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INDUSTRIALIZATION: george mortiner pullmen(mar 3,1831-oct 19,1897)
George pullmen is an american engineer and industrialist.He designed and manufacttured pullmen sleeping car and made a town for the workers that build them. -
INDUSTRIALIZATION:Andrew carnegie (nov 25,1835-aug 11,1919)
Andrew carnegie was an american industrialist that owned Americas steel industry.He belived in using his money to help out society. -
INDUSTRIALIZATION:Thomas edison (feb 11,1847-oct 18,1931)
Thomas edison was and american inventor and buisnessman.He developed the phonograph,motion picture camara and the light bulb. -
CIVIL WAR : LINCOLN WINS close race
Abraham lincoln did not win on popularity votes.He earned enough electoral votes to beat all other opponents. -
RECONSTRUCTION:emancipation proclamation #2
Lincoln issues the second emancipation proclamation.Emphasized as a war measure frees all slaves in states or parts that were still in rebellion. -
CIVIL WAR :GETTYSBURG
one of the bloodiest battles of the war ,that war was also a turning point.This war marks the farthest advance of the confederate army into northern territory led by Robert E.Lee. -
RECONSTRUCTION:freedmen bureau established
Bureau of refugees,freedmen,and abanded lands.Established within the war department -
CIVIL WAR : LEE surrenders
General robert E.lee surrenders to general ulysses S.grant.Happened in the town of appomattox court house,virginia,the war ended. -
RECONSTRUCTION:KKK begins
organization composed of confedarate army vets founded the kkk.They intimidated blacks and other ethnic groups and religious minorities. -
GILDED AGE:Rochefeller incorporates STANDERD OIL
John D. rockefeller standard oil company is incorparated in ohio.Standard oil was first formed as a partnership in 1868. -
GILDED AGE:Alexander graham bell invents telephone
Alexander graham bell transmits a human voice over a wire.Telephone revolutionize personal and business comminication. -
IMPERIALISM: BERLIN CONFERENCE
Conference is significant because it marks king leopold II decided to carve up africa so that belgium expanded and other european nations.Did not consider cultural or linguistic boundaries when they choose which land to conquer. -
GILDED AGE :HAYMARKET riot
Rally in chicago's haymarket square in support of striking workers.A bomb was thrown killing 6 police men and wounding more then 60 people. -
IMPERIALISM:SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
Declared april 25th 1898 after sinking of the main battleship in havana of febuary earlier that year.War ended august 13,1898,peace treaty signed december 10th,1898. -
IMPERIALISM : HAWAII ANNEXED
THE U.S ANNEXED HAWAII on july 7,1898.HAWAIIANS were given full u.s citizenship due to buisness interest. -
WORLD WAR 1:GERMANY declared war
Austria-hungary declares war on serbia.This effectively of archduke franze-furdinand and his wife by a serbian nationalist. -
WORLD WAR 1 : WOODROW WILSON
President woodrow wilson announces the u.s wil remain neutral.On april 4 house reprasentatives declared car and america formally entered WWI. -
WORLD WAR 1 : ZIMMERMAN telegram
Germany sends a secrete telegram to mexico so mexico can join the war and germany tells them that if they do they will get their used to own land back like arizona.the britich intercept and decipher the coded message. -
ROARING 20'S: PROHIBITION
Pgohibition banned the consumption and selling of alcahol.Al capone made tons of money selling illegal alcahol. -
ROARING 20'S : SCOPES TRIAL
A high school teacher goes on trial for teaching theory of evolution in school.He lost the trail and paid charges of 100 dollars. -
ROARING 20'S : BLACK TUESDAY
At the end of the 1920'sthe stock marcket crashed.Caused the start of the great depression. -
GREAT DEPRESSION : SWOOT-HAWLEY tariff
Raised import duties in attempt to protect american manufactures from foreign competition.Had little impact on the american economy, but but but european economy in crisis. -
GREAT DEPRESSION : ROOSEVELT elected
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT defeats HERBERT HOOVER by landside.He was a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of economic depression and war. -
GREAT DEPRESSION : ROOSEVELT RE-ELECTED
ROOSEVELT is re-elected as second term president, wonin landslide against ALF LANDON.He also won every state but MAIN and VERMONT. -
WORLD WAR II : NEUTRALITY act
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT signs the 1937 neutrality act.Bans travel on hostile ships,forbids the arming of american marchent ships tradng with countries at war . -
WORLD WAR II : ATTACK of the PANAY
JAPANESE war planes attack an american boat in accident.Nevertheless the attack caused u.s opinions to turn against the japanese. -
WORLD WAR II : FALL of FRANCE
Government capitulated on 25th june just seven days after the start of the invasion.HITLERS brilliant BLITZKRIEG plan got the allies by surpries. -
COLD WAR : YALTA CONFERENCE
This decided the post war statues of GERMANY.Also the decision to divide GERMANY in to four occupation zone. -
VIETNAM WAR : HIROSHIMA
The united states droped an ATOMIC BOMB in HIROSHIMA,JAPAN first atomic bomb to be used in war.The bomb killed 75,000 instantly,and injured more then 100,000. -
COLD WAR : RED SCARE at its peak
The red scare reached its peak in 1949.The government started to think that celebrities where members of the communist party. -
COLD WAR : KITCHEN DEBATE
President RICHARD NIXON and soviet leader NIKITA KHRUCHEV get into a heated debate.The so called "kitchen debate" became one of the most famouse episodes in the COLD WAR. -
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT:KLAN BOMBS BIRMINGHAM CHURCH
The KKK bombs the 16th street BAPTIST CHURCH,killed four young girls attending sunday school.Only one suspect went on trial and was convicted in 2001,38 years after the murder. -
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT : CICIL RIGHTS ACT
President LYNDON JOHNSON signs the civil right act which outlaws segragation in all public places.He threaten to pull federal funding from places that discriminate based on COLOR,RACE,ETHNICITY,and GENDER . -
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT : BLOODY SUNDAY
Over 600 people leave SELMA,ALABAMA and go to montgemery in a march for voting rights.They reached EDMUND PETTUS BRIDGE and state troopers used violence and gases to drive them back to SELMA. -
VIETNAM WAR : MY LAI
U.S soilders mad about not capturing vietnamese guerillas killed 30 civilians in MY LAI village. Commander WILLIAM CALLEY was sentenced to life in prison but was realesed in 1974. -
VIETNAM WAR : WAR ENDS
VIETNAM tanks enter SAIGON and the last U.S marines flee in helicopters.LOOTERS take over the embassy building as the vietnam war comes to an end,.
