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Industrialization
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First Laboratory
Thomas Edison became a pioneer on the new industrial frontier when he established the world’s first research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. There Edison perfected the light bulb patented in 1880 and later invented an entire system for producing and distributing electrical power. Another inventor George Westinghouse, along with Edison added innovations that made electricity safer and less expensive. -
Strike
The workers for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad struck to protest their second wage cut in two months. The work stoppage spread the other lines. Most freight and even some passenger traffic, covering over 50,000 miles, was stopped for more than a week. After several stake governors asked President Rutherford B. Hayes to intervene, saying that the strikers were impending interstate commerce. Federal Troops stopped the strike. -
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Imperialism
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Time Zones
Railroad crews and town across the country synchronized their clocks. The railroad laborers helped to transform the divers regions of the country into a untied nation. Each community operated its own time with noon when the sun was directly overhead. In 1869 to solve that problem, professor C.F Dowd proposed that the earth’s surface be divided into 24 time zones, one for each hour of the day. The US would have 4 time zones, Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific. -
Interstate Commerce Act
The Supreme Court ruled that a state could not set rates on interstate commerce railroad traffic that was coming or going from a different state. This act said federal government could supervise railroad activities and establish a five member Interstate Commerce Commission for that purpose. The ICC had difficulty regulating railroad rates because of a long legal process and resistance from the railroads. -
Pearl Harbor
The United States convinced Hawaii to let them put a naval base on the islands. The islands had a lot of value and they already had a deal with their sugar. -
Philippine-American War
America was forcing the Phillines do do things they didnt want to do like live in certain places that was unhealthy for them. They started to fight back. It took 3 years for America to fight down the rebelion. -
The Boxers
The boxers killed hundereds of misionaries and other foreners. Troops from Britian, France, Germany, and Japan joined some American sodiers and marched on the chinies capital. -
Fransisco Madero
Mexican pesants and workers led by Fransisco Madero overthrough Diaz. -
Panama Canal
The Panama Canal opened. Over 1000 merchain ship went through it in the first year. -
The Flapper
A new idea emerges for some women. THe emancipaded young woman who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day. Close fittin g hats, bright waitsless dresses an inch above the knee, skin tones stockings, sleek pumps, whalebone corset. -
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The Roaring Life of the 1920s
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Louis Armstrong
A young trupment player louis armstrong joined olivers group which becam ecreole jazz band. -
The Scopes Trial
Tennessee passed the nations first law that mase it a crime to teach evolution. immediatly the american civil liberties union promised to defend any teacher who would chalagne the law. -
Entertainment And The Arts
The Jazz Singer was released. Walt Disneys Steam Boat Wille was the first annimation film. -
Black Tuesday
The bottom fell out of the market and the nations confidence. Shareholders frantically tried to sell before proces plunged even lower. The number of shares dumped that day was a record 16.4 million. -
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The Great Depression
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The Dust Bowl
The drought that befan in the early 1930s wreaked havoc on the Great Plains. Plowing had removed the protective layer of dirt and soil on the ground. A big dust bowl was a big dust storm that affected alot of places. -
Hoover Disbands The Bonus Army
President Hoover decided that the Bonus Army should be disbanded. A force of 1000 soldiers under the command of General Douglas MacAuther came to roust the vertertains. THey gasses more than 1000 people including a 11 month old baby who died and an eight year old boy who was partialy blinded. Two people were shot and and many injured. -
Hitler Taking Over
Hitler ordered non aryans to be removed from all jobs. This is one of the first things to begin the Holocaust. The Holocaust was teh systimatic murder of 11 million people across Europe, more than half of whom were Jews. -
Joesph Stalin
Stalin had firmly established a totalitarian government that tried to exert compete control over its citizens. In a totalitarian state individuals have no rights and the government suprresses all opposition. -
The Nazis Expanding
German troops pourded into what remianed of Czechoslovakia. He said it didnt even exist when he was done. They were onto Poland next. -
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World War II
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African Americans In Air Corpes
In March of 1941 a group of African American men in New York City anlisted in the United States Army Air Corps. This was the first time the Army Air Corps opened its enlistment to African Americans. -
Pearl Harbor
A Japannese dice bomber swooped low oever Pearl Harbor the largest U.S naval base in the Pacific. The bomber was followed by more than 18- Japanese warplanes launched from six aircraft carriers. For and hour and a half Japanese panes were barly diturber by U.S antiaircraft guns and blasted every target. By the time the last plane sore off arpund 9:30 in the morning Pearl Harbor was destroyed. -
United States And Britain Come Together
Britain and the United States joined together to fight in WWII. ON December 22 1941 Prime Minister Churchhill arrived at the Whtie House and spent the next three weeks working out plans with President Roosevelt and his advisors. -
The Atomic Bomb
Presient Truman thought the only way to aviod invasion from Japan was a new type of weapon that was still being tested. An Atomic Bomb. The develompent of the atomic bomb was not only the most ambitious scientific enterprise in history, it was also the best kept secret in the war. The first test of the new bomb took place in the mornong of the JUly 16, 1945 in an empty desert. -
Women Join The War
While the US military in th e1960s did m=not aow females to serve in combat 10000 woman served in vietnam most of them as militry nurses. -
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Vietnam War
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US Going To Vietnam
The Kennedy administration which entered the whote house in 1961 also chose initially to swim with diem. wary of sccusations the democtrats were soft on comminisum presedent kennedy increased financial aid to diems teetering regime and sent thouhsands of military advisers to help train south vietnamese troops. by the end of 1963 16000 us military personnel were in south vietnam. -
Sending More Troops
By the end of 1965 the us government had sent more than 180000 americans to vietnam. The american comander in south vietnam general william westmoreland continued to request more troops.
