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Potato Famine
Period of time of massive starvation and disease in Ireland. -
Communist Manifesto
Political pamphlet created by Karl Marx it inspired the russian revolution. -
Bessemer Process
A new way of making steel that makes it easier and cheaper. Permitted the development of more advanced structures. -
Drake Well
First oil well in the US located in Pennsylvania, it propulsed the country into an oil age. -
Alaska Purchase/Seward Purchase
The United States bought Alaska from Russia for 123 million dollars of today money. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Was an act made by the US that prohibited the entrance of chinese immigrants to the US. -
New Colossus
Poem written by Emma Lazarus with the objective of raising money for the construction of the Statue of Liberty. -
Rock Springs Massacre
A riot between chinese and white miners, was the result of racial tensions between the miners, it ended with the dead of 28 chinese miners and the burning of their homes. -
How the other half lives
Book written by Jacob Riis that documented the poor living conditions of people living in New York City slums. -
Hull House
Hull House Was a settlement house co founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Was build in Chicago with the objective of helping poor people in bad living conditions. -
Homestead Strike
Was a dispute between steel workers and private security agents. It was the result of the workers trying to protect unions and wages. -
USS Maine Explodes
The USS Maine was an american dreadnought sent to La Habana, Cuba to secretly help with the Cuban revolution. The 15 of february explodes killing three quarters of the crew, the cause was an accidental ammo rack. -
Annexation of Hawaii
Many US farmers in independent Hawaii since 1790, US sees Hawaii as a stepping stone across the Pacific to Asian markets. After a “revolution” on Hawaii, finally its annexed in 1898c. -
Philippine becomes a US colony
Philippines becomes a US colony, to uplift and educate filipinos. Emilio Aguinaldo turns on US, leads Philippine Insurrection, Guerrilla warfare vs the US occupation after the ww2. -
White Man's Burden
Was a poem written in 1899 by Rudyard Kipling, the poem talks about Philippine American War and it invites the US to conquer the Philippines. -
Platt Amendment
Guarantees some land in Cuba for the US. Forbids Cuba for having treats with any European government, and allows the US to establish government officials. -
Panama Independence
The US government asked Colombia if they could build the canal and Colombia denied them. A few years later there was an independence movement in Panama against Colombia. So the US applied something called Gunboat diplomacy. They placed several ships in the coast of Panama for when the Colombian government tried to shut down the independence they will fail, and so they did. Panama became a country of their own by 1904. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
It occurred in March 25 of 1911, and was a fire that started in a textile factory in New York where the workers were mostly women, the emergency doors were close to prevent them from taking unauthorized breaks. The women were not able to escape so they started jumping from the windows to prevent burning alive. -
Assassination of FF
Franz Ferdinand was assassinated 1914, by a group of Serbian terrorist this lead to Austro Hungary declaring war to Serbia. -
Ludlow Massacre
Was an attack from the Colorado National Guard to a tent colony of strike workers, they set the tents on fire killing women and children and some miners. -
Sinking of the Lusitania
The Lusitania was a british merchant ship that was victim of a german u boat, around 120 americans died, it was one of the cause of the US entering in WW1. -
Zimmerman note
A note sent by Germany to Mexico saying that if the US gets into war against Germany, Mexico should declare war on the US. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
A treaty signed between Soviet Russia and the central power that ended Russia's participation on WW1. -
Treaty of Versailles
The peace treaty that bring World War 1 to an end. -
The US rejects the League of Nations
The League of Nations was an American idea created by President Woodrow Wilson during the negotiations leading up to the Treaty of Versailles, the agreement that officially ended World War I. The US reject it because they believed that this article allowed the League of Nations to force the United States to commit its military and economic power in places that were not beneficial to the country.
