Focus on main event but sprinkle it with minor events ELA & HISTORY

Give or take a few years

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911

 Railroads caused our 4 time zones!!!  Oil dominated by John D. Rockefeller  Steel dominated by Andrew Carnegie (Make a Connection: Superman=man of steel)

Who, What, Where, Why,

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes ”. Benjamin Franklin 16 th Amendment Passes 1909 ratified 1913

 SPEAKEASY The Eighteenth Amendment 1917 passed 1919 ratified Pg649, 653

 Susan B. Anthony  Nineteenth Amendment  Suffrage  Carrie Nation  College!!!!

 Ratified = given official approval and starts to take effect

Mrs. Wittmann

1920’s Changes in technology and in society

May 19, A national quota system on the amount of incoming immigrants is established by the United States Congress in the Emergency Quota Act, curbing legal immigration.

Amelia Earhart Birth of Flight

Charles Lindberg May 1927 In March 1932, his infant son, Charles, Jr., was kidnapped and murdered in what was soon dubbed the "Crime of the Century".was kidnapped and murdered"Crime of the Century"

African American Baseball League

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 Recession and Depression

 Living in camps across all 48 states WHY???

Black Blizzards, Life during the depression, Unions,

1938 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Fair Labor Standards Act, which includes putting limits on many forms of child labor.

 Here is Mrs. Wittmann

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame- Cleveland, Ohio

Marilyn Monroe

Will Rogers Highway

 Amendment 14 was passed as a result of Brown Vs. Board of Education.

 The Cold War  Eisenhower and The Road Act of 1956  Space Race – Sputnik is launched!

1960’s She’s still popular!!! Now he is too!!!

President Kennedy, Bay of Pigs, April 1961

 Equal Rights for….  WOMEN (N.O.W.)  Mexican American Farm workers  I Have a Dream

Three Mile Island Nuclear Disaster First oil spill

Berlin Wall come down President Reagan and wife Nancy

April 24, The Hubble Telescope is placed into orbit by the United States Space Shuttle Discovery. One month later, the telescope becomes operational.