3SAENG US history Civil war to WWII

By santatherese

  • Civil war breaks out

    • North vs South
    • Lincoln had won the presidential election on a platform aiming to abolish slavery

  • Homestead Act

    • stimulated westward migration
    • offered 160 acres of free land to anybody with a family, willing to farm for five years

  • Emancipation proclamation

    Presiden Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves in the South.
  • Civil war ends

    Civil war ends

    • The war ends
    • The North win
    • Northern forces led by Ulysses S. Grant
    • Constitution is amended, making slavery illegal throughout the union

  • Transcontinental railway

    • First transcontinental railway link from coast to coast established
    • Easier to transport people
    • Easier to industrialize

  • No more free land!

    • No more free land to hand out
    • Immigrants started settling in cities
    • American industry was expanding - need for workers

  • Industrialization

    • USA is now a major producer of iron and steel
    • Industry started on east coast, but expanded gradually westwards
    • Henry Ford (cars)
    • JD Rockefeller (oil)
    • C Vanderbilt (shipping)
    • A Carnegie (steel)
    • G Eastman (cameras and film)
    • W Wrigley (chewing gum!)

  • Ford's assembly line production

    Henry Ford starts assembly line production of cars.

  • WWI breaks out in Europe

    • US policy of non-interventionism prevents the US from taking part - at first

  • Lusitania goes down

    • British passenger liner
    • Sunk by German submarine
    • 128 Americans killed
    • Over 1000 others killed ¨- Question arises: Should the US join the war?

  • USA joins WWI

    • American troops are sent to Europe

  • WWI ends

    • US President Woodrow Wilson wants a lenient peace
    • The peace treaty, the Treaty of Versailles, is rather agressive!

  • The Roaring Twenties

    • More money, more free time
    • Comsuner products + labour saving devices
    • Film industry
    • Radio
    • Jazz music

  • Ban on alcohol

    The sale and distribution of alcohol is banned in the USA (as well as in Scandinacia). A lively black market breaks out, and smuggling alcohol could mean big profits for thise taking the risk.
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    The Roaring Twenties

  • Lindberg flies across Atlantic

    • Aviation: C Lindberg flies across the Atlantic on his own

  • "Black Tuesday"

    • New York Stock Exchange crashes completely
    • Stock holders lose their money
    • A lot of bancrupcies --> unemployment
    • Urbanization had made the USA vulnerable to economic recession

  • The Great Dustbowl

    Farmers in the Midwest experience a great drought, destroying their crops. Large numbers of people must give up their farms.

  • FD Roosevelt's "New Deal"

    • President FD Roosevelt starts his "New Deal" policy
    • Aim: Create work for the unemployed \ get country back on its feet
    • How? Public projects: Dam building, road building
    • Expensive public project
    • Established a social security system
    • Gradually began to reverse the downward spiral

  • WWII breaks out in Europe

    • Germany invades Poland. War is declared by France and the UK

  • Pearl Harbour

    • Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941
    • Attack leads USA to enter the war

  • WWII ends

    • WWII is officially over
    • Millions of people dead, Europe in ruins

  • United Nations is formed

    • The powers that were the victors of the war—the United States, Soviet Union, China, Britain, and France—formed the permanent members of the UN's Security Council.

  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    UN adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948