https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi 1865-2001 en-us 2018-09-28 14:09:01 UTC 2026-01-20 05:19:34 UTC hello@padlet.com kdonnell5 https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287655200  After the catastrophic Civil War which had cost both the North and the South, both money and casualties came subsequently came the phase of reconstruction. Reconstruction was viewed as either good or bad. Some of the people believed that reconstruction was good because it brought the 13th amendment which had secured the African Americans freedom, 14th amendment had given equal protection under the law, and 15th amendment had provided the African Americans the right to vote. But at the same time people viewed reconstruction as a bad thing.]]> 2018-10-01 14:58:21 UTC https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287655200 kdonnell5 https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287660697  The “Gilded age” was a period in U.S. history where very quick economic growth generated big riches for some but also corporate abuses and political break down. The word “gilded” means to cover with a little layer of gold so that the object would appear beautiful. During the Gilded Age, there were tons of immigrants coming from Europe and Asia. American’s were also trying to find rural farm areas, so there were many employees. To our country, we made progress from the Gilded age, but some people were becoming wealthy and some people were not, so that made a lot of people angry. We built railroads, such as the Transcontinental railroad.]]> 2018-10-01 15:05:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287660697 kdonnell5 https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287667804  During the period of the “Progressive Era”, citizens were fighting for the rights of Americans, they were pushing for social reform and legislation cause that would benefit working-class people for large corporations. The “progresses” were opposing big businesses, which started corrupting politics and society. This was a movement that led to a rise in big business and economics.  Many workers that were employed to work in steel factories were on the edge of poverty in this period of time.]]> 2018-10-01 15:14:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287667804 kdonnell5 https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287671756 During this period, America gained new lands in the  Pacific and Latin America.  America was accused of imperialism, or extending a nation’s control over the political and economic life of another nation. They were accused of this because of all the trading they did with other nations. The Americans argued that since there nation was more advanced than other societies, they had a mission to expand their land. This was also known as the “Manifest Destiny”.]]> 2018-10-01 15:19:31 UTC https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287671756 kdonnell5 https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287697588 The Wounded Knee Massacre was the marking of the end of organized American Indian resistance to the white culture that had arose in the New World centuries earlier.The Wounded Knee massacre was when the American Indians had divided into two factions, friendlies and hostilities. The hostile ghost dances, probably around 500 to 600 people, had came together in the northwest corner in the pine ridge reservation. Surrounded by 500 soldiers and four field pieces, the Sioux, numbering about 100 men and perhaps 200 women and children, were ready to be escorted to the railhead to be transferred to Omaha. But when Forsyth demanded all guns to be surrendered, the Sioux became angry and refused to comply. This resulted in a battle which had 190 Sioux soldiers either wounded or dead, while the army had about 65 dead or wounded.

]]> 2018-10-01 15:54:14 UTC https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287697588 kdonnell5 https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287698557 More than 2 million Americans were deployed in World War 1. World War 1 was an international conflict between the Allied Powers  (France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Russia, and the United States) And the Central Powers (Austria-Hungary, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire).  The Americans managed to stay out of the conflict for three years, but when they finally joined, They helped the allied powers become victorious. The war helped America get much more powerful economically and military wise.]]> 2018-10-01 15:55:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287698557 kdonnell5 https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287700948 Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack on the American Naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii. Around 8 am Japanese fighter jets started to plunge towards the naval base. They managed to destroy 20 vessels and over 300 airplanes during the attack. Around 2400 Americans died during the attack and 1000 were injured. The day after President Roosevelt and the Congress declared war on Japan.]]> 2018-10-01 15:59:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287700948 kdonnell5 https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287701997 The Battle of Guadalcanal  was the first major battle and decisive victory of the Allies in the Pacific in World War 2. The US Marines launched a surprise ambush on the Japanese troops who were stationed at a air base under construction. The US Marines lost 2000 of the 60000 troops deployed while Japan lost two thirds of the 31400 troops deployed there. The US wanted to take over this area to use it as the sea lines of communication between Australia and the US.

]]> 2018-10-01 16:00:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287701997 kdonnell5 https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287702777 At 6:30 am on the 6th of June 156,000 American, British, and Canadian troops invaded a 50 mile stretch of the heavily fortified beaches in Normandy, France. D-Day was one of the “largest amphibious attack” in world history. The battle required a broad amount of planning since they were crossing into enemy infested areas. At the end of the invasion there were over 4,000 American casualties but they successfully stormed Normandy’s beaches taking it over.]]> 2018-10-01 16:02:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287702777 kdonnell5 https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287703855 The Germans highest in command General Jodl signed the document stating that all German forces had surrendered. They did this in Reims which is located in North Western France. At first the General only wanted to surrender the eastern troops but General Eisenhower forced a complete surrender of all forces. Jodl radioed Hitler’s successor who forced him to sign these terms which meant World War 2 was over and the Allies had won.]]> 2018-10-01 16:03:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287703855 kdonnell5 https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287894171 On August 6th and American B-29 bomber bombed the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The immediate impact killed over 80,000 people and tens of thousands would die later due to radiation from the bomb. 3 days later another American B-29 would bomb Nagasaki another city in Japan killing about 40,000 people. After these events Japanese Emperor Hirohito surrendered in World War II in a radio address stating the devastating  power of the “worlds new and most cruel bomb”. ]]> 2018-10-01 23:06:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287894171 kdonnell5 https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287896458 The Cold war was a war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. They were both military superpowers, but they had opposite ideologies. The U.S., Capitalism and Democracy, while Soviet Union’s government was based off communism. The U.S. was afraid that communism was going to spread. If they lost this war, it probably would. Thankfully, The U.S. army was able to win the war. ]]> 2018-10-01 23:24:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287896458 kdonnell5 https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287897159  The Vietnam war had the communist Northern Vietnam and the Viet Cong against South Vietnam and the United States. They fought in Vietnam and around the border of Cambodia and Laos. Around 2,500,000 North and South Vietnam soldiers died and 58,000 American soldiers died. The war ended in a Northern Vietnam victory. Vietnam were put under a Communist power two years later.]]> 2018-10-01 23:30:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287897159 kdonnell5 https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287897629 The fifties was a time where soldiers were coming back from war to re-establish their lives. The fifties was right after World War 2 and The Cold War. The 1950s marked a period of economic growth, and middle class. The Americans did not need the defenses for war anymore so the Americans were ready to put their savings to good use and return to  their regular lives.]]> 2018-10-01 23:34:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287897629 kdonnell5 https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287897965 In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of a big crowd at Lincoln Memorial and delivered his famous I have a dream speech. He stated that even though slavery was abolished over 100 years ago African Americans were still not free. He had said racial segregation had mad social and economic achievements hard to achieve. This speech will be remembered as one of the most iconic and meaningful speech in American history.]]> 2018-10-01 23:37:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287897965 kdonnell5 https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287898478 Richard Nixon resigned from the presidency in the middle of the Watergate scandal and left behind the nation, in crisis.  The confidence in the U.S. government was shaken a bit after the loss of the Vietnam war. After the Watergate, Americans struggled with the hard truth that they had been deceived by their officials. It was up to Nixon’s  immediate successors (Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter) to pull the nation back together. The problem was, there challenge was complicated because of economic issues. There was a lot of concern over pollution and toxic waste all over the country.]]> 2018-10-01 23:41:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287898478 kdonnell5 https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287898820  The close of the 20th century was about political and economic developments.  Bill Clinton was the second president in the U.S. to be impeached by the house of  House of representative a. He took office in 1991, and the Impeachment was initiated by the House of Representatives in 1998, which led to led to a trial in the Senate for the impeachment  of Bill Clinton. He was impeached on two charges. One was for perjury and one was for obstruction of justice.]]> 2018-10-01 23:43:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287898820 kdonnell5 https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287899475 9/11 was a tragic day in USA history. On this day the Islamic group al-Qaeda hijacked 4 planes. Two planes hit into both of the twin towers and one hit the Pentagon. The last plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Over 3,000 people were killed during the attack. This triggered president George W. Bush and the US to do something about terrorism.]]> 2018-10-01 23:49:55 UTC https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/287899475 kdonnell5 https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/288219957 The 1960's was a decade of great change and growth for the United States. The nation saw itself in the midst of a new war in Vietnam, and culture wars were being fought at home, with the Civil Rights Movement escalating and new youth subcultures emerging that rejected the values of the past. Abroad, the United States was embroiled in Cold War efforts to fight the spread of communism. Meanwhile, domestic priorities focused on ensuring that all American citizens, regardless of social status, could enjoy the benefits of a democratic society. Over the course of the decade, public attitudes shifted away from war and global conflict and instead turned to social issues at home, such as feminism and race relations.]]> 2018-10-02 16:01:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/288219957 kdonnell5 https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/288269871 The Conservative Tide -  The election of 1980 was the turning point of Conservatism vs Democratic. More people were beginning to change their view of politics from Democrat to Conservative. In the election the Conservative Ronald Reagan had won showing the change in view.]]> 2018-10-02 17:21:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/288269871 kdonnell5 https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/288277305 On April 4 Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. This event lead to a lot of mourning from Americans especially those who wanted equal rights for African Americans. After this the Government passed an equal housing bill which was the last movement of the Civil Rights era granting everyone equal rights.]]> 2018-10-02 17:32:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/288277305 kdonnell5 https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/288415797 The Great Depression was in 1929 and lasted for about a decade and was the worst economic downturn in US history. In the years leading up to Black Tuesday, the United States was in great excitement. World War I was a event of the past, and the automobile, film, and radio industries boomed as people had more money to spend than ever. When the party came to an abrupt end with the stock market crash it came as a surprise to many. Many people went to their bank to withdraw their money due to the stocks dropping. The banks did not have enough money to give everyone their money back so a lot of people went broke.

]]> 2018-10-03 00:25:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/288415797 avaleiko1 https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/288416095 The period from 1865 to 1900 stood out in U.S. history as a time of great development for  economic, social, and political reasons. The United States was largely a nation of agriculture and rural farming, but following the Civil War and the rise of industrial revolution the US so it developed more urban sensibilities. Cities boomed as immigrants from around the world came  to the United States looking for better lives to make a living. 

]]> 2018-10-03 00:27:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/288416095 avaleiko1 https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/288417924 Women’s rights have been neglected in the past so in 1848 some women tried to get equal rights for everyone. The women had been angry because just as Reconstruction had given the right of freed slaves to vote, women’s rights had been pushed to the side. This made them angry because there were slaves that got the right to vote before them. So they started the Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls New York. Which they got what they wanted and the 19th amendment got passed giving women the right to vote.]]> 2018-10-03 00:40:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kdonnell5/cektlw2njfmi/wish/288417924