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Timeline 2
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Transcontinental Railroad is completed in Utah
The Transcontinental Railroad connects the east to the west and helps transport things easier. It was 1,776 miles long and served for the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States to be connected by rail for the first time in history. -
The Panama Canal is starting to be built
Throughout the 1800s, American and British leaders wanted to ship commercial goods promptly and inexpensively between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.The Panama canal allows shippers of commercial goods, from automobiles to grain, to conserve time and cash by transporting cargo more quickly between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. -
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is created
The NAACP is the oldest civil rights organization. The association was created mainly because the violence against African Americans and in response to the 1908 Springfield race riot in Illinois. The Springfield riot is caused when two African Americans were moved to a different city jail. After this occurred, a white mob burned down forty homes of African Americans. The founders include white and black progressives. -
World War I starts after Archduke Ferdinand of Austria is assassinated
Archduke Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were assassinated by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official visit to the Bosnian capital. After the assassination, this sparked the start of World War I. -
Model T's dominate and are the highest profits in the automobile business
Henry Ford invented the assembly line which made building the Model T more efficient. The Model T was priced at $800 and eventually lowers to less than $300 by 1925. The Model T was the most inexpensive car on the market at the time. Cars were now not just for filthy rich people anymore. More than 15 million Model Ts were built in Detroit and Highland Park, Michigan. -
Women are granted the right to vote after the 19th amendment is ratified by the US Congress
Women were denied, in the early years of America, basic rights like married women could not own property. Women were supposed to be focused on housework and motherhood. Women were later denying the ideal women that came before them and were fighting for rights. -
The Stock Market crashes and the Great Depression starts
The Stock market was starting to crash at the beginning of October and 12.8 million trades were counted on October 28 and October 29 16.4 trades were made. All these trades in two days was too overwhelming for the stock market and that is why it crashed. After the stock market crashed, America spiraled downward into the Great Depression, the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world up to that moment. -
Hitler invades Poland which causes France and Britain to declare war
Hitler conquered Poland to give Germany more "living space" and he wanted to colonize Poland and have the Slavs as his slaves. Hitler had already conquered Austria and Czechoslovakia at this time and the major powers in Europe had not cared. He thought he could be sly and that the major powers would tolerate him conquering Poland. -
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor and the US gets involved in World War II
Japan, an axis power, attacks Pearl Harbor the naval base in Hawaii. The United States of America was not prepared for the attack and dragged them into World War II. Franklin Delano Roosevelt declares the Pearl Harbor bombing to be "a date which will live in infamy". -
America drops the atomic bomb on Japan, causing Japan to unconditional surrender
America drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After the atomic bombs were dropped the Japanese Emperor Hirohito declares an unconditional surrender.
