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Sand Creek Massacre
After being promised safety by the US government, the 800 Cheyenne Indians who lived at Sand Creek were somewhat relieved. However, the morning after the government told them they were to be respected, a group called the Colorado Volunteers brutally attacked the village, killing 400 people. After this event, many more conflicts happened between American Indians and Whites in the fight for land, a battle that the Whites ultimately won.
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US History from 1877 - 2010
This timeline shows 15 specific events of US History and 5 ideas that encompassed thie period from 1877 - 2010. Each one contains an image and a description. -
The Great Strike of 1877 (The Great Upheaval)
http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/teacherguides/strike/background.htm </a>It started when the railroad workers in Martinsburg, West Virginia suffered a 10% pay cut from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. They stopped working and prevented trains from leaving until they restored their wage. At first it appeared to be one of the common strikes that occurred at a local level and were quickly put down, but it spread to other company units, reaching Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh. Police force, the National Guard and the US army were required to put it down. -
Rush of Immigrants
http://www.ellisislandimmigrants.org/ellis_island_immigrants.htm
A new rush of immigrants in which thousands of Irish and Germans came to America from Europe. People from South and East Europe as well as China came too. The large quantity of immigrants made little integration with Americans, and they formed their own communities –Little Italy, China Town-. For factory owners immigrants provided cheap labor. Laborers did not welcome immigrants and said that these polluted blood and religion. By 1924 US stopped accepting immigrants based on ethnicity. -
Spanish - American War
After the American ship “Maine” sank mysteriously near Havana, Cuba; the Americans declared war on Spain declaring them guilty and wanting them to relinquish Cuba. After the Spanish declined this, the US formally declared war. The United States won the war on both the Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean. During the Treaty of Paris, which solved the war; US was granted control of the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam. Cuba became an independent nation.
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Harlem Renaissance
HarlemIt started when several African American families moved north to Harlem to escape the injustice of the south. There was a flow of black people moving to the northern states, and the black population there increased as WWI took men to fight the war. The black people showed the white America that they too, were able to produce creative works, so the Jazz, the Blues, Gospel and many arts and literatures emerged during this period, until 1935 when the great Depression began. -
US entrance to WWI
When the war erupted in Europe, the US was determined to keep neutral and not bother with European problems. However, after the sinking of the American passenger ship Lusitania on May of 1915, the US started having troubled relationships with Germany. Relationships between the US and Germany worsened, and after Germany sent the Zimmerman Telegram to Mexico to ask this nation to fight the US in the war, US declared war on Germany. http://www.thenagain.info/webchron/world/uswwi.html -
Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points Joint Session
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/woodrow_wilson1.htm
After WWI ended, a meeting to resolve everything was done. At The Treaty of Versailles, every participant nation met in order to decide what to do. Here, Wilson presented his opinions in what should be done in order to maintain peace, his famous 14 points. European nations did not accept these points and they wanted distribution of lands. The League of Nations was created and the US did not join because the congress did not allow Wilson to do so with his 14 points. -
Shuffle Along Musical
A musical which started the Harlem Renaissance movement. During this period, the African American astounded the United States with their great ability at creating art and creative works, especially with their music. From this period, the most characteristic work done was musical: Jazz, Blues and Gospel. The Shuffle Along musical was made up of an all – clack cast , and impressed the audience with the energetic, vivacious, torso-twisting dancers and Jazz music.
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Stock Market Crashes
http://history1900s.about.com/od/1920s/a/stockcrash1929.htm The flourishing American economy that had been growing in the 1920s had a sudden crash in October 24, 1929, also known as the Black Tuesday. Investors selling their stocks at an alarming rate and no people buying them resulted in the stock crash that marked the beginning of the Great Depression. However, this wasn’t the only cause. Overexpansion of companies, incremented wages, a lot of debts from the middle class, low agricultural prices and banks over lending money to waste in the stocks. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/pearl.htm Japan’s continuing conquest in the areas of the Pacific Rim and its lack of attention towards US warnings, the US cut down shipments of scrap metal, steel, and iron to Japan. These things were needed by Japan to maintain war efforts. Believing Japan might attack US holdings in the Pacific Rim, the US was unprepared when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where the US had the bulk of their armaments. 188 US aircraft were destroyed, 2,402 men were killed and 1,282 wounded. -
D - Day
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005158 </a>Germany refused to surrender France even when Italy, English Canal and lands in North Africa were taken. On D Day, British, Canadian and US troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, France and on the English Channel after having distracted the Germans with an attack near Belgium. Troops rushed Fresh shorelines and airborne troops dropped behind German lines. It cost the allies 10,000 casualties but it was a success. By June 11, five days later, Allies overcame German resistance. -
Cold War
The Cold War was a conflict that started right after WWII ended. It was fought mainly between the United States and the Soviet Union in the sense of which political form will rule the world. The United States supported democracy and disliked the Soviets communism. Conflicts started when Russia’s communism began to spread to nations all around the world, and the US started to resist them. The cold war lasted 45 years. (1990) http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/suez.htm -
Korean War
After WWII the northern part of the Korean peninsula was dominated by the Soviets. Americans worried this might become a communist region so they flooded the southern part of Korea and made it democratic. US led UN troops invaded North Korea in the hopes of overthrowing communism and forming a united democratic Korea, but failed when China became communist.
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Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka
After the Civil War black Americans slowly started gaining more and more rights. This one deas with education, and this act stated that black American school shall be integrated with white American school throughout the nation. The northern states followed the rule easily, whereas the south did not. This act, and mainly its results proved that changing law wasn’t as hard as changing public opinions, and it was amongst the first to be done towards African Americans rights.
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I Have a Dream Speech
This famous speech was proclaimed by Marthin Luther King Jr. to express the society’s need to accept new beliefs and leave old discrimination behind, because even if the law was progressing towards Civil Rights for African Americans, society wasn’t. In his famous speech he addresses all Americans in the hopes to move their hearts and to make African Americans truly and fully accepted in society.
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Vietnam War
North Vietnam had become a communist regime led by the popular leader Ho Chi Minh, while South Vietnam remained under a democracy but at a very high risk of becoming communist. After American ships that where supporting South Vietnam’s navy where fired on, the US entered war against North Vietnam. It became an extremely unpopular war due to moral and economic reasons. After 55,000 American deaths, a ceasefire was reached in 1973 and American troops left.
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Ronald Wilson Reagan Elected President
He was a fatherly figure that came in the 1980s to carry the American people out of the melancholy the 1970s had brought. Hs personality and politics reassured Americans that the United States was a great nation capable of big things. He won over Carter 489 votes to 49, and Republicans won majority in Senate. During his presidency, US fought communism around the globe, defense acts to protect the US from attack was established, taxes were cut and national debt tripled. -
Globalization
href='http://www.globalization101.org/What_is_Globalization.html Globalization is the process by which different nations, people, companies and governments interact and integrate. It is driven by many things, among them International trade, investment in different nations and technology advancing that makes it possible for connections to be done easily and fastly. It is an old process that exists since the Silk Road, but after 1984, when the internet was made public, it accelerated its pace. -
Americanization
americanizationAmericanization is the movement by which other nations around the globe are influenced by diverse aspects of American life. These aspects include customs, technology business practice, political style and language. Nowadays English is the most spoken language and almost every successful person speaks it. It has existed since the early 1900s, but after the end of the cold war America turned out to be the only super power so it speeded up. -
Operation Desert Storm
This was the first major foreign crisis after the Cold War had ended. It occurred after Sadam Hussein (Iraq’s dictator) invaded Kuwait with its big army. Kuwait, being a major oil supplier to the US and being near Saudi Arabia (another big oil supplier) posed a risk to the US. After Hussein ignored US ultimatum the S launched a multinational attack on Iraq’s troops from their posts in Saudi Arabia. 100 hours after ground combat began, Kuwait was liberated by US.
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/
