timeline gavin rea by Gavin Rea https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43 en-us 2022-11-18 20:55:25 UTC 2023-03-02 20:54:37 UTC hello@padlet.com flatiron building built 1902 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2418281991 the Flatiron Building was one of New York's first skyscrapers, it was also the first steel-skeleton structure skyscrapers. The structural engineers reinforced the frame to ensure that the slender building would withstand any gusts of wind. this led to bigger buildings everywhere]]> 2022-12-12 19:22:15 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2418281991 lewis and clark expedition 1804 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2418288708 The point of the lewis and clark expedition was to find a trail to the pacific coastline, and to mark and draw all of the new plants and animals in the recently purchased land. this caused the us to move more westward marking westward expansion. which caused people to move west to be more like the cowboys in the cartoons and the books because it made the west seem perfect in every way.]]> 2022-12-12 19:28:02 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2418288708 Zebulon pike sees the rocky mountains 1806 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2418296035 during the early parts of november general zebulon pike and his crew climb a tall mountain and he saw a super tall mountain which he named after himself pikes peak.]]> 2022-12-12 19:34:13 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2418296035 battle of tippecanoe 1811 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2418302643 the native american were being pushed off their land and they did not like it so they went to one of the american camps and attacked it. which led the americans to attack the women and children of one of the native american camps, which in turn led to the battle of tippecanoe which was lost by the native americans.]]> 2022-12-12 19:39:40 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2418302643 missouri compromise 1820 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2418307386 during this time the states were deciding whether or not to become slave states so the missouri compromise was make which made missouri a slave state while simultaneously making maine a non-slave state keeping the balance between the slave and non-slave states.]]> 2022-12-12 19:43:44 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2418307386 erie canal is finished 1825 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2418312167 the erie canal is the longest man-made canal of its time which was used to move people and items upward and down river, it made travel much easier especially because around this time the first steam engine boats were being made.]]> 2022-12-12 19:48:03 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2418312167 peter cooper designs the first locomotive 1830 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2418315999 peter cooper designed the first steam locomotive or steam engine which is very helpful and caused people and goods to be transported across the vast plains and hills of the usa very fast. ]]> 2022-12-12 19:51:37 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2418315999 indian removal act 1830 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2418320879 The Indian Removal Act was approved by President Andrew Jackson. in turn making it so that he could give indians land that was west of the mississippi river in exchange for land that they had inside the states. ]]> 2022-12-12 19:55:39 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2418320879 battle of the alamo 1836 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2418326404 during this time people were moving into the texas area which was still owned by the mexican government and the mexicans where ok with this at first but after a while they started to tax and force laws on the texans so they revolted and the battle was started, it lasted 13 days and in the end texas won and became its own country for a little bit and then was like "hey can we become americans" and the usa said yes so then texas became a state.]]> 2022-12-12 20:00:21 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2418326404 mexican-american war 1846 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2418330897 after the usa got texas the mexican-american war started because mexico still wanted texas and america wanted more of the land that mexico had so the war started and it was ultimately won by the americans who got all of the land.]]> 2022-12-12 20:04:25 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2418330897 mormons settle utah 1847 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2418335764 the mormons who were looking for a place to settle, found the great salt lake in utah and thought it was a good place for the church of jesus christ. causing more mormons to move to utah to find the church.]]> 2022-12-12 20:08:53 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2418335764 gold found in california 1848 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2418339300 during this time there was a lot of gold found in california causing the california gold rush. where people were coming from everywhere hoping to strike rich but sadly most of the people did not strike rich.]]> 2022-12-12 20:12:40 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2418339300 dred scott case 1859 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2419391745 the supreme court decided to uphold slavery in the united states and denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to not be in use.
because of this dred scott tried and tried to fight it but he ultimately lost and he ended up in jail]]> 2022-12-13 15:50:22 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2419391745 election of 1860 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2419401936 in the election were 4 people: abraham lincoln, john breckinridge, john bell, and stephen douglas all of them for different parties. during this election abraham lincoln was going with the ban on slavery for his votes, and using that he won by a landslide getting more electoral and popular votes than any of the other 3 candidates.]]> 2022-12-13 15:56:36 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2419401936 shots fired at ft. sumter 1861 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2419415192 during this time the southern states had seceded and decided to make the confederate states just so that they can keep slavery. they were close enough that they decided to start firing at a union fort nearby which was ft. sumter, the president said not to fire back because he did not want to spark a war but after a while it got too bad and they fired back sparking the civil war. ]]> 2022-12-13 16:05:28 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2419415192 emancipation proclamation 1862 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2419420209 President Lincoln made the Emancipation Proclamation in the middle of the Civil War, announcing on September 22, 1862, that if the confederates did not end the fighting and rejoin the Union by January 1, 1863, all slaves in the seceded states would be free.]]> 2022-12-13 16:08:44 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2419420209 battle of gettysburg 1863 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2419750649 during the civil war the confederates met with the union and had a massive battle, one of the biggest in the war. this turned out to be a crushing defeat for the confederates. at the end of it all the confederacy suffered 28,000 casualties while the union suffered 23,000 casualties, marking one of the most casualties in one a single battle in US history. ]]> 2022-12-13 20:23:52 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2419750649 appomattox court house 1865 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2419757456 in the appomattox court house robert e. lee signed the papers saying that he had given up and the confederate army surrendered. this caused the union to be remade and the slaves in the south to be free. this also caused the states to un-secede and the union to start rebuilding th usa.]]> 2022-12-13 20:31:35 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2419757456 15th amendment ratified 1870 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2419760572 after the civil war lincoln had an idea to give black americans and slaves right and the ability to vote. sadly he never got to see it through because he got killed by john wilkes booth. but andrew johnson and ulysses s. grant saw it through and make the 15th amendment for slaves and black americans to have rights. ]]> 2022-12-13 20:35:22 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2419760572 custer's last stand 1876 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2419764292 at little bighorn river, custer and his men were ambushed by the sioux warriors and they were badly outnumbered, but they still fought back. because of this custer and his men were found dead along with their horses.]]> 2022-12-13 20:40:05 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2419764292 invention of the electric powered vacuum cleaner 1901 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2419770587 In 1907 a janitor in ohio named James Murray Spangler invented the first portable electric vacuum cleaner. this caused people to not only like cleaning but it led the way for many more electronic vacuums to come.]]> 2022-12-13 20:48:33 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2419770587 henry ford introduces the model t 1908 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2419772947 during this time it was very rare that people would have cars and if they did they were very hard to make, so henry ford took that and made the model T the first assembly line car ever. this made it so much cheaper and faster to make cars that a lot more people owned them after a little while. ]]> 2022-12-13 20:51:43 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2419772947 first automobile invented 1886 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2419776524 Carl Benz made the first vehicle powered by a gas engine. it was called the Benz Patent Motor Car, model no. 1. which was a huge breakthrough in the automobile world because it was the first non-horse drawn carriage and it was super popular, all of the rich people had one and it caused the starting point for many cars to come. ]]> 2022-12-13 20:56:31 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2419776524 first electrical generating station 1882 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2420687458 On September 30 the world's first hydroelectric power plant was opened on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin. The plant was used for powering the different electronic items around it. this caused people to make bigger and better ones.]]> 2022-12-14 15:16:03 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2420687458 wright brothers fly first airplane 1903 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2420770815 this time was the first time that the airplane had been successful the wright brothers had spent years trying to make a man fly and finally they did it, this caused travel to be way faster. ]]> 2022-12-14 16:15:16 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2420770815 thomas edison invents the phonograph 1878 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2420850997 The technology that made the modern music business possible was invented in New Jersey where Thomas Edison created the first device to both record sound and play it back. this led to modern music being possable.]]> 2022-12-14 17:13:47 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2420850997 alexander graham bell invents the telephone 1876 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2420854484 alexander invented the telephone in 1876 which was a huge achievement for him because it was able to communicate over long distances. this led to it being remade over and over until the modern day phone was made. ]]> 2022-12-14 17:16:29 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2420854484 cuban revolution 1959 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2441384914
The Cuban Revolution was an armed revolt in the mid 1950's. It was led by Fidel Castro against the government of Fulgencio Batista. The revolt took place between 1953 and 1959.
]]> 2023-01-11 19:56:16 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2441384914 yalta conference 1945 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2441391015 At Yalta, the leaders of the soviet union, usa, and british agreed that after Germany's surrender it would be divided into four zones controlled by U.S., British, French and Soviet union. The city of Berlin would also be divided into similar zones.]]> 2023-01-11 20:01:32 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2441391015 marshall plan 1947 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2441398828 the marshall plan was a Plan that assisted in European economic recovery in order for them to rebuild and also so they would owe us in the next wars or other worldwide struggles.]]> 2023-01-11 20:08:36 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2441398828 la violencia, columbia 1948 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2461968651 La violencia was a ten-year civil war in columbia from 1948 to 1958, between the colombian conservative party and the colombian liberal party, that started with the assassination of jorge eliecer the liberal party candidate.]]> 2023-01-30 19:16:11 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2461968651 israel established 1948 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2461977206 On may 14 1948 the British Mandate over Palestine expired, the Jewish People's Council gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum, and approved the following proclamation, declaring the establishment of the State of Israel. Right after this in the same year 5 arab nations tryd to invade.]]> 2023-01-30 19:21:57 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2461977206 nato formed 1949 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2461977873 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or nato were officially laid down on april 4th 1949 with the signing of the Washington Treaty. together they made a pact that they would prevent the spread of communism from the soviet union]]> 2023-01-30 19:22:27 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2461977873 people's republic of china formed 1949 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2461979044 Following the Chinese Civil War and victory of Mao Zedong's Communist forces caused Chiang Kai-shek to flee to Taiwan, Mao Zedong then proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China]]> 2023-01-30 19:23:17 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2461979044 korean war 1950-1953 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2461979734 The Korean War began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. As Kim Il-sung's North Korean army, armed with Soviet weapons, quickly overran South Korea, the United States came to South Korea's aid. and helped them push north korea almost to nothing but china came to help and they pushed back and it pretty much stayed still for a while.]]> 2023-01-30 19:23:48 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2461979734 armas stages coup to control guatemala 1954 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2461981103 As the Cold War heated up in the 1950s, the United States made decisions on foreign policy with the goal of containing communism. To maintain its hegemony in the Western Hemisphere, the U.S. intervened in Guatemala in 1954 and removed its elected president, Jacobo Arbenz, on the premise that he was soft on communism.]]> 2023-01-30 19:24:46 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2461981103 warsaw pact 1955 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2461982435 The Warsaw pact was a political and military alliance established on May 14, 1955 between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries to help the spread of communism ]]> 2023-01-30 19:25:40 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2461982435 soviet union invaded hungary 1956 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2461983496 Between November 4th and 8th 1956, Nikita S. Khrushchev ordered the Red Army to put down the Hungarian Uprising by force. Soviet troops attacked and abolished the independent national government. Hungary was immediately subjected to merciless repression, and hundreds of thousands of Hungarians fled to the West.]]> 2023-01-30 19:26:26 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2461983496 June 11, 1963 - Alabama governor George Wallace personally attempts to block African American students from registering at the University gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2501698919 Also known as little rock nine because nine african american kids tried to go to little rock high school but, Governor George Wallace sent the special forces to prevent them and guard the school because he did not like the new integration law that was added by the president. Soon Eisenhower heard about this and he sent the army to escort them into the school. ]]> 2023-03-02 20:31:07 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2501698919 Dec 1955 Montgomery Bus boycott - launched in, Alabama, after Rosa parks is arrested gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2501702047 during the beginning of integration black people were not allowed on the white seats of the bus, but rosa parks sat in a white seat and would not let a person sit there. She ended up being arrested and causing any and all african american to walk everywhere as a peaceful protest.]]> 2023-03-02 20:34:36 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2501702047 February 1960 Sit-in protest - movement begins at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C. and spreads to the nation. gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2501704515 In Greensboro North Carolina four african amarican college students refuse to leave a white people only lunch counter at a popular retail store after they were denied service.]]> 2023-03-02 20:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2501704515 April 3 - May 10 1963 - Police arrest Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other ministers demonstrating in Birmingham Alabama and then turn fire hoses and police dogs on the marchers gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2501707535 on april 3rd hundreds of thousands of people walked, in protest down a busy street and for miles. To put a stop to this police sent attack dogs and sprayed fire hoses on to people as they walked by and they got trampled by horses causing lots of injury ]]> 2023-03-02 20:40:43 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2501707535 August 28, 1963 - March on Washington. King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2501709501 on this day people marched on washington to help with civil rights and martin luther king jr. gave his famous" i have a dream speech". This caused a huge uprising in civil rights activists. ]]> 2023-03-02 20:42:57 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2501709501 July 2, 1964 - President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2501711376 when Johnson signed the act it prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal. this caused integration to move faster.]]> 2023-03-02 20:44:42 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2501711376 February 21, 1965 - Civil Rights leader Malcolm X is murdered gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2501715310 malcolm x was assassinated while giving a speech by 3 gunman causing a big uprise in the action of civil rights. 
the 3 gunman where from islam because he had a sort of rivalry with them.]]> 2023-03-02 20:49:02 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2501715310 August 6, 1965 - President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 banning prerequisite to voting such as fees and literacy tests gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2501717077 when Johnson signed the voting rights act it made a lot of changes and caused african american people to be able to vote without having to take literacy test and pay poll taxes.]]> 2023-03-02 20:51:14 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2501717077 April 4, 1968 - Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis Tennessee gavinr9 https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2501719704 Martin Luther King jr. was going out on his hotel balcony with some other friends to talk to the press and the news teams there. when he was shot by a hired hitman named James Earl Ray. this caused a huge uprising in civil rights.]]> 2023-03-02 20:54:37 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinr9/g3b4jmyzfh617u43/wish/2501719704