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Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth
The Gospel Wealth is an article written by Andrew Carnegie that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the upper, more fortunate members of society. The opening of Carnegie Hall in April of 1981 sparked the new found spirit of giving back. With new public facilities and improvement of the general welfare, The Gospel of Wealth served as a foundation for all future philanthropy. -
Homestead Steel Strike
The Homestead Strike was an industrial lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents. This was one of the most serious disputes in history and ended in victory for the Union. Henry Clay Frick’s actions in regards to the ended the uproar but spurred on a new sense of self respect for factory workers. This spurred countless strikes in the labor industry still present today. -
US Enters World War I
After 2 years of President Woodrow Wilson’s attempts at maintaining neutrality, America formally entered World War I in April 1917. Before joining the war America had been supplying Britain with goods, until tensions with Germany rose causing the US’s entry. The sinking of the Lusitania was a key factor in the US’ decision along with the brutal war impending on Europe. This not only aided the Allied Powers, but took world a step closer to being out of the War. -
Fourteen Points
The document, outlined in a January 8, 1918 speech was a statement of fundamentals that was created by Woodrow Wilson aimed at negotiating peace and ultimately ending World War I. The document in essence was a list compiled terms and agreements in regards to the War and also enclosed details involving foreign policy. The document set a basis for life after the war concerning Germany and lead to the final dissolvement of the war at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. -
Temperance Movement
Occurring in the late 1920s, the Temperance Movement was a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages mainly led by women. An uproar of women furious about the drinking habits of their husbands led to the creation of the movement and ultimately the 18th Amendment which was ratified on January 16, 1919. The movement lead to a sharp incline of women’s voice in society and spurred a new found sense of independence for women. -
Dawes Act
The Dawes Act, instituted on August 1 1924 authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. The act was created by Henry Lauren's Dawes and meant to take the Native Indians out of poverty in a hopes to assimilate them to the american lifestyle.There was a major negative effect on the Indians, but overall served as a supplement to the industrialization of the Nation as a whole. -
The Holocaust
The Holocaust, lasting from 1933 to 1945, was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews The victims included 1.5 million children and represented about two-thirds of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe. This set back German relations with the rest of the world and was an extremely relevant detail in regards to World War I. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The bombing of Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the Territory of Hawaii. The base was attacked by 353 Imperial Japanese fighter planes, bombers, and torpedo planes in two waves, launched from six aircraft carriers. While the US suffered a great deal of casualties, an even greater effect was the US entry into the 2nd world war as a result. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. Originall it was formed as an alliance against the Soviet Union. This organization was countered by the Warsaw Pact and further set back Soviet/Us relations. This set a hidden policy that an attack against one was an attack against all and essentially another war. This worked to hold off war as well as set the foundation for a new foreign policy for the world. -
MOST SIGNIFICANT EVENT - Part 1 : Civil Rights Movement
I feel that the Civil Rights Movement was the most important event in history because it truly changed the course of our Nation. With the amount of lives changed there is no real competition. Concerning one of the most widely disputed issues in the history of our world, still present today, the social movement truly shaped our society. Encompassing multiple events, such as Brown vs. Board of Education, the revolution was incredibly crucial in creating the world we live in today. -
MOST SIGNIFICANT EVENT - Part 2: Civil Rights Movement
Lead by countless important figureheads (MLK Jr., Rosa Parks) the movement changed the lives of African Americans. They were given the right to vote, to citizenship and their right to freedom which is incomprehensible how it was once believed that the opposite could ever be morally correct. This was the most important turning point in American History simply because an era of equality was set into motion. No longer was segregation the norm, rather social acceptance and peace. -
Rosa Parks is Arrested
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. This single act of nonviolent resistance sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, an eleven-month struggle to desegregate the city's buses. Rosa Parks’ actions lead to the mass protest that ended segregation on busses. She served as inspiration to all others who were fighting segregation and was a key figurehead in the fight against racism. -
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Aided by the efforts of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Brown vs. Board of Education case, the 9 students were the first to impactfully fight segregation. The Little Rock Nine was a revolutionary time do the high racial tensions facing our world. This was the precursor for all means of integration to follow and truly began to chip away at the issue of racism. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on April 17, 1961, and was intended to overthrow the increasingly communist government of Fidel Castro. The invasion embarrassed the Kennedy administration, and made the future of US intervention in Cuba wary. This event can be tied to the greatest nuclear weapon scare in history, The Cuban Missile Crisis. -
Reaganomics
Used to refer to the economic policies of Ronald Reagan, Reaganomics called for widespread tax cuts, decreased social spending, increased military spending, and the deregulation of domestic markets from 1981-1989. With rates of unemployment decreasing and the GDP increasing, Reaganomics were important economics policies that brought the second longest peacetime economic expansion in U.S. history. This help set up our world for a better future. -
Attack on World Trade Center
The Attacks on the World Trade Center were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks by Al-Qaeda on the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks targeted the Pentagon and The ‘Twin Towers’. The two planes hitting the World Trade center were devastating, causing immense damage and casualties. The attacks spurred the Global War on Terror with aftermath still surfacing today.
