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Pick your decade Pick your topic Pick your book. Focus on main event but sprinkle it with minor events ELA & HISTORY. 1900-1919 Give or take a few years. San Francisco Earthquake 1906. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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PICK YOUR DECADEPICK YOUR TOPICPICK YOUR BOOK
Focus on main event but sprinkle it with
minor eventsELA & HISTORY
San Francisco Earthquake1906
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911
Industries That Transformed Our Nation
Railroads caused our 4 time zones!!!
Oil dominated by John D. Rockefeller
Steel dominated by Andrew Carnegie (Make a Connection: Superman=man of steel)
What group of people immigrated as a result of RR’
Who, What, Where, Why,
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes”.Benjamin Franklin16th AmendmentPasses 1909 ratified 1913
Prohibition SPEAKEASY
The Eighteenth Amendment1917 passed 1919 ratified Pg649, 653
Women Win New RightsProgressive Era
Susan B. Anthony Nineteenth Amendment
Suffrage Carrie Nation College!!!!
Passed by Congress before 1920 but ratified by states after 1920
Ratified = given official approval and starts to take effect
AND NOW A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR
Mrs. Wittmann
1920’sChanges in
technology and in society
ImmigrationEllis Island
May 19, 1921 - 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.
Roaring Twenties - New Roles for Women
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".
1920-1930 -1940’sAfrican American Baseball League
1930’s
The Great Depression
,
BLACK TUESDAY
Recession and Depression
CCC = Civilian Conservation Corps
Living in camps across all 48 states WHY???
Dust Bowl-New Deal
Black Blizzards, Life during the depression, Unions,
Child Labor in U.S.A.
1938 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Fair Labor Standards Act, which includes putting limits on many forms of child labor.
And now ….
Here is Mrs.
Wittmann
1940’s
The All-American Girls Softball League emerged in the spring of 1943.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKgwNhGZSf8
Manhattan Project
Pearl Harbor
Atomic BombHiroshima, Nagasaki
Japanese Interment Camps
United Nations
The next message is brought to you by
1950’s
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame- Cleveland, Ohio
Will Rogers Highway
Civil Rights-1954 Amendment 14
was passed as a result of Brown Vs. Board of Education.
One thing leads to another…decade
The Cold War Eisenhower and The Road Act of 1956
Space Race – Sputnik is launched!
Bet you wish we served
1960’s
She’s still popular!!!
Now he is too!!!
History of Cuba’s relationship with U.S.
President Kennedy, Bay of Pigs, April
1961
The Great Society Equal Rights for…. WOMEN (N.O.W.) Mexican American Farm workers I Have a Dream
President Kennedy
Vietnam War
Vietnam WarGuerrila Warfare
Napalm –Agent Orange
26th Amendment21 down to 18 years old
That’s one small step…July 1969
Ok, book time
1970’s
Save the Environment
Three Mile Island Nuclear Disaster
First oil spill
200 Years Old!!!!!!
1980’S
Berlin Wall come down
President Reagan and wife Nancy
Rubik Cube becomes popular!
Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
Bill ClintonNATO Expands
Summer Olympics in Atlanta
April 24, 1990 - The Hubble Telescope is placed into orbit by the United States Space Shuttle Discovery. One month later, the telescope becomes operational.
NOW
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