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The Great Upheaval
The Great Upheaval started with a 10% pay cut. This caused chaos in the nation. Local townspeople gathered to revolt and go on strike.One strike is known as the Martinsburg Strike. This might have gone down as one of many small local strikes put down by force.
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The Massacre at Sand Creek
The causes of the Sand Creek massacre were rooted in the long conflict for control of the Great Plains of eastern Colorado. Colonel John Chivington and his troops descended upon the Cheyenne village and killed about 400 people, mostly women and children. Because of this brutal massacre, the Sioux tribe retaliated by mutilating 81 soldiers. To end the violence, the treaty of Fort Laramie was put into action.
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The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age will be remembered for the accomplishments of thousands of American thinkers, inventors, entrepreneurs, writers, and promoters of social justice. During the Gilded Age, every man could become a "Rockefeller". The US was modernizing. Railroads were put into use and oil was much needed. People like Andrew Carnegie and Pierpont Morgan thrived. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/carnegie-gilded/ -
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US History: VHS Summer: Katelyn Wang
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The spanish american war
The Spanish American war was between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America. The treaty of paris was put into action as a result.
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World War 1
World War 1 started after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and lasted until 1918. Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States.
There were almost 50 million casualties in this war. Lethal new technologies were unleashed, and for the first time a major war was fought on land, sea, below the sea, and in the skies.
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Treaty of Versailles
World War I officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919. It was negotiated among the Allied powers with little participation by Germany. Some terms consisted of things like Germany not being allowed to join the League of Nations and Germany is not being allowed to have an air force. Germany was not happy with these terms and signed in protest.
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The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. The Harlem Renaissance marked a movement when white America started recognising the intellectual contributions of Blacks and on the other hand African Americans asserted their identity intellectually and linked their struggle to that of blacks around the world.
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The equal rights amendment
"Equality of rights under the law shall not be abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." This simple sentence comprised Section 1, which was first proposed in Congress by the National Women's Party in 1923. Feminists of the late 1960s and early 1970s saw ratification of the amendment as the only clear-cut way to eliminate all legal gender-based discrimination in the United States. http://www.equalrightsamendment.org -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939. During this time, consumer spending and investment dropped, causing steep declines in industrial output and employment as failing companies laid off workers. About 15 million Americans were unemployed and nearly half the country’s banks had failed.
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World War 2
World War II was a conflict that involved every part of the world during the years 1939–45. There were Axis powers—Germany, Italy, and Japan—and the Allies—France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China. The war was a continuation, after an uneasy 20-year hiatus, of the disputes left unsettled by World War I. The 40,000,000–50,000,000 deaths incurred in World War II make it the bloodiest conflict in history.
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Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was the scene of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces. Japanese fighter planes descended on the base, where they managed to destroy or damage nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight battleships, and over 300 airplanes. More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack, including civilians, and another 1,000 people were wounded. The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war on Japan. http://www.pearlharborhistoricsites.org -
Creation of the United Nations
The United Nations was born of perceived necessity, as a means of better avoiding international conflict. It also negotiated peace better than the old League of Nations.
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The Cold War
Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. The Cold War was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons.
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Korean War
Korean War was a conflict between North and South Korea in which at least 2.5 million persons lost their lives. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal participant, joined the war on the side of the South Koreans, and the People’s Republic of China came to North Korea’s aid. The fighting ended in July 1953 with Korea still divided into two hostile states.
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The war ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks quietly incited a revolution —by just sitting down. In Montgomery, Alabama, when a bus became full, the seats nearer the front were given to white passengers. Montgomery bus driver James Blake ordered Parks and three other African Americans seated nearby to move to the back of the bus. The Montgomery Bus Boycott is regarded as the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregationhttps://www.history.com/topics/black-history/montgomery-bus-boycott -
Ronald Reagan’s Presidency
Ronald Reagan served as the 40th U.S. president from 1981 to 1989. He is known as the Great Communicator. He cut taxes, increased defense spending, negotiated a nuclear arms reduction agreement with the Soviets and is credited with helping to bring a quicker end to the Cold War. Reagan, who survived a 1981 assassination attempt, died at age 93 after battling Alzheimer’s disease.
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Information Revolution
Technological changes brought dramatic new options to Americans living in the 1990s. From the beginning of the decade until the end, new forms of entertainment, commerce, research, work, and communication became commonplace in the United States. The driving force behind much of this change was an innovation popularly known as the Internet.
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Clinton’s Presidency
Bill Clinton was the 42nd U.S. president and he served in office from 1993 to 2001. During Clinton’s time in the White House, America enjoyed an era of peace and prosperity, marked by low unemployment, declining crime rates and a budget surplus. In 1998, the House of Representatives impeached Clinton due to a sexual relationship with a White House intern.
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The North American Free Trade Agreement
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the United States was the only remaining military superpower, and the world looked to Washington for leadership at combating aggression in the Persian Gulf, ending ethnic cleansing in places such as Kosovo, and halting nuclear proliferation. The NAFTA ended economic barriers with Canada and Mexico and promised even more prosperity.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nafta-signed-into-law
