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He found a quick way to make steel. He made a lot of money and showed that you can grow from being super poor, to super rich.
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He was the first billionaire in the United States. He made most of his money by helping the oil industry.
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The belief that the United States was supposed to expand to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican and Native territory
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Individual investors are financially responsible for business debts to the extent of their investment.
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It took six years to build the railroads by hand. On May 10, the final spike was hammered into the ground. This spike is otherwise known as the golden spike.
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Many cities and factories were being built. People went from farming and moved into the city.
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Focused on individualism and self-reliance
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In Oklahoma, people raced on horses to win land.
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NAACP stands for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. It was formed in 1909, and it still exists to this day.
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Women started wearing shorter skirts and lipstick. Women were finally confident enough with themselves to do what they wanted with their looks!
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Women were allowed to work
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Multiple pieces of technology was built, such as the automobile and the radio.
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In 1920, women FINALLY got the right to vote!
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When the Great Depression hit, almost everyone became extremely poor. People even started to live in cardboard or metal houses.
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Around the 1940's, women started playing baseball in the place of men when they went to war.
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Rosie was a women's icon that helped women take the place of men during the war.
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Rosa Parks started the Montgomery Bus Boycott by refusing to move to a different seat. She was arrested for disobeying the law, and thus the boycott begun.
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The Montgomery Boycott was where multiple people boycotted buses. Instead of using buses, people walked or used bikes. These caused the transport system to loose a lot of money.
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African Americans would stay in restaurants until they were served. Many people were arrested and people harassed the people that sat in.
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1960 was a great time period for music. Many black singers were well known and popular, and many songs were written about racism such as Blackbird by The Beatles and many more.
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Martin Luther King Jr was one of the biggest protesters of the civil rights movement. He lead multiple protests and held many speeches. His most popular being "I Have A Dream".
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John F. Kennedy was an amazing president who did a lot in his time. During the civil rights movement, he made a lot of segregation laws against black people illegal.
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Medgar Evans was another popular civil rights advocate. His wish was to have everything desegregated.
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Black movement groups were attacked by white people. A bus was even bombed.
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Black people did not have the right to vote. So people rallied for their rights to vote. Many people were arrested, but in the end African Americans did get the right to vote.
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Women started to spend more time in work to support their families.
