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Industrialization
Industrialization provoked the growth of American Urban society, and caused immigration. -
The Era of Reconstruction
The Reconstruction era is the historic period in which the United States grappled with the question of how to integrate millions of newly freed African Americans into social, political, and labor systems, was a time of significant transformation within the United States. Reconstruction began when the first United States soldiers arrived in slaveholding territories and enslaved people escaped from plantations and farms; some of them fled into free states, and others found safety with U.S. forces. -
The Big Business
Big business grew in the nineteenth century when new sources of power such as the steam engine, coal, and electricity drove the machines in larger factories that organized production. Companies were able to produce mass quantities of goods. -
The Gilded Age
During this era, America became more prosperous and saw growth in industry and technology. The Gilded Age was a period where greedy, corrupt industrialists, bankers and politicians enjoyed extraordinary wealth and opulence at the expense of the working class. -
The Great Railroad Strike
The Great Railroad strike of 1877 was a violent rail strikes across the United States. That year the country was in the fourth year of a prolonged economic depression. The strikes began due to wage cuts announced by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. This cut would have been the second cut in eight months. -
They Hay Market Riot
The Haymarket Riot occurred on May 4, 1886, when a labor protest rally near Chicago’s Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day. -
The Progressive movement
The Progressive movement was a turn-of-the-century for political movement furthering social and political reform, and corruption caused by political machines limiting the political influence of large corporations. The Progressive movement began with a domestic agenda. Progressives were interested in establishing a more transparent and accountable government which would work to improve U.S. society -
Yellow Journalism
Yellow journalism usually refers to biased stories or newspapers articles that present as objective truth. Journalists coined the term to belittle the unconventional techniques of their rivals. Journalists used multicolumn headlines, oversized pictures, dominant graphics, extensive use of anonymous sources by overzealous reporters especially in investigative stories on “big-business,” famous people, or political figures -
The Homestead Strike
The Homestead strike, also known as the homestead riot was a violent labor dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its workers. The strike pitted the company’s management, the strikebreakers who had been hired, and the Pinkerton National Detective Agency against members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. A gun battle resulted in which several Pinkerton agents and strikers were killed, and many were injured. -
The Pullman Strike
The Pullman Strike was a widespread railroad strike and boycott that disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States. In response to financial reverses related to the economic depression that began in 1893, the Pullman Palace Car Company, a manufacturer of railroad cars, cut the low wages of its workers by 25 percent -
The Spanish War
The Spanish-American War was an 1898 conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America. -
The Great Migration
African American Great Migration was also known as the widespread migration of African Americans in the 20th century from rural communities in the South to large cities in the North and West. -
The Jazz Age
The Jazz Age was an era when jazz music and dance styles quickly gained nationwide popularity. The Jazz Age represented a cultural change in American society because this new style of music and dance came from the African American culture. Jazz music spread throughout the country. This African American form of self-expression and artistic creation reached across racial lines and became an essential part of the lifestyle. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. It began after the stock market crashed in October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. -
Thew New Deal.
The New Deal was a series of programs and projects instituted during the Great Depression by President Roosevelt that aimed to restore prosperity to Americans. New Deal projects and programs, such as the CCC, the WPA, the TVA, the SEC and others helped change American forever. -
The Atomic Bomb
The first atomic bomb was made in 1938. The atomic bomb, and nuclear bombs, are powerful weapons that use nuclear reactions as their source of explosive energy. Scientists first developed nuclear weapons technology during World War II. -
World War II
The instability created in Europe by the First World War caused conflict leading to World War II. World War II broke out two decades later and proved to be even more devastating. Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, marking the beginning of World War II. -
The Cold War
The Cold War was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons. The term was first used by the English writer George Orwell in an article published in 1945 to refer to what he predicted would be a nuclear stalemate between “two or three monstrous super-states -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. -
The Great Society
The Great Society was an ambitious series of policy initiatives, legislation and programs spearheaded by President Lyndon B. Johnson with the main goals of ending poverty, reducing crime, abolishing inequality, and improving the environment.
