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Conflict between Native American and eastern civilized whites
http://www.ushistory.org/us/40.aspWhile Easterners tried to make their way in these and other professions(industrialization), Native Americans desperately clung to the hopes of maintaining their tribal traditions. As the numbers of white settlers from the East increased dramatically, conflicts with the native tribes did so as well. With the massacres at Sand Creek in 1864 and Wounded Knee in 1890 as bookends. Both sides committed unspeakable atrocities. -
the Gildred Age
New technologies and new ways of organizing business led a few individuals to the top. The competition was ruthless. Those who could not provide the best product at the cheapest price were simply driven into bankruptcy or were bought up by hungry, successful industrialists （only a few law regulating the bussiness）. Political leaders dominated the Gildred Age http://www.ushistory.org/us/36.asp -
The Spanish-American
The TREATY OF PARIS was most generous to the winners. The United States received the Philippines and the islands of GUAM and PUERTO RICO. The treaty prompted a heated debate in the United States. ANTI-IMPERIALISTS called the US hypocritical for condemning European empires while pursuing one of its own. President McKinley's expansionist policies were supported by the American public. http://www.ushistory.org/us/44d.asp -
From countryside to the city
About 1/6 of the American population lived in urban areas in 1860. URBAN was defined as population centers consisting of at least 8000 people, only a modest-sized town by modern standards. In 1900, an American was twenty times more likely to move from the farm to the city than vice-versa. The 1920 census declared that for the first time, a majority of Americans lived in the city.http://www.ushistory.org/us/38.aspt -
Flappers
After a 72-year struggle, women had won the precious right to vote. FLAPPERS were northern, urban, single, young, middle-class women. They always wear a knee-length skirt, with a high-heels and often cut their hair to the shoulder length. Many held steady jobs in daily life. By night, flappers engaged in the active city nightlife. They frequented jazz clubs and vaudeville shows. Speakeasies were a common destinationhttp://www.ushistory.org/us/46d.asp -
Harlem Renaissance
African Americans had endured centuries of slavery and the struggle for abolition. The end of bondage had not brought the promised land many had envisioned. Instead, WHITE SUPREMACY was quick restore to the New South, This GREAT MIGRATION eventually relocated hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North. Although they were not welcomed, the black culture still reborn in the Renaissance.
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The Great Depression
The stock market crash of 1929 touched off a chain of events that plunged the United States into its longest, deepest economic crisis of its history. Banks operated without guarantees to their customers, creating a climate of panic when times got tough. UNEMPLOYMENT rose from 1.5 million Americans in 1929 to a debilitating 12 million in 1932.http://www.ushistory.org/us/48b.asp -
The New Deal
The NEW DEAL sparked a revolution through change relationship between government and people.Roosevelt declared a "BANK HOLIDAY." The emergency BANKING ACT.empowered the President to reopen banks that were solvent and assist those that were not. Another major help to the majority of Americans to create programs like CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS to solve the unemployment problem. [http://www.ushistory.org/us/49b.asp(http://www.timetoast.com) -
America in the Second World War
World War II was fought over differences left unresolved after World War I. Over 400,000 Americans perished in the four years of involvement, an American death rate second only to the Civil War. Twelve million victims perished from Nazi atrocities in the HOLOCAUST. The deaths of twenty million Russians created a defensive Soviet mindset that spilled into the postwar era http://www.ushistory.org/us/51.asp -
Pearl Harbor
Japan hopes the United States, distracted by European events, would be forced to recognize the new order in East Asia.
All these assumptions were wrong. As the bombs rained on PEARL HARBOR on the infamous morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941, almost 3,000 Americans were killed. Six battleships were destroyed or rendered unseaworthy, and most of the ground planes were ravaged as well. http://www.ushistory.org/us/50e.asp -
Cold War
In 1945, one major war ended and another began. The Cold War lasted about 45 years. There were no direct military campaigns between the two main antagonists, the United States and the Soviet Union. Yet billions of dollars and millions of lives were lost in the fight. America and its allies struggled to keep the communist, totalitarian Soviet Union from expanding into Europe, Asia, and Africa. http://www.ushistory.org/us/52a.asp -
A New Civil Rights Movement
Beginning with the Supreme Court's school integration ruling of 1954, the American legal system seemed sympathetic to African American demands that their FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT CIVIL RIGHTS be protected. Soon, a peaceful equality movement began under the unofficial leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. A wave of marches, boycotts, sit-ins, and freedom rides swept the American South and even parts of the North.http://www.ushistory.org/us/54.asp -
Feminism
Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes. Feminist movements have campaigned and continue to campaign for women's rights, including the right to vote, to hold public office, to work, to earn fair wages or equal pay, to own property, to receive education, to have equal rights within marriage.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism -
"I Have a Dream"
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28,1963,in which he calls for an end to racism in the United States and called for civil and economic rights. Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the speech was a defining moment of the civil rights movement https://en.wikipedia.org -
racism
Racism in a particular race is superior or inferior to another, that a person’s social and moral traits are predetermined by his or her inborn biological characteristics. Racial separatism is that different races should remain segregated and apart from one another. One important feature of racism, especially toward Blacks and immigrant groups, is clear in attitudes regarding slaves and slavery. Jews are usually hostile by anti-Semites https://www.adl.org/racism -
internet
The INTERNET was developed during the 1970s by the Department of Defense. Personal computers had become widespread by the end of the 1980s. Also，ability to connect these computers over networks. In the early 1990s, the WORLD WIDE WEB was developed for commercial purposes. Corporations created home pages where they could place text and graphics to sell products. Soon airline tickets and even cars and homes could be purchased online【http://www.ushistory.org/us/60d.asp】(http://www.timetoast.com) -
The Vietnam War
The VIETNAM WAR was the second-longest war in United States history。 Despite the decades of resolve, billions and billions of dollars, nearly 60,000 American lives and many more injuries, the United States failed to achieve its objectives.One factor that influenced the failure of the United States in Vietnam was lack of public support. http://www.ushistory.org/us/55.asp -
Globalization
Globalization is the process of interaction and integration between people, companies, and governments worldwide. Globalization has grown due to advances in transportation and communication technology. With increased global interactions comes the growth of international trade, ideas, and culture. Globalization is primarily an economic process of interaction and integration that's associated with social and cultural aspects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization -
Morning in America
The long national nightmare was over. The United States was filled with hard-working, God-fearing citizens who cared about their fellow Americans. Inflation and unemployment were problems of government, not the national character. Vietnam was over; America was the most powerful nation in the world. The Soviet Union was an evil empire. Old-fashioned initiative and ingenuity would maintain America's competitive edge in commerce.http://www.ushistory.org/us/59a.asp -
The End of the Cold War
The fall of the Berlin Wall. The shredding of the Iron Curtain. The end of the Cold War. Others pointed out that no one really won the Cold War. The United States spent trillions of dollars arming themselves for a direct confrontation with the Soviet Union that fortunately never came. Regardless, thousands of American lives were lost waging proxy wars in Korea and Vietnam. http://www.ushistory.org/us/59e.asp
