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Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie is a man that led the expansion of the American steel industry. He also was one of the richest people and one of the richest Americans ever. He was born on November 25th 1835 and had died on August 11th, 1919 at the age of 83. -
John D. Rockefeller
He was born on July 8th of the year of 1839 and died on May 23rd of the year of 1937. He was 97 years old when he had died. He was an oil industry business directer and was one of the wealthiest Americans. -
Manifest Destiny
The Manifest Destiny is a belief of expansion of the US that was justified. -
Industrial Revolution
Industrial Revolution is when England started to use machinery to make clothing, steam engines to run the machines. -
The 13th Amendment
The 13th Amendment was made to get rid of slavery and if you were born in the US you have citizenship rights. It was passed by the senate and and the House. -
The Gilded Age
It's another way for telling the 19th century in the United States. -
The Decade That Roared
The standard of living increased when the economy got stronger and stronger as days went by. -
The 19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment provides equal right towards the men and women to give them the right to vote. It also states that no matter what sex you are, you can't be denied to vote. -
Prohibition
The Prohibition is a nationwide ban on alcohol beverages in 1920-1933. It also was promoted by a group of "dry" crusaders that led social progressives in the Prohibition, Democratic, and Republican parties. -
The 1920s
The 1920's was referred as the roaring twenties in Northern America. It also was a political change for people around the country. -
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan is a women who played a huge role in the women's industry. She was an artist and a writer of this book called The Feminine Mystique. This was the first book she ever wrote. She was also a writer for many other books as well. Her very first book was published in the year of 1963. -
Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers was born on July 2nd in the year of 1925 and had died on June 12th of 1963 at the age of 37. He was a civil rights activists who pushed to end segregation, enact social justice, and voting rights. His famous quote was "You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea." The way he had died was by an assassination. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression began when after the stock market had crashed in the year of 1929. It was the long-lasting economic downturn in history. -
Social and Cultural Effects
The social and cultural effects caused a lot of stuff to happen. For example, the crime rates were climbing at a high rate and there was massive migration, also many people started to become unemployed. -
James Meredith
He is an African American writer and was part of the civil rights movement. He was born June 25th 1933. He was an Air Force veteran and a political adviser. -
Rosie the Riveter
Rosie the Riveter is based on a real person to pursue women to work in the industry. It was an advertisement for women in the news paper. -
The All American Girls Baseball League
The All American Girls Baseball League was played by a group of women while the men went off to go fight in the war. After the war was over, the All American Girls Baseball League continued till 1954. -
Jim Crow Laws
The Jim Crow Laws were laws that enforced segregation in the Southern part of the United States. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Occurred when African American women Rosa Parks wouldn't give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery Bus. It had lasted 381 days after her court hearing by the African American boycott of Montgomery. -
Sit-ins
Sit-ins was created because African Americans would go into a public restaurant and wouldn't leave until they were served or arrested. -
The Freedom Riders
The Freedom Riders is when interstate buses were segregated in the Southern US. It was civil rights activists who rode the interstate buses. -
John F. Kennedy
JFK was an American politician and had served for the 35th president of the United States. He was assassinated in November of 1963. He was assassinated by getting shot once in his back coming out from his neck hitting the person in front of him. The second shot had hit him in the head which had killed him instantly. -
The March on Washington
The March on Washington is when over 200,000 people were rallying for jobs and freedom. The march was lead by the famous Martin Luther King Jr. -
Selma
Selma was lead by the famous man Martin Luther King Jr. It was when groups of African Americans gathered to come together to focus its efforts to register African Americans to vote in the South. -
What it means to be an American Women
What it means to be an American Women, is that they had to fight for their own rights, and had to fight to be their own person. It shows by how the women overcame their obstacles to get what they wanted.
