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"Drilling For Oil"
Around the time 1859 the oil back then was known as "Black Gold". A guy named Edwin L. Drake discovered a new machine to successfully drill out oil, near Tutusville Pennsylvania. After automobiles became popular oil was essential to gas. -
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Industrialization
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Long Hours And Danger
People would work about 12 hours a day. . Each week about 675 laborers were killed each week, and alot of people were badly injured. Twenty percent of the boys and ten percent of the girls under the age of 15 were already working full-time jobs. -
Railroads Made Dreams Availible
Since the railroads were created it made alot of people happy. This got thousands of chinese immagrants employed. The Union Pacific hired Irish immagrants that were desperate to lay track across treacherous terrain. This caused about more than 2,000 employees kill and 20,000 injured. -
The U.S.S. Maine Explodes
President ordered U.S.S Maine to bring Americans home from Cuba from the fighting. The U.S.S Maine exploded in the Harbor of Havana. -
The War In The Phillipines
The spanish thought they would invad Cuba. Instead the battle ended up being in Phillipine Islands. George Dewey gave command to open fire on the Spanish fleet. -
The Fighting Starts
A plan called "Schlieffen Plan" , was to hold action against Russia. Two German armies defeated Russia. As Germans troops went across Belgium thousands of civilians fled to terror. -
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WWl
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Panama Canal
French company tried to build canal but gave up after 10 years. After that the U.S decided to finish them building it, More than 1,000 merchants passed it during more than one year of it's opening. -
The 1916 Election
The election went from hour to hour. When Hughes was sleeping, he didn't bother to answer any messages but it was important and they wanted to tell him he wasn't president anymore. -
German Provocation
Germans hoped to defeat British by just using unretricted submarine warfare. The kaiser announced U-boats would sink wheter their hostile or neutral. -
African Americans And Jazz
Jazz was created in the early 20th century in New Orleans, This is where musicians blended instrumental ragtime and vocal blues. -
Andre "Rube" Foster
He was a celebrated pitcher. He made the greatest contribution to black baseball. The atttempt to have a league for black players failed. This man was known as " The Father Of Black Baseball." -
Bessie Smith
She was sold a million records , "Down Hearted Blues". She was also the "Empress Of the Blues" -
Scopes Trial
Tennesse passed the nation's first law, that made it a crime to teach evolution. The "American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) was there to defend the teachers who tried to go against the law. -
Living On Credit
People would buy goods using credit. They would agree to buy the product and pay it back later. This was not a good idea because everybody was starting to go into debt. -
Depression In The Cities
People were losing their jobs and evicted from their houses, they ended up living out on the street. -
Hoover Tries To Reassure The Nation
The stock market crashed in the month of October. The president was Herbert Hoover, he was very depressed of what was going on with the economy. -
Americans Cling To Isolationism
There were books made to tell people that, Americans were dragged in to WW1 by greedy bankers and arm dealers. People were charged for making these kind of books/stories. -
Persecution Begins
Hitler took power all over Germany, made people get removed from jobs. First move that Hitler made to the people. -
Austria and Czechoslovakia Fall
Hitler met up with his top secret military advisers. Hitler made a point in order to grow and prosper , he needed to use up peoples land and property. -
U.S Musters It's Forces
Roosevelt persuded the Congress to pass "Cash and Carry", which meant nations were allowed to buy U.S arms as long as they paid cash for them. -
Platt Amendment
United States added the constitution, known as the Platt Amendment.
