PICK YOUR DECADEPICK YOUR TOPICPICK YOUR BOOK

Focus on main event but sprinkle it with

minor eventsELA & HISTORY

1900-1919Give or take a few

years

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

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Mrs. Wittmann

1920’sChanges in

technology and in society

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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

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BLACK TUESDAY

Recession and Depression

Social Security

CCC = Civilian Conservation Corps

Living in camps across all 48 states WHY???

Dust Bowl-New Deal

Black Blizzards, Life during the depression, Unions,

UnionsAFL CIO

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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1950’s

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame- Cleveland, Ohio

I LOVE LUCY

Marilyn Monroe

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