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Potato Famine
Many Irish were starving because of this
It was the crop failure, in which the potato was unable to eat due to a plague. And this is why people from Europe were immigrating to the US. -
Common Manifesto
Was a book written by Karl Marx
It talked about all the benefits if the people worked for the general welfare -
Bessemer Process
New way for making steel.
The steel that was revolutionary was harder, stronger, and lighter than iron. -
First Oil Well
It was in Pennsylvania
George Bissel was the first man to build holes to get out oil from the underground. -
Seward Purchase
William H. Seward bought a piece of land from Russia for $7,000,000
People were against it because for them it was only an ice box. -
Chinese Exclusion
Racist
A new law keeping Chinese outside.
All other immigrants except them. -
New Colossus
By Emma Lazarus
Poem made to gain the immigrants from Europe from the WW1, for the Industrialization, working for the fabrics. -
Rocksprings Massacre
It was in Wyoming, and the main reason for was that the people thought Chinese were taking their jobs, as they were hired often because they did the work nobody wanted to do.
White mobs killed 28 Chinese coal miners, 15 loots and burn. -
Hull House
Chicago by Jane Addams
Settlement House, kind of.
Were places in which immigrants could have health care, their children educated and taken care of, learning center, and other things. -
How the Other Half Lives
Book by Jacob Riis
First to use Photography, poor people on their environments.
Caused people to be aware of the poverty on the New York City. -
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Homestead Strike
Occurred in Pennsylvania
Henry hired Pinkerton (kind of spies for unions) private guards to protect the plant from strikers.
Strikers and Pinkertons had a battle in which the Pinkerton gave up and the Strikers took the town.
The Governor brough the militia and Frik brought nonunion workers. Union workers separated for four years. -
Annexation of Hawaii
King Kalakaua (white farmer friendly) dies, sister Liliuokalani (not so white farmer friendly) assumes throne, but is overthrown by white farmers, who then ask to be “annexed” -
USS Maine Explodes
The sinking of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor.
The USS Maine explodes, because of an accident, but because Yellow Journalism, everyone is reading a false story.
The citizens wanted war because they felt attacked. -
Philippines Becomes a US Colony
US surprises Spanish in Philippines, crushes them, while Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino soldiers to victory on land. This is because the Spanish thought that the US had as target Cuba.
But the US takes Philippines after saving them because of the “White Man’s Burden” -
White Man's Burden
It was the thinking that proposed that the United States should “teach and protect the ones that they invade.
This was only because they didn’t think the people of the colonies could have their own government. -
Platt Amendment
Keeps Cuban tight to the US. Garanties the US some land from Cuba.
Forbids Cuba from having any treaties with the other countries of Europe. -
Panamanian Independence
Teddy Roosevelt went to Panama for the permission to do a canal through Panama and give the US the control over it.
They agreed because they were the ones that helped them to be free. -
Panamanian Independence
Teddy Roosevelt went to Panama for the permission to do a canal through Panama and give the US the control over it.
They agreed because they were the ones that helped them to be free. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
150 woman burned to death due to the doors closed.
Lack of rights the workers had. -
Ludlow Massacre
The strikers presented demands to the United Mine Company, but they refused.
The workers were living there, but for that they were outside, so they hide their women and children in a hole.
They set fire to the tents and accidently the hole, 19 to 25 people died that day. -
Assassination of FF
Franz Ferdinand was killed by a terrorist with tuberculosis. This terrorist was a one of the serbians that wanted independence. Happened in Bosnia during a parade. -
Assassination of FF
Franz Ferdinand was killed by a terrorist with tuberculosis. It happened in Bosnia during a parade. The serbian terrorist attacked and killed him as he and his wife were going to the hospital after an accident- -
Sinking the Lusitania
There was an unarmed british ship that was on the ocean line, and a german U-Boat attacked. Influenced the US to enter the WWU -
Sinking the Lusitania
There was an unarmed british ship that was on the ocean line, and a german U-Boat attacked. This was one of the things that influenced USA to go to war. -
Zimmermann Note
It was a coded note that a german sent to Mexico, saying that if they became allies, they would help them get the land that they lost to US. Only if the US got in the WWU, Mexico would join them. [That’s what Germany said] The British got it, and send it to Wilson. -
Zimmermann Note
It was a coded note that a german sent to Mexico, saying that if they became allies, they would help them get the land that they lost to US. Only if the US got in the WWU, Mexico would join them. [That’s what Germany said] The British got it, and send it to Wilson. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
A treaty of peace signed by the representant of Russia, Bolshevik and the Central Powers. It ended Russia's participation on the WWI and left them out of the Treaty of Versailles. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
It was a peace treaty signed by the representative of Russia, Bolshevik, and the Central Powers.
This peace treaty was the official time in which it was stated that Russia was out of WWI.
This is also, the reason why Russia didn't attended the Treaty of Versailles -
Treaty of Versailles
Was the reunion of the Allied Powers that decided what to after the war.
At the end of this, it was accepted the League of Nations that the president of the US proposed and a punishment for Germany onto paying for the reparations. -
Treaty of Versailles
Was the reunion of the Allied Powers that decided what to after the war.
At the end of this, it was accepted the League of Nations that the president of the US proposed and a punishment for Germany onto paying for the reparations. -
US rejected the League of Nations
At this time it was the re-elections and the partisanship was a really big issue. So the Republicans, stated that they were against president's Wilson idea of the League of Nations.
Also there were citizens that said that it would be the best if they didn't joined because other's conflicts, were not about their concern. -
US reject the League of Nations
The elections were near and the partisanship came along. So when it was the moment to choose, the Republicans were the ones to win and say no to the League of Nations.
Also, the citizens didn't wanted to join it because they said that it was not for their concern, others conflicts.