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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. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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.