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Industralization-Alexander Graham Bell
Bell considered his most famous invention an intrusion on his real work as a scientist and refused to have a telephone in his study.The federal government attemped to prevent some of the worst abuses. -
Civil War: Kansas- Nebraska Act.
Popular soveringnty to determine the slavery question in remaining territories of lousiana purchase, reopening the salvery isue there. by Juanuary 1856, kansas had two territorial goverments, one opposed to slavery,: Bleding kanas" news papers doble the territory, had become the scene of territorial civil war. -
Civil War: Abraham Lincoln
The states that remained in the Union were known as the "Union" or the "North". The war had its origin in the fractious issue of slavery, especially the extension of slavery into the western territories. -
Reconstruction: Black Codes
Congressional republicans were futher angered when southern state lesgilature passed a series of laws known a black codes that limited african. to regain control the freed slaves, maintain white supremacy,and ensure the continued supply of cheap labor . -
Imperialism:American Colinial Empire
When nation works expandits power and influence.the two primary methods of imperialism are military conquest and political diplomacy. -
Congressional Reconstruction
Shocked at the black codes and the election of cofederate leaders, radical republicans refuse to seat southerners in congress. Civil rights act, passed over jhonson's veto, grants freedmend rigths of citizenship, overturning black codes. -
Reconstruction: " Jim Crow" laws
After the end reconstruction, southern state goverments pased "jim crow" requinrid racial segregation( separation of "white" and "colored" in public places. The klu klux klan terrorized african americans and prevented them from excersising their political rights. -
American Imperialism Spanish American War
Americans opposed imperialism on principlel.yet newly acquired territories from spain turned the united states into an imperial power.
Some americans argued their business investments and opportunities in cuba needed proctection. -
Roaring Twenties: Red Scare"
The first Red Scare began following 600,000 americans died from spaninsh flo fear of a communist revolution in the u.s. The intelligence dicision aka FBI palmer raids the capturing and deporting of assumed commnunist A.K.A. radicals. -
Roaring 20's Sacco and Venzetti
Two Italian anarchist were arrested in 1920 for the murder of a guard during a robbery.
atfer unfair trial they were convinced on filmsy evidence and executed . -
World War 1: "Zimmerman Telegram"
Germany promide the return of new mexico,arizona,and texas to mexico,if mexico allied itself with germany. the publication of this telegram in U.S newpapers. Germany dropped to almost nothing while the united states became the main provider of arms , food and supplies to the allies. -
Great Depression: Black Tueday
''Black Tuesday'' (October,29,1929) the stock market crashed. Franklin D. Roosvelt won the presidential election of 1932. "New Deal", had three goals: re;ief,recovery,and reform declared "Bank Holiday" to prevents bank runs and renew public cofidence in banks. -
Great Depression:Social security act
The Great Depression was the greatest economic production fell by half and one quarter of the work force unemployed. mass production created a surplus of goods by the end of the Twenties.old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, -
World War 2: Nazism in Gerany Adolf Hitler.
Hilter and the nazis came to power in germany after the great depression had caused widespread unemployment. But World War II altered America in some drastic ways, too. The army took an oath of loyalty to Hitler,opponets were sent to concentration camps or killed. -
Cold War:Yalta conference
Period of economic, political and military tension between the U.S. In 1945 the lend -lease act was suspended.
the lend- lease act allowed the united states to lend or lease arms to any country cosidered ''Vital defense of the united states ''. -
Cold War: Truman Doctrine
The united states would preovide assitance to free peoples resisiting communism, including military and economic assistance to turkey and greece. Truman pledged the US to contain in Europe and elsewhere and impelled the US to support soviet union. -
Cold War: Marshall Plan.
The united states would give economic aid to the countries of western europe to help them reuilb economies , strengthen their resistace to commnunism,and restore trade with united states.“Marshall is the greatest man of World War II. -
Vietnam war:President John F. Kennedy
the Vietnam War ranged from 1950 to 1975. Following the Second World War, Ho Chi Minh was successful in regaining control of Indochina. The United States decided to support the division of Vietnam at the 17th parallel and endorsed Ngo Dinh Diem. Both Kennedy and Johnson attempted to win the war in Vietnam by enlarging the effort through the Strategic Hamlet Program -
Civil war:Compromise of 1950
The civil war had multiple causes, including sectionalism, slavery,and differing views of states' rigths.
Many americans felt towards their own geographic region- The north,south or west. -
Civil Rigths Movement: Black Power
The process was long and tenuous in many countries, and many of these movements did not fully achieve their goals, although the efforts of these movements did lead to improvements in the legal rights of previously oppressed groups of people. Rosa parks was arrested for refusing to move to the black of city bus in montgomery. -
Civil Rigths:Postwar Prosperity
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 officially prohibited racial (and sexual) discrimination in the United States. In the postward era and continued into the 1960s.african americans organization,such as the NAACP, the national urban league,and core (the congres of racial equality) played an important role. -
Vietnan War:
President Richard Nixon attempted to achieve that sought-after end through strategies such as Vietnamization, minor incursions into Cambodia and Laos and the massive Linebacker bombing campaigns. Eventually, the United States and North Vietnam entered into the Paris Peace Accords -
Gilded Age:
The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West, but also much social conflict. American wages, especially for skilled workers, were much higher than in Europe, which attracted millions of immigrants. -
Industralization: "Robber Barons"
By the late 1800s, the term was typically applied to businessmen who used what were considered to be exploitative practices to amass their wealth.[2] These practices included exerting control over national resources, accruing high levels of government influence, paying extremely low wages, squashing competition by -
Industralization:African-Americans and women inventors
Lewis howard latimer: new precess for marking carbon filaments in lightbulls,large entreprises enjoyned certain economies of scale. They could also engage in cutthroat pratices aganist competitiors and equally harsh tractis aganist own workers.
