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Industrialization
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Transcontinental Railroad
Other transcontinental lines followed, and regional lines multiplied as well. At the start of the Civil War, the nation had had about 30,000 miles of track. By 1890 that figure was nearly six times greater. -
Bessemer Process
The technique involved injecing air into molten iron to remove the carbon and other impurities. American manufacturers were using the new method to produce more than 90 percent of the nation's steel. In this age of rapid change and innovation, even the succeseful Bessemer Process was made even better with time. Evenetually this led to the use of recylcing scrap metal to make quality steel. -
Military Strength
Mahan urged the government officials to build up American naval poswer in order to compete with other powerful nations. The United States built nine steel-hulled cruisers between 1883 and 1890. Such as the Maine and Oregon. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
This act made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or with other countries. Prosecuting companies under the Sherman act was not easy, however, becuase the act did not clearly define terms such as "trust". -
Yellow Journalism
Valeriano Weyler was sent to cuba to restore order. Stories of poisoned wells and of children being thrown to the sharks deepened American sympathy for the rebels. This sensational style of writing, which exxagerates the news to lure and enrage readers, became known as Yellow Journalism. -
Blow up in the Harbor of Havana
President McKinley had ordered the U.S.S Maine to Cuba to bring home American citizens in danger from the fighting and to protect America property, On February 15, The ship blew up in the harbor of Havana. More than 260 men were killed. -
Rough Riders
The army of 17,000 included four African-American regiments of the regular army and the Rough Riders, a volunteer cavalry under the command of Leonard Wood and Theodore Roosevelt. -
Industrial Workers of the World
A group of radical unionists and socialists in Chicago organized this group, also called the Wobblies. Headed by William "Big Bill" Haywood, the Wobblies included Miners, Lumberers, and Cannery and Dock Workers. Unlike the ARU, the IWW welcomed African Americans, but membership never topped 100,000. -
Franz Ferdinand
Heir to the Austrian throne. As the royal entourage drove through the city of Sarajevo, a Serbian nationalist by the name of Gavrilo Princip, shot and killed the archduke. On July 28, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. -
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World War 1
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No Mans Land & Trench Warfare
By the spring of 1915 both armies were locked in for the long haul, both armies were starting the new way of battle called "trench warfare". Where both armies dug trenches and the land between the trenches was "no mans land". If you poked your head up over the trench, a sniper was sure to pick you off, if the machine gun didn't first. -
Lusitania
A German U-Boat sunk the British liner named the Lusitania, out of the 1,198 men, women and children killed, 128 were American. The Germans said the liner had ammunition to help enemy nations in the war. American public opinion of the war was now against Germany. -
A Flapper
A flapper is an emancipated young woman who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day. Women tried to "assert" themselves in society as more than maids. -
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The Roaring Life of the 1920's
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Prohibition
Reformers have always considered alchohol a prime cause of corruption, therefore... they tried to get rid of it. -
Radio Comes of Age
Radio was the most powerful communications medium to emerge in the 1920's. Americans added terms such as airwaves, radio audience, and tune in to their everyday speech. -
African American Writers
The Harlem Renaissance was a literary movement led by the well-educated, middle-class African Americans who expressed their new pride in the African-American experience. Claude McKay, and Langston Hughes are two of them. -
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World War II
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Battle Of Stalingrad
Hitlers offensive on the Soviet Union. But on January 31st, 1943, the Germans surrendered. The soviets lost 1,100,000 soldiers in defending it. -
D-Day
Code-named Operation Overlord, was originally set for June 5, 1944. But due to the weather it was post-poned until the 6th. Even with the huge bombardment on the Germans, the retaliation was larger and brutal. -
Concentration Camps
Soviet troops where the first to find these camps. The germans tried to kill everyone before the Soviets came but they failed. Over a thousand prisoners were found and 800,000 pairs of shoes.
