This is a timeline from 1880-1914. It includes 10 national events, and 5 North Carolina events.
Created by mekailaholly on Apr 1, 2011
Last updated: 04/11/11 at 02:14 PM
Did you know that Nascar stands for "National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing"? I can see why they shortened the name! Nascar was founded by "Bill France Sr.". Bill France Sr., moved to Daytona Beach, Florida in 1935, to ecape the Great Depression. Daytona was the place where people tried to break record speeds, Bill knew quite a bit about this. France entered the Daytona event in 1936, finishing in 5th place. Bill then took over and Nascar was born. Today, Nascar is the largest sanctioning body of stock car racing in the United States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASCAR
The jungle was a novle written by Upton Sinclair.
So who were the Wright Brothers? Orville and Wilbur Wright, invented the first stealth aricraft. The total wing span of the plane was 16 ft. and was gasoline powered. The first plane that they made, stayed in the air for a total of 12 seconds! That was the longest known to man. After working on their inventions for many years, Orville remained in flight for an hour and two minuites! That was a new record!
http://gardenofpraise.com/ibdwrigh.htm
Henry Ford founded the Ford company on June 16 1903. He invents the first motor vehicle in October of 1908. The "model T" started out at $950. Prices changed throughout the year dropping as low as $280 at one time. Over all there were about 15,500,000 model T's sold in the US alone! As technolgy incresed, his cars have become much more advanced and are used by millions of people every day.
http://inventors.about.com/od/fstartinventors/a/HenryFord.htm
The definition of a typewriter is "A mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing in characters similar to those produced by printer's type by means of keyboard-operated types striking a ribbon to transfer ink or carbon impressions onto the paper." The inventor of the typewriter was Christopher Latham Sholes. Sholes wanted to invent something like a portable printing press, this is how the typewriter came about. After Shole made his mecanich typewriter, Thomas Alva Edison, made the first electric typewriter.
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/typrwriter.htm
The definition of a typewriter is "A mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing in characters similar to those produced by printer's type by means of keyboard-operated types striking a ribbon to transfer ink or carbon impressions onto the paper." The inventor of the typewriter was Christopher Latham Sholes. Sholes wanted to invent something like a portable printing press, this is how the typewriter came about. After Shole made his mecanich typewriter, Thomas Alva Edison, made the first electric typewriter.
The Biltmore House is the largest home in America. It comes to a total of 125,000 acres! THATS HUGE! Just incase that doesn't mean much to you I'll break it down. The Biltmore Home has a total of 250 rooms, there are 4 acres of floor space. 34 bedrooms, 43 bathrooms, and 65 fireplaces. The basement itslelf has a swimming pool, changing rooms, a bowling ally, servents qurters, kitchens and more! Believe it or not, an actual family did live here. It contained a family of three, a man, his wife, and their only child.
http://www.biltmore.com/our_story/our_history/
Cuba decided to rebell aginst Spain, and their rulers. The Spanish used cruel methods to crush the rebells. Americans became concerned because this was 1) effecting our trade and 2) People were being treated brutally. In April of 1898 America requested that Cuba be freed of Spanish rule, and that Spain would withdraw their forces. Spain then became angry with us, starting the "Spanish American war". On August 12, 1898, Spain finally signed a truce and the war ended.
Ms. Losh's worksheet
In the early 1800's, Christians from the US moved to the kingdom of Hawii to introduce Christianity. In 1891, the Queen of Hawii (Queen Liliuokalani) belived that planters (or American immigrants) had too much say in what happend in Hawii. She dicided that their power in her kingdom should be limited. The American planters in Hawii felt offended and threatend, so the people revolted aginst the Queen and removed her from power. The people of Hawii then requested to join the United States.
textbook.com
Ellis Island is a small island in the waters of New York. As you can tell from the picture, this is the location of The Statue of Liberty. Between the opening date and 1954, at least 12 million people used Ellis Island while immigrating. The orignal size of the island was 3.3 acres. Through the years the island has grown to be 27.5 acres! Ellis island is now a big tourist spot in the US but it was built to be an immigration station. This was changed when immigration was regulated in the United States.
To find out more information/ history on Ellis island, check out the link below!
http://www.ellisisland.org/genealogy/ellis_island_history.asp
So what do you think happened when all of those millions of immigrants came to the US? Things got pretty crowded. Jane Addams, decided to do somthing about this, and she decided to open a Hull House. Hull Houses became a new and diffrent model of settlement houses throughout America. This was a home intended for the poor, immigrants, children, and women. This gave them somewhere to go, no matter why they were otherwise rejected.
Ms.Losh's information handout
The Statue of Liberity was given to America as a friendship offering from France. The scluptor of the Statue was Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. He planed to have her done by 1876. The pedestal for the Statue was to be provided by the US, the financing for this was completed in August of 1885. The pedestal was completed in April of 1886. The statue had to be reassembled four times before it was right! On October 28th, 1886, the statue was offically dedacaited to America.
http://www.statueofliberty.org/Statue_History.html
The graded school was introduced in the towns of North Carolina. This required students to pass certin tests before moving on to the next grade level. Charlotte, had the first graded school in North Carolina. By 1887, there was a graded school for black children in Winston.
nclandofcontrasts.com
Yellowstone Park was the worlds first National park. The size of this park is 2,219,789 acres. Thats bigger than Rode Island and Deleware combined!!! Yellowstone is a beautifal place to see natrual places and things. It has everything from gysers, wild life, bodies of water, and much much more! Yellowstone had a record breaking of 3,640,904 visitors in 2010. If you are looking for somewhere to visit this summer, Yellowstone is a great oppertunity!
http://www.yellowstonenationalpark.com/
Alaska joins the U.S. America decided to buy Alaska for 2 cents an acre, a total of $7.2 million. The offical paperwork went through on October 18th, that is now considerd Alaska day! Alaska was bought on October 18, 1867 and became the 49th state on January 3rd, 1959.
http://fairbanks-alaska.com/alaska-history.htm
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