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Women's Suffrage
The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the US. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right, and it wasn't easy: Disagreements over strategy threatened to cripple the movement more than once. But on August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified, enfranchising all American women and declaring for the first time that they, like men, deserve all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. -
The Great Depression Begins
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations; in most countries it started in 1929 and lasted until the late-1930s. It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century] In the 21st century, the Great Depression is commonly used as an example of how far the world's economy can decline. -
Culture of the 1930's
Despite the Great Depression ‘s devastating impact on many Americans, the 1930s witnessed the emergence of many influential cultural trends. Literature, arts, music, and cinema of the period became vehicles for establishing and promoting what would be presented as truly American traditions and values. -
The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of programs and projects instituted during the Great Depression by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that aimed to restore prosperity to Americans. When Roosevelt took office in 1933, he acted swiftly to stabilize the economy and provide jobs and relief to those who were suffering. -
The Impact of the New Deal
Under Frederick Douglass Roosevelt's New Deal the power of the federal government increased dramatically.
The federal government went from a regulatory role to one of taking responsibility to make sure the economy ran smoothly and efficiently.
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Dictators Threaten World Peace
For many Europen countries the end of World War l was the beginning of revolutions at home,economic depression and the rise of powerful dictators driven by nationalism and territorial expansion. -
Truman Replaces Wallace
After World War II, President Roosevelt had a secret plan for how he would work things out with Stalin, but he died before sharing it. Truman entered the White House with almost no experience in foreign policy. The State Department told him that action must be taken on the Russian threat. -
Barbara Johns Walks Out
On April 23, 1951, sixteen-year-old Barbara Johns led a walkout by four hundred black students to protest inadequate facilities at segregated Robert R. Moton High School in Farmville, Virginia. Vowing to boycott classes until the local all-white School Board addressed their complaints, Johns and another student wrote to an NAACP attorney, who agreed to file a lawsuit seeking desegregation instead of just improved facilities. -
The Children March in Birmingham
The children’s march really was the single event most responsible for inducing faraway people in Montana and Maine to say, “I need to do something about this.” Demonstrations spread like wildfire all across the country. It led to the March on Washington and it really pushed President Kennedy to propose what became the Civil Rights Act basically a month after those demonstrations. -
September 11 Attacks
The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001
