US History: VHS Summer: Jake Pfeiffer

Rockefeller

Jun 29, 1839

http://www.ushistory.org/us/36b.asp
Rockefeller is born. He desired to be the richest man in the world the moment he was born.

Custer

Jul 3, 1863

http://www.ushistory.org/us/40b.asp
Custer discovered a precious metal in mountains. Armed with the gatling gun won battles.

Binding the Nation By Rail

May 10, 1869

May 10th the transcontinental was finished. http://www.ushistory.org/us/36a.asp

US History: VHS Summer: Jake Pfeiffer

Period: Jun 27, 1877 to Jun 27, 2011

This timeline is for my online history class. It contains things we will learn.

Resistance to Immigrants

Jun 29, 1882

http://www.ushistory.org/us/38c.asp
Some americans were very aainst immigrants. They worked for less pay so Americans were loosing jobs.

Wounded Knee

Dec 29, 1890

http://www.ushistory.org/us/40e.aspT
Many men women andchildren died at this battle. The army demanded the sioux to surrender.

American Railroad Union

Jun 29, 1892

http://www.ushistory.org/us/37e.asp
Eugene V. Debs born in 1855. He created the Americn Railroad Union in 1892.

Panama

Jun 30, 1907

http://www.ushistory.org/us/44g.asp
Panama was not the first choice to build the canal. In 1914 the canal was finished coasting $345 million.

Labor vs Manager

Jun 29, 1911

http://www.ushistory.org/us/37b.asp
Managment vs labor wars got so intense. It led to more people going on strike and buisnesses loosinng money.

Propaganda

Jul 11, 1917

http://www.ushistory.org/us/45c.asp
The character Uncle Sam was used as war propaganda. They used him to interest people into inlisting.

Paris Peace Conferance

Jul 11, 1919

http://www.ushistory.org/us/45d.asp
Lloyd George of England, Orlando of Italy, Clemenceau of France, and Woodrow Wilson of the United States. They come together to discuss the treaty.

radio

Jul 11, 1920

http://www.ushistory.org/us/46g.asp
The radio changed the world! The biggest thing was the live broadcast of sports play by plays.

Flapers

Jul 11, 1920

http://www.ushistory.org/us/46d.asp
Flappers were young mid-class women. They would dressed in clothes that were extrodinary and danced crazily.

Homefront

Jul 14, 1940

http://www.ushistory.org/us/51b.asp
Men went away to fight in the war.There jobs needed at home so women started to take over.

Pearl Harbbor

Dec 7, 1941

http://www.ushistory.org/us/50e.asp
Japan surprise attacks a hawaiian nacal base. Many Americans suffered casualties.

Atomic Era

Jul 18, 1947

http://www.ushistory.org/us/53a.asp
President Truman ordered a background check on every civialin. He thought there was communist spies around him.

Rock and Rolls

Jul 18, 1950

http://www.ushistory.org/us/53d.asp
Chuck Berrys song hit the natioon with sparks. The song was about girls and cars.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Jul 18, 1950

http://www.ushistory.org/us/54f.asp
MLK leader of the nonevilent Civil Rights Movement. He started to become involved during the bus boycotts of 1955.

Hawaii

Jun 30, 1959

http://www.ushistory.org/us/44b.asp
Hawaiis queen was overthrown. Hawaii was won with the use of politics.

End of cold war

Jul 23, 1989

http://www.ushistory.org/us/59e.asp
Berlin wall being torn down

President

Jul 23, 1994

http://www.ushistory.org/us/60c.asp
Hillary stuck with Clinton

Feminism

Jul 18, 2014

http://www.ushistory.org/us/57a.asp
Television shows started showing domesticaly strong women. A show like "The Donna Reed Show".

Clinton

Jul 23, 2014

http://www.ushistory.org/us/60b.asp
Although his experiments with marijuana he still won the Presidency.