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Industrialization:thomas
Thomas Newcomen builds first commercially successful steam engine. Able to keep deep coal mines clear of water. First significant power source other than wind and water. -
industrialization: 5 years plan
Industrialisation (or industrialization) is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial oneIndustrialization, 5 Year Plans, 1928-1941 -
Andrew Carnegie
adopted bessemer process;homestead strike ;vertical intergration;gospel of wealth -
imperialism:East India Company collapses due to Sepoy Rebellion; British Raj begins
This is important because the British Raj was a very significant ruling system of India. LKDJLKGJ Also, the East India Company, a major company at the time, collapsed because of the Enfield rifles that they produced -
civil war:abraham lincoln election
The United States presidential election of 1860 was the 19th quadrennial presidential election -
reconstruction:antietam
The Battle of Antietam also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South, fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland Campaign, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil -
civil war:vicksburg
The Siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. -
civil war: gettysburg
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee concentrated his army around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, upon the approach of Union Gen. -
industrialization: rev willaim lee
Rev. William Lee, born at Woodborough near Nottingham, invents the Stocking Frame, a mechanical device for knitting stockings -
reconstrucion: black codes
limited the right of movement of the freedmen -
Reconstruction: lincoln assisanated
United States President Abraham Lincoln was shot on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, while attending the play ..... Lincoln died at 7:22:10 a.m. on April 15, 1865 -
Gilded age:Grant Elected President
Republican Ulysses S. Grant defeats Democrat Horatio Seymour and is elected president of the United States -
gilded age: john.d rockefellers
John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company is incorporated in Ohio -
gilded age:Curtis Heads Civil Service Commission
President Ulysses S. Grant names George William Curtis to head the Civil Service Commission -
Great depression; Herbert hoover
hoover become president -
sacco and vanzetti
were Italian-born anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during the armed robbery of a shoe factory in Northampton, Massachusetts, United States -
imperialism:Boer War in South Africa
The Boer War is significant because it was one of the first "total war" battles fought by the British against the Dutch farmers in South Africa. The Boers used guerilla tactics to hide amongst the people, and the British would kill everybody, reguardless of gender, age, or race. They believed that if they could kill everybody, they would kill every boer that had resisted them. -
world war 1:war zone"
Germany declares a "war zone" around Great Britain, essentially effecting a submarine blockade where even neutral merchant vessels were to be potential targets. -
world war:Zimmerman Telegram
Germany sends the secret Zimmerman Telegram to Mexico in an effort to entice Mexico to join the war. The British intercept and decipher the coded message -
world war: war on germany
The United States declares war on Germany. -
Roaring Twenties:The Start of Prohibition
The states ratified the Eighteenth Amendment that forbade the manufacture, disrtibution, and sale of alcohol anywhere in the United States. -
Roaring twenties:18th amendment
the 18th amendment introduced prohibited but many african american failed to obey it -
Roaring tweties:19th amendment
gave women right to vote while the flappers wore looser clothing and went out chaperones -
Great depression: child labor
children that work hard and it keeps them from attending school -
Great depression:tariff passes
congress tariff passes the smoot hawley tariff act -
World war 2: ethiopia
fascist italy invades conquers and annexes ethiopia -
World war 2: anti-cominter pact
germany and japan sign the anti cominter pact directed against the soviet union and international communist mover -
World war 2:japan invaded china
japan invedes china causes wolrld war 2 in the pacific -
Vietnam war:democratic repubilc of vietnam
Viet Minh announced the establishment of an independent Vietnam with a new government called the Democratic Republic of Vietnam -
cold war:tuman doctrine
president truman announce it to prevent them from fallin into soviet spere -
cold war: united nation
process a resolution calling the withdrawn of foreign soldiers from korea -
Civil rights: supreme court
supreme court rule ont he landmark case brown v.board of education -
civil rights: rosa parks
rosa refuse to give up her sit at the front of the colored section -
civil rights: freedom riders
students volunteer to take bus and travel to the south to test out new laws that prohibited the segregation -
Vietnam war: fired on two U.S ships
the fighting between the Viet Cong and the South Vietnamese continued, the U.S. continued to send additional advisers to South Vietnamnorth vietnamesse fired on two U.S ships in international water -
Vietman war: defend southeast asia
The U.S. congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving President Johnson the power to take whatever actions he sees necessary to defend southeast Asia.
