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Sedtition Act
Made it illegal for anyone to make false statements that interfered with the prosecution of the war, insulting the US government, flag constitution or military; agitating against the production of necessary war materials or advacating, teaching or defending any of these acts. It was aimed towards socialists,pacifists, and other anti war activists. Used to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light -
The Theory Of Evolution
First formulated in Darwin's book "On the Origin of Species" in 1859, is the process by which organisms change over time as a result of changes in heritable physical or behavioral traits. Changes that allow an organism to better adapt to its environment will help it survive and have more offspring. one of the best substantiated theories in the history of science, supported by evidence from a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including geology, genetics and developmental biology. -
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Homestead Act
The Homestead Act was a law that was passed in the 1860s that offered up to 160 acres of public land to any head of a family who paid a registration fee, lived on the land for five years and cultivated it/ built on it. Basically free land to any citizen who was head of the household back then. Back then land was anything and that is what many wanted so they could have their own lands and herds. This happened almost in the times of the world war two which was one of the biggest wars in history. -
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Laissez Faire
Laissez Faire was created in 1756 and it basically means lazy government. It is an economic policy that advocates government staying out of the business sector, a theory that everything will even itself out in a completely free market, concept is similar to the idea of anarchy in that they are completely theoretical and go against human nature. This had many negative impacts especially for the workers. They had less pay and bad working conditions while the big businesses and monopolies got all $ -
Granges
The Patrons of Husbandry, or the Grange, was founded in 1867 to advance methods of agriculture, as well as to promote the social and economic needs of farmers in the United States. It was a social and educational organization, which farmers attempted to combat the power of the railroads. The railroads and granges were a very big thing at this time in the west. There were unconstitutional laws and the railroad companies could charge for their services. This was a very big even in Western history. -
The Red River War
The Red River War was a US military campaign created to rid the Southern plains of Southern Plains of many different tribes like the Comanche and Kiowa in 1874. Buffalo hunters trespassed on land granted to Indians and natives lost food supply. Killing of the buffalo meant less population, less food and less fur. The buffalo were very important to many people in these plains. They used every single bit of the buffalo and did not waste so when they saw all the left over buffalo, they were shocked -
Telephone
The first call was spoken by Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, when he made the first call on March 10, 1876, to his assistant, Thomas Watson: "Mr. Watson--come here--I want to see you." The telephone was easier to use than telegraph. It was only first for wealthy people, then available for eventually everyone. Alexander Graham Bell was his name. He was born march 3, 1847 to august 2, 1922 and was a Scottish born scientist and inventor known for making the telephone in 1876. -
Battle Of Little Big Horn
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, fought on June 25, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory, federal troops led by Lieutenant Custer against the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors. Tensions between the two groups had been rising since the discovery of gold on Native American lands. Custer was dispatched to confront them but was unaware of the number of Indians fighting under the command of Sitting Bull at Little Bighorn.His forces were outnumbered and was quickly overwhelmed. -
Farmer's Alliance
The Farmer's Alliance was an organization that united farmers at the statewide and regional level. The policy goals of this organization included more readily available farm credits and federal regulation of the railroads. It was simply an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers that developed and flourished in 1875. One of the main goals of the organization was to end the adverse effects of the crop-lien system on farmers in the period following the American Civil War. -
Phonograph
The phonograph was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison. While other inventors had produced devices that could record sounds, Edison's phonograph was the first to be able to reproduce the recorded sound. Edison's phonograph was the first to be able to reproduce the recorded sound. His phonograph originally recorded sound onto a tinfoil sheet wrapped around a rotating cylinder. A stylus responding to sound vibrations produced an up and down or hill-and-dale groove in the foil. It was a big change. -
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Light Bulb
The efficient long-lasting light bulb we know was invented in 1879. Edison and his team perfected their first working light bulb in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Until the invention of the light bulb, humans could only work at day or by the light of candles or oil lamps, so people longed for a cheap, efficient and long lasting light source. Thomas Edison was a successful American inventor and businessman who's inventions influenced the entire world, the world was amazed by Edison's light bulb. -
Exodusters
Exodusters were African Americans who moved from post reconstruction South to Kansas. It 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 of exodus of 1879. It was the first general migration of blacks following the civil war. It is many times related to the book of the Bible which tells about the Jews escaping from slavery in Egypt. It is a very important part of black history. -
Unions
For those in the industrial business, organized labor unions fought for better wages, reasonable hours, and safer working conditions. The movement pushed to end child labor, establish the minimum wages, maximum working hours, give health benefits, and aid workers to who may have gotten hurt on the job, or retired. simply a group of workers who seek to improve the economic and social well-being of its members through group action. This happened many times especially back then when it was tough. -
Assassination of President Garfield
The assassination of James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the united states, began when he was shot at 9:30 am on July 2, 1881, less than four months into his term as president, and ended in his death 79 days later of September 19,1881. They could not get the bullet out of him and that is why he eventually died. Charles Guiteau was the man who shot the president. This happened because earlier Garfield had denied him a government job and he wanted revenge. The new president was the Cheser A. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
In 1882 Congress passed this act prohibited Chinese immigration. Outlawed Chinese immigration for 10 years and explicitly denied naturalization rights to Chinese in the U.S. (not allowed to become U.S. citizens) Signed into law by Chester B. Arthur. Enacted in part to protect jobs for whites bc Chinese were willing to work for much lower wages. San Francisco's City Hall was destroyed in the earthquake and fire of 1906and many Chinese used the lack of records to claim lineage to legal residents. -
Chinese Exclusion
first law to prevent a national group from entering the US. signed by President Chester A. Arthur. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first significant law that restricted immigration into the United States of an ethnic working group. It also was the first in a series of legislative, executive, and judicial acts by the U.S. Government in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries setting official immigration policies that many historians, scholars, and citizens consider as racist -
Pendleton Act
The Pendleton Act got passed on in 1883. It banned Federal candidates from requiring that federal employees work on their campaigns or make financial contributions and extended the about rule to all federal civil service workers. It enacted civil service reform, and said that the Civil Service Exam must be taken in order to receive most government jobs. Basically meant that the highest scores got the jobs, it banned federal employees from giving campaign money to their party. Important act. -
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
This man Cody known as the Buffalo Bill Cody was a united states showman famous for his Wild West Show. It was a show made by William Frederick Cody which reenacted famous frontier evens and life in the west. This show would attract many people and that is how they did shows back then compared to our circuses now. Audiences loved Cody’s reenactments of frontier events: an attack on a Deadwood stage, a Pony Express relay race, and the spectacle of Custer’s Last Stand at the Little Big Horn. -
Cocaine Toothache Drops
The ad, which touts its 15-cent drops, promises “instantaneous cure.” In the late 1800s, cocaine was considered a possibility for local anesthesia. Used mainly to numb pain in dental procedures. The method involved drying the patient’s gums and then brushing them in 3 applications with a solution that included cocaine. After that, teeth could be pulled with no pain. In another case, a tooth was drawn without pain by winding a cotton ball soaked in 2 drops of 5% solution around a patient’s tooth. -
Great Upheaval of 1886
The Great Upheaval of 1886 was a wave of strikes and labor protests that touched every part of the nation in 1886. An example of a labor protest was six months before unveiling of the statues of liberty where police killed four workers who were striking and who were attempting to keep strikebreakers out of a factory in Chicago. Workers stop production and strike to get what they want out of owners and police force immediately suppresses without letting them make a clear point. -
Haymarket Riot
Due to tensions between laborers and the wealthy business owners. The McCormick Reaper Company was on strike, 4 people had just been killed, tensions were high, and anarchists showed up and began speaking at the rally attended mainly by immigrant workers. originally intended as a rally to protest the establishment of a National Wage. Someone in the crowd threw a bomb, a riot broke out, 7 policemen died, and as a result 8 innocent German immigrants were arrested. This was what happened in riots. -
American Indian Citizenship
Approved on February 8, 1887, "An Act to Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Various Reservations," known as the Dawes Act, emphasized severalty, the treatment of Native Americans as individuals rather than as members of tribes. Gave citizenship to all native Americans who had not already achieved it. The is gave native Americans recognition in the law and in theory the right to vote. This was a major part in history because Indians are now getting positive effects. -
Kodak Camera
George Eastman was the man who made photography more popular and convenient with the invention of the Kodak camera. In 1885, he headed to the patent office with a roll-holder device that he and camera inventor William Hall Walker had developed. This allowed cameras to be smaller and cheaper. Eastman also came up with the name Kodak, because he believed products should have their own identity, free from association with anything else. So in 1888, he launched the first Kodak camera. Important time -
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
First law to limit monopolies in the United States. This wanted to create a fairer competition in the workforce and to limit any take-over's of departments of merchandise. It outlawed monopolistic business practices and several other states had passed similar laws but were limited to interstate businesses. It allowed injunctions which are court orders were against any person or group the conspired to restrain trade. Also known as the "competition law" under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison. -
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
It wanted to create a fairer competition in the workforce and to limit any take-over's of departments of merchandise.Congress passed this law to prohibit monopolies which had grown rapidly. It was named after the senator John Sherman passed by the U.S Congress in Washington, D.C. It was approved on July 2, 1890 by the U.S Congress.How it got passed was the Senator of Ohio John Sherman came up with the idea sent it to U.S Congress and then decided to make it a law to stop monopoly businesses. -
Wounded Knee
The Wounded Knee massacre happened December 29, 1980. This occurred when the Sioux people gathered here for the Ghost Dance in 1890 US troops opened fire killing 300 men, women and even children. The Ghost Dance was a circle traditional dance that has been used by many indian peoples since prehistoric times. It quickly spread throughout the Western United States and it was a practice that they used as a ritual for their own believe. It was believed to return the dead which were their ancestors. -
Motion Picture Camera
By 1892 Edison and Dickson invented a motion picture camera and a peephole viewing device called the Kinetoscope. They were first shown publicly in 1893 and the following year the first Edison films were exhibited commercially. It was a film projector in a small box with a peephole. The first Kinescope parlor opened in NYC in 1884 for 25 cents. One of the first close up shots ever recorded on film was a man sneezing and it was used for the first public movie screening in 1896. Edison made this. -
Coca Cola
Coca-Cola History. Coca-Cola history began in 1886 when the curiosity of an Atlanta pharmacist, Dr. John S. Pemberton, led him to create a distinctive tasting soft drink that could be sold at soda fountains. He created a flavored syrup and took it to his pharmacy where he mixed it with carbonated water and was deemed "excellent" by those who sampled it. The first servings of coca cola were sold for 5 cents per glass. Today the daily servings of coca cola beverages are estimated at 1.9 billion $ -
Depression of 1893
This depression was the worst economic downturn for the United States during the 19th Century. It was caused by overbuilding and over-speculation, labor disorders, and the ongoing agricultural depression. The Treasury was required to issue legal tender notes for the silver bullion that it had purchased. Owners of the paper currency would then present it for gold, and by law the notes had to be reissued; This process depleted the gold reserve in the Treasury to less than $100 million, big impact. -
Coxey's Army
Supporters of Ohio populist Jacob Coxey who in 1894 marched on Washington, demanded that the government create jobs for the unemployed. It demonstrate the social and economic impact of the Panic of 1893. A protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by the populist Jacob Coxey. It was the second year of a four-year economic depression that was the worst in United States history to that time. Expression "Enough food to feed Coxey's Army" originates from this march. -
Pullman Strike
The Pullman strike happened May 11, 1894. This was a nonviolent strike which brought about a shut down of western railroads, which took place against the Pullman Palace Car Company in Chicago in 1894, because of the poor wages of the Pullman workers. It was ended by the president due to the interference with the mail system, and brought a bad image upon unions. It was simply a national led strike that shut down the country's railroad system. George Pullman called on the gov to break the strike. -
Radio
Guglielmo Marconi: an Italian inventor, proved the feasibility of radio communication. He sent and received his first radio signal in Italy in 1895. By 1899 he flashed the first wireless signal across the English Channel and two years later received the letter "S", telegraphed from England to Newfoundland. The history of radio broadcasting starts with audio broadcasting services which are broadcast through the air as radio waves from a transmitter to an antenna and then to a receiving device. -
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Klondike Gold Rush
It was an attempt by an estimated 100,000 people to travel to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1897 and 1899 in the hope of successfully prospecting for gold.
Some miners discovered very rich deposits of gold and became immensely wealthy. However, the majority arrived after the best of the gold fields had been claimed and only around 4,000 miners ultimately struck gold. It ended in 1899, after gold was discovered in Nome, prompting an exodus from the Klondike. -
Election of 1896
The United States presidential election of November 3, 1896, saw Republican William McKinley defeat Democrat William Jennings Bryan in a campaign considered by historians to be one of the most dramatic and complex in American history.
at this time the candidates were chosen at the convention. Debate between gold and silver. Bryan was for silver. He was the most popular populist and had more backing than any other candidate so he ended up being the candidate of 1896. Big election in history. -
Cross of gold speech
A speech delivered by William Jennings Bryan at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago that occurred in 1896. Bryan supported bimetallism, or free silver, which he believed would bring the naiton prosperity. He vehemently oposed the gold standard, and famously said, "you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold". The speech helped put him on as the Democratic presidential nomination. The nation since 1873 was bitterly divided on the monetary standard. This was a big speed in history -
Schlieffen Plan
Germany had been preparing for war long before 1914. In fact, Germany had started drawing up a plan for war - the Schlieffen Plan - in 1897. It took nine years to finalize, but it was based on the theory that Germany would be at war with France and Russia at the same time. It did not prepare for many of the events that occurred in July and August 1914. It was based on the belief that, if the country went to war, Germany would be faced with a war on two fronts with France and Russia. -
USS Maine Incident
The USS Main Incident happened February 15, 1898 where the battleship U.S.S Maine exploded in Havana Harbor, killing 268 men and shocking the American Populace. Of the two-thirds of the crew who perished, only 200 bodies were recovered and 76 identified.The sinking of the Maine, was a climax in pre-war tension between the United States and Spain. In the American press, headlines proclaimed "Spanish Treachery!" and "Destruction of the War Ship Maine Was the Work of an Enemy!" still remembered. -
Treaty Of Paris 1898
The treaty of Paris of 1898 was an agreement where Spain wouldn't rule over Cuba. United States receives Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Also the United States becomes a world power. In other words it ended Spanish-American War, terms included (1) recognition of Cuban independence, (2) US acquisition of Puerto Rico and Guam, (3) US acquisition of the Philippines in exchange for $20M. In history this was an important treaty that to this day is still being taught to many in schools. -
Open Door Policy
Open Door Policy is a term in foreign affairs initially used to refer to the United States policy established in the late 19th century and the early 20th century, as enunciated in Secretary of State John Hay's Open Door Note, dated September 6, 1899 and dispatched to the major European powers. In other words it was simply A policy proposed by the US in 1899, under which ALL nations would have equal opportunities to trade in China. This was an important policy in history; it allowed equal trade -
Boxer Rebellion
The boxer rebellion started November 2, 1899. It was also known as The Boxer Uprising, this was the popular peasant uprising in China (supported nationally), that blamed foreign people and institutions for the loss of the traditional Chinese way of life. "Boxers" were traditionally skilled fighters that attacked Westerners, beginning with Christian missionaries. It brought china completely under foreign domination and failed to drive all foreigners from china which was their major goal. -
Election of 1900
The united states election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1900. In a re-match of the 1896 race, Republican President William McKinley defeated his Democratic challenger, William Jennings Bryan. McKinley's victory made him the first president to win consecutive re-election since Ulysses S. Grant had accomplished the same feat in 1872. The Republicans nominated William McKinley on a platform that advocated imperialism while the Democrats chose Willima J. Bryan on a platform of free silver. -
Nobel Peace Prize
Any of the six international prizes awarded annually by the Nobel Foundation for outstanding achievements in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and economics and for the promotion of world peace. In other words, any of the annual international prizes administered by the Nobel Foundation for distinction in physics, chemistry, economics, medicine or physiology, and literature, and for promoting peace. First one given in 1901 to Frederic Passy and Henry Dunant. -
Big Stick Policy
The big policy was a policy enacted by President Roosevelt that encouraged being peaceful in making resolutions but use force if necessary. Diplomatic policy developed by T.R where the "big stick" symbolizes his power and readiness to use military force if necessary.It is a way of intimidating countries without actually harming them and was the basis of U.S. imperialistic foreign policy. Teddy Roosevelt always used the big stick as his weapon to scare off opponents and he never did big talk. -
Vacuums
In 1901 powered vacuum cleaners using suction were invented independently by British engineer Hubert Cecil Booth and American inventor David T. Kenney. Booth also may have coined the word "vacuum cleaner". Booth's horse drawn combustion engine powered "Puffing Billy",maybe derived from Thurman's blown air design," relied upon just suction with air pumped through a cloth filter and was offered as part of his cleaning services. This invention had a big impact in todays world many still use them. -
Platt Amendment
March 2, 1901, the Platt Amendment was passed as part of the 1901 Army Appropriations Bill. It stipulated seven conditions for the withdrawal of United States troops remaining in Cuba at the end of the Spanish–American War, and an eighth condition that Cuba sign a treaty accepting these seven conditions.gave the United States permission to intervene in Cuban affairs. Platt Amendment was followed by the Cuban-American Treaty, & allowed the U.S. to lease land in Guantanamo Bay for a naval station. -
Teddy Roosevelt
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt is the 26th president of the united states, taking Mckinleys' place after his assassination. As leader of the progressive movement, he championed his square deal domestic policies, promising the breaking of trusts, and regulation of railroads. He was a "nature guy", his goal was to preserve the nations natural resources. He did more than any other president ever has to this day in 100 days, whom presidents of the new age still try to compare to but probably never will. -
Cuba's Independence
The Spanish–American War resulted in a Spanish withdrawal from the island in 1898, and following three-and-a-half years of subsequent US military rule . Basically after the Spanish–American War, Spain and the United States signed the Treaty of Paris (1898), by which Spain ceded Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam to the United States for the sum of $20 million. Cuba gained formal independence from the U.S. on May 20, 1902, as the Republic of Cuba. This independence was important in history. -
Meat Inspection Act (1906)
a rating system for meat, required federal inspection of meat processing to ensure sanitary conditions. Required strict cleanliness requirements for meat packers and created a program of federal meat inspection. It came as a result of president Roosevelt reading Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Roosevelt appointed a commission of experts. To investigate the meat packing industry. Then the commission issued a report backing up Sinclair's account of the disgusting conditions in the industry. -
Great White Fleet
A group of 16 gleaming white ships on a cruise around the world to display the nation's naval power. It was 16 battleships divided in to 2 squadrons (groups) plus various escorts. It got its name by The hulls of the ship were painted stark white giving the armada the nickname "Great White Fleet". They had 3 major purposes of the great white fleet, 1) Show American "goodwill" 2) Demonstrate to the world that the US had become a major Naval power and 3) show Japan the power of the US Navy. -
Model T
On October 1, 1908 the first production Model T ford was made. It was the first affordable car built by Henry Ford; sturdy, reliable, inexpensive, and only came in black. There were over 30 different types of black paint used to make the ford model T. It was very cheap back then and then when the assembly line process came by this even boosted the business more. Ford with all the money and fame got cocky but was still a great man for creating ford and helping make the model T in his business. -
Dollar Diplomacy
Dollar Diplomacy, 1909–1913. From 1909 to 1913, President William Howard Taft and Secretary of State Philander C. Knox followed a foreign policy characterized as “dollar diplomacy.” It was basically the term used to describe the efforts of the US to further its foreign policy through use of economic power by guaranteeing loans to foreign countries. Also seen as Taft's policy that favored investment of money into Latin America - "dollars for bullets" This was an important time in the 19th century -
Pancho Villa
Pancho Villa was something of a Mexican Robin Hood. He was hated by some who considered him a thief and murderer; he was loved by some who saw him as fighting for the "little man." Pancho Villa raided a train, kidnapped 16 American mining engineers, and killed them. He and his men raided Columbus, New Mexico and killed 19 more people.John. J. Pershing, after Pancho Villa. Pershing took a few thousand troops into Mexico, fought both Carranza's and Villa's troops, but couldn't catch Pancho Villa -
Square Deal
It was an economic policy by Roosevelt that favored fair relationships between companies and workers. In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt introduced this domestic program, which emphasized the conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. Among its accomplishments, this program helped the middle class by attacking powerful trusts and monopolies. Roosevelt also created a new Department of Commerce and Labor, and managed to quell a number of labor strikes. -
Mexican Revolution
The exact date that the Mexican Revolution ended is hard to pin down. The fighting did not end abruptly. ... The Mexican Revolution began as a way to try to oust the government of Porfirio Diaz, who had held autocratic power over the country for roughly 35 years when the Revolution started in 1910. It was Fought over a period of almost 10 years form 1910; resulted in ouster of Porfirio Diaz from power; opposition forces led by Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata. This was an important revolution. -
Federal Reserve Act
The federal reserve act was established in December 1913. It is the act that created the federal reserve system, the central banking system of the united states, which was signed into law by Woodrow Wilson. it regulated banking to help smaller banks stay in business. created 12 district banks that would lend $ at discount rates (could increase/decrease amt. of $ in circulation); loosen/tighten credit with nation's needs; first central banking system since 1836. It was an important act in history -
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Ludlow Massacre
labor-management conflict in Colorado in 1914 that turned violent when strikebreakers and national guardsmen burnt tent village of workers and families in coalfield; United Mine Workers had led strike in calling for safety, higher wages, etc. Miners vs. Company
24 dead in Ludlow Colorado 1914 because they wanted higher wages/workers safety and the Historical significance behind it were Child labor laws, 40 hour work week. This was a massacre that to this day is still remembered. -
Archduke Franz Assassination
Archduke Franz Was born December 18,1863 and died June 28, 1914 . He was assassinated by the black hand which was a Serbian nationalist/terrorist group who responsible for the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand which resulted in the start of World War I. Archduke was a target of assassination, because he was next in line to the throne, and was very wealthy. He was a target because many people in the Balkans were angered by Austria's annexation of Bosnia a few years earlier -
U-boats
They first started july 28, 1914. U-boats were military submarines used by the Germans. While they were useful against warships, U-boats were the most effective in economic warfare by blockading coasts so resources could not be shipped to Germany's allies. In other words they were German submarines; a new weapon of the war; convoys were used to stop them. These were a new part of war that did do have a big impact in war, they had many purposes and could not be seen easily by others in the war. -
Sussex Pledge
The German government responded with the Sussex pledge (May 4, 1916), agreeing to give adequate warning before sinking merchant and passenger ships and to provide for the safety of passengers and crew. In other words, a promise made by Germany to the United States in 1916, during World War I before the latter entered the war. Early in 1915, Germany had instituted a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, allowing armed merchant ships, but not passenger ships, to be torpedoed without warning. -
Mustard Gas
Mustard Gas was first used July 1917. It was a toxic war gas with sulfide based compounds that raises blisters and attacks the eyes and lungs.It was Sulfur mustard. Colorless if pure. Sulfur mustard, commonly known as mustard gas, is the prototypical substance of the sulfur-based family of cytotoxic and vesicant chemical warfare agents known as the sulfur mustards which have the ability to form large blisters on exposed skin and in the lungs. This was chemical warfare that killed many in the war -
Sedition Act
The Sedition Act of 1918 was an Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered with the sale of government bonds.
It forbade the use of "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States government, its flag, or its armed forces. This was an important act back then during this era. -
Royal Air force (RAF)
Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force. Formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world. Following victory over the Central Powers in 1918 the RAF emerged as, at the time, the largest air force in the world.Since its formation, the RAF has taken a significant role in British military history. it played a large part in the Second World War where it fought its most famous campaign, the Battle of Britain. -
Espionage act
The Espionage Act prohibited many forms of speech, including "any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States or the flag of the United States. Because the Sedition Act was an informal name, court cases were brought under the name of the Espionage Act, whether the charges were based on the provisions of the Espionage Act or the provisions of the amendments known informally as the Sedition ActThis was an act that is still talked about today -
18th Amendment
18th Amendment, prohibiting the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors. Prohibition proved difficult to enforce and failed to have the intended effect of eliminating crime and other social problems–to the contrary, it led to a rise in organized crime, as the bootlegging of alcohol became an ever-more lucrative operation. In 1933, widespread public disillusionment led Congress to ratify the 21st Amendment, which repealed Prohibition. It only lasted around 14 years. -
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National Socialist-German Workers’ Party (NAZI)
Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, or Nazi Party, grew into a mass movement and ruled Germany through totalitarian means from 1933 to 1945. Founded in 1919 as the German Workers’ Party, the group promoted German pride and anti-Semitism, and expressed dissatisfaction with the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the 1919 peace settlement that ended World War I Hitler joined the party the year it was founded and became its leader in 1921 -
19th Amendment
The 19th amendment was done august 18, 1920. It was the amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections. The 19th Amendment (1920) to the Constitution of the United States provides men and women with equal voting rights. The amendment states that the right of citizens to vote "shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." was a special amendment for many women that have been wanting to vote -
Immigration Act of 1924
The Immigration Act of 1924, was a United States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States as of the 1890 census, down from the 3% cap set by the Emergency Quota Act of 1921.. The law was primarily aimed at further restricting immigration of Southern Europeans and Eastern Europeans, especially Italians, Slavs and Eastern European Jews. Important act. -
Silent Films
a film with no synchronized recorded sound (and in particular, no spoken dialogue). In silent films for entertainment, dialogue is conveyed by the use of muted gestures and mime in conjunction with title cards, written indications of the plot and key dialogue lines. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as film itself, but because of the technical challenges involved, the introduction of synchronized dialogue became practical only in the late 1920s -
Hoovervilles
During the Great Depression, which began in 1929 and lasted approximately a decade, shantytowns appeared across the U.S. as unemployed people were evicted from their homes. As the Depression worsened in the 1930s, causing severe hardships for millions of Americans, many looked to the federal government for assistance. President Herbert Hoover was blamed for the intolerable economic and social conditions, and the shantytowns that cropped up across the nation, became known as Hoovervilles. -
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Valentines Day Massacre
Al Capone sought to consolidate control by eliminating his rivals in the illegal trades of bootlegging, gambling and prostitution. This rash of gang violence reached its climax in a garage on the city’s North Side on February 14, 1929, seven men associated with the Irish gangster George “Bugs” Moran, one of Capone’s enemies, were shot to death by several men dressed as policemen. The Massacre was never officially linked to Capone, but he was considered to have been responsible for the murders. -
Black Tuesday
Also known as Black Tuesday (October 29), began on October 24, 1929 and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States (acting as the most significant predicting indicator of the Great Depression), when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its after effects. The crash, which followed the London Stock Exchange's crash of September, signaled the beginning of the 12-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries -
Emergency Relief Act
A "Hooverville" was a shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States of America. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United States of America during the onset of the Depression and was widely blamed for it. The term was coined by Charles Michelson, publicity chief of the Democratic National Committee.There were hundreds of Hoovervilles across the country during the 1930s and hundreds of thousands of people lived in these slums. -
Election of 1932
The United States presidential election of 1932 was the thirty-seventh quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1932. The election took place against the backdrop of the Great Depression. Incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover was defeated in a landslide by Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Governor of New York. The election marked the effective end of the Fourth Party System, which had been dominated by Republicans. This was an important part to the depression. -
Speakeasies
A speakeasy, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, is an illicit establishment that sells alcoholic beverages. Such establishments came into prominence in the United States during the Prohibition era (1920–1933, longer in some states). These establishments came into distinction in the United States during the period known as Prohibition, which was from 1920 to 1933. This lasted even longer in some states. Speakeasies became much more numerous as the Prohibition years progressed. -
National Recovery Administration (NRA)
The National Recovery Administration was a prime New Deal agency established by U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) in 1933. The goal was to eliminate "cut-throat competition" by bringing industry, labor, and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set prices. It allowed industries to get together and write "codes of fair competition." The codes were intended to reduce "destructive competition" and to help workers by setting minimum wages and maximum weekly hours. -
20th Amendment
The 20th amendment is a simple amendment that sets the dates at which federal (United States) government elected offices end. In also defines who succeeds the president if the president dies. This amendment was ratified on January 23, 1933. It was basically the start of presidential and VP terms moved to January 20th. (shortened lame-duck periods) ,Start of congressional terms moved to January 3rd,Congress will meet on January 3rd and
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Volstead Act
The National Prohibition Act, known informally as the Volstead Act, was enacted to carry out the intent of the 18th Amendment, which established prohibition in the United States. The Anti-Saloon League's Wayne Wheeler conceived and drafted the bill, which was named for Andrew Volstead, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, who managed the legislation. This happened December 5th, 1933 and i still an important part of history to this day because temperance was a big thing back in these times. -
21st Amendment
The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th amendment, transportation and importation of liquors is prohibited, and should not be in-operated unless ratified as an amendment and approved by several states. This was caused by too much organized crime, and prohibition was not making things better for the country. The effects it had were that it reduced crime, more jobs, Americans were less healthy, corruption, and more revenue was made since taxes were placed on beer. This was a very important amendment. -
Federal Housing Authority (FHA)
The Federal Housing Administration, generally known as "FHA", provides mortgage insurance on loans made by FHA-approved lenders throughout the United States and its territories. FHA insures mortgages on single family and multifamily homes including manufactured homes and hospitals. The goals of this organization are to improve housing standards and conditions, provide an adequate home financing system through insurance of mortgage loans, and to stabilize the mortgage market.This was important. -
Share our Wealh Plan
On February 23, 1934, Huey Long unveiled his “Share Our Wealth” plan (also known as Huey Long's "Share the Wealth" plan), a program designed to provide a decent standard of living to all Americans by spreading the nation’s wealth among the people. Long proposed capping personal fortunes at $50 million each (roughly $600 million in today's dollars) through a restructured, progressive federal tax code and sharing the resulting revenue with the public through government benefits and public works. -
The New Deal
The New Deal was the set of federal programs launched by President Franklin D. Roosevelt after taking office in 1933, in response to the calamity of the Great Depression, and lasting until American entry into the Second World War in 1942. It had four major goals and achievements which were economic recovery, job creation, investment in public works and civic uplift. Each goal was something that would help the nation with the trouble they had. This was an important deal in history to this day. -
Luftwaffe
The aerial warfare branch of the combined German Wehrmacht military forces during World War II. Germany's military air arms during World War I, the Luftstreitkräfte of the Army and the Marine-Fliegerabteilung of the Navy, had been disbanded in May 1920 as a result of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles which stated that Germany was forbidden to have any air force. During the interwar period, German pilots were trained secretly in violation of the treaty at Lipetsk Air Base. Important to ww2 -
Social Security Act
On August 14, 1935, the Social Security Act established a system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped. The act also provided funds to assist children, the blind, and the unemployed; to institute vocational training programs; and provide family health programs. This act is still around today and is still being taught today in many schools' history. -
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Al Capone
Alphonse Capone, also known as "Scarface" (January 17, 1899 to January 25, 1947) was one of the most famous American gangsters who rose to infamy as the leader of the Chicago Outfit during the Prohibition era. Before being sent to Alcatraz Prison in 1934 for a tax evasion conviction, he had amassed a personal fortune estimated at $100 million as the head of the infamous crime syndicate. Al Capone was born in Brooklyn, New York, on January 17, 1899. he later died in Palm Island Miami Beach FL -
German Soviet Non Aggression Pact
On August 23 1939–shortly before World War II broke out in Europe–enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years. With Europe on the brink of another major war, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin viewed the pact as a way to keep his nation on peaceful terms with Germany, while giving him time to build up the Soviet military. Hitler used it -
Battle of Leningrad
also known as the Leningrad Blockade was a prolonged military blockade undertaken from the south by the German Army Group North, Spanish Blue Division and the Finnish Army in the north, against Leningrad, historically and currently known as Saint Petersburg, in the Eastern Front theater of World War II. The siege started on 8 September 1941, when the last road to the city was severed. the siege was not lifted until 27 January 1944, 872 days after it began.this was an important time in history. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor,led to the United States' entry into World War II. The Japanese military leadership referred to the attack as the Hawaii Operation and Operation AI, and as Operation Z during its planning. This attack was a historic event still remembered -
Battle Of Moscow
It was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km (370 mi) sector of the Eastern Front during World War II. It took place between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, the capital of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Soviet Union's largest city. Moscow was one of the primary military and political objectives for Axis forces in their invasion of the Soviet Union -
D-Day
Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning. Prior to D-Day, the Allies conducted a large-scale deception campaign designed to mislead the Germans about the intended invasion target. -
Battle of Berlin
The Battle of Berlin, designated the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, and also known as the Fall of Berlin, was the final major offensive of the European theater of World War II. In other words The Soviet army overwhelm the German defenses with sheer manpower and Armour. Around 200 000 people died on both sides and the war in Europe was over. This was an important battle of history still talked about now a days due to the fact that it was near the world war. -
Death Of FDR
On this day in 1945, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passes away after four momentous terms in office, leaving Vice President Truman in charge of a country still fighting the Second World War and in possession of a weapon of unprecedented and terrifying power. Eleanor delivered her speech that afternoon. In her memoirs, she recalled that ride to the White House as one of dread, as she knew in her heart that her husband had died. This was painful for many that knew this president and his work -
Blacklists
Anyone who says they're a communist or suspected of being a communist were put in this list and never given a job in the industry again. It was a list of people or products viewed with suspicion or disapproval. People with bad background or any unwanted traits would mean that you would end up in one of these blacklists. These came around November 25, 1947 and many people on these lists could not get a job easily, when reviewed they would not want them because they were a communist. -
First 100 days
This is the term applied to President Roosevelt's first three months in taking office.During this time, FDR had managed to get Congress to pass an unprecedented amount of new legislation that would revolutionize the role of the federal government from that point on.This era saw the passage of bills aimed at repairing the banking system and restoring American's faith in the economy, starting government works projects to employ those out of work and offering subsidies for farmers etc. still around -
Picture Bride
The term picture bride refers to the practice in the early 20th century of immigrant workers (chiefly Japanese, Okinawan, and Korean) in Hawaii and the West Coast of the United States and Canada selecting brides from their native countries via a matchmaker, who paired bride and groom using only photographs and family recommendations of the possible candidates. It was a famous known thing back during the early 20th century that even to this day is still being taught about in schools and history.
