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Chyenne People
indiansThe nation was composed of two tribes, the So'taeo'o and the Tsetshestahese. Today Cheyenne people are enrolled in two federally recognized tribes. Are though to have branded off other tribes of Algonquian stock inhabiting lands of the Great Lakes. Are ine of the best known of the Plain tribes. -
Henry Ford
wikiWas an American industrialist, and was the founder of the Ford Motor Company, he was also the sponser of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. Ford did not invent the automobile, but he developed and manufactured the first automoble that many middle class Americans can afford to buy. As the owner of Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richst and best-known people in the world. -
Fourteenth Amendment Civil Rights
wiki amendmentProvides a broad definition of citizenship that overruled the Dred Scott v. Sandford ruling by the Surpreme Court that held that blacks could not be citizens of the United States. The 14th amendment added this principle into the Constitution to prevent the Supreme Court from ruling the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to be uncostitutional for lack of congressional authority to enact such a law and to prevent a future Congress from altering it by a mere majority vote. -
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Chinese Exclusion Act
Chinese Exclusion ActWas one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in U.S. history. The Act excluded Chinese "skilled and unskilled laborers employed in mining" from entering the country for ten years under penalty of imprisonment and deportation.
- Blamed Chinese "coolies" for depressed wage levels
-Many Chinese were relentlessly beaten just because of their
-The Act also affected Asians who had already settled in the United States. Any Chinese who left the United States had to obtain certificat -
Wounded Knee Massacre
Wounded Knee Massacre-Soldiers entered the indian camp next to the Wounded Knee Creek demanding that all Indian firearms be relinquished
- One of the soldiers tried to disarm a deaf Indian named Black Coyote. A scuffle ensued and the firearm discharged.
- When the Indians ran to take cover, the Hotchkiss artillery opened up on them, cutting down men, women, children.
-the end of this unnecessary violence, which lasted less than an hour,150 Indians had been killed & 50 wounded.Forsyth was later charged with killing -
Panic Of 1893
Panic of 1893-This panic was marked by the collapse of railroad overbuilding and shaky railroad financing which set off a series of bank failures.
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Plessy v. Ferguson
Wiki Plessy vs fergusonThis is known as a landmark United Stats Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the U.S.The decision was handed down by a vote of 7 to 1 with the majority opinion written by Justice. The court soon rejected Plessy's agrument based on the 14th amendment. -
Roosevelt Corollary
Roosevelt Collary- A corollary to the Monroe Doctrine that was articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union Address in 1904.
-The corollary states that the United States will intervene in conflicts between European Nations and Latin American countries to enforce legitimate claims of the European powers, rather than having the Europeans press their claims directly -
Lusitania
LusitaniaThe German goverment even posted advertisments warning the US that Americans who travel overseas carrying war contrband are at risk of a submarine attack. When the Lusitania departed from New York, the the Germans believed the ship was loaded with munitions in its cargo hold. May 7th, 1915 a German U-boat torpedoed the ship. 1,198 passengers including 128 Americans were dead instantly. The Lusitania was carrying 4 million rounds of ammo. -
Red Scare
first red scareThe first Red Scarebegan the intensely patriotic years of WWI. The Red Scare was known as a nation-wide anti-radical hysteria provoked by a mounting fear and anxiety that a Bolshevik revolution in America was imminent. A revolution that would change Church, home, marriage, civility, and the American way of life. -
Treaty of Versailles
Wiki Treaty of Versailles-Was one the peace treaties at the end of World War 1, it ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
-It took 6 months of negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference to conclude the peace treaty.
-The treaty was finally registered by the Secretariat of the League of Nations on the 21st of October 1919. -
Black Thrusday/Tuesday
Black ThrusdayWas known as a massive sell-a-thon. by late afternoon wealthy financers like J.P. Morgan pooled their resources and began to buy stocks in the hopes of reversing the trend. But soon it all fell out of the market on Tuesday Oct. 29th. A record of 16 million shares were exchanged for smaller values as teh days went on. For some stocks, no buyers could be found, and by the end of the day panic soon began. And by the next few weeks it soon went into a downward spiral. Soon the entire market was cut. -
Pearl Harbor
Wiki Pearl Harbor Imperial Japenese Navy began an attack on the U.S. naval base in Pearl Harbor.
-At 6:05 6 Japanese carriers launched 183 aircrafts composed mainly of dive bombers.
-Overall 9 ships of the U,S, fleet were sunk, and 21 were damaged.
-The overall death toll reached 2,402 people and 1,282 wounded including 68 civlians -
Internet
ushistoryDeveloped during the 1970s by the Department of Defense. Military advisers suggested the advantage of being able to operate one computer from another terminal. In the early days, the internet was mainly used by scientists to communicate with other scientists. The internet remained under goverment control until 1984. One early problem face by internet users was speed. Companies like Intel developed faster microprocessors. -
Ronald Reagan
wikiWas an Republican administration, the adminstration favored reducing goverment programs and introduced the largest accross-the-board tax cuts in American history. Reagan aimed to encourage entrepreneurship and limit the growth of social spending, as well as the reduction of regulation and inflation. The adminstration was an anti-communist, calling the Soviet Union an "evil-empire". Reagans presidency has been termed the "Reagan Revolution" or the "Age of Reagan". -
Cold War
Cold WarOften dated from 1947-1991m, was a sustained state of political and military tension between the powers of the Western world, led by the US & its NATO allies. The communist world led by the Soviet Union, its satellite stats and allies. This began after the success of their temporary wartime alliance against the Nazi Germanu, leaving the USSR and the US as two superpowers with profound economic and political differences. The cold war was named as it never featured direct military action. -
Imperialism
ImperialismKnown as "the creation and/or maintenance of an unequal economic, cultural, and territorial relationship, usually between stats and often in the form of an empirse, based on domination and subordination." As described by that work is primarily Western undertaking that employs an "expansionist, mercantilist policies." -
trickle-down economics
wikiThis is a term in the US politics to refer to the idea that tax breaks or other economic benefits provided by the goverment to businesses and the wealthy will benefit poorer members of society by improving the economy as a whole. -
"It's the economy, stupid."
ushistoryWas a sign that was on Clintons desk, with a charismatic smile and a gentle yet sincere voice Clinton hammered away at the recession, and promised new ideas and a break with 12 years of Republicans in the White House. -
ethnic cleansing
ushistoryWas applied to the process of removing an entire nationality out of a particular territory by threats, violence, or genocide. The US contributed blue-helmet peacekeeping troops to Bosnia to end ethnic cleansing and committed air support to Kosovar Albanians who faced the same fate. American troops were used to provide food to starving civilians.
