summer school U.S History

By yaldicorzo2004
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    Gilded Age

  • Panic of 1873

    • Collapse of jay Cooke and company Philadelphia investment bank triggers a nationwide financial panic that leads to a border economic depression which lasts until 1879.

  • Alexander Grahm Bell Invents Telephone

    -inventor alexander G, successfully transmits a human voice over a wire the telephone will revolutionize personal and business communication

  • Exoduster

    • Exodusters are African Americans that moved from the states near Mississippi river to Kansas as apart of the Exoduster movement in 1879. The reason for their migration was to escape the harsh racial violence that they have been receiving after the civil war from the Klu Klux Klan and other racist groups.

  • stanford beats cal

    -Walter Camp yales football coach is invented to prepare stanford university football team as a national sport. Stanford wins the games
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    Progressive Era

  • Return to civil government in puerto rico

    -in 1900 congress passed the forakar act which ended military rule and set up a civil government
    -in 1917 puerto ricans gained the right to U.S citizenship and the right to elect in both houses of their legislature.
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    Imperialism

  • President McKinley assassinated

    -Anarchist leon czologosz shoots president McKinley at a public appearance in buffalo New York. McKinley dies form his wounds on September 14.

  • Panamanian independence gained

    • Panama was helped by the U.S to get independence from Columbia . the U.S then offered a deal to build a canal on the Panamanian territory.

  • Panama Canal

    • after negotiating with columbia who ruled panama work began with the clearing of the brush and draining of swamps and on august 15 1914 the canal opened for business.
    • theodore roosvelt was president at the time and was known as a peace maker for mediating peace negotiations between russia and japan

  • Completion of the Panama Canal

    • It was easier and shorter route for ships going from the Atlantic to the pacific ocean. The canal took 10 yrs or a decade to build but the process ended in 1913.It was officially opened in 1914 though.

  • Federal Reserve Act

    -Responding to progressive's concerns regarding the nations money supply, congress passes the federal reserve act. the federal reserve act establishes twelve district banks dealings and polices.

  • archduke Franz Ferdinand of the austro- Hungarian empire is assassinated in Sarajevo

    -Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie the Duchess of Hohenberg, are killed by Bosnian Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip. The Austrian government suspects that Serbia is responsible.

  • Federal Trade Commission Act

    -An outgrowth of the antitrust movement, the Wilson
    administration forms the Federal Trade Commission to regulate
    fair competition among business and industry. The Commission
    is granted unprecedented power of enforcement on issues such
    as price fixing, mergers, and truth in advertising.
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    World War I

  • Turkish army disarms its Armenian troops

    -Ottoman Turkish army disarms and segregates Armenian soldiers into labor battalions fearing Christian Armenians are aiding Orthodox Russians in their fight against Turkey. In 1915, 1,000,000 Armenians are forcibly removed to Syria and Mesopotamia.

  • Belgians deported to Germany as forced labor

    -German troops begin to round up Belgian workers for deportation to Germany. They are assembled in daily batches of 1,400 men and women in equal numbers

  • The United states declares war on Germany.

    The day after an overwhelming majority in the Senate votes for war, President Wilson signs the declaration. The United States quickly puts the entire country on the road to war. Going from a standing army of 133,000 men with almost no heavy artillery pieces, millions of men were inducted into the armed forces over the next two years and given basic combat training.

  • prohibition begins

    prohibition in the U.S was the period from 1920 to 1933, during which the sale, manufacture and transportation of alcohol was banned in the U.S as said in the 18th amendment. prohibition was aimed to lower crime and corruption ,reduce social problems and improve health and hygiene in america. however it became more dangerous organized crime increased and corruption of police and public officials occurred
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    Roaring 20s

  • sheppard tower act

    -Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act of 1921 provided federally financed instruction in maternal and infant health care. The act was created to encourage states to develop programs to better serve women at a lower income level.

  • KKK March in Washington D.C

    • ku klux kian known an the KKK perched Americanism based on racism-Catholicism anti-communism, nativism, and anti-Semitism. at its peak in the 1920 approximately 4 million people were members of the KKK. The march on Washington demonstrated the public acceptance of the KKK and its views.

  • stock market crash

    -This Stock Market Crash was one of the leading factors of the Great Depression. The cause of the Crash was the increased use of buying stocks "on margin". The Crash devastated the economy and is also known as the Great Wallstreet Crash of 1929.

  • Black tuesday

    • it was on this day that the most catastrophic market crash in history of the U.S happened. real estate is so connected to the economy that, when the property of the real estate goes up so does the stock. On the flip side when it drops the stock market goes with it.
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    Great Depresion

  • Hooverville

    -after the banks failed and closed many people lost their homes by either selling them for money or failing to pay their bills. families had no where to go so they were forced to live in small, cold bad homes. these were called hoovervilles.one very popular Hooverville was in new York central park. hooverville were made of thin lumber cardboard and pretty much anything they could find .

  • bonus army

    -after WWI many veterans who survived the war wanted money because of their losses, the government told them no and so they decided to go towards washington and try to force the government to give them money.

  • dust bowl

    -when the depression first started all the farmers didnt care because they were at the edge of the record breaking wheat crop. the water was drained from the land into streams and creaks and pretty much all the land and dirty went with it. the wind started blowing and the the land flew up causing huge dust storms. you couldn't see anything in dust stormes and it ruined crops

  • Russia and gremany sign pact?

    -Hitler and Stalin signed a non-aggression pact which included secret clauses for the division of Poland.
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    World War II

  • Italy and Germany attack Yugoslavia

    -german and Italian troops attacked yugoslavia, Greece and the island of Crete. German field Marshall Erwin Rommel led the axis powers back to north africa.

  • Battle of midway

    -The U.S defeated the Japanese navy at the battle of midway. following this victory the U.S navy was able to push the Japanese back.

  • hitler commits suicide

    -the german leader Adolf hitler committed suicided in his bombproof shelter together with his mistress Eva barun who had at last minute made his wife.

  • Marshall plan

    -This was a programme of economic aid offered by the United States to any European country. The plan was rejected outright by Stalin and any Eastern Bloc country considering accepting aid was reprimanded severely. Consequently the aid was only given to Western European Countries.
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    Cold War

  • Brown VS board of education

    • United States supreme courts case in which states declared that black and white students to be in the same schools and not separated. many law suits were filed because of he racial segregation. major victory for the civil rights movement.
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    Civil Rights

  • Rosa parks arrest\ Montgomery bus boycott

    • Rosa parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery. Alabama city bus in 1955 Rosa parks helped with the civil rights movement in the U.S. the boycott lasted mare than a year, during which Rosa parks lost her job ,and ended when the U,S supreme court said that the bus segregation was unconstitutional.

  • freedom rides

    -civil rights activists who rode segregated buses in southern U.S. the freedom rides and the none violent actions they made helped the civil rights movements. the congress of racial equality supported most of the freedom rides and others supported by students nonviolent coordinating committee.

  • Cuban missile crisis

    -A US spy plane reported sighting the construction of a Soviet nuclear missile base in Cuba. President Kennedy set up a naval blockade and demanded the removal of the missiles. War was averted when the Russians agreed on 28th October to remove the weapons. The United States agreed not to invade Cuba.

  • March on Washington D.C\ ''I have a dream speech''

    -More than 200.000 Americans came together in Washington D.C for jobs and freedom. the event was made to help African Americans and the challenges of racial segregation they faced. the march became a big reason in growth for supporters of the ''i have a dream speech'' by Martin Luther King jr.

  • Woman strike for equality in new york city

    • on the 15th anniversary of women's suffrage, the national organization for women organizes the strike for equality parade in new york city. around 50,000 women march in this first big demonstration for women's rights.
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    1970s

  • four power agreement berlin

    -The Four Power Agreement made between Russia, USA, Britain and France reconfirmed the rights and responsibilities of those countries with regard to Berlin.

  • The U.S and the Soviet Union sign the Salt Treaty

    -Nixon visits the soviet union as part of its effort to reduce tensions between the two superpowers. he and general secretary Leonid Brezhnev sign the strategic arms limitation talks treaty in which both leaders agree to limit the number of nuclear weapons in their arsenals.

  • The U.S and Vietnam reach a ceasefire agreement

    -after a long and inconclusive struggle in the Vietnam War ,the U.S and south Vietnam reach a ceasefire agreement with the Vietcong during peace talks in Paris. the U.S begins to withdraw combats troops but continues to send large amount of aid to south Vietnam.

  • Nixon resigns from office

    -In the wake of the Watergate scandal, 1973 hearings reveal that Nixon covered up a botched burglary during his reelection campaign. Rather than face impeachment, Nixon becomes the first American president to resign from office. Representative Gerald Ford replaces him as president.

  • iranian hostage crisis

    • a group of Iranian students and militants stormed the American embassy and took 53 Americans hostage to show their support for the Iranian revolution.
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    1980s

  • tender offer advisory committee

    -The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission convened an advisory committee to review laws governing corporate takeovers and to recommend reforms, in light of an accelerating market for corporate control. The committee affirmed state supremacy in takeover law, but recommended federal legislation, which was not passed by Congress.

  • ''Pain Pills''

    -A shareholder rights plan, nicknamed the "poison pill," was developed in the early 1980s as a defensive tactic used by a corporation's board of directors against a hostile takeover. In 1985, the Delaware Supreme Court upheld poison pills as a valid instrument of takeover defense in Moran v. Household International, Inc.

  • NASAA moves to Washington

    • The first office of the north American securities administrators association opened in Topeka in 1919. in 1987 NASAA relocated to Washington D.C.

  • Fraud on the market

    -In basic, Inc. v. Levinson, the U.S. Supreme Court held that private plaintiffs could be permitted to plead that they had been injured by reason of the market effects of a fraudulent statement of which the plaintiffs themselves had been unaware. The “fraud on the market” theory had a significant impact on class-action lawsuits.

  • collapse of the soviet union

    -Gorbachev wanted the system of communism to weaken and he issued glastnost to allow free speech. Eventually he allowed elections and republics began to form and break off from the Soviet Union. Eventually, the USSR officially broke into 15 different nations.
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    Post Cold War

  • NAFTA

    • a trade agreement between the united states canada and mexico created to make a large scale trading route and to create more high wage jobs in those countries. this was to increase economic growth.

  • War in Afghanistan

    -American invaded Afghanistan to disban al-Qaeda and capture and prosecute Osama Bin Laden. After the death of Bin Laden in 2011, U.S. troops began to withdrawal , however, attacks continues, as did the war.

  • Terrorist attack on september 11

    -an Islamic extremist group, al-Qaeda, hijacked four airlines and administered suicide terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the last crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Over 3,000 people were killed. This attack was allegedly retaliation for America's involvement in the Persian Gulf War. This sparked the "War on Terrorism" and American troops were sent to Afghanistan to disban the terrorist group.