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Florence Kelley
Florenece Kelly was the daughter of the United States congressman William. D. Kelly. Florence kelley was born on September 12, 1859. Florence Kelley became an advocate for improving the lives of women and children. She was appointed chief inspector of factories for Illinois after she had helped to win passage of the Illinois Factory Act in 1983. -
Queen Liliuokalani
Queen Liliuokalani in 1893 realized that her reign in Hawaii had come to an end. -
James Creelman
James Creelman, was a reporter during the height of yellow journalism. Creelman's most significant assignment came in 1896, on a trip to Cuba to report on tensions brewing between the island nation and Spain. By 1897, William Randolph Hearst had recruited Creelman to his newspaper, the New York Journal, and assigned Creelman to cover the war between Cuba and Spain, which broke out in 1898. -
Yellow Journalism
Journalism that embellishes or exaggerates stories to gain readers. -
U.S.S. Maine Explosion
The Maine is best known for her catastrophic loss in Havana Harbor on the evening of 15 February 1898. Sent to protect U.S. interests during the Cuban revolt against Spain, she exploded suddenly without warning and sank quickly, killing nearly three quarters of her crew. The cause and responsibility for her sinking remained unclear after a board of inquiry. -
Eugene V. Debs
Eugene V. Debs helped organize the American Socialist Party in 1901, Commented on the uneven balance among big business, gov., and ordinary people under the free-market system of capitalism. -
Robert M. La Follette
La Follette served three terms as govenor before he entered the U.S. Senate in 1906. He explained that, as Govenor, he did not mean to "smash corporations, but merely to drive them out of politics. -
"No Mans Land"
No man's land is land that is unoccupied or is under dispute between parties that leave it unoccupied due to fear or uncertainty. The term was originally used to define a contested territory. -
Sinking Of Lusitania
RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner, holder of the Blue Riband and briefly the world's biggest ship (prior to the launch of her running mate Mauretania). She was launched by the Cunard Line in 1907, at a time of fierce competition for the North Atlantic trade. -
Trench Warfare
Trench warfare is a form of land warfare using occupied fighting lines consisting largely of trenches, in which troops are significantly protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. The most prominent case of trench warfare is the Western Front in World War I. -
Zimmermann Note
The Zimmerman Telegram aka 'note', was sent from a German official in Germany to a German official in Mexico asking him to join an aliance with Germans, the Germans told them that they would help get the USA back for the Mexicans. It was NOT Germany asking Mexico to attack us. -
President Wilsons War Resolution
On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany, saying, “The world must be made safe for democracy". Four days later, Congress voted overwhelmingly in favor of a war declaration. -
Henry Ford
Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. -
Womens Suffrage
Women's suffrage or woman suffrage is the right of women to vote and to run for office. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was built in 1887. The Battle of Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941 (December 8 in Japan).
