-
Period: to
Rail Roads
The building of the railroad. a new transportation -
1st SkyScraper
Ten story's high. -
Period: to
Jim Crow Laws
These were laws that discriminated against black citizens. This made it legal in some states for white people to treat black people as a lower class human. -
Turner's Frontier Thesis
With land frontier ending Turner’s Frontier Thesis raised the question as to what will American conquer next. -
Battleship Maine Sunk
Americans believe that the Spanish explodes the USS Maine, causing massive war hysteria. -
1st Subway in Boston
Boston opens up the first US subway, allowing for better transportation. -
Wright brothers 1st flight
The Wright Brothers did their first flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Their aircraft traveled 120 feet in 12 seconds. -
“The Jungle” – Sinclair
Upton Sinclair’s novel, “The Jungle” reveals the dark side of the meat industry, causing public uproar. -
Period: to
First Ford Car/First Assembly Line
The first Ford car is produced, production of the car leads to the first assembly line, revolutionizing the way goods are made. -
NAACP Founded
W. E. B. Du Bois founded the NAACP-- The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
A fire breaks out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City--146 employees died due to locked exits under poor workplace conditions. -
Sixteenth Amendment
The 16th Amendment allowed Congress to collect income taxes. -
Seventeenth Amendment
The 17th amendment established direct election of US senators by popular vote. -
Period: to
The Great Migration
African Americans from the south begin moving to industrialized cities in the North--racial tensions follow, leading to many acts of violence. -
Period: to
Sinking of the Lusitania/WWI
The british liner, Lusitania is sunk due to WWI Submarine warfare. 128 Americans died on board the ship. -
Zimmermann Telegram/US enters WWI
The US receives a German intercepted telegram sent by German Foreign Minster Zimmermann, asking Mexico to side with them after the war against the US. Several weeks later, the US enters the war. -
18th Amendment
Prohibition -
The Red Scare
a period of fear of the communists. along with many attacks and violence. -
19th Amendment
Suffrage Amendment -
Scopes Trial
formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and known as the Scopes Monkey Trial—was a landmark American legal case in 1925 in which high school science teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act which made it unlawful to teach evolution in any state-funded school. -
Great Depression
the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s. -
The New Deal
The set of programs and policies designed to promote economic recovery and social reform introduced during the 1930s by President Franklin D Roosevelt. -
Social Security Act
In the United States, Social Security refers to the federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program. -
Memorial Day Massacre
In the Memorial Day massacre of 1937, the Chicago Police Department shot and killed ten unarmed demonstrators in Chicago, on May 30, 1937. The incident took place during the "Little Steel Strike" in the United States. -
Period: to
World War Two
Was fought to stop the Nazi threat. During which the Halocaust took place. -
Pearl Harbor Bombed
Japan sent bombers to the naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawii. More than 2,400 soldiers and sailors were killed in this bombing and another 1,000 were injured. -
C.O.R.E
Congress of Racial Equality is an organization that seeks the equal treatment for all through nonvilance.
C.O.R.E. homepage
http://www.core-online.org -
Manhattan Project
A team of scientist that worked together to develop the atomic bomb. -
N.A.T.O
Twelve nations signed a treated that founded North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This treaty ment that if any one of the twelve was to be attacked it would be concided an attack on all of them. -
Brown vs. the Board of Education
Was caused because a group of black children where not allowed to be enrolled in a all white public school. This legal battle ended legal segregation in public schools. -
Polio Vaccine
Salk anounces Polio vaccine to the world. This vaccine cured and prevented a disease that affected people from every nation. -
Period: to
Montgomery Bus Boycott
A bus boycott in Motgomery Alabama lead by the Civil Rights movement. -
1st American in Space
Alan Sheppard was launched into space aboard Mercury 3 becoming the frist American in Space. -
JFK Assassination
Murder by Lee Henry Oswald. -
Civil Rights Act
Outlawed major forms of discrimination. -
Period: to
Vietnam War
The prolonged struggle between nationalist forces attempting to unify the country of Vietnam under a communist government and the United States attempting to prevent the spread of communism -
Malcolm X Assassinated
The death of the Islamic Black Leader -
Voting Rights Act
Outlawes disriminator racial voting acts, like the Literacy Test. -
Apollo 11
The Frist man to walk on the Moon. -
Nixon
Nixon resigened after the whole Watergate Scandal. -
Apple 1 released
The release of the first personal computer. -
3 Mile Island
Nuclear Eruption in Pennsylvania. -
AIDS in America
The first report of AIDS in the U.S. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination
"i had a dream" -
Period: to
Persian Gulf War
Operation Desert Storm, U.N retaliation of Iraq's invasion of Kuwuait.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIlGF948aDU
