 1879. It was the first general migration of African Americans following the Civil War -
Jim Crow Law
Laws that enforced racial segregation in the south between the end of Reconstruction and the beginning of the civil rights movement. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. Passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration. -
The Pendelton Act
Created a federal civil service where workers could be hired based on competitive exams instead of political influence. This federal law ensured that government jobs would be awarded on the basis of merit. It swayed away from patronage. -
Time Zones
Operators of the new railroad lines needed a new time plan that would offer a uniform train schedule for departures and arrivals. Four standard time zones for the continental United States. -
Eugene Debs
Eugene Debs was an American union leader, he founded members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and was five times candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. -
Yellow Journalism
Journalism that was exaggerated for attention and based upon sensationalism -
Queen Liliuokalani takes the throne of Hawaii
The point in time when Queen Liliuokalani takes over Hawaii as the queen is significant, because she resisted imperialism in her country and refused to allow sugar cane companies to run her land by using her as a puppet. -
Spanish-American War
This is important because it shows the beginning of Spain's downfall as one of the major European countries in imperialism. The United States rises with new territories gained from the Spanish, and become more powerful and wealthy in the near future. -
Teller Amendments
Senator Henry M. Teller proposed an amendment to the U.S. declaration of war against Spain which proclaimed that the United States would not establish permanent control over Cuba. As a result Cuba got it's independence but had t agree to some terms with the U.S -
Muckrakers
Muckraker was used in the Progressive Era to characterize reform minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt -
Susan B. Anthony's Death
Miss Anthony had been unconscious practically all of the time for more than twenty-four hours, and her death had been almost momentarily expected since that previous night. Only her wonderful constitution kept her alive. She died peacefully. -
Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was killed in Sarajevo along with his wife, Duchess Sophie. The political objective of the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary's south-Slav provinces so they could be combined into a Greater Serbia or a Yugoslavia. -
Germany declares War on Russia
Germany in WW1 declared war on Russia because they claimed that Russia had already crossed their frontier and already started the war. -
National Woman's Party began picketing the White House
In an effort to attract attention to woman suffrage, the National Woman's Party began a silent picket of the White house. Twelve women marched with purple, white, and gold banners. -
Germany unrestricted submarine Warfare Campaign starts.
The use of unrestricted submarine warfare was announced by Germany on January 9th, 1917. The use of unrestricted submarine warfare was to have a major impact on World War One as it was one of the main reasons why America joined the war. -
Germany’s navy mutinied
The context was that the national government had already started negotiating an armistice with the allies, and the whole country knew the Great War was approaching its end. With the exception of the U-boat division, the German Navy had not done well during the previous four years. Senior Fleet officers decided to have a final fling at the Royal Navy, more to boost their own sagging egos than for any other reason. They mutinied the whole navy -
Armistice between the Allies and Germany
The armistice between the Allies and Germany an agreement that ended the fighting in the First World War. It was signed in a railway carriage in Compiègne Forest and marked a victory for the Allies and a complete defeat for Germany, although not technically a surrender. -
18th Amendment's passed.
Prohibition (The 18th Amendment) is the ban on making and selling of alcohol. -
Model T.irst affordable car is invented
Although the first car was invented in 1896 by Henry Ford it was very expensive, people wanted to make it more affordable. The Ford Motor Company in Detroit made the Model T. Ford, the first affordable car. Ford produced more than a million automobiles, at a rate of one per minute! Each car cost $335. They used an assembly line, that’s when the products move along a conveyer belt, to speed up production. Workers at different stations added parts as a belt moves along. -
Klu Klux Klan is reborn.
The KKK believed that America should be racially pure, which means they discriminated the blacks. The Klan became very strong in many states, including non-southern states. The Klu Klux Klan had over 5 million members in 1924. It tried persuade politics by using violence, but by the end of the decade the Klan began to decline -
Steamboat Willie
Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie is created it
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The Stock market Crash
n the United States, people thought their country would not become a victim of the Great Depression that had taken over Europe. However on the 29th of October the stock market crashed sending the United States into their Great Depression. -
Dust Bowl
Along with the Great Depression was the Dust Bowl in the middle of their country. The Dust Bowl was taking place in the Great Plains. Which included Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico and Colorado. The Dust Bowl was caused by the lack of crop rotation and basically killed the soil in the ground and drying it up causing dust storms. -
Migrants Working
Many workers in search of jobs traveled by themselves. This way they only had themselves to look after, and so nothing stands in their way when they decide to move to another job. Many migrant workers needed the money they were given and were willing to take lower pay if it meant pay at all. -
Jobless
The amount of unemployed workers was on the rise. People couldn't find jobs to support their family and factories couldn't take on anymore workers due to their shortages too. -
Munich Agreements
The Munich Pact was an agreement permitting the Nazi German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. The Sudetenland were areas along Czech borders, mainly inhabited by ethnic Germans. The agreement was negotiated at a conference held in Munich, Germany, among the major powers of Europe without the presence of Czechoslovakia. Today, it is widely regarded as a failed act of appeasement toward Nazi Germany. -
Spanish Civil War end
The war ended with the victory of the conservative Nationalists, the overthrow of the democratic government, and the exile of thousands of left-leaning Spaniards, many of whom fled to refugee camps in Southern France. With the establishment of a dictatorship led by General Francisco Franco in the aftermath of the Civil War, all right-wing parties were fused into the structure of the Franco regime. -
Britain signs a pact with Poland
On August 25, two days after the Nazi-Soviet Pact, the Polish-British Common Defence Pact was signed. The treaty contained promises of mutual military assistance between the nations in the event either was attacked by another European country. -
WW2
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. entered World War Two. This meant their were more job opportunities for the unemployed because supplies needed to be made to help the soliders. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters and the Battle of Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the Allies of World War II conducted two atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. These two events are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date. -
Iron curtain Speech
The Iron Curtain Speech was delivered by Winston Churchill. The basic premise of his speech was his explanation of the devision of Eastern and Western Europe. The iron curtain is a symbol of the divided European countries. It is the iron curtain metaphor that symbolized the separation of countries during the cold war. It set the stage for tension and conflict in years to come. -
Nato
The Korean War was a conflict betweent North Korea and South Korea. The United Nations helped aid South Korea while China helped aid North Korea. The Korean war connects to the cold war because once again the conflict spawned from communist prevention. The United Nations wanted to protect North Korea from taking over South Korea and making their country a communist country. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a conflict betweent North Korea and South Korea. The United Nations helped aid South Korea while China helped aid North Korea. The Korean war connects to the cold war because once again the conflict spawned from communist prevention. The United Nations wanted to protect North Korea from taking over South Korea and making their country a communist country. -
Geneva Accords
U.S. Foreign Policy Source Following the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, the Geneva Accords was an agreement that acknowlegded that Vietnam was split into two separate territories. This agreement established the difference between North and South Vietnam. This was important to American history because the U.S. ended up choosing to fight alongside South Vietnam after the country split. -
Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro became the dictator of Cuba and established a Marxist/Socialist government. This related to the spread of communism during the Cold War. -
Sputnik
A serious of artificial sattelites created by the Soviet Union. They were the first to be placed into orbit. This event connects to the Cold War because it is apart of the Space Race, yet another competition between the Soviet Union and the United States. -
Space Race
The Space Race was a competition between the Unites States and the Soviet Union over which country would get to space first. The first instance of success in space was the Soviet Unions launch of Sputnik, a satellite. The Space Race ended with the United States launching the first man on the moon, Niel Armstrong. The Space Race connects to the cold war because it was another advancement that the United States and the Soviet Union competed for. -
Cuban missile crisis
This event was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The Soviet Union planted missiles in Cuba that if lanuched would land in the United States. President Kennedy ordered their removal or else he would invade Cuba. The weapons were dismantled. -
JFK Assassination
Assassinated during a presidential motorcade visit through downtown Dallas, Texas on November 22nd. Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested and accused of the assassination, but is murdered before a trial. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
On August 10th, 1964, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution became effective. This resolution was a way for President Johnson to deploy troops to South Vietnam since it gave him the authorization to aid members of the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty in any way he thought best. This was important to American history because it allowed the United States to become quite involved in the Vietnam War. -
USS Liberty
A navy intellegence ship was attacked by air and naval forces in Israel. They claimed that they had no knowledge the ship was American. -
Operation Menu
President Nixon authorizes Operation Menu, the bombing of North Vietnamese and Vietcong bases within Cambodia.
