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Pullman Strike- Evident
The Pullman Strike of 1894 is historically significant for having failed as a worker's' labor movement against wage cuts. Although, it brought attention to workers who were working for long hours for low wages, while in dangerous and unsanitary conditions. -
Temperance Movement- Non-Evident
The Temperance Movement was an organized effort during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to limit or outlaw the consumption and production of alcoholic beverages in the United States.Temperance advocates encouraged their fellow Americans to reduce the amount of alcohol that they consumed. -
The Pure Drug and Food Act
The Pure Drug and Food act is important because it prevents the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods,drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic. Also It gave credibility to the Square Deal domestic policy of President Roosevelt and improved the general health and welfare of the public. -
Woodrow Willson 14 points
The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for world peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918 speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson. Many countries believed that only self-interest should guide foreign policy, in the Fourteen Points Wilson argued that morality and ethics had to be the basis for the foreign policy of a democratic society. -
19th Amendment- Women Sufferage
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote,a right known as woman suffrage. At the time the U.S. was founded, its female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men, including the right to vote. On November 2 of that same year, more than 8 million women across the U.S. voted in elections for the first time. -
Prohibition Movement- 18 Amendement
Prohibition in the United States was a measure designed to reduce drinking by eliminating the businesses that manufactured, distributed, and sold alcoholic beverages. The Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution took away license to do business from the brewers, distillers, vintners, and the wholesale and retail sellers of alcoholic beverages. Initially the prohibition movement reduced the amount of heavy drinkers in America -
The Holocaust
The Holocaust was the murder by Nazi Germany of six million Jews. While the Nazi persecution of the Jews began in 1933, the mass murder was committed during World War II.The Holocaust raised important questions of what it means to be human and how do we, as Homo sapiens, ensure that these atrocities are never repeated against our fellow human beings. The broader questions and responses engendered by the Holocaust will ensure its importance in history for a long time to come. -
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. The pact proved that Adolf Hitler could not be trusted. -
Little Rock 9
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school. the little Rock 9 brought attention to the civil rights cause by fighting against federal authority, national guard troopers facing professional paratroopers and a governor against a president. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
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During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba. President John Kennedy made it clear the U.S. was prepared to use military force if necessary to neutralize this perceived threat to national security.This crisis may have been the moment when the Cold War came closest to a nuclear war. -
MLK Assassination
U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated inTennessee. King had led the civil rights movement since the mid-1950s, using a combination of powerful words and non-violent tactics such as sit-ins, boycotts and protest marches. His assassination led to an outpouring of anger among black Americans, as well as a period of national mourning that helped speed the way for an equal housing bill that would be the last significant legislative achievement of the civil rights era. -
GATT Agreement
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), set of multilateral trade agreements aimed at the abolition of quotas and the reduction of tariff duties among the contracting nations. The most important principle was that of trade without discrimination, in which each member nation opened its markets equally to every other. These agreements succeeded in reducing average tariffs on the world’s industrial goods from 40 percent of their market value in 1947 to less than 5 percent in 1993. -
Bombing of the USS Cole
On October 12, 2000, when suicide bombers attacked the American warship, USS Cole.The Cole was in port at Aden,Yemen to take on fuel. Incidentally, this was the same port in which Al Qaeda attempted a suicide attack on the USS The Sullivans earlier in the year.Without any warning to the contrary,security around the warship was light.A small motorboat, laden with explosives, sped up to the anchored ship and exploded on the port side.US Naval forces, as a result, increased port security measures. -
War On Terror
On September 11, 2001 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. 2 of the planes were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C.the attacks resulted in extensive death and destruction. Because of 9/11 the power of the government and the presidency has increased and more appreciation for service men
