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Dishwasher
The First Dishwasher was patent by Joel Haughton. It was made out of wood and basically splashed water onto the dishes. -
Gadsden Purchase
The Gadsden purchase. Was a purchase that was bought from mexico. It is now what we call Arizona and New Mexico. Bought for 10 million dollars back in the day. -
The Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris was signed by Russia, which ended the Crimean war. It allowed the black sea to be neutral territory and obviously peace. The war lasted for 18 months or 1 year and 6 months. Over 500,000 thousand men had died. -
Paper Bag
The paper bag was patent by william goodale. Like the genaric simple paperbag that is brown and holds almost anything. The company itself was called the Union paper-bag machine company. -
Paper Money
In 1862 the U.S issues the first paper money. It contained 5,10,20,50,100,500,1000 dollars. They were beautifully designed with fine detail and lavish colors. -
Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee is appointed the General-in-cheif of the condederate army. Born in 107, he was the son of a revolutionary war officer and followed his footsteps right. Years later lee would die of a stroke. -
Jesse James
Jasse James in 1868 robbed a bank in kentucky and running off with 14,000. There were a total of eight vigilaties and only wounded the clerks inside. -
The Great Chicago fire
Killing over 300 people and lasting over 3 days. It had destroyed a lot of homes, buisnesses, building. At first, speculation was that a cow had kicked over a latern and caused the fire. The ciy was in a drought and had high winds. -
The United states congress passes the civil rights act.
03/1/1875
The United states congress passes the civil rights act. Due to the civil rights act, all men are equal especially to this day. The Civil Rights act of 1875 allowed African Americans to have equal treatment in public transportation and public accommodations. It wasn’t much but it was a start to something greater. Now to this day only a handful of men and women discriminate to other ethnicities to this day. But the majority of society believes were equal and we don't treat a certain race -
Exodus of 1879
02/28/1879
Exodus of 1879 was a huge migration of freed African Americans moving out of Texas to Kansas. Kansas was the promise land due to a homestead act which gave free land to settlers of course with certain qualifications. Over 12,000 African Americans ventured forth to kansas during this time. For African Americans this was good, but for Texas landowners this was bad. It caused hardship for Texan landowners with sparse workforce. -
Civil Rights act of 1875
10/15/1883
Supreme court declares Civil Rights act of 1875 unconstitutional. The thought of and act of declaring that equal rights is unconstitutional is pathetic in American History. Many of the black and even white community were outraged. The supreme court declared it unconstitutional due to it not being authorized in the 13th or 14th amendments. -
Pearl Harbor
01/20/1887
The U.S senate allows the navy to lease Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base. In it’s early life the Harbor did not station large vessels because it was too shallow. eventually large ships were able to port, and will be known forever through history. The port will be a start of something bigger than itself with the atom bomb in Japan. With the bombing of pearl harbor, it shut Japan up and surrendering from WW2. -
Wriglye Company
04/1/1891
The wrigley company is founded in Chicago. Originally the company sold soaps and baking powder. Until one day William Wrigley started to put gum with the baking soda, similar to baseball cards and gum. The gum was more popular that the baking soda, so he focused on the gum. Wrigley may seem like a simple gum company but pretty much created and started the huge market of gum we chew today. Spearmint, juicy fruit, 5 gum, orbit, are all big name brand companies that Wrigley company help c -
First Football
09/3/1895
The first professional American Football game is played in Latrobe pennsylvania. This will be the start to one of the biggest franchises in the world. The original football was a mixture of rugby and something new at the time. The game was taken seriously and proved to be a very vicious and more violent than todays football. Injuries and death occurred and would cause controversy in 1905. In this year, 19 players had died and even the president came in the situation to warn if not acti -
Spanish-American War End
2/6/1899
Spanish-American war is ended with a peace treaty and spain is ratified. The war lasted only 3 months, 2 weeks, and 4 days. Because of America winning the war, we wrote history and caused spain to give up sovereignty over Cuba, and had to give up Puerto Rico, and Guam for 20 million. -
Wright Bros
12/17/1903
The first human flight by the Wright brothers. Accomplishing what only men could imagine, and built a flying machine. The importance of the airplane should just be common sense. We use them for transportation, mail, military, etc. The crazy thing is that only 11 years later, they were used as weapons, that shows how far we can go in 10+ years. The transformed the world with their invention and allowed convenience for traveling men and women. -
UPS
08/28/1907
UPS is founded by James E. Casey. Otherwise known as the United Parcel Service, is one of the biggest mail companies that we still use to this day. When starting the company would only have one car and that didn’t even appear till 1913, and competed with other mail companies at the time. We have known the little ups logo since we could see and has been giving the world mail since 1913. -
M1911
03/29/1911
The U.S army adopts the M1911 as it’s standard firearm. This pistol was a necessity for every soldier. It was first used in the Philippine war, WW1, WW2, and ending with the vietnam war. The pistol has been recognized as a symbol of the American military. Its in countless movies, video games, posters, and to many it may have saved their lives. -
Women's Right taken
1/12/1915
U.S house of representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote. At the time it was common for something so bizarre, but it shows how far we've gone. The debate for women to vote lasted 10 hours and would stop due to women protesters hissing or saying something about the proposal. Now to this day there is no doubt that women should have always been able to vote and is insane how far we’ve come. -
WW1
4/6/1917
America with a senate vote of 82 to 6 and a declaration vote of 373 to 50 goes into WW1. At this time the president didn’t want anything with the war, but was being called weak. On june 26th, America had sent 14,000 troops to France for training. Of course more men joined into the war a tad later but this was the start. When the war was done, 2 million men fought the war and over 50,000 had died for the freedom of Americans. -
First issue of time magazine
Starting in New York City, TIME was a sucsessful company at the time and still is today. The two Brtiton Hadden and Henry Luce were former writers for the Yale daily news. The TIME company helped inspire many young minds and read all about the men and women at the time. -
First transatlatic phone call
The first call to go over water was between New York and Londen. I huge imapct into modern society and a small step towards something greater.Having the first transatlantic call allowed new ways to communcate in the future with ease. -
The Empire State building
Finally the Empire State building is finished. Only taking a year with over 3,000 workers on the project. Designed by William F. Lamb and taking a few weeks to draw out, the Empire State building is seen as an American Icon or monument. If asked to name a building in New York, anyone can answer Empire State nuilding. -
Dust Bowl, Black Sunday
Black Sunday, a day during the dustbowl being considerd the worst dust storms in America. Causing crops to go bad and economic struggle for farmers. The effect of the dustbowl caused many Americans to relocate which flooded places like Calfornia and allowed congress to pass the soil conservation act. -
The Manhattan Project
A letter signed by Albert Einstien urging the president to start the build of the Atomic bomb. With the bombing of Pearl Harbor and Germany and Japan declaring war, America entered the war. The start of the Manhattan project allowed America to show our strenth when dropping the bomb on Japan. -
Christopher Walken
On this day, a great actor by the name of Christopher Walken, is born. The great actor has been in over 100 movies throughout his life so far and has given us countless one liners and dramatic scenes to satisfy our entertainment needs. He is seen as an American icon and -
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson is the first African American to play in the major league baseball. At the time is was a huge controversy over having a black play baseball, Having this is a domino effect for future equality of African American's. -
I Love Lucy
In 1951 the premire of I Love Lucy showed on CBS. She brought laughter and entertainment. With a cast of a woman and having a cuban actor, it gave the show a diverse cast. Lucy is an american icon that helped be the foundation to future sitcoms and comedy shows. -
Rosa Parks refuses seat
On December 1st, Rosa Parks had not given up her seat to w white women on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama and would be known as "the mother of freedom movement". She helped organize protest and the famous bus boycott. She had worked side with Martin Luther King jr. She helped witht he act of stopping segragation and the refusal of being treated unequaly. She and many others are the reason for the equality among all men and women today. -
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy is elected as president at the age of 43 and beating his rival Richard Nixon. JFK helped put in the peace core to counteract american stereotype america as "Ugly America". He pushed foward for the space race and fighting through the Cuban missile crisis.
