Final Project

By BigOso

  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin
    This device helped cotton picking productions enormously.

  • Railroads

    Railroads
    Americans dreamed of linking the Atlantic and pacific oceans by rail.

  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie
    Created largest steel manufacturer in the country. Born In the United kingdom came to the states when he was 13 from scotland to Pennsylvania .

  • John Pierpont Morgan

    John Pierpont Morgan
    Famous banker who dominated cooperations.

  • John D. Rockefeller

    John D. Rockefeller
    He was America's first billionaire.Poster child of capitalism.Rockefeller was born in Moravia, a small town in western New York.

  • Manifest Destiny

    Manifest Destiny
    belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.

  • Industrial Revolution

    Industrial Revolution
    the movement in which machines changed people's way of life as well as their methods of manufacture.

  • The American Dream

    The American Dream
    This is the belief that everyone who comes to the untied states will have equal rights and the same opportunities as everyone.
  • Period: to

    Gilded Age

    Industrial Revolution, most Americans worked for themselves during this time.

  • Jim crow laws

    Jim crow laws
    segregation laws against African Americans.

  • NAACP

    NAACP
    The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks
    African American civil rights activist

  • John F Kennedy

    John F Kennedy
    He gave civil rights to African Americans.

  • Womans right to vote

    Womans right to vote
    Women earned their right to vote in 1920

  • Martin Luther King Jr.

    Martin Luther King Jr.
    activist who was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement

  • Rosie the Riveter

    Rosie the Riveter
    Example of hard working women during world war 2

  • The Space Age

    The Space Age
    We were in a technology race with Russia

  • Sit ins

    Sit ins
    African Americans would protest segregation by sitting down when told to move

  • Motown music

    Motown music
    inspiring music from the 1960 that brought attention to African American artist.

  • KKK

    KKK
    Radical group from the 1960´s that terrorized African Americans.

  • Freedom Rides

    Freedom Rides
    African Americans rode into the south to get attention about segregation.

  • Segregation ends

    Segregation ends
    This marks the end of segregation for the most part

  • The Tampon Tax

    The Tampon Tax
    Women up to this day are paying more for the same cleaning products men use.