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Timeline project for us history
- 1. Timeline By david mitchell late 1800’s to early 1900’s
- 2. Bessemer process- devoleped bythe british manufacturer henry bess, this machine involved injecting air into molton iron to remove carbon and other impuritys 1850 1857 1859 1862 Fredrick law Social Darwinism- The homestead act-law Olmsted- grew out of the enacted in 1862 that landscape English naturalist provided 160 acres of architect planned Charles Darwin's land to any citizen or urban parks in theory of evolution, he intended citizen new york, he was said that some selected to plan species flourished central park in and pass their traits new york city down to the next generation
- 3. Sand creek Grandfather massacre-it clause- the clause brought peace states that even if treatys with the a man failed a apache, kiowa, literacy test that or and cheyenne • the treatys couldn’t afford poll tax he was still ceded last land allowed to vote if they wandred as his father or nomads until a grandfather had reservation was been able to vote made for them before january 1st 1867 1864 1865 1867 Oliver kelley- started a Andrew carnegie-one of the first patron of industrail moguls to make his own husbandry an founate, he left his job at the penn organization for state railroad, he entered the steel farmers business after touring a british that became steel mill witnessing the bessemer populary process in action known as the grange
- 4. George Grange-its original purpose Westinghouse- at the was age of 22 he invented to provide a social outlet a railroad for farm braking system families, but soon turned through compressed into air, he pursued many fighting the railroads improvements in railway signs and signals 1868 1869 1870 Tweed ring- between Tammy hall- John D Rockefeller- 1869 william w tweed establishing and 1871 boss tweed became head of standred oil led the ring this organization, took a different of corrupt in new york city appoach to mergers defraunding the most powerful they joined city of NYC democratic with competing political machine companies in trust in 1868 agreements
- 5. Eugene V Debs-was a american union leader one of the founding Jane adams- was a members of the pioneer settlement industrail workers of the world worker and founder of and several times canidate of the hullhouse in chicago socialist party of she was also a public america, debs was a member of philosopher, soicalist the democratic party and to the ,author and leader in indiana general womens sufferage assembly in 1884 1874 1875 1876 George A Custer- reported that the black Jacob riis- he hills had gold “from the is known for Thomas Alva Edison- became grassroots using his a pioneer on the new industrial down” a gold rush was photographic frontier when he established the on red cloud and and worlds first research laboratory spotted tail another jounalistic in menlo park, NJ were Edison sioux chief vainly talents to help perfected the incandescent light appealed again to the bulb government officials improvished in NYC
- 6. Gilded age- wasthe period Mark twain- a novelist and following the civil war roughly humorist inspired a host of from the other young authors created end of the reconstruction to the most classic literature in turn of the 20th centuary they america belived to be an era of serious social problems hidden by a thin layer of gold 1876 1877 1880 Alexander Graham Bell- Wild bill hitchcock- invented the first telephone served as a scout in 1876 it opened the way and spy during the for world civil war and later wide communication as marshall in kansas network he was shot while holding a pair of aces and a pair of eight’s
- 7. Literacy tests- usedso blacks couldn’t vote, the blacks were asked more Ida b wells-she difficult became a editor questions than the white voters or of a local given a test in a whole different newspaper , laugage, officials racial justice was passed and failed whoever they the main theme wanted of her reportings 1880 1881 Ragtime- a blend of Booker t washinton- belived that racism african-american spritals would end once and european musical blacks acquired useful labor skills and forms provided their economic ragtime first became value to society, he started tuskegee popular in saloons and university in alabama soon evolved in what is it taught blacks useful skills in today agirculture called jazz, rock n roll, and the blues
- 8. Joseph pulitzer- a hungarianimmagrant who had brought the news paper to new york he pioneered popular Dawes act- this act broke up the innovations such as a large reservations and gave land to individual Sunday edition , native americans 160 acres each comic’s,sports, and womens news to the newpaper 1886 1887 1883 Samual gompers- led the cigar makers international unions to join with other craft unions, and was the american federation of labor with gompers as president focused on collective bargaining between represenitives of labor and management to reach a written agreements on wages, hours, and working conditions
- 9. George Eastman- heintroduced his kodak camera the purchase Wounded knee- on price was 25$ and December 28th the 7th included a roll of film, once the Calvary custers old flim was used up you could send regiment rounded up about the camera back to the 350 starving and freezing factory and for 10$ the pictures sioux and took them were devoleped and returned with to a camp at wounded the camera reloaded knee in south dakota 1888 1890 Ghostdance- this a was ritual dance that native Americans thought that it would bring their land back, the movement spread rapidly among the Sioux tribe
- 10. Vaudeville- african americans performers filled roles mainly in minstrel shows that feature Sherman trust act- exaggerated imitations of african made it illegal to american music and performance form a trust that music and dance to reinforce interfered with free black stereotypes trade between states or other countrys 1890 1892 Settlement Ellis island- it was the largest house- immagration community center in the u.s and largest one centers in slum on the nieborhoods east coast that provided assistance to people in the area especially immagrants
- 11. w.e.b dubois- thefirst African American to receive a doctorate from harvard strongly Mail order catalogs- the post disagreed with Washington office introduced gradually dubois founded the a free delivery system that niagara movement which brought packages insisted that blacks should seek a directly to every home liberal arts education so that the communtiy would have strong inteligent african americans 1895 1896 William randolph hearst- had purchased the new york morning jounal, hearst who had already owned the san francisiso examiner sought to out do pulitzer by putting exaggerated tales in the jounal
- 12. William jennings bryan-democratic nominee Plessy vs. ferguson- the editor of the omaha world herald, supreme court said that the he delivered separation of races In public an impassionate address to the was assembled delegates legal and didn’t violate any part of the 14th admendment they established the doctrine separate but equal 1896 William mckinley- republican nomination for president after much debate the democratic party came out in favor of the gold and sliver standred
- 13. Orville and wilburwright- brothers the wright brother’s were bicycle manufactures from dayton, ohio. They experimented with new engines powerful enough to keep heavyer than air crafts along, on december 17th 1903 at kitty hawk, nc their biplane covered 120ft and lasted 12 seconds 1905 1910 Angel island- in the san francisco bay over 50000 Chinese immagrants came through this island to get to american in the early 20th centurary