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KKK
Some time in May in Pulaski, Tennessee the Ku Klux Klan was formed. -
Transcontinental railroad
Promontory Summit, Central Pacific (Utah) president Leland Staford put the final golden spike in the tracks. -
Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell, Scotland invented the "talking telegraph" by messing around with things for people with hearing problems. At first you could only call two places, then came the switch board. In 1879 President Rutherford B. Hayes put a telephone in the white house. -
Garfield
"I am a Stalwart and Arthur is President now!", said a crazy lawyer named Charles Guiteau who shot the president at a Washington, D.C. railroad station. The president died three months later. -
Haymarket
"Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will", they wanted an eight hour work day because they felt they worked too much. -
Explosion of the U.S.S. Maine
More than 250 American sailors died due to this explosion. They think a fire set off the ammunition. -
Hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico
A hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico hit Galveston, Texas. It killed more than 6,000, 120 m.p.h. winds went on for 18 hours. -
McKinley
"A Full Dinner Pail", was thanks to President William McKinley for getting America out of the 1890's depression. As a thank you he was shot by Leon Czolgosz in New York while touring the Pan-American Exposition. Days later he was dead. -
Panama Canal
America makes the Panama Canal to make traveling easier, it took them about ten years to finish it. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Company
One of New York City's ten story buildings caught fire while it was supposed to be fireproof. About 500 workers were on the job at the time (mainly Italian and Jewish girls) a total of 146 workers died. -
Miami River Basin flooded Dayton
March 20 or 26 Ohio's Great Miami River Basin flooded Dayton. It took the lives of 360 people and cost more than $100 million in damages. -
Francis Ferdinand
Francis being assassinated caused the war between Austria-Hungary and Serbia. -
Peace Movement
Populists, Midwest progressives and social reformers, including women were the main part of the peace people. -
Lusitania
German's U-boat saw the Lusitania, British passenger liner in the Irish Sea, the U-boat shot down the liner, after 18 minutes 1,200 passengers died, 128 being American. -
Sussex
German submarine torpedoed a French passenger steamship, the Sussex, killing or injuring 80 passengers, two were American. Bringing the Sussex pledge, saying the U-boats would warn ships before they attacked them. -
Breaking the Sussex Pledge
This caused America to break off diplomatic relations with Germany. -
Voting for war
March 16-18 Germany sank America's City of Memphis, Illinois, and Vigilancia ships, Wilson Cabinet voted for war. -
Final Peace Treaty
In December Lenin signed a truce, March was the final peace treaty. -
Hitting German strongholds
500,000 American troops along with 100,000 French "began to hit the final German strongholds" Soon the German army retreated from Argonne Forest and the region of the Meuse river. -
War Ends
They "mutinied" so that they wouldn't have to fight, knowing they'd lose and it's just be a waste of lives.
