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John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller was one of the very first Monopolists of America. Rockefeller took advantage of the OIL industry. He influenced the way that this nation works indirectly in that he created the firestorm of individuals who were dedicated to workers rights. -
Industrial revolution
In American history, the Industrial revolution is when the work of people labor was taken by the work of machines, like during the industrial revolution the cotton gin was invented, it could do the work of 100 slaves in one hour. Also, Textile mills were very popular, most manufacturing took place in the north, while in the south the materials were picked by slave labor. The Industrial revolution took place 1730-1830. -
The Gilded Age
In American history, the Gilded Age caused a major growth in population in the United States and displays of wealth and excess of America's upper-class during the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction era, in the late 19th century. This represent the american dream because This is where people became wealth and where the american dream started. -
J. Pierpont Morgan
John Pierpont Morgan was a United States financier, banker and collector of artworks. He built his banking establishment into one of the most powerful in the United States and during the economic depression of 1890's he financed the United States' Federal Reserve. He also gained control interest in several railroads operating in the United States. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish- American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He was also one of the most important philanthropists of this era. Carnegie became one of the first wealthy americans , just like Rockefeller. -
The decade that roared.
The Roaring 20s is the golden decade of growth between 1920 - 1930 in post-war America. This decade had many changes, inventions, and developments which transformed a traditional American society into a modern American society. -
19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment is where women had the right to vote. This help them so much because they are getting closer to what they want to achieve. -
Stock Market Crash 1929
In the 1920s, many people felt that they could make money from the stock market. Forgetting that the stock market was unstable. They invested their entire life savings Others bought stocks on credit. When the stock market went down on Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, the country was unprepared. The economic got ruin because of the stock market crash of 1929.This was the beginning of the great depression. All their American dream were ruin because of this. People were homeless on the streets. -
The Great Depression
The stock market crashed in the states. People lost their jobs, money lost its value, fear, stress, lack of hope, and only the rich could manage the depression and even then ppl struggled. There were beggars everywhere, people lived on the streets.many people starved and went bankrupt. -
Social and Cultural Effects of the Depression
The Great depression brought a fast rise to the crime rate. Many of workers didnt have jobs and started to petty theft to just put food on the table. This is when prostitution came among . Women started to this because it was a easy way to make money. Also the Alcolholism increased with american trying to escape. Americans had to switch to cheaper cigarettes because there were getting to expensive. -
Prohibition of 1920s
The Prohibition of 1920s , is a period from 1920-1933 in the United States, when the sale and use of alcoholic beverages was illegal.There was a strong religious movement at the time that saw alcohol as a sin in the country. -
All American Girls Baseball League
Philip K. Wrigley started the All-American Girls league in 1943. Wrigley owned the Chicago Cubs, a men's major league baseball team. At the time, the United States was fighting in World War II. Most of the nation's top male ballplayers had gone to war. Wrigley wanted to make sure fans did not lose interest in baseball. So he paid women to play in their own league. -
Rosie the Riveter
Rosie the Riveter was a character that the government use for propaganda campaign by the U.S. government to encourage women to work outside the home during World War II. -
Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
Ralph ellison was an american noevlist and scholar. he was in okahoma city. He is best known for his novel the invisble man, which won the national book award in 1953. Its about an african american man whose color makes him invisible. -
Rosa Parks
Actually rosa parks wasnt the first women to get aressted for not giving up there seats and moving to the back of the bus. The reason that rosa is credited with this event is the naacp became unvolved and she agreed to be the test case. there two women before rosa parks. -
The Montgomery bus boycott.
The bus companies didn't like African Americans . They were forced to sit in the back or give up their seat to a white person. The African Americans had enough with this and boycotted the bus company, refusing to ride together. All the money the bus companies got was from the blacks. So after a while, the bus company ended this. -
Sit-in
Sit-in is a form of protest, refusing to leave until their demands are met. A non-voielt protest in greensboro, north carolina happened. Four Africa american collge students went to sit on a " white only " lunch counter . They were told to leave because the cashiner refuse to serve them. They didnt they sat there till the store close the next day serval collge students came to the store. -
The freedom Rides
The Freedom rides where student protests for the US civil rights movement. Student volunteers, African- American and whites, rode in buses into the deep south to test the 1960 united states supreme court decision Boynton v Virginia 364 u.s 454 that outlawed racial segregation in public facilities, including bus stations. -
James Meredith
He was born on june 25, 1933 in kosciusko, missisppi. An American ciivl rights activist who gained national renown at a key jucture in the cicli rights movement in 1962, when he became the first black student at unvistery of missisppi. he also led a civil rights march, the march against fear from mephis tennessee to jackson, mississippi in 1966. -
March on Washington
More than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington dc for a rally known as the march on Washington for jobs and freedom. The march began at the washington monument and ended at the lincoln memorial. They marched for their civil liberties, endingto racial segregation in public schools ,and passing of a law that stoppedn racial discrimination in public areas. The civil rights act of 1964 was signed after jfk death. -
Mississippi & Freedom Summer
Freedom summer also known as the Mississippi summer project was a campaign in the united states started in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi, which up to that time had almost totally excluded black voters. The project was organized by the council of federated organizations, a coalition of four established civil rights organizations: NAACP, CORE, SCLC, and the SNCC, with SNCC playing the lead role. -
Selma
The Selma to Montgomery marches, which included Bloody Sunday, were three marches that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement. They were at there highest point of the movement in Selma for voting rights, launched by Amelia Boynton Robinson and her husband, who brought many leaders of the American Civil Rights Movement to Selma, including Martin Luther King Jr., Jim Bevel, and Hosea Williams. The first march was on" Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965 -
Far and Away
Far and Away movie is about Joesph family house gets to burn down by his landlord. Joesph meets his landlord daughter shannon. Shannon doesnt like her family tradition and wants to go to america. She offers joesph a trip to american if hes her servant. joesph agrees to that trip just because he knows he gonna get land. -
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy also known as JFK, was the 35th President of the united states from Jan. 1961 until his assassination in Nov 1963. One of his famous quotes is "MY fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country". In October 1962, the world held its breath as jfk and nikta khrushcev tried to reach an agreement and avoid nuclear war. -
The Pink Tax
The pink tax is where women are charge more than men for things luike dry cleaning, personal care products and vehicle manintenance.About 1,351 a year in extra costs.
