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Barnum & Bailey Circus Started
Barnum & Bailey Circus is a very big thing. It started in 1875 and still exsists today but now it is called Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus or "The greatest show on Earth". It was the first big circus or first big entertainment that traveled. -
Lightbulb Invented
This was important because when the lightbulb was invented then movies were being made. Everyone started to own lightbulbs. -
Sears Roebuck Founded
It was how people ordered things from Sears from a catalog. Instead of going out to the store they ordered from a catalog and just waited for the stuff to arrive. -
W.E.B Du Bois helps found the Niagara Movement, which promotes full civil liberties for African Americans.
This was to help free African Americans. To give them the rights they deserved and make them feel the same as White people. -
Chicago Cubs Win World Series
The first time the Cubs win the World Series. It's a big deal because it was baseball and everyone knew about everything back then. -
Chicago Cubs win World Series
Once again the Chhicago Cubs win the World Series. It was a big deal because people believed the won the first time out of luck. Them winning two years in a row made everyone believe they were good. -
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is founded to fight for civil rights.
NAACP is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all people and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination. -
Welcome Flappers
Flappers were young women who first wore revealing outfits. These women wore short skirts, heavy make up, and short hair. They liked Jazz and were basically women who rebeled against what was seen as normal.
