Honors American Studies

By KellieTyson

  • Oil Industry

    John Dean Rockafeller
    90% Worlds oil
    41 company trust
    Mononpoly
    Gas, Kerosene, Distillate
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    timeline

  • Industrial Revolution

    Rural to urban, Railroads, Went from wood to coal, boom in meat packing

  • Inventions

    typewriter, telephone, and phonograpgh

  • Contract Labor Act

  • Steel Industry

    Andrew Carnegie, sold company to JP Morgan

  • Rockefeller formed the Standard Oil Company

  • Electricity was created

  • Eddison improved lightbulb

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Haymarket Riot

  • Carnegie Steel Company was created

  • Homestead Strike

  • Pullman Strike

  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

    seperate but equal

  • President MicKinley

  • Spanish American War

  • Boxer rebellion in China

  • President Taft

  • President Wilson

  • WWI starts

  • Russia became Soviet Union, first communist nation

  • WWI Ends

  • Treaty of Versailles

  • 19th ammendment

  • President Harding

  • President Coolidge

  • President Hoover

  • 19th Ammendment

  • Holocaust Starts

  • President Roosevelt

  • Hitler marched into Austria

  • Manhattan Project

  • WWII Begins

  • Pearl Harbor

  • D-Day

  • WWII Ended

  • Holocaust Ends

  • President Truman

  • Potsdam Declaration

  • US Dropped A-bomb on Hiroshima

  • US dropped A-bomb on Nagasaki

  • Israel is created

  • Marshall Plan was signed

  • Berlin Airlift begins

  • Berlin Airlift Ends

  • Korean War Starts

  • President Eisenhower

  • Korean War ends

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

  • Emmett Till

  • President Kennedy

  • Kennedy Assassination

  • President Johnson

  • Vietnam Escalates

  • Martin Luther King , Jr Assassination

  • President Nixon

  • President Ford

  • Vietnam Ends

  • President Carter

  • Soviet Union Invades Afghanistan

  • President Reagan

  • Soviet Union Declines

  • President Bush Sr.

  • Soviet Union- Afghanistan War (the Bear Trap) ends

  • Berlin Wall is torn down

  • Persian Gulf War

  • Persian Gulf War ends

  • President Clinton

  • 1st World Trade Center bombing

  • President Bush Jr.

  • War on Terror, still unresolved

  • Afghanistan/Taliban

  • 9.11, Terrorist attack

  • Patriot Act was signed into law

  • Stock Crash

  • President Obama

  • Bin Laden=Dead

  • 21 day Iraq War