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American Revolution
The American Revolution was an political upheavel that took place between 1765-1783 during which colonist in the Thirteen American Colonies had rejected the British monachry.
The British were forced out of Boston in 1776 but than captured and they had help New York City for the duration of the war.
The Congress rejected the British proposals requiring allegiance to the monachry and abandonment of independence. -
Knights of Labor
The Knights of Labor was the largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880's.
The most important leader of the Knight of Labor was Terence V. Powderly.
The Knights of Labor was found in Columbus, Ohio, in May 1886 by an alliance of the craft unions. -
Atlanta's Washerman Strike
With the official end of slavery less than two decades before, thousands of black laundresses went on strike for the higher wages , respect for thier work and control over how their work is organized. -
Haymarket Square Riot Strike
The Haymarket affair was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demostration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at the Haymarket Square in Chicago. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
Is a landmark federal statute in the history of the United States antitrust law or ("competition law") passed by the Congress in 1890. -
The Battle of Cripple Creek
The Cripple Creek miner's of 1894 was a five month strike by Western Federation of Miner's. It resulted in a victory for the union and was followed in 1903 by the Colorado Labor Wars. -
Laudlow Massacre Strike
This strike was attacked by the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel & Iron Company camp guards on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado, on April 20, 1914. -
New Deal
The New Deal was a serious of domestics programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938 and a few had came later.
They had included both of the laws that had been passed by Congress as well as the presidential executive orders during the first term.
Many historians had distinguish between a "First New Deal" and a "Second New Deal" but with the second one more liberal and also more controversial. -
The Wagner Act
Workers right to form unions. Strike was protected. -
The Fair Labor Standards Act
Minium wage, overtime, child labor laws. -
World War II
They said that is ws the bloodiest, deadlesiest war that they had ever seen.
In the war more than 38 million people had died and many of them where innocent civilaians.
Most historians believe that the causes of World War II can be traced from World War I in (1914-1918). The Americans had also fought in the earlier war to make the "word safe for democracy".
