world power 1880-1920 kimberly sanchez. expansion
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World power
1880-1920
Kimberly Sanchez
Expansion
European division from Africa
• European nations divided Central and
West Africa at the Berlin West Africa
Conference, The countries took Africa
at random.
Hawaii gives right to U.S Pearl Harbor
• Riciprocity Treaty-Hawwau grants
United States exclusive use of Pearl
Harbor. U.S is now allowed to trade
sugars.
Learning to Paint
• Van Gogh spent several weeks in The
Hague in late 1881 taking painting
lessons from his cousin by marriage,
Anton Mauve, a leading member of
the Hague School.
Anton Mauve
Starry night - Van Gough
Gender Roles
A new American workforce
• Gender played an important role
determining educational and occupational
choices for men and women.
• Women now entered the work force.
• The need of working women helped the
suffrage movement gain a status of respect
Civil rights
• The 1881 Washerwomen's Strike in
Atlanta was one of most successful
protests held by the African
Americans in the late 19th century.
Atlanta Riot of 1906
• In the wake of the riot, Atlanta became one
of the most segregated cities in the country.
• self-sufficient communities such as Auburn
Avenue began to appear
• Which was a major source of black
leadership, in modern day civil rights
Race issues
• The lynching of black women and men by
white mobs became almost to common in
communities near and around Atlanta
between 1880 and 1910.
• Black Atlantans from all segments of the
city held mass rallies and petitioned to put
an end to all the lynchings
Labor
• The most ambitious of these was the
Knights of Labor.
• the Knights sought to build a
comprehensive organization uniting
workers of all races, genders, ethnicities,
and occupations
• The knights grew rapidly during the 1880’s
Planters Vs. Hawaiin Queen
• 1893
• Hawiian queen overthrown
• Liliuokalani under the power of
Sanford Ballar Dole
Queen Liliuokalani
Sanford Baller Dole
….
• became the only American to become the Chief
Executive of an independent foreign nation.
• appointed to the Supreme Court as an Associate
Justice.
• played a prominent and active role in the
overthrow of the monarchy and was then elected
president of the Provisional Government in 1893.
….
• became a United States territory and
President McKinley appointed Dole
first governor of the territory.
Grover Cleveland is elected president
• 1892-He beat Harrison.
• First president to be elected
twice(was popular in eastern states)
Grover
William McKinley becomes President
• William elected President (25th)
• 1896
Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
• 1901
• Theodore president after McKinley’s
assassination
…
• Youngest president ever at 43 years
old
• He’s one of the most known
presidents
• Is the 26th president
• 1904 –was the Republican
The first Sino-Japanese War ends.
• 1895 Japanese won over/against China!!
• War started on August 1st, 1894
• Was between Qing, China & Meiji, Japan.
Empress Dowager
…
• Marked Japanese as an emergence of
new power
• They fought over the control of the
Korean Peninsula.
Expansion of American influence
•American influence was
overwhelming in China
and so it led to the boxer
rebellion.
Boxer Rebellion• The boxer rebellion was a group/band
of Chinese peasants that practiced
boxing so they’d rid China of all
foreign influence as well as to
destroy the Ch’ing dynasty .
• Empress Dowager backed up the
boxers.
Boxer rebellion
…
•Expansion
Russo-Japanese war
• Begins as conflict between Russia
and Japan over territorial expansion
in east Asia – 1904
Idealism
…
• It was a factor to the contribution of
expansion
Inventions
• Coca Cola, John Pemberton begins selling his
formula which was a mixture of cocaine and
caffeine at Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia
in 1886.
• . It was initially sold as a patent medicine for
five cents a glass at soda fountains. Coca Cola
no longer contains Cocaine but that is how it got
its name.
More inventions
• Automobile Beginnings, Karl Benz
patents his first automobile, the
Motorwagen, which was three
wheeled, on January 29th.
Benz in 1886
• First Dishwasher, Josephine
Cochrane, a housewife from
Shelbyville, Illinois, invents and
builds the First Dishwasher
• The Statue of Liberty, The Statue of
Liberty was made in France and
funded by the French people. It was
shipped in 1885 to New York and
placed onto Liberty Island in New
York Harbor.
• Kodak Box Camera, George Eastman
introduces the Kodak No 1 which is a
simple and inexpensive Box Camera
that brings photography to all.
• Electric Clothes Iron, Henry Seeley
patents his "electric flatiron" on June
6, 1882
• First Electric Fan, Dr Schuyler Skaats
Wheeler invents the first electrically
powered mechanical fan.