6th grade history

  • Herbert Hoover

    A talented organizer,as secretary of commerce.
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    6th Grade History

  • California Gold Rush

    California Gold Rush

    Cival war veterans & farmerswentto California in search of gold.
  • Kaiser Wilhem the 2nd

    Kaiser Wilhem the 2nd

    He was forced to give up his throne. Germany became republic
  • The Comstock Load

    The Comstock Load

    Rich load of silver in 1859.
  • Pikes Peak

    Pikes Peak

    Gold was found in the colorado rockies. 50,000 properties went to the Colorado rockies.
  • Transcontinental Railroad

    Transcontinental Railroad

    Construction was done on the R/R.
  • Little Big Horn

    Little Big Horn

    The place where George Custer was killed with his men.
  • New States

    New States

    North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington, and montana became New States.
  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

    Sherman Anti-Trust Act

    The first act that controlled trusts and monoplies
  • Wounded Knee

    Wounded Knee

    Where Sitting bull was killed and caused a battle.
  • McKinley's Assassination

    McKinley's Assassination

    When Czolgosz went to shake McKinley's hand and shot him.
  • Immagration

    Immagration

    New immagrants came to the U.S
  • 17th amendment

    17th amendment

    Passed by Congress May 13, 1912
  • Assanation of Franz Ferdinand

    Assanation of Franz Ferdinand

    His assanation led to war.
  • Battle of the Marne

    Battle of the Marne

    Saved Paris from the invasion of the Germans ,and boosted French morale.
  • Battle of Verdun

    Battle of Verdun

    First Germans made small gains,until the French attacked.
  • Battle of Somme

    Battle of Somme

    Germany flanked Brittish and 58,000 men.
  • End of Neutralty

    End of Neutralty

    America enters the war because germany sunk the Lusitania and the Sussex.
  • Selective Service Act

    Selective Service Act

    It was a military draft.
  • Chateau Thierry

    Chateau Thierry

    AEF,helped turn back German offensive at Chateau Thierry on the Marne River.
  • We win the War

    We win the War

    Battle of the Rhine River, surrender huge amounts of equipment.
  • Battle of Argonne Forest

    Battle of Argonne Forest

    It was the longest battle in WW1 ,it lasted seven weeks in the rain,mud,babed wire, and fire.
  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment

    Stopped the transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States.
  • Volstead Act

    Volstead Act

    Provides the means of enforcing the ban.
  • Armistice Day

    Armistice Day

    Germany signed the Armistice (peace treaty) after weeks in the war.
  • The Red Scare

    The Red Scare

    When the goverment went after "Reds" as Communists.
  • League of Nations

    League of Nations

    Would help preserve pease and future wars.
  • Holocaust

    Holocaust

    Massacre of the Jews.
  • Tuskegee Airman

    Tuskegee Airman

    The first African Americans to fly in the war.
  • Hitler's Death

    Hitler's Death

    Hitler commited suicide so everyone thinks.
  • V-E day

    V-E day

    Victory in Europe for the allies in World War 2.
  • V-J Day

    V-J Day

    Japan allowed the Allied surrender terms in World War 2.
  • Bus Boycott

    Bus Boycott

    Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks on 1 December 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.
  • Ole Miss is itegrated

    Ole Miss is itegrated

    In late September 1962, after a legal battle, an African-American man named James Meredith attempted to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
  • Martin Luther King J.R Arrested

    Martin Luther King J.R Arrested

    Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy were among those arrested for protesting segregation at the Monson Motor Lodge in St. Augustine, Florida.
  • Vivian Malone

    Vivian Malone

    On June 11, 1963, he stood in the doorway of UA’s Foster Auditorium in a failed attempt to prevent the enrollment of two black students.
  • U of A George Wallace

    U of A George Wallace

    Former Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace vowed "segregation forever" and blocked the door to keep blacks from enrolling at the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963.
  • I Have A Dream Speech

    I Have A Dream Speech

    He didn't like the idea of segragation.
  • Civil Rights March on Washington

    Civil Rights March on Washington

    The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963.
  • Martin Luther King J.R Assasinated

    Martin Luther King J.R Assasinated

    At 6:05 P.M. on Thursday, 4 April 1968, Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray.