Early 20th Century

  • Buffalo Soldiers

    Buffalo Soldiers
    Members of the U.S. 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. Started 1866 and ended in 1951
  • Queen Liliuokalani ruled

    Queen Liliuokalani ruled
    She was the last queen of hawaii until the united states took over. She always put her kingdom before herself. She was arrested for charges on treason and they took her powers in january 17, 1893
  • Dorothea Lange photograpgher

    Dorothea Lange photograpgher
    She is Best known for her iconic photograph Migrant Mother. She was born in may 26, 1895 and died on October 11, 1965
  • Rough Riders

    Rough Riders
    The Rough Riders is the name of the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry. This cavalry was lead by Teddy Roosevelt.
  • USS main explosion

    USS main explosion
    A uknown explosion sinks the battleship USS Maine in Cuba's Havana harbor. It killed 260 of the 400 American crew members.
  • Battle of San Juan Hill

    Battle of San Juan Hill
    It was a decisive battle of the Spanish American War. It was also the location of the greatest victory for the Rough Riders.
  • Panama Canal

    Panama Canal
    It is a canal for shipping boats to have a short cut. It passes through the Atlantic ocean and Pacific ocean. it was finished in 1923.
  • Boxer Rebellion

    Boxer Rebellion
    Boxer Rebellion was a Chinese rebellion against foreign influence in places such as trade, politics, religion, and technology that happend in China during the final years of the Qing Dynasty. The rebellion ended on september 1901.
  • Russo japanese war

    Russo japanese war
    The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan. The war ended on september 5 1905
  • Great Migration

    Great Migration
    The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the Southern United States to the north. It started in 1910 and ended in 1970.
  • Mexican Revolution

    Mexican Revolution
    This War was a major armed struggle. Over time the revolution changed and it ended in 1920.
  • Henry Ford and Assembly line

    Henry Ford and Assembly line
    Henry Ford made the first moving assembly line. It reduced the time it took to make a car from 12 hours to 2 hours and 30 min.
  • Tampico Incident

    Tampico Incident
    7 us sailors were arrested for being on tampico property. The commander ask mexico to apologize but mexico refused.
  • Louis Armstrong Career

  • Battle of Ypres

    Battle of Ypres
    Near the Belgian city of Ypres, Allied and German forces begin the first of what would be three battles to control the city during the first World War. It ended on nov 30 1914
  • battle of verdun

    battle of verdun
  • battle of the somme

    battle of the somme
    a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire. This battle ended on november 18 1916
  • Spanish influenza

    Spanish influenza
    The flu pandmic was the deadliest flu in modern history. It was during 1918 and 20 to 50 million people were killed by the influenza. they hadno fight or cure for the flu and it came to a stop in 1919.
  • fourteen points

    fourteen points
    President Woodrow Wilson proposed a 14-point program for world peace. These points were later taken as the basis for peace negotiations at the end of the war.
  • alvin york

    alvin york
    He was a blacksmith who was drafted into the army during WWI. He captured a total of 132 german soldiers. He was promoted and got the Medal of Honor.
  • Palmer Raids

    Palmer Raids
    The Palmer Raids were a series of raids by the United States Department of Justice intended to capture, arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States. this event ended on january 1920.
  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles
    The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers
  • nationwide steel workers strike

    nationwide steel workers strike
    The steel strike of 1919 was an attempt by the AA to organize the United States steel industry in the wake of World War I. The strike began on September 21, 1919, and ended on January 8, 1920.
  • Armistice day

    Armistice day
    Armistice day is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I. It is a celebration of the Armistice being signed to mark the end of the war.
  • Prohibition

  • league of nations

    league of nations
    The League of Nations was an international organization, it was in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for fixing international problems.
  • Sacco and Vanzetti

    They were convicted of murder, they were arrested and armed and on july 14 ,1921, they were convicted and sentenced to die. Thy were electricuted on August 23.
  • Lou Gehrig career

  • scopes trial

    scopes trial
    The scopes trial was an American legal case in 1925 were a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act. Scopes was found guilty and fined $100.The case was then seen as both a theological contest and a trial on if modern science regarding the creation–evolution controversy should be taught in schools. This trial ended on july 21 1925
  • Charles A Lindbergh famous flight

    Charles A Lindbergh famous flight
    Ther was a prize of 25,000 dollors for the first person to fly between new york and paris. Lindbergh was the man to do it. The flight started on may 20 1927 and ended may 21.
  • A Farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway

    A Farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway
    This is a noval by Ernest Hemingway during world war I. It is about an american Frederick Henry serving as a Lieutenant in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army.
  • Herbert Hoover Presidency

    Herbert Hoover Presidency
    Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States. He was a professional mining engineer, and was raised as a Quaker. He died on March 4 1933. he was also blamed for the great depression.
  • Hoovervilles

    Hoovervilles
    A Hooverville was a town built by homeless people during the Great Depression. They were named after Herbert Hoover.
  • Mary Mcleod Bethune served in office

  • bonus march

    bonus march
    This event was a march of some 43,000 marchers, 17,000 world war veterans, there families and affiliated groups. They joined in Washington DC and demanded cash payment to there service certificates.
  • Public Works Administration

    Public Works Administration
    It was created by the National Industrial Recovery Act in June 1933 in response to the Great Depression. It built large-scale public works such as dams, bridges, hospitals, and schools.
  • Franklin D Roosevelt presidency

    Franklin D Roosevelt presidency
  • Frances Perkins served in office

    Frances Perkins served in office
    She was a cabinet worker, a public official, and a social worker. She was the first women to serve on the cabinet. when Roosevelt was president he took he to DC to become the secretary of labor.
  • Agricultural Adjustment act

    Agricultural Adjustment act
    This was a United States federal law which reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land and to kill off excess livestock. It was used to help reduce crop surplus and help raise the value of crops.
  • Civilian Conservation Corps

    Civilian Conservation Corps
    This was made for young men that were not married or unemployed and had a hard time finding jobs during the great depression. 3 million young men were in the CCC and provided shelter, food and clothing.
  • Tennessee vally Authority

    Tennessee vally Authority
    The Tennessee Valley Authority is a federally owned corporation in the United States. It provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley.
  • Civilian works Administration

    Civilian works Administration
    This was a short job made during the great depression for people that were unemployed. It was a construction job mainly improving or constructing buildings and bridges.
  • works progress administration

    works progress administration
    The Works Progress Administration was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency. employing millions of unemployed people to carry out public works projects,[1] including the construction of public buildings and roads. In a much smaller but more famous project.
  • the dust bowl

    the dust bowl
    The Dust Bowl was a period of bad dust storms in U.S and Canadian prairies. severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to stop rosion caused the phenomenon. The dust came in three waves 1934, 1936, and 1939–40 but some regions e had drought for up to 8 years.
  • National youth Administration

    National youth Administration
    National youth Administration was a New Deal agency in the United States that worked on providing work and education for americans between the ages of 16 and 25. It operated from june 26 1935 to 1939 as part of the works progress administration.
  • hoover dam

    hoover dam
    Hoover Darn is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • joe DiMaggio career

    joe DiMaggio career
    Joe DiMaggio was a baseball player on the New York Yankees. He was a 3 time MVP and the yankees won nine World Series championships. He was inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame and his career ended in 1951.
  • GM sit down strike

    GM sit down strike
  • Amelia Earhart final flight

    Amelia Earhart final flight
    She was a pilot that attempted to take a flight across the world. She made the first couple stops until she tried flying to howland island and then she was never seen again.
  • snow white and the seven dwarfs release date

    snow white and the seven dwarfs release date
    This was the first disney animated feature. it was based off the grimm fairytail snow white.