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The Lusitania was a British ocean liner, which was destroyed during World War 1 by a German submarine. The Lusitania was fitted with a revolutionary new turbine engine enabling it to maintain a service speed of 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph). It is considered to be one of the main reasons why the US entered World War 1.
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Ended 1970
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to more urban areas. Until 1910, more than 90 percent of the African-American population lived in the American South, by 1900, only one-fifth of African-Americans living in the South were living in urban areas. By 1960, of those African-Americans still living in the South, half now lived in urban areas. By 1970, more than 80 percent of African-Americans lived in cities. -
Ended March 4, 1921
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie Duchess of Hohenberg, the heirs to the Austro-Hungarian throne were killed by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo. Gavrilo Princip was a member of the Black Hand secret society whose political objective was to break off Austria-Hungary's South Slav provinces so they could be combined into a Yugoslavia. They chose to do so through assassination.
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ended November 11 1918
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Because cotton prices in New Orleans reached the price of 42 cents a pound, many Southern farmers began to plant the largest crop in history. The resulting overproduction causes a collapse in prices, with cotton falling to less than 10 cents a pound by early 1921. Throughout most of the 1920s and 30s cotton farmers must work in conditions very close to a depression.
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After a 70 year battle women gained the right to vote when the 19th amendment was ratified. The women’s rights movement reached a national level with a convention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848.
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