1877-1918

__**Top ten most Important Events:**__
 * US enter World War I-1917-Luke
 * Jim Crow Laws-1865-1900s-Phil
 * The Invention of the Light Bulb-1878-Clifford
 * The Spanish-American War-1898-Clifford
 * Indians War-Custer's last stand-1877-James
 * Lustitania sunk-1915-Luke
 * Panama Canal acquired-1904-Phil
 * Henry Ford established the assembly line-1913-James
 * Federal Bureau of Investigation established-1908-James
 * Sherman Anti-Trust Act-1890-Alex

__**Top ten most Important People:**__
 * Rutherford B. Hayes-Luke
 * William Mckinley-Luke
 * Andrew Carnegie-Clifford
 * Teddy Roosevelt-Clifford
 * William H. Taft-alex
 * John Rockefeller-alex
 * Thomas Edison-Alex
 * Wright Brothers-james
 * Henry Ford-phil
 * Woodrow Wilson-phillappotamus

__Important Events__ 
 * __Custers Last Stand-James__**
 * In 1873 General Custer relocated to the Dakota Territory to bring war to the Sioux.
 * Near the Little Bighorn River in eastern Montana Territory, On June 25 and 26, 1876 the most historic action of The Great Sioux War of1876.
 * Lt. Colonel George Custer and the Seventh Cavalry spotting the Sioux village about fifteen miles away along the Rosebud River on June 25, and another group of about forty warriors. Ignoring orders to wait, he decided to attack before they could alert the main party. He did not realize that the number of warriors in the village numbered three times his strength.
 * As the Indians closed in, Custer ordered his men to shoot their horses and stack the carcasses to form a wall, but they provided little protection against bullets. In less than an hour, Custer and his men were killed in the worst American military disaster ever.

**__The Invention of the Lightbulb:__**
 * The first electric light was made in 1800 by Humphrey Davis who was a English scientist
 * Later in 1860, the English physicist Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (1828-1914) was determined to devise a practical, long-lasting electric light
 * The inventor Thomas Alva Edison experimented with thousands of different filaments to find just the right materials to glow well and to last long
 * In 1879, Edison discovered that a carbon filament in an oxygen-free bulb glowed but did not burn up for 40 hours
 * Edison eventually produced a bulb that could glow for over 1500 hours


 * __FBI is Founded-James__**
 * On July 26, 1908, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is born when U.S. Attorney General Charles Bonaparte orders a group of newly hired federal investigators to report to Chief Examiner Stanley W. Finch of the Department of Justice.
 * One year later, the Office of the Chief Examiner was renamed the Bureau of Investigation, and in 1935 it became the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
 * Seeking to form an independent and more efficient investigative arm, in 1908 the Department of Justice hired 10 former Secret Service employees to join an expanded Office of the Chief Examiner. The date when these agents reported to duty--July 26, 1908--is celebrated as the genesis of the FBI, second Red Scare.
 * In 1956, Hoover initiated COINTELPRO, a secret counterintelligence program that initially targeted the U.S. Communist Party but later was expanded to infiltrate and disrupt any radical organization in America.
 * When the Department of Justice was created in 1870 to enforce federal law and coordinate judicial policy, it had no permanent investigators on its staff. At first, it hired private detectives when it needed federal crimes investigated and later rented out investigators from other federal agencies, such as the Secret Service




 * __The Spanish American War-1898:__**
 * conflict between Spain and the United States in 1898
 * result of American intervention in the ongoing Cuban War of Independence
 * american attack in the Pacific area was a cause of the Philippine-Ameirican War
 * the sinking of Maine in Havana Harbor was a mysterious but an outrage to the president for a war Wlliam McKinley wished to avoid
 * although the main issue was Cuban independence, the ten-week war was fought in both the Pacific and the Carribean
 * american naval power proved strong
 * the result was the 1898 Treaty of Paris,
 * negotiated on terms favorable to the U.S which allowed temporary American control of Cuba and authority over Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines


 * __Lusitania__ __Sunk 1915__**
 * The Lusitania was a British ocean liner who was attacked by German U-boats and sank within minutes
 * Killing nearly 2000 people
 * The sinking turned many countries againstGermany
 * The reason this event is important is because of how greatly it contributed to the U.S entry into world war one
 * __U.S enters World War One 1917__**
 * WW1 originated over the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand ofAustria
 * After unrestricted warfare and the attack atPearl Harborthe U.S joined the allied powers because of unrestricted submarine German warfare
 * Involvement in the war was a shift from the earlier stance of isolationism in the beginning of the war
 * As a result of the war technology and weapons were advancing rapidly on both allied and central powers
 * WW1 killed and wounded millions of soldiers as well as many civilians
 * The league of nations was also a result of WW1

__**Jim Crow Laws**__:
 * These were laws passed from 1865-1985 that made unfair laws towards African Americans
 * Mandated racial segregation
 * Democrats supported this while republicans supported racial equality
 * These were all overruled 1964
 * This was mostly in the south, but was also in the north.

__** Panama Canal acquired: **__
 * President Roosevelt was the first president
 * Mosquitoes and malaria was a huge problem during the construction
 * The way the canal was put into construction was very controversial, Roosevelt help a revolution and bought the strip of land.
 * The British had joint ownership of the canal
 * The land for the canal for a 10 mile strip of land.


 * __Sherman Antitrust Act__**
 * One major cause of this act was the public hostilities towards monopolies and large corporations in 1890
 * In the time of Benjamin Harrison's presidency high prices, trusts, and monopolies ruled companies. This act was put in place to insure that a limit on the growth of these companies was placed.
 * This act was the most meaningful and first U.S. antitrust acts
 * The Sherman Antitrust Act has two main sections. The first section is all about restrictions placed on trading. The second section is prohibiting obtaining a monopoly by anti-competitive methods or the abuse of monopolies.
 * This law forbids evry deal, contracts, scheme, conspiracy to restrain trade.

__**Andrew Carnegie:**__
 * __Top 10 Most Important people__**
 * an industrialist who was a huge part of the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century
 * most of his fortune was from his involvement in the steel industry
 * In the 1870s, he founded the Carnegie Steel Company
 * he was one of the most important philanthropists of his era
 * one of his two great innovations was in the cheap and efficient mass production of steel by adopting and adapting the Bessemer process for steel making
 * In the late 1880s Carnegie Steel was the largest manufacturer of pig iron and steel rails in the world, approximately producing 2,000 tons of pig metal per day



__**Teddy Roosevelt:**__ __**Rutherford B. Hayes **__
 * he is known for his outgoing personality personality, range of interests and achievements
 * he is known for his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" attitude and robust masculine behavior
 * he was a leader of the Republican Party and founder of the short-lived Bull Moose Party in 1912
 * led a small regiment in Cuba known as the Rough Riders
 * Mckinley died during presidency when led to Roosevelt being sworn in
 * Roosevelt added the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
 * stated that it was the responsibility of America to intervene with force if necessary in Latin America to enforce the Monroe Doctrine-known as Big Stick Diplomacy
 * Elected president in the election of 1876 and ended radical construction
 * Hayes led the U.S into the second industrial revolution as well as the second great awakening
 * Hayes wanted to abolish the civil service appointments which were conducted using the spoils system
 * Dealt with the compromise of 1877 as well as the great railroad strike of 1877
 * __William Mckinley__**
 * Served two terms as president and led America through the Spanish American war
 * Assassinated during his second presidential term
 * AnnexedHawaiiand passed the gold standard act in 1900
 * Created open door policy and led the U.S to obtaining the Philippines and other islands
 * __Henry Ford__**
 * Henry Ford introduced the model T to the public
 * The model T was the first car designed to be sold to the everyday man.
 * His belief was that everyone should own a car.
 * He also introduced the assembly line. This made his products cheaper and other peoples products cheaper.
 * The assembly line was an important invention to the modern industry because it made a huge complicated process of building an object such as a car, and just made many small simple jobs


 * __Woodrow Wilson__**
 * This was the president during of WW1
 * He was the first democrat in 24 years
 * Woodrow Wilson introduced the 14 points in WW2
 * Supported federal reserve act and helped pass it
 * He also was against monopolies and passed the antitrust acts.

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 * __Wright Brothers__**
 * U.S. inventors who achieved the first powered, sustained, and controlled airplane flight
 * The brothers first worked in printing-machinery design and later in bicycle manufacturing, which financed their early experiments in airplane design.
 * To test flight control, essential to successful powered flight, they built and flew three biplane gliders (190002). Propeller and engine innovations led to their first powered airplane, which Orville flew successfully for 12 seconds and Wilbur later flew for 59 seconds at Kill Devil Hills, N.C. (near the village of Kitty Hawk), on Dec. 17, 1903.
 * They demonstrated their planes in Europe and the U.S.; in 1908 Wilbur gave over 100 exhibition flights in France, setting a duration record of 2 hours and 20 minutes.
 * They established an aircraft company and produced planes for the U.S. Army. After Wilbur's death from typhoid, Orville sold his interest in the company, which later merged with the company of Glenn H. Curtiss.