1900-1914

Upton Sinclair was a Muckraker which is a name given to the first American writers in the early 20th century who exposed corruption and scandals in business and politics. Upton Sinclair wrote a book the “The Jungle”. One part of the story told them how dead rats were put in shoveled into sausage grinding machines. He also wrote how cow’s guts and filth were taken off the floor and put in a box and shipped as potted ham. Upton Sinclair wanted people to be vegetarians. So when the people read the book they would think that it was very gross. Will Signor and Joe Speelmen 1.) Spanish-American War A “splendid little war” between the United States and Spain that started on April 25th and ended on August 12th, 1898. The conflict was started when the United States became involved in the conflict between the Spanish and the inhabitants of Cuba. When the USS Maine went to Cuba to project American and exploded in the harbor the United States blamed the Spanish and declared war. The war was relatively short and one-sided since the United States was a rising world power and the Spanish were losing their long-held empire. When the conflict concluded the United States won Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. Filipinos that expected independence after the defeat of the Spanish were disappointed by the U.S. occupation and fought a violent rebellion which was brutally suppressed.
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2.) Jim Crow The Jim Crow Laws are "de jure segregation" which means "separate but equal". Jim Crow laws were segregation of public schools, public places and public transportation. Places were seperate but not completely equal. For example, on a bus white people could over rule a black person and take their seats. Even if it was in the back of the bus, which was supposed to be the "black section". Another example is in schools, white kids got better books and supplies than the black kids. The black kids would get hand-me down books. Jim Crow laws lasted from 1876 to 1965. Jim Crow laws completely ended due to the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act in 1965. President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act on July 2, 1964. The Civil Rights Act made discrimination illegal and ask business owners to give equal opportunity employment. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott, to help stop segregation. After the boycott, there was still segregation in some parts of the south so the Congress of Racial Equality organized Freedom Rides.
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3.)Women’s Suffrage Movement Women's Suffrage- In the early 19th century may women were second-class citizens because their life only consisted of taking care of their homes and their familys. Many women after they were married were not allowed to own property, maintain wages, sign a contract, or even vote. Many women in the 19th century had to be independent on their husbands. Women were not allowed to travel or better yet speak in public. Women had to listen to their husbands at all times and the women were inferior to their husbands. Alice Paul and The National Women's Party begun using more tactics to work for a federal suffrage amendment to the constitution. The women staged the white house with large marches and demonstrations, going to jail. While these women were going on march they would strave their self the whole time through out the march and the police forced tubes down the womens throat so that they could eat. Thousands of women took part in these marches. In 1913 Paul led a march of eight thousand women on President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration day. During the second inaugural Paul led a march around the White House. During World War 1, when women took up jobs in factories to support the war, as well as taking more active roles in the war than in previous wars. After the war, even the more restrained National American Woman Suffrage Association, headed by Carrie Chapman Catt, took many opportunities to remind the President, and the Congress, that women's war work should be rewarded with recognition of their political equality. Wilson responded by beginning to support woman suffrage. On June 4, 1919, the United States Senate also endorsed the Amendment, voting 56 to 25, and sending the amendment to the states. And so on August 26, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution became law, and women could vote in the fall elections, including in the Presidential election. \
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4.) Panama Canal  The Panama canal is man made it runs though panama and joins the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. It is one of the largest and most difficult enfineering projects ever undertaken. The canal cuts the trip around cape horn in half. The canal was 48 miles long and while building it 27,500 workmen where estimated to have died while working.  By the 1930s it was seen that water supply would be an issue for the canal; this prompted the building of the Madden Dam across the Chagres River above Gatun Lake . 

5.) Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelth Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States after William McKinley was assassinated in 1901. He was a leader of the Republican party and progressive movement. Before he became the president he was the governor of New York. He was well known in historian, naturist, exploring, hunter and author, also a soldier against Spain in 1898. Theodore had made Congress to pass the pure food and drug act also the meat inspection act, making it safe to eat and use.Theofore pressured panama to make the canal, it cast $10 million whitch would help the us navy to make it strounger. Theodore was born in gramercy section of New York City on October 27, 1858 also grow up there. Alice Hathaway lee was his first wife had one kid Alice Roosevelt. He also went to Harvard university and studied science, philosophy and rhetoric.


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This was his group that he served with. 6.) Booker T. Washington Booker T. Washinton wrote a book in 1901 called Up from Slavery whitch was his autobiography. Booker T. Washinton became a teacherin Tinkersville, West Virginia but only for three years,in 1878 booker left Tinkersville to attend Wayland Seminary in Washington DC, but quit after six months. In 1881 Booker was asked to become prinicpal of a new school called Tuskegee Institute,Alabama. September,1895, Washington gave his speech at the opening of the Cotton States and International Expostion in Atlanta was reported by the countrys newspapers and his speech became a national figure. Washington died at the age of 59 years.
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7.) W.E.B. Dubois 8.) Muckraker (Upton Sinclair)





=**Upton Sinclair was a Muckraker which is a name given to the first American writers in the early 20th century who exposed corruption and scandals in business and politics. Upton Sinclair wrote a book the “The Jungle”. One part of the story told them how dead rats were put in shoveled into sausage grinding machines. He also wrote how cow’s guts and filth were taken off the floor and put in a box and shipped as potted ham. Upton Sinclair wanted people to be vegetarians. So when the people read the book they would think that it was very gross. Will Signor and Joe Speelmen **= 9.) Yellow Journalist (Hearst, Pulitzer) 
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Joseph Pulitzer controlled the world, the New York World that is. The New York World was a newspaper full of //yellow journalism//. William Randolph Hearst, Pulitzer’s rival in the business world, had the New York Journal and was also guilty of using yellow journalism to attract readers. Yellow journalism is rip-off news that sacrifices real information to make news more interesting and get more readers. Writers exaggerated stories and made a big deal out of small things just so that they would have more news and more readers than their competitors had. The battle between Pulitzer and Hearst to have the most readers peaked from about 1895 to about 1898 and the phrase “yellow kid journalism” was coined in 1897. 10.) Bull Moose Party 11.) Temperance Movement 12.) Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson was born on December 28th, 1856. Staunton, Virginia, and died February 3, 1924 at age 67 in Washington D.C. He was president from March 4, 1914-March 4, 1921. He was president during WWI. He tried to maintain the neutrality He proved highly successful in leading a Democratic [|Congress] to pass major [|legislation] that included the [|Federal Trade Commission], the [|Clayton Antitrust Act] , the [|Underwood Tariff] , the [|Federal Farm Loan Act] and most notably the [|Federal Reserve System] . Even though you know Woodrow Wilson as one of our founding fathers you would think he as the President of the United States of America would never be a racist but unfortunately he was. Because during his time of presidency there were African American workers working for the government at that time and so he fired all the African American workers which showed how much of a racist he was.

13.) Election of 1912
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Election of 1912 Dylan Riley = The United States had a big election in 1912 between three major candidates. One was William Howard Taft a republican from Ohio. another one was Theodore Roosevelt a progressive from New York the progressive party is called the bull moose party. And the other one was Woodrow Wilson a Democrat from New Jersey. Woodrow won with a huge majority 42%. Roosevelt was president from 1904 to1908 and he didnt want to run again so William Taft won and then he was up to be elected again and that is when Woodrow Wilson ran and Roosevelt ran again and Woodrow came out on top. Wilson was only 1 of 2 Democrats to be elected between 1860 and 1932. The republicans were always getting elected over top of democrats. 14.) John Muir || || || || Image:John Muir Cane.JPG || || || Image:John Muir Cane.JPG || || ||  || || Image:JohnMuirHome.jpg || || || Image:JohnMuirHome.jpg || h || ||  || || Image:Muir and Roosevelt restored.jpg || || || Image:Muir and Roosevelt restored.jpg || John Muir was born on April 21, 1838 in Scotland and died on December 24, 1914. He was best known as an early advocate of conservation of U.S. wilderness. He wrote books, letters and essay about his adventure in nature, and wildlife especially in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of CA. He helped to save the Yosemite, sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra club, which he founded, is now one of the most important conservation organizations in the United States. His writings and philosophy strongly influenced the formation of the modern environmental movement . 15.) William Jennings Bryan “Cross of Gold” 16.) Birth of a Nation 17.) Pancho Villa   **__PANCHO VILLA__** **    Born as Dorote Arango Arámbula but best know as Pancho Villa was a Mexican Revolutionary General. To the poor peasant Mexicans he is know as a hero, but the Americans on the other hand see him as a bandit. Mexicans saw Pancho Villa as a hero because he was like a modern-day Robin Hood. He would steal cattle, rob shipments of money, commit crimes against the wealthy. Everything he stole he would give to the poor peasants. All of this stared when he was 16-years old working at a hacienda he saw the owner of the hacienda rape his younger sister. When he saw this he shot the man and ran away and became a bandit. Living as bandit Villa joined with Franciso Madero revolutionary forces. They together formed the Dicision del Norte. The skills that Villa had as a fighter and the skills of a leader he was made a general. When Venustiano Carranza was running for presidency, Pancho Villa he wasn't very happy. The US government supported Carranza and his presidency so Villa retaliated by raiding the US border towns. The US goverment for years tried to find him to but couldn't. He lived in Parral,Chihuahlua until he was assassinated in July 20, 1923.**   = = = =   **BY: CRISTAL MENDEZ and BROOK SANDERS**   = =    = =     18.) Federal Reserve = = = = ||  || || external image Organiztion_of_the_Federal_Reserve_System.jpg || ||  || || external image Federal_Reserve.jpg || ||  || || external image Fed_Reserve.JPG || Federal Reserve-  The Federal Reserve System is the central banking used across America but is located in Washington DC. The bank was started in 1913. There are 13 other branches to the system that are located in major cities all over the United States. The Federal Reserve System was made for the simple fact of all of America’s government would be placed in the bank; Woodrow Wilson was the president at the time to pass this law. The main headquarters is in Washington DC, the chairman is a man named Ben Bernanke; the currency is the US dollar. The Base borrow rate of the system is 2% and the base deposit rate is 3.5%. The whole purpose for this bank to be made is to address the bank panics. Cody Redding and Serena Cucuzza = ==