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Creating Central Park
The desire for public outdoor space lead to the creation of Central Park in 1850 designed by Olmstead and Vaux -
The Changing of the Western Economy
The changing Western Economy. For example mining,ranching, and commerical farming. Prestented opportonity for labors to seeking employers. -
Enroachment on Indian Lands
Fearful of Indians inability or unwillingness to confrom to "white" culture, white dessinated the buffalo, the mininstry of Indian culture. -
Progression of Technology
Eletric powered lighting,telephones,typewritters and the steel making processers were some of the new technologies that fueled the industry. -
Crisis of 1890's
Labor and political renvest fueled by a severe dperession lead to wide spread violence -
Invetion of the Automobile
Gave Americans the mobility that was perviously unheard of before than. -
Panama Canal
Panama Canal
Roosevelt best foreign policy accomplishment of his preisdency Canal linked the Atlantic ot the Pacific by the way of crossing through Central America. This made trade more expeditions by shorting shipping routes -
Birth of Modern political machines
Compaingning Presidentail canditate traveled eighteen thousand mils to systemalical reach 5million people. -
U.S Enters World War I
WWI Footage1917 Selective services encated -
South Urban Areas
By 1920 more people lived in more rural areas. Much of this increase was due to people migrating to ind employment -
Progressivism
Belief in progress. Lead to anti-monopoly sentiment. Distributation of pwoer and wealth seam as nesccary to benefit society -
Nineteenth and Equal Rights Admenment
Alice PaulVoting rights establishd or Womens. Discrimnation ended on the basis of gender made illegal. -
Congress and the Republican Party
1921 the presidency and the congress rested in the hands of the Republican Party., 1924 Coolidge elected president. -
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New Era
The diplomacy of the New Era,Isolationaism and Internationalism form of Neutrality to Intervention -
Penicillin
An English medical reseacher named Alexander Fleming discovered the antibacterial products of an organism he named penicillin -
Great Depression
In 1929 the Great Depression begins. also one year after the Dust Bowl and Agricultrual marketing Act. -
Scottsboro Boys
Nine black teenage boys were accused of rape in Alabama. -
Roosvelt Elected
Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president . -
Hilter
Hilter signed a nonaggression pact but shorlty after that Germany had been attacked Poland -
WWII
World War II is already underway in Asia and begun in Europe. -
Sonar was invented
In 1940 centimetric radar also called Snoar was invented -
USO
United Service Organization was founded. -
Pearl Harbor Attacked
Attack SceneFranklin Rososevelt tired to save isolation, but on Dec 7th 1941, the surpise Japanese attack on the American base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii the eliminated the last elements of uncertainty and drove the United States into the greatest and most terrible conflicts in human history -
Japanese relocation centers
Japanese relocation centers wereestablished by the Federal Goverment due to pressure from West coast miliatry officials after the Pearl Harbor bombing -
The Manhattan Project
AftermathJuly 16th 1945 the scientist gathered to witness the first atomic bomb detonation in history theTrinity bomb, On Aug 6th 1945 Pres. Truman ordered the bombing of Hiroshima Japan -
Truman Doctrine
President H.S. Truman appered before Congress asking $400 million grant to aid Greece and Turkey from beingpotentially being taken over by Soviet communist insurgents. -
NATO
In response to the separtation of Germany into two separate countries and the seperate of Berlin was the creation of NATO or the North Atlanic Treaty Organizatio -
Sen. Joseph McCarthy
Sen. Joseph McCarthy a first-term Republicain senator of Wisconsin claimed to have alist of over 200 known communist currently working in the American State Department. His tactics were coined McCarthyism -
Korean War
The Korean War begain when communist North Korea invaded South Korea and occupied their capitol Seoul. -
The Suprme Court
The Supreme Court announced its decision to overturn the verdict of Plessy v. Ferguson which had allowed the separate but equal schooling for African American and Caucasion students. Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka allowed all students to attend public school based on their residence not their race and concluded that sepreation by race was unconstitutional -
NASA
The USA lanched its first satellite, Explorer 1. This event was revolutionarty mainly in response to the Societ Union's launcngof the first ever Earth-orbing sateilite,Sputnik in 1957 -
Personal Liberation
The ever emerging belief of personal expression and freedom amony mostly racial ad cultral minorities on the major society. -
Cuban Misslie Crsis
During the summer. American intelliegence learned that there was a wave of new Soviet Technicains and equipment in Cuba and miltary construction in progress. -
Betty Freidan's The Feminine Mystique
Often cieted as the first event of contemporary women's liberation, this book outlined the frustrations of the common housewife. -
Antiwar Feelings
With the Vietnam wa dragging on inconcluslvely, the enthusasm for the war decreased reapidly among the american public. -
Vietnamese New Year (Tet)
The first day of the Vietnamese New Year and also the day when Communist forces launched a huge concentrated attack on American bases throughout South Vietnam. The most shocking part of the Tet Offfensivewas that it was publically televised in America, gave te public a front row seat. -
Watergate Scandals
In June 1972 police arrested five men for breaking into the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate office building in Washington D.C. Nixon announced his resignation from the presidency. -
Panama Canal treaties signed
Carter completed negotiations that began several years earlier on a pair of treaties to turn over control of the Panama Canal to the government on Panama. After an enormous debate the senate ratified the treaties by 68 to 32, only one more vote then the necessary two thirds majority. -
The 1980 election
Reagan swept a victory, winning 51 percent of the vote - 41 percent for Jimmy Carter. On the day of Reagan’s inauguration the American hostages in Iran were released after their 444 day ordeal. -
Economic Recovery
By 1982 the economy had sunken into the worst recession since the 1930’s. The Reagan economic program was not directly to blame for the problems, but neither did it offer a quick solution. In 1982, unemployment reached 11 percent, its highest level in over 40 years. Before the recession could do great damage to Reagan the economy recovered more rapidly and impressively then almost anyone had expected. By late 1983, had fallen to 8.2 percent, and it declined for server years after that. The gross -
George H. W. Bush elected President
George H. W. Bush elected President. Bush was notable for the dramatic developments in international fairs. He was popular during his first three years because of his unthreatening public image -
The Gulf War
The Bush administration ordered an invasion of Panama, which overthrew an unpopular military leader, Manual Noriega. We invaded Iraq and Kuwait. On February 28th, Iraq announced its acceptance of allied terms for a cease of fire, and the brief Pursain Gulf war came to an end. -
Bill Clinton elected in office as President.
Bill Clinton elected in office as President. Bill Clinton was a people person very popular among the American Population, he then was impeached by the house due to the Lewinsky Scandal’s.
