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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was an inventor that revolutionized the country. He created things like the lightning rod, the first public library, and even a form of a fire department. (1749 was the year the lightening rod was invented) -
Ratification of the Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights consists of the first 10 amendments to the Constitution. It was written by James Madison and several other famous founding fathers such as Benjamin Franklin. -
End of Slave Trade in US
The slave trade was ended in US on January 1, 1808. However, slave trade continued illegally for the next fifty years. -
Industrial Age
The Industrial Age did not begin in the US until Samuel Slater brought new manufacturing technologies from Britain to the United States and founded the first U.S. cotton mill in Beverly, Massachusetts. This did not happen until about the 1820s and ended in the 70s -
Nicola Tesla
Nicola Tesla was an astonishing scientist who revolutionized the way we communicated with his studies and findings on alternating currents. He built the first AC (Alternating current) generator in 1832 -
Gold Rush
This was when settlers moved west in order to get better job opportunities, specifically in the gold business because it was discovered that their was a high concentration of it in California. -
Establishment of the Klu Klux Klan
The Klu Klux Klan is a secret society in the southern US that focuses on white supremacy and terrorizes other races and nationalities. -
American Imperialism
American imperialism is the economic, military, and cultural philosophy that the US directly/indirectly affects/controls other countries or their policies. This influence is often associated with expansion into foreign territories. -
Establishment of Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone National Park is a national park located in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. It was established by the US Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872. -
Rutherford B. Hayse
Presidency ended March 4, 1881. -
Westward Expansion
This w as when the US was just the 13 colonies which resided in the east coat. People wanted more opportunities to they expanded westward. Most people were looking for jobs. Manifest Destiny (1845)=][0 and the Louisiana purchase (1803) were major parts of the westward expansion. -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison was a famous inventor that created many things that revolutionized the country. He invented the light bulb, the phonograph, and many more. -
James A. Garfield
Presidency ended September 19, 1881. -
Clara Barton
She was one of the main founders of the red cross, she was also a medic during in the civil war. -
Chester A. Arthur
Presidency ended in March 4, 1885. -
Grover Cleveland
Presidency ended March 4, 1889. -
Benjamin Harrison
Presidency ended March 4, 1893. -
Progressive Era
The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the US. It went from 1890s to 20s. The main objectives of the Progressive movement were eliminating problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and corruption in government -
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie owned the largest steel business in the US which revolutionized the country allowing us to built rail road, bridges, and sky scrapers. -
Grover Cleveland's Second Presidency
Presidency ended March 4, 1897. -
William McKinely
Presidency ended September 14, 1901. -
Spanish-American War
Spanish-American War was a war between Spain and the US. The war was fought in 1898 and began as an intervention by the US on behalf of Cuba. The US acquired Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines in the war and gained temporary control over Cuba. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Presidency ended March 4 1909. -
William Howard Taft
Presidency ended March 4, 1913. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York. It was was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in US history. -
Woodrow Wilson
Presidency ended March 4, 1921. -
Henry Ford and the Assembly line
Created the assembly line in 1913 which revolutionized companies and mass production -
World War I
World War I was a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, US, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918. This was also a war in which the major nations of the world are involved. -
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist who changed the way people thought. He developed the theory of relativity, published in 1915. -
Roaring 20s
The 1920s in the US, was referred to as “roaring” because of the exuberant and freewheeling culture of the decade. The Roaring 20s was a time when many people defied Prohibition, indulged in new styles of dancing and dressing, and rejected many traditional moral standards. -
Warren G. Harding
Presidency ended August 2, 1923. -
Calvin Coolidge
Presidency ended March 4, 1929. -
Herbert Hoover
Presidency ended March 4, 1933. -
The Great Deppresion
America's Great Depression began with the crash of the stock market. The unemployment rate increased so many people lost their jobs. Losing their jobs meant a lot of people were struggling financially which made it difficult to care for their families. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Presidency ended April 12, 1945. -
World War II
A war fought from 1939 to 1945 between the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (France and Britain), and later the Soviet Union and the US. -
Harry S. Truman
Presidency ended January 20, 1953. -
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson was the first African American baseball player. This was very important in history because the racial tension between whites and blacks in this time period. -
Cold War
Cold War from 1947 to 1991. The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the US and its NATO). -
Establishment of NATO
NATO is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. -
Korean War
The Korean war is also referred to as the Korean conflict. It was fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations (who were supported by the US and North Korea. The war began in 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Presidency ended January 20, 1961. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War. The US and the French colonial government in South Vietnam against the Viet Minh (communist Vietnamese independence movement), following the latter's expulsion of the French in 1954. -
Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement was the national effort made by black people and their supporters in the 1950s and 60s to eliminate segregation and gain equal rights. -
Rosa Parks
Famous civil rights activist who boycotted the buses in 1955. -
J.P. Morgan
He ran trust companies and created the chain og Chase banks. Trusts are businesses who buy stock in other businesses and run them as one company. -
Moon Landing
This was the time of the space race when the US and Soviet Union were deciding who has control over space and the us won with the landing on the moon. -
New Frontier and Great Society
This was and era that started in 1961 with John F. Kennedy's election, and ended with Lyndon B. Johnson in 1969. This era brought on things the Berlin Wall wall, the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Limited Test Ban Treaty, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy after which Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president upon Kennedy’s death. -
Era of Social Change
This is when many minorities gained more rights. some of the minorities were were women and blacks. One important figure during this time was Cesar Chavez because he set up the Mexican-American labor movement -
John F. Kennedy
Presidency ended November 22, 1963. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Presidency ended January 20, 1969. -
Richard Nixon
Presidency ended August 9, 1974. -
Gerald Ford
Presidency ended January 20, 1977. -
Jimmy Carter
Presidency ended January 20, 1981. -
Ronald Reagan
Presidency ended January 20, 1989. -
George H. W. Bush
Presidency ended January 20, 1993. -
Gulf War
The Gulf War was a war between the forces of the United Nations, (lead by the US), and those of Iraq that followed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein 's invasion of Kuwait. -
Bill Clinton
Presidency ended January 20, 2001. -
George W. Bush
Presidency ended January 20, 2009. -
9/11
This was an Islamic terrorist attack on the world trade center, most commonly known as the twin towers. The attack was believed to be part of the Al-Qaeda network. -
Iraq War
A military conflict in Iraq that began in 2003 with an attack by a coalition of forces led by the US which resulted in the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime. US combat troops were withdrawn in 2010. -
Barack Obama
Presidency ended January 20, 2017. -
Death of Osama Bin Ladin
Osama bin Laden was the founder and head of the Islamist group Al-Qaeda. He was excited shot in Pakistan on May 2, 201 by US Navy SEALs. -
Donald Trump
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