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Homestead Steel Strike
Henry Frick, Chairman of the Board of Carnegie Steel and plant manager at Carnegie's Homestead steel plant, shuts down the factory and locks out its employees when negotiations with representatives from the Amalgamated Association of Steel and Iron Workers break down. -
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Spanish American War
On April 21, 1898, the United States declared war against Spain following the sinking of the Battleship Maine in the Havana harbor on February 15, 1898. The war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris on December 10, 1898. The war established the independence of Cuba, ceded Puerto Rico and Guam to the United States, and allowed the US to purchase the Philippines Islands from Spain for $20 million. -
President McKinley Assassinated
On September 5th, McKinley gave a speech at the Expo. The next day, shortly after 4 p.m., he was greeting people at the Temple of Music. In line to shake McKinley’s hand, Czolgosz pulled out a .32 caliber short-barreled Johnson revolver, hidden in a handkerchief, and shot the President twice. Theodore Roosevelt took control of office after assassination. -
Treaty of Versailles
It was signed exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, one of the events that triggered the start of the war. It ended World War One, and established a system of war reparations for Germany causing them to go into a depression setting the stage for Adolf Hitler to come to power. The treaty also returned lands that the Germans had taken in the war back to the countries that had them to begin with. It also forced Germany to give up all of its colonies overseas. -
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Prohibition
Prohibition was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933. -
19th Amendment
19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote -
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Holocaust
Adolf Hitler grew to power in Germany, started the Nazi race and army, had a view of a perfect race of blue eyed blonde haired people , used the Jewish people as a scapegoat and told all Germany that Jewish people were responsible for all their problems. They captured all the Jews, put them into concentration camps and then killed all of them, either by gas chamber, shootings, and burned them all. -
Non Aggression Pact
was between Germany and the Soviet Union that was concluded only a few days before the beginning of World War II and which divided eastern Europe into German and Soviet. -
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Berlin Airlift
Soviet Union blocked the Western force's railway and road access to the western sectors of Berlin that they had been controlling. So western countries delivered much needed food and supplies to the city of Berlin through the air because all other routes were blocked by the Soviet Union. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
In the 50's, Alabama had laws in place that required blacks to sit at the back of the bus. When the "white" seats were full, these black people were required to give up their seats to any white people that wanted them. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. She was kicked off the bus. All black citizens of Montgomery refused to ride the bus until the law was lifted. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination
MLK Jr. was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, by Lee Harvey Oswald on Thursday, April 4, 1968, at the age of 39. King was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. that evening. -
Attack on 9/11
On September 11th, 2001, 19 suicide bombers linked with the Islamic extremist group al-Quaeda hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two planes were flown into the World Trade Center towers in New York City. A third plane hit the Pentagon just outside of Washington, D.C and the fourth plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. -
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Presidential Election of 2008
Illinois senator Barack Obama was elected as the 44th president. The result was historic; Obama, a first-term U.S. senator, became the country’s first African American president. He also was the first sitting U.S. senator to win election to the presidency since JFK in 1960. With the highest voter turnout rate in four decades, Obama and Joe Biden defeated the Republican Arizona senator John McCain, who could’ve became the oldest person elected president to a first term in U.S. history,
