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Cattle
Cattle played an important role in the life of a cowboy like in texas. Cowboys weere men who had courage and were indepnedent. Cowboys were mostly African American and Hispanic. The Longhorn was a very famous type of cattle. It was a mixtire between Sapnish and English cows. The prices a head for the cattle constrated greatly in the North and South. THe cattl ewas more common in the south, so the price a head was 4 dolloars, while in the Notrth it was 40 dollars per animal. -
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TRANSFORMING THE WEST
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The Homestead Act
The Homestead Act was basically the giving away of free land. Settlers would recieved 160acres of land if it was imporved after 5 years. This deal appealled to alot of people. Landless farmers, former slaves, and single women all took advantage of this arrangement. This act was partially successsssful farmers soon went bankraupt due to isolation and droyght in harsh conditions. -
Morill Land Grant College Act
This act funded universities in sparsely in sparsely populated areas, usually the west, through taxes on the sale of public land.An Act donating Public Lands to the several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. The Morrill Land-Grant Acts are United States statutes that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges in U.S. states using the proceeds of federal land sales. -
Department Stores
Department Stores were now opening up and they had fixed pricing, adn free delivery. It's got its name by the fact that goods wer organized into different 'departments'. They offered large discounts, especially when buying in bulk, and peoplelove the experience of it all -
Sanitation
Sanitation was a very important thing in the prgressive era. The cities were really dirty. There was feces everywhere and people were covered with dirt.George Warring would then come in with group called the White ducks with reforms and help clean the areas and seperate sewer systems that keep domestic sewage separate from storm runoff -
Trusts
Trusts brought different coporations in the same industry under the contrl of a obard of trustees. This wehre the company would turn over stock for profit guarenteed. Rockefeller had 40 companies under his trust, and the board was apponted by hi.People wanted to shut this processs down, because they didn't like it and it all benefited poeple in control with money -
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller was the Carnegie of Oil productionaand he basically did the same things as Carnegie. Rockefeller ocntrolled about 90 percent of the oil inustrrrry. Went from horizontal to vertical intergation and created holding and trust companies. -
Robber Barons
Robber Barons were greedy capitalist that grew rich by doding shaady business practices. They were involved in political munipulation and worker exploitation. The main robber barons were Carnegoe,, Rockefeller, and Vanderbilt. -
Tenements
Tenements were apartment complexes that housed 6 to 8 famjily dweeling. They all had dozens of families in each. they were all poorly venetilated.Rent prices started soared due to overpopulation . People kept moving in so why not raise the price of living. If you ever fell behind you would be evicted.They were very overcrowded and people wanted to reform those areas and they finally did. -
Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism relates to the controversial theory of Evolution. It's where the rich people survive, because they are strong and adaptive, as to where poor people were unfit(underling). This Ideology was based off of rich people and they advocated aginst helping the poor.Darwinist reasoning -
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Transcontinental railroad
Presidents of the unions pacific and central pacific came together to build a railroad that would meet in promontory, Utah. The Union pacific built west while the central pacific built east. The railroad had dramatic economic, cultural, and political significance to the development of the United States. Its ability to connect both coasts with quick transportation was significant. It also had problems like issues with population, also farmers went bankrupt due to isolation and drought. -
Laissez Faire
Laissez Faire in geneal means a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering. In the context it means where the market takes care of itself. This is significant to the timeline because this made the government stay out of the private sphere. This is basically the abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market. -
Corporations
Corporations was the biggest change in economy. Corporations were owned through stocks and limited liability. This is significant to the timeline because there were railroads, telegraphs, and expanded business.They were owned thrugh stocks, had a limited liability, and was the biggest change in economy. -
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt was an American business magnate and philanthropist who built his wealth in railroads and shipping. He is important to the timeline because he was a self-made multi-millionaire who became one of the wealthiest Americans of the 19th century. -
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The Exoduxters
The Exodusters was former slaves leaving the south and migrated to the West for better opportunity. Some were succesfull when they moved to the West, while others were not. The reason ofr that was that some would have settled on ad land and they simply lacked the funds, money. -
The Bufflo
The Buffalo played a big role in this era. They were used as a means to destroy the indians. The americans knew that the Native Americnas used the buffalo for everything and that the buffalo was essential to their way of life. The americans started to kill the buffalo off so that the indians would die, as a result the buffalos almost went exstinct. By the 1880s only a couple thousand of bufflaos were still around. Treaties were then made witht he native americans that dealt with the situation. -
The Political Machine
The Political Machine gave parties a new political structure. Immigrants would enter America needing a jobs and Ward Bosses would give them jobs; if the immigrants gave them their votes. The poltical machine was known for fraud and brabary. The Ward bosses would buy out the police. The political machine was horible and it took asvantage of the immirants. the American people wanted a reform but it failed -
The Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act banned futher immigration tot he US. There would also be immigration quatas to protect white workers. Americans hated the chinese and felt as if if immigrants were taking their jobs, so even though this stopped futher immigration. The immigrants wh now lived in America, like the Chinese, were kicked out and sent home in harsh ways. -
Railroads
Railroads were now expanding and being built across the US or atleast heading in that direction. There was a numerous amount of new tracks, transportation, and new land was opened for farming. Towns were now being made into major cities like Denver, San Francisco, Portland, and Omaha. Railroads had such an big impact that timezones were now being created. The timezones were created so that departure times and aarrivals could be determined. -
The Pendleton Act
The Pendleton act established the civil service exam.
This happened because of the spoils system. People like Carnegie were bringing up their friends into positions that they weren't necessarily qaulified to do. It was unfair for other people who wanted the position and had the ablities and qaulififcations to complete the job correctly, so the Pendleton Act was created. This act stoppped the spoils system, because to have a federal goverment job you would have to take a test based on merit. -
Slums
Slums were highly packed(334k per sqaure.mi.NY). They were the Ghetto of their time. These laces were for families who didn't make enoguh to live. there would be multiply families in each room and people would be everywhere, since there were so many people the rent would go up and up. With Slums came crime and tenements. Tenements are multile family dwellings. -
Hay Market riot
The Haymarket Riot was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886. An unknown person threw a dynamite bomb at police as they acted to disperse the public meeting. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day. Despite a lack of evidence against them eight radical labor activists were convicted in connection with the bombing. -
Ghost Dance Movement
These were dances htat were meant to bering back dead ancestors and was a form of rebellion against white rule. I t was said that Shaman blieved that he saw a food washing away whites and that the Natives would be able to return to their way of life The dead spirits would protect them for bullets, was popular among the western native peopl, but the gov't saw it as a threat, because the indians would become united. -
sherman anti trust act
\The Sherman Antitrust Act prohibits monopolies or unreasonable combinations of companies to restrict or in any way control interstate commerce. It is also a landmark federal statue in the history of United States antitrust law passed by Congress in 1890 under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison. -
Technology
The improvement of Techmology will help with the expnaison of America. In this era the creation of so many things will increase communication and the time of communication. News will now be instantaneous and at a faseter pace, plus quicker travel. All of these inventions will help the daily life of Americans, but will also be the casue for the inventions of even better technologies in the future. The U.S. Navies will now be updated to steel and we will have steam power. -
William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst was an American businessman, politician, and newspaper publisher who built the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company Hearst Communicationsarts. His stories would be very exxagerated to gain public reads and attention. Some could argue that the Spanish American war started becasue of peopole like Heasrt who would tell elaborate stories that were lies to make some peole seem good and others horrible and disgusting. He's why yellow journalism was created . -
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Imperialism
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Wounded Knee
Wounded was were 300 sioux indians were killed performing a ghost dance. It all started because someone pulled the trigger and no one knows who fired it. -
The Populist Party
The Populist Party wa basically the peoples party. This party believed in the power of regular people, and in their right to have control over their government rather than a small group of political insiders or a wealthy elite. They fought against corruption, greed, and the elimination of monopolies. They were for the the coinafe of slve, storage surplus, and graduated income tax. The Poulist paarty supported farmers and miners. -
Hawaii
Hawaii was basically overhtrown by power hungry Americans. Who wanted Hawaii for her sugar, and wanted to make Hawaii into a US state and they were going to do that. They overthrow the the Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii and used WW1 to annex hawii. Sandford Dole was basically a powerful bussinessman in Hawaii who orchestrated everything. When it ca to taking over Hawaii. He made it to where Hawaiins wouldn't have control over anyhthing through lawsof them not owing land and etc, but that changed. -
World's Columbian Exposition
The World's Columbian Exposition was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. This is important to the timeline because Christopher Columbus found the New World. -
Pullman Strike
MAY 11, 1894
The Pullman Strike was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States on May 11, 1894, and a turning point for US labor law. This is important to the timeline because it pitted the american railway union against the Pullman Company. -
Progressives
This is a philosophical approach not a amorent. It is based off of what you believein. People now believed in safety and health. The book called the Jungle bbby Upton Sinclair brought this situation to light. It open the eyes of Americans. In this era ww will now seee the rise of the Womens Suffrage movement and Temperance. The goverment protection will improve and having a big bussiness or being a big bussinesman isnt going to give you power over the nation. -
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Gold Vs. Sliver
Gold and sliver was a very big debate in the 19th century. the decision of what would be the currency had to be decided. Rich people loved gold, because everything stayed the same. Regular people wanted sliver becasue that meant prices would rise, so wages would also. the regular people would be able to earn more money, aand the rich people didn't want that -
Teddy Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States and he accomplished alot of things throughtout his presidency. He lead the 1st volunteer calvary, who was called the Roughridrs. Roosevelts had different typed of people and had about 300k memebers. \Rooselvet called for the building of the Panama canal, by his own executive order. He was also the person to win a noble peace prize.He won this bytrying to fix the peace between to countries. Roosevelt was a well liked president -
American Media
American Media now included yellow Journalism. This was the writing of gramatic, sensational, and highly exaggerated stories. This practic wwas used by Hearst and his rival. This was a way of earning more money the stories would make more people by the newspapers. Newspapers was now becoming popular everyone wanted to read them. Yelow ournalism was used inthe Spanish American War to make the spanish seeem horrible and disgusting. Newspapers would potray them as rapists, abusers, and killers. -
U.S.S. MAINE INCIDENT
The U.S.S Maine incident was when the Maine exploded in Havana Harbor. No one knew why the Maine had exploded but everyone blamed it on the Spainsh. There was no proof to back that claim up, but no one cared. In American Yellow journalism made the Incident worse by painting the spanish in a bad light and blaming them for everything. This made the AAmerican people want war, so the Spanish American war happened. For no reason... The maine exploded, because of a faulty ship design. -
Roughriders
The Rough Riders were bsically a calvary that Teddy Roosevelt had created. This was a team made up off black people, cowboys, cops, athletes, and indians. This army grew to 300k members. They got afmouse by going into the Battle of San Jaun Hill. Roosevelt was basically the leader of this group and this calvary were made of volunteers, so all those peole joined of their own will and wanted to fight to protect their country. -
Nature
During this era people will start to care more about the envoriemnt abd animals. National parks and monuments will now be created in order to protect somethings from being teared down. We know had animal sanctureies and this was all down with the help of the President of thtat itme period Teddy Rooselvelt. He loved nature and wanted to protect it. -
Child Labor
In this time period children worked to keep families finacially going. These children would be exploited by big businesses and their childdhood would be ruined. Working on the job proved to be very dangerous small children were needed to reacha nd do things that adults couldn't, and if they weren't careful they could be left without a limb. Laws soon started to change this children were now required to attend school everyday. This lead to children could no longer being able to work. -
Big Stick Policy
The Big Stick Policy was created by Teddy Roosevelt. This policy is from when Roosevelt said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' This qoute means to be nice and friendly, be diplomatic, but be prepared for anthing, because anything can happen. Rooselvelt applied this to himself when he would deal with foreign affairs. He enacted this policy when the Rooselvelt Corrally was created -
President Mckinely
President William McKinley was the 25th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897 until his assassination in September 1901, six months into his second term.Mckinely was relected in 1901 were he went against William Jennings Byran, a democrat. Mckinely was shot 2 timesin the bellyby an anacharist. -
Boxer Rebelion
The Boxer Rebellion, Boxer Uprising or Yihetuan Movement was a violent anti-foreign, anti-colonial, and anti-Christian uprising that took place in China between 1899 and 1901, toward the end of the Qing dynasty. This was a movement where the chinese wanted all foreigners out of china. They were the righteous annd harmonious fists. This was a terrosist campaign and they would attach foreieners everywhere in china. Euroe and America rescued the foreigners and put down the rebellion. -
Phillipine - American War
The Philiippine American war was were the philippines revolted agasint the U.S. and Spain. Thyeused Guerilla warfare and 70k U.S. soldiers forught in this war. Over 4k of those soldiers died and 220k pphillipines were left dead. The U.S tried to starve the Philippines, but didn't reliaze this would only make them stronger. This was ended in 1902. -
Upton Sinclair- The Jungle
Upton Sinclair wrote the book called ' The Jungle'. This book was fictional but it opend the eyes of Americans becasue it held some truth.This novel showed the realities of the Food industry This book spoke of rotten meat, the meat would sit out for hours. It was so dangerous to work in the factories that dealt with the meat that if a finger got cut off while working the workers would keep working, and package food that had a severed finger in it. There would also be rat feces in the meat. -
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington was an American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Washington didn't believ ein conflict and was about gradualism. He bieved that black people needed to become a manual workers and have skills, like becoming an electrician, jobs that required training. He wanted the economics of black people to improve he thought that only then could white people except black people. Washington believed in econokmic justice not social justice. -
W.E.B. DuBois
W.E.B. DuBois was a prominent black intellectual. Dubois believed that black people needed to be elite professionals and teachers. He believed black people needed to be in leadership positions.. His views was very different to Booker T. Washington. Dubois wanted immediate Civil Rights and said economic betterment was not possible without civil rights. Dubois was also a Co- Founder of NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colore People. -
Henry Ford
Henry Ford was the man that revolutionized the auto industry. He crerated the assembly line and created the car that everybody would be able to buy. The model T was the most fampus of his cars. Ford standardized auto pats and produced cars for less. he wwas doing evrything cheaper like making his own parts so that he could sell the cars at a cheaper price. The assembly line helped make cars at a fater rate. -
William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft was a very good friend to T.R. Roosevelt, but that all changed when Taft became president. Roosevelt romised not to run in the election of 1908, because he trusted Taft, but their friendship was ruined because they had philosphicaol differences. Roosevlet did not like what Taft was doing with his presidency, Taft didnt support reform and he files suit against many trusts. He was for everything T.R wasn't. -
The election of 1912
The Election of 1912 is where Roosevelt will run again for president, but he was not nominated by the republican party, Taft was. As a result Roosevelt will take his support in the Reublican party with him, so this will seperate the republican party. The seperation will be between the progressive republicans and those who support taft, because of this Taft will make his own politicacl party, the Bull Moose party. The democratic candidate will win this election, Woodrow Wilson. -
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the archduke of Austria- Hungry. World War 1 started becasue of the assiasination of this one man. The Archdike was assainated by a Serbian Nationalist. This Naitonalist shot the archduke and his wife, The Duchess, Sophie. This started WW1 because one side wanted revenge on the other so the lliances they both had across the world made it a would war -
The Eastern Front
The Eastern Front was bigger than the western fornt and ws largely trenchless. This was where Imperial Russia colapses, and Tsar Nicholas will be overthrown. The Bolshevik revolution will now start up and ww1 wil now be a 1- front war. -
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RMS Lusitania
On May 7, 1915, less than a year after World War I (1914-18) erupted across Europe, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner en route from New York to Liverpool, England. 128 Americans died on that ship. This incident happened becasue people the Germans thought the ship was carrying weapons os the stuck it donw. This angred the americans and was one of the main reaons why the united states got involved in the waer -
Mustard Gas
Mustard gas, or sulfur mustard (Cl-CH2CH2)2S, is a chemical agent that causes severe burning of the skin, eyes and respiratory tract. It can be absorbed into the body through inhalation, ingestion or by coming into contact with the skin or eyes. This was used as a weapon in WW1. Soldiers and war animals now neededspecial ga mask, so that they wouldn't be affeced by the gas. In todays time it is said that you can make the gas by combining pee and bleach. This method is not recommneded. -
The Great Migration
The Great Migration was when groups of black people moved from the south to the north. This happen becasue of two reasons. Black people, as we all know, were not the most liked race in America, especially in the South. Various things were hurting and even killing black people in the south and they needed an escape so why not the north. The second reason is that WW1 was happening and more workers were needed for the jobs that were left behind. It opened up alot of opportunities for black people. -
The Zimmerman Telegram
The Zimmerman Telegram was when Germany offered Mexican territory if the started a war with the United States, but the telegram had got intercepted. This would benefit Mexico, becuase they would then recieve the land they lost to America. The telegram was sent by Aurthur Zimmerman, and the british were the ones who intercepted it. This was also a reason why the United states joined the ww1. -
WW1 dead in number
WW1 ended by the surrendenation of the German. Germany actucallly could have won if they had stayed in the wawr, but they didn't, becasuse they country was on its last piece of string. The Allies had America on their side so they are one of the reasons why they won. 722k poeple died on britains side, 1.3 M on Frances side, 1.8 form Germany, 6 to 7 million on Russia side, and 116,500 from Americas side. -
Tsar Nicholas
Nikolai II was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from November 1894 until March 1917.Tsar Nicholas, his wife, and children were all held captive by the Bolsheviks and were all executed. Russia was struggling and the Bolsheviks decied they wanted a new form of goveremnt,so they forced the Tsar to abdicate, then killed his children, so that their would be no heir. The royal family tried to cover themselves in jewels while being shot, so that they wouldn't die, but the executers has stopped that. -
The Western Front
All of the German Troops were at the Western Front. The germans weere bre.aking through trenches, and was going to march on Paris. The US decided to stop the Germans before they had the chance to, so the American Expeditionary Force was led by Gerneral John Pershign and they helped stop the germans in Paris and the americans pushed the germans back to the trenches. -
The Treaty of Verassailles
The Treaty of Verassailles basically blamed everything on the Germany and mad the germans pay fro everything as punishment. Th Germans were now even accused of starting the war. After this treart germany lost everything, it's colonies, the economy crippled, they werent able to rebuild their army,Hitler comes into power, and they took responsibility for the war. This treaty was signed on the anniversity of the Archduke Ferdinand death -
The Red Scare
The First Red Scare basically had to do with Communism. Americans are scared that immigrants will come in and try to convert the nation. Rich White people did not like Communism, becasue the distiction of them and poor people would be blurred and everyone would hav the same thing no one would be above the other. Since Germany became a communist country any immigrants from Germany to America were hated. People who try to harm German immigrants so much that they would change their last names. -
Womens Suffreagre
Womens Suffrage was a movement that was directed towrds giving wome the right to vote. Known leaders of this groupw as Susan B anthony, Elzabeth C. Stanton, and Jane Addams. Suffrage is haivng the irght to vote and these women were fighting for that right. they would hold protest in Washington D.C and Hinger strikes tog ain attention.President Wilson supported this cause, and women were given the right ot vote my the approval of the 19th amendemnt -
Cars
Cars became really famous in the 1920s. Everyone can enjoy and own cars now because it's so affordably, because of Henry Ford. The model T is the model in this era that eveybody iis buying. For families to be able to afford a car 20 to 45 percent of thteir ake home incomen is used.' Some of the times it would be 100 percent of the yearly income, therefore alot of people brought cars on a budget. With the driving of cars came pollution and the cars were exhausting alot of it -
Working Life
The working life of workes will now change after ww1. There isn't a huge need for employees so there's no reson for businesses to bribe workers by giving them benefits to keep working, especialy if they dont want to. Srikers are now accused of being communist, strikes are at an all time high, worker saferty isn't guarenteed, and big businesses are back to normal. -
Leisure
In this era people are now doing new things on there free time.They are able to do alot more and have an easir life with the new inventions of the time. People now had the money to buy things and it made them feel good.People will go and watch silent films, they'll watch TV, or listen to the radio. -
The Lost Generation
The Lost Genreration will b the griup that rebels against vivtorian values.They were agianst public codes of Conduc and they were avout sexual liberation.This generation will now express themselves. Alcohol was a important release for man and this generation were looking to -
Prohibition
Prohibition was basically the Temperance movement. Women wanted to tstop the es\xcesssive drinking of alcohol because men would start to beat their wives.People who were for the drinking of alcohol was called the 'wets' and the people who were not were called the 'dry'. The dry will win. The person who really helped to get alcohol banned was Billy Sunday and he influenced alot of people. -
Speakeasies
Speakeasies were secret bars and you needed a password to be able to get it. This bars who basicallly have the one thing that was illegal in America aat that time, Alcohol. That's why so many peole were drawn to theses places because of the alcohol and the fun they could have.Speakeasies were usually run by the Mafia. Women were actually go into speakeasies which man some men mad, but it's like what can you do you're both doing something that's illegal, so how are you goimg tp gp snitch. -
Ku Klux Klan
There was a lot of fear after the Red Scare, Suffrage, Immigration, and Prohibiton, so white people formed a grop call the KKK. They weere fost suprressed by the goerment, but when they had actually gotten peole from inside the goverment to join them that all changed. They even had the president at that time, Hardy, joijn them. The kk would lynch, burn, and kill not only black folk, but catholics, germans, and anyone or race they didn't like. -
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The Scopes Monkey Trial
The Scopes Monkey Trial was a controversial trial debating Religion and Evolution. This trial was based off of a teacher, William Byran, who was a creatism, and illegallly taught it to his students. In this point of History is was illegal for the thinkings of Evolution to be taught, because it cnflicted with the bible and its teachings. The media will be all over th elittle town where this all happened in Dayton, Tennesse. In the End Byran will be found guilty . -
Flight
Charles Lindberg was the first man to cross the alantic in a plane without any stops. The plane Lindberg used was the Spirit of Louis. Lindberg flew from non- stop from nyc to paris in May 1927(3,610 miles). It took Lindberg 33.5 hours to get to Paris and he was up for 55 hours.Lindberg only had a flashlight, rubber raft, a wicker chair, water, and sandwhiches. Lindberg didn't have a radio or radar, and airplanes willl become popular. -
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hooverw as the 31st president of the United staes. He was from Iowa and he wans't a bad person. H ejust became president t the wrong time. Hoover loved to help people out but that conflicted with his publc speaking skillls. This president fed 7 million people believed that the goverment shouldn't interven with the economy. He bleived in limited goverment. The america people started to hate Hoover because he would say or imply the wrong things at public speaking. -
Banks
Banks were the first thing Rooseelt targeted.He created a bank holiday which was when bamks will close onone day, and he also shut the bank down for a whole week and that really helped with getting the economy back on track. The Federal Reserve affeted both good and bad bamks. If you were a bad bank you would get shut down, good bank stay open -
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Father Charles Coughlin
Father Charles Coughlin was a catholic priest who had an alternative to the new deal. He had a radio station that he would speakfor and he had more views then FDR.He had about 30 to 40 million listeners. Father Charles Coughlin would blamed wall street and international bankers for the Great depression, because they were to greedy, -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowel was Topsoil blown away by drought and poor farmng.Thi dust blanketed major cities.To escape all the dust peole would barricade themselves in their houses, but the dust still got in. Even ThOugh humans had a way to save themselves from the dust but animals like catlle and horses didn't have that luxury, so they dies by suffication. The goverment responded by by paying famers to replenish the soil and palnting 220 million trees. -
The Election of 1932
The Election of 1932 was between Herbert Hoover(republican) and Franklin D. Rosevelt, Democrat. FDR won the elction, becuase the American people started to really dislike Hoover from his previos election. Hoovers lashed any faith and trust that the American people had for him. Ater this elction Hoover will be elected 4 more times and his is the 5th ocusin of T.R -
First 100 days
President Franklin Roosevelt in the ofrst 100 days of his presidency devotes tim to getting legislation passed, has a commitment to alleviating depresion, and just trying to improve the lives of the American people. FDR did so much duringhis 1st 100 days asa president that we now measure every president based foff what they do in thteir 1st 100 days in office -
Eleanor Roosevelt(ER)
Eleanor Roosevelt is not only the wife of President Franklin, but they are also like 6th cousins to each other.FDR is the 5th cosuin of TR and Er was Tr's niece. Er was an awesome lady and her husbands right hand. Er was the 1st modern 1st lady ans she set the standard for every 1st lady after her. ER would go to travel 30,000 miles and she cared for people, and their plight. -
The Bonus March
the Bonus Army was when an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers gathered in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates.President Hoover ordered troops to go down to where the protest was happening ad told them to not engage, but General Macarthur gave the order, ignoring president Hoover, to forefully remove the people. This made the people really dislike Hooveer because they thought he was the one who gave the order. -
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) will set aside anti- trust laws, set wages, set prices on good(somethingcan't cost more or less than this). There are now qouta, how much you can make.Thus was suppose ti reverse pverproduction and under construction. They also wanted to fix prices raising but the wages didn't -
The 21st amendment
Alcohol is still a major topic even after the passing of the 18th amendmnet. Not having the selling and buying of alcohol in America legally has not helpeed the economy at all, so people are now going to want alchol unbnned and they will get their eish. The 21st amendemnt was made so that alcohol could be legal, but you had to be a certain age. We still have this law today anf you have to be atleast 21 to be at the legal drinking age. -
Munich Conference
This was were Hitler s=and Neville Chamberlin met up and decided that Sudetenland would be given to Germany. Hitler promises no more territory will be taken, Hitler were convinced that the Allies were weak and that he could easily defeat them. -
The Annexation of Austria
German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich. In early 1938, Austrian Nazis conspired for the second time in four years to seize the Austrian government by force and unite their nation with Nazi Germany.the Austrians and teh Nazi Germans were friends so they Jews in Austria were also treated horribly like the ones that were in Germany. -
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The German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
The German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact was a treaty made by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939 that opened the way for both nations to invade Poland. This is important to the timeline because the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years. This was basically their wat of stallinh to gain more time. -
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill was an English political leader and author of the twentieth century; he became prime minister shortly after World War II began and served through the end of the war in Europe. This is important to the timeline because Churchill symbolized the fierce determination of the British to resist conquest by the Germans under Adolf Hitler.He was the one who got Britain through their darkest hour -
The Blitz
The Blitz was night attacks, night bombings. For peace Hitler wanted the British to surrender, but they wouldn't.These bpmbings were initailly for military tagerts, but when a German Soldiere accidently bombed a city, britain did the same thing to the Germans which escalated the attacks to innocent civilians -
Zoot Suits
The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of conflicts in June 1943 in Los Angeles, California, United States, between European Americans servicemen stationed in Southern California against Mexican American youths and other minorities who were residents of the city. It was also a type of style. The suit jacket woren with baggy pants -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during WWII. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in eastern Belgium, Northeast France, and Luxembourg, towards the end of World War II. -
Manhattan project
The code name for the effort to develop atomic bombs for the United States during World War II. The first controlled nuclear reaction took place in Chicago in 1942, and by 1945, bombs had been manufactured that used this chain reaction to produce great explosive force. This is important to the timeline because it brought together all the knowledge then known with regards to nuclear fission. -
Little Boy Bomb
"Little Boy" was the code name for the atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 during World War II. This is important to the timeline because this was the first atomic bomb to be used as a weapon. -
Fat man Bomb
"Fat Man" was the code name for the atomic bomb that was detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki by the United States on 9 August 1945. It was the second of the only two nuclear weapons ever used in warfare, the first being Little Boy, and its detonation marked the third-ever man-made nuclear explosion in history.
