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Farmer's Alliance
The Farmer’s Alliance, originating in the late 1870’s, was an organized movement that involved farmers mainly in the southern states. This alliance was similar to the Granges, since they formed many marketing mechanisms. This alliance established many facilities such as: stores, banks, manufacturing plants, and more. The goals and missions of the Farmer’s Alliance were just; however, do to poor management, and the overwhelming power of large marketing forces. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion ActDuring the Gold Rush, Chinese immigration began making it's way to Mexico. Initially the Chinese were tolerated; however that changed later when they were viewed as a threat to others because of their hard work and willingness to accept lower wages than others -
The Interstate Commerce Act
The Interstate Commerce Act was a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. The act determined that railroads had to post reasonable fares. -
Crisis of the 1890's
During this period there was a growing distress due to the severe depression. There was a national political crisis as a result of agrarian protest. -
Russia Seperating
In December of 1991, the world watched the soviot union who was one of the dominant powers in the world, broke apart in 15 different countries. The United States was very happy because its formidable enemy was taken down, this ended the Cold War which had hovered over these two superpowers since the end of World War II. -
Immigration Restriction League
It was originated by 5 Harvard alumni on the belief that immigrants should be screened prior to entering America. They wanted literary tests and such, so that the immigrants who were coming over were beneficial to America. This was a logical idea and had many educated and middle-class followers. They are not to be confused with the American Protective Association. -
Spanish-American War
Spanish-American War DocumentarySpain fails militarily and grants limited autonomy to Cuba. The battleship U.S.S. Maine is sent on a "courtesy" visit to Havana with words of friendship to Spain, which sends a naval ship to New York in exchange. The Maine blows up in Cuba's Havana harbor, killing 266. Spain's government is blamed. McKinley gives in, goes before Congress, asks and receives authority to send troops to Cuba. Spain refuses an ultimatum and the U.S. declares war on May 1st. Later on a treaty will be signed in Paris. -
Muckrakers
muckrakingAt the start of the 20th century, journalists all over the United States were beginning to expose information about political and economic issues. These journalists, referred to as muckrakers, exposed scandal, corruption, and injustice throughout society. Theodore Roosevelt once accused these journalists of raking up muck through their writings, thus determining their name, muckrakers. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
In 1911, a terrible fire swept through the factory of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company; 146 workers, most of them women, died. Many of them had been trapped inside the burning building because the management had locked the emergency exits to prevent malingering. For the next three years, a state commission studied not only the background of the fire but also the general condition of the industrial workplace. -
Zimmerman Telegram
Zimmerman telegramDuring 1917 the German Empire had proposed a diplomatic war against the US. However the British intelligence decoded and interpreted the proposal. As a result the US gained support on the war against Germany. -
Sedition Act
In 1918 Sedition act was passed. The Sedition act was expanded the meaning of the Espionage Act to make illegal any public expression of opposition to the war; in practice, they allowed officials to prosecute anyone who criticized the president or the government. -
Red Scare
Red Scarethe red scare was a huge fear of communists, socialists, anarchists, and other dissidents. This set in shortly after WW1. Innocent people were put in jail because they expressed their views, civil liberties were ignored, and many Americans feared that a Bolshevik, which was a war in russia, was happening here. -
Paris Peace Conference
At the Peace conference in Paris a League of Nations is created, to prevent war through collective security and the settling of disputes through diplomacy. The conference is impacted by public passions that force Germany to accept punitive peace. Ten percent of Germany's population is put outside Germany's new borders. Germans are ordered to pay reparations, all of which will weaken Germany's government. -
The Chicago Race Riot of 1919
The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 was a major racial conflict that began in Chicago, Illinois on July 27, 1919 and ended on August 3. During the riot, dozens died and hundreds were injured. It is considered the worst of the approximately 25 riots during the Red Summer of 1919, so named because of the violence and fatalities across the nation. -
Women in the New Era
In the 1920's, jobs opened up for women, and they were not necessarily expected to solely live at home and raise the kids any longer. In addition to these jobs opening up, the establishment of birth control came about, and was available to working-class women. Flappers also were prominent, and gave a new image to women everywhere. -
Prohibition
Busted in Chicago Prohibition was a 14 year period instituted by the 18th Amendment which outlawed alcoholic beverages. turned law-abiding citizens into criminals, made a mockery of the justice system, caused illicit drinking to seem glamorous and fun. Al Capone an influential player in Chicago was a notorious gangster that controlled the flow of booze. -
Emergency Immigration Act of 1921
The Act restricted the number of immigrants admitted from any country annually to 3% of the number of residents from that same country living in the United States as of the U.S. Census of 1910 -
Scopes Trial
This was a landmark American legsl case that took place in 1925. John scopes was a Science teacher who was accused of teaching the theory of evolution which violated the Tennesse Butler's Act. -
Great Depression
Great Depression TimelineThe Great Depression was caused by the sudden financial collapse. The stock prices began a steady ascent that continued, Between May 1928 and September 1929, the average price of stocks rose over 40 percent. The American had people undergone difficult times because of the stock market crash.Unemployed workers walked through the streets day after day looking for jobs that did not exist. An increasing number of families turned to state and local public reliefs systems, just to be able to eat. -
Scottsboro Boys
scottsboro boysIn March of 1931, nine black teenagers were picked off of a train and arrested due to vagrancy. Later on, two white women that were on the train accused them of rape. Medical examination determined that they were not raped, but these boys were convicted nonetheless. Eight out of the nine boys were sentenced to death. This was one of the major examples of racism in history, and showed the true threat of racism in the U.S. -
Controversies of the New Deal
There were many people and groups who opposed the Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Huey Long turned against him and the New Deal. He said that it was too mean to big business. Father Charles Coughlin also supported Roosevelt he also later turned against his reforms. -
The Holocaust
The Holocaust TimelineHitler’s forces were rounding up Jews and others (including Poles, homosexuals, and communists) from all over Europe, transporting them to concentration camps in eastern Germany and Poland, and systematically murdering them. (The death toll would ultimately reach 6 million Jews and at least 4 million others.) As the news reached the public, the pressure began to build for an Allied effort to end the killing or at least to recuse some of the surviving Jews. -
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA at Work This was a government established program brought about by the New Deal, its intentions were to improve the infastructure of the US. Signed into effect by FDR, he intended it to in the Great Depression. -
Security and Exchange Commission
The SEC was created to enforce the federal security laws and regulating the securities industry, the Nation's stocks and options exchanges, and other securities in the US. -
The Dust Bowl
Dust BowlThe dust bowl was when huge dust storms swept through and covered all farming land with a thick layer of silt and dust. This made farming almost impossible. Many farmers went under or barley held onto their farms. -
Social Security Act
Social Sercurity Document LinkSocial security was signed into law in 1935 during the Great Depression. Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act on August, 14 1935. It was part of his New Deal plan. The Social Security Act was established several distinct programs. The Social Security Act created a system of unemployment insurance, which employers alone would finance. -
Neutrality
At the start of World War II, the United States was to remain neutral from the war, and not get involved with the fighting. Over time, the neutrality in the nation was tested. In the end of 1940, neutrality from the war was abandoned, and America was involved. Between the events in the holocaust, Pearl Harbor, and other important events, the idea of neutrality was hard to keep in effect. -
US Enters WWII
On this date the Japanese surprise bombed the Naval base in Hawaii. This instigated the sleeping giant that was America, thrusting it into the war. The Americans entering the war was a turning point and provided fresh troops to help battle conflict in Europe. -
Pearl Harbor
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On this day the Japanese launched an unexpected attack on the United States Navel Base at Pearl Harbor. The reason for the attack on the US was to prevent any interference with military actions the Japanese had planned towards Southeast Asia. -
Rosie the Riveter
rosie the riveterRosie the Riveter was one of the most famous wartime images involved in World War II. Women all around were taking on work that was usually done by men. Since the men were off fighting, women had to take on these jobs in order to be productive. Rosie the Riveter was the national image of what girl’s were doing during these tough times. She symbolized a new era of women, women that were capable of doing “manly” jobs, and being an industrial worker. -
Yalta
Yalta confrenceYalta is where Roosevelt met with Churchill and Stalin for a peace confrence to negotiate an agreement for the Soviet Union to receive some of the Pacific Territory Russia had lost; in return Stalin renewed his promise that Russia would enter the Pacific War. -
McCarthyism
McCarthyism VideoJoseph McCarthy was an undistinguished first-term Republican senator from Wisconsin when, in February 1950 in the midst of a speech in wheeling, West Virginia, he lifted up a sheet of paper and claimed to “hold in my hand” a list of 205 known communist currently working in the American State Department. No one had ever made so bold a charge against the federal government. In months to come, as McCarthy repeated and expanded on his accusations. -
Korean War
Communist North Korea invaded Southern Democratic Korea, increasing tensions between Russia and the United States, in which were supporting said countries. As far as American officials were concerned, it was a war against the forces of international communism itself. After some early back-and-forth across the 38th parallel, the fighting stalled and casualties mounted with nothing to show for them. -
Brown v.s. Board of Education
This was really a case with half a dozen cases within it. The court put a couple of cases all fighting for the same reasons. The main reason for this was many black children had to walk extra far to go to an all black school when they lived really close to an all white school.The familys wanted them intergrated. -
Racial Equality
Martin Luther King led the nation with peaceful demonstrations in the pursuit of racial equlity. May 17, 1957 marks the day of his famous speech, "I Have a Dream." -
U-2 Crisis
u-2 incidentIn 1958, the Soviet Union and the United States were experiencing much tension, creating troublesome times for citizens in each country. The U-2 crisis was when the Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Russian territory. Following this event, Eisenhower declared that the United States must act more boldly in its’ actions, in order to protect America. -
Kennedy assassination
President Kennedy was murdered while riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas on Friday, November 22, 1963. Only five years later after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, he’s brother Robert Kennedy was at a the ballroom of Los Angeles hotel to acknowledge his victory in that day’s California primary but as left the ballroom Robert Kennedy was shot and dead the next morning. -
The Voting Rights Act
The Act aimed to overcome barriers that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The act is considered among the most far-reaching pieces of civil rights legislation in U.S. history. It was a reaction to the civil rights movements. -
The Nixon Doctrine
The Nixon Doctrine marked the formal announcement of the president's "Vietnamization" plan, whereby American troops would be slowly withdrawn from the conflict in Southeast Asia. Two years later, North Vietnamese forces crushed the South Vietnamese army. -
Woodstock
Artists/ Playlists The Woodstock Festival was a three-day concert (which rolled into a fourth day.) The festival hade tons of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll. It also included mud because of the massive amounts of rain. -
Enviromental Protection Agency
Is an agency of the federal goverment of the United States. This agency is responsible for protecting human health and the enviroment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by congress. The EPA was proposed by President Nixon and began operation in1970. -
Roe v. Wade
Roe v. WadeIn 1973, the Supreme Court case, Roe v. Wade brought up the issue of abortion, and whether or not it should be legalized. The decision in Roe v. Wade was that abortion could be allowed during the first three months of pregnancy. This decision changed feminism forever, and the decision still plays an effect in society today. -
Reaganomics
In Reagan’s 1980 campaign for presidency had promised to restore the economy to health by bold experiment that became known as “supply-side”- or, to its critics, “trickle- down”- economics or, to some, Reaganomics.” Supply-side economics operated from the assumption that the woes of the American economy were in large in part a results of excessive taxations, which left inadequate capital available in investors of stimulate growth. -
Gulf War
In 1990, the Persian Gulf War was about issues between the United States and the Middle East. The constant bombing throughout the Middle East brought upon questions on whether or not America should continue to use its power, or if they should lessen their involvement with other countries. The Gulf War ended in 1991, but the issues involved with the Middle East still are in effect today. -
Darwinism
In late nineteenth century the most profound development was the widespread acceptance of the theory of evolution, associated most prominently with English naturalist Charles Darwin. Darwin argued that the human species had evolved from earlier forms of life through a process of “natural selection.” History, Darwin suggested, was not the working out of a divine plan. It was a random process dominated by the fiercest or luckiest competitors.
