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Gilded age
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Tenements
Immigrants and lower economic families lived in Tenements that were way too over-populated and unsanitary. Many people would get sick and would die. It was very cheap and easy to move in and out of. -
Thomas Edison invents the light bulb.
Thomas Edison broke through and was able to use platinum filament to make a lightbulb work.
He then used carbonized bamboo as an alternative for the platinum filament, which proved to be the key to a long-lasting and affordable light bulb.
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Rise of World Power 1898-1920
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Annexation of Hawaii
On July 7, 1898, Hawaii was annexed when President William McKinley signed the Newlands Resolution. The U.S. gained access and possession of all ports, buildings, harbors, military equipment and public property that had formerly belonged to the Government of the Hawaiian Islands. -
Woodrow Wilsons' 14 points
January 8, 1918, President Woodrow Wilson proposed a 14-point program for world peace. These points were later the basis for peace negotiations at the end of World War 1. -
Harlem Renaissance
The cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. Harlem was a cultural center for black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars -
Role of Women
The changing role was a result of the work women did during the war. The number of working women increased by 25%. All women were given the right to vote. Some women became 'Flappers' and smoked in public, danced the new dances, and were sexually liberated. -
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Roaring Twenties
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Holocaust
Hitler took over and created a Genocide to kill all the Jewish people and others. The Nazis were thought to be racially superior. -
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World War 2
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United Nations was created
Roosevelt convinced the public that an international organization was the best means to prevent future wars. So through that, the United Nations was created. -
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Early Cold War through Vietnam
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Berlin Airlift
At the end of WW2 The U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided Germany. Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. The airlift lasted for more than a year and carried more than 2.3 million tons of cargo into West Berlin. -
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Civil Rights Movement
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JFK Role in the Cuban Missile Crisis
October 1962 for two days the US anticipated a nuclear war. A US spy plane got photographs of bombs and missiles being built. Kennedy decided to put up a blockade surrounding Cuba. No one knew how the Soviets would react to the US. -
Letters from Birmingham Jail
On April 16, 1963, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., imprisoned in an Alabama. He wrote the the famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail”. This was about the American Civil Rights Movement. -
16th Street Church Bombing
A bomb killed four African American girls during a church service at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The church housed many Civil Rights movements, so the KKK bombed the church to try to kill some of the Civil Rights members. -
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Contemporary America
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9/11
19 people associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two 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., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. -
Obama is elected
November 4, 2008, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois was elected president of the United States over Senator John McCain of Arizona. Obama became the 44th president, and the first African American to be elected to that office. -
