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Americas Formative Period
Known as the Gilded age, this period of time was a very up roaring and glorious period for Americans. This time period also caused a lot of conflict with the people of the Americas. The wages in the US were a lot higher than the wages in the Europe causing a lot of Europeans to immigrate over to America. -
Cival Service Act
This act was made so that the government officials that wanted to stack the government in their favor and have the officials vote on things that they wanted, couldn't do that anymore so that the votes have to be legit and made by random officials not the ones that the president wanted. -
Wilson's Fourteen Points
President Wilson presented these points in his speech to try and resolve the global issue that the US were going through. The main purpose of the Fourteen Points was to outline a strategy for ending the war. He set out specific goals that he wanted to achieve through the war so that the people and the leaders of the United States would know that we aren't just going to fight a war with no promotion or plan. -
US Expansionism (1849–1861)
By 1820, the United States already extended well beyond its original boundaries. Through the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and treaties with Spain and Britain, the nation's borders moved west to the Rocky Mountains, north to the 49th parallel, and south to Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. These boundaries remained essentially intact until the 1840s, then the United States acquired massive territories in the Southwest and on the Pacific Coast. -
18th Admendment
The 18th Amendment prohibited the sale, manufacturing, and production in the United States in 1919. This was put into place because the men of the US were getting drunk and couldn't take care of their children so the made a law to ban it. -
Flappers
Flappers were a "new breed" of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. Flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking, treating sex in a casual manner, smoking, driving automobiles, and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor summary: On December 7, 1941 the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the US Naval Base Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, using bombers, torpedo bombers and midget submarines. This ultimately led to the US involvement in World War 2. -
Holocaust
The Holocaust is one of the most terrible events in human history. It occurred during World War II when Hitler was leader of Germany. Six million Jewish people were murdered by the Nazis and millions of other people that Hitler didn't like were killed as well. -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin blockade was when the soviet union block off Berlln from the rest of the world. The berlin airlift was when 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. -
Red Scare
As World War II was ending, a fear-driven movement known as the Second Red Scare began to spread across the United States. Americans feared that the Soviet Union hoped to spread communism all over the world, overthrowing both democratic and capitalist institutions as it went. American lived in fear everyday of having a nuclear bomb dropped on them at any given moment. -
March on Washington
On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Organized by a number of civil rights and religious groups, the event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country. The march, culminated in Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, a spirited call for racial justice and equality. -
Rosa Parks
The Montgomery Bus Boycott, in which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating, took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale demonstration against segregation in the U.S. On December 1, 1955, four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus.
