Time periods
By Devon Hawkins, Will Kelly, Jose Diaz
Summary and quotes
January 2, 1890 - There was still a financial crises in the United States, the Panic of 1890, occurs, leading to foreclosures, bank failures, and unemployment. Several causes have been identified, as well as the tightening of credit by the Second Bank of the U.S. in response to risky lending practices by wildcat banks in the west.
“Don't love it so well, Clark, or it may be taken from you. Oh, dear boy, pray that whatever your sacrifice may be, it be not that.”
”The hardest part of Aunt Georgiana’s life physically may be her “battered figure” after having six children and working hard for so many years.”
1905 First U.S. Movie Theater Opens
“Aunt Georgiana becomes transfixed during the concert. Her senses take in the musicians, the crowd, and the curtains. To her, this experience was like an artist’s easel. Tears flow down her face as she ensconces herself in the Wagnerian music. It was if this experience sank into the soul of his aunt.”
”This was the greatest loss of all to Aunt Georgiana: to live a life so far away from the wonder of her music. His aunt made her choice and this was her difficult consequence.”
Quotes and dates for an episode of war
1850-1890
November 6, 1860- Abraham Lincoln wins presidential electio. Running as a Republican and for anti-slavery
February 4, 1861- The convention to form the Confederate States of America opens in Montgomery, Alabama.
July 16, 1863- A riot in New York draft kill about 1000 people
April 9,1865- Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant
April 14,1865- Abraham Lincoln in assassinated in Fords theatre
Quotes
“A wound gives strange dignity to him who bears it. Well men shy from his new and terrible majesty. It is as if the wounded man's hand is upon the curtain which hangs before the revelations of all existence - “
“the meaning of ants, potentates, wars, cities, sunshine, snow, a feather dropped from a bird's wing; and the power of it sheds radiance upon a bloody form, and makes the other men understand sometimes that they are little. His comrades look at him with large eyes thoughtfully. Moreover, they fear vaguely that the weight of a finger upon him might send him headlong, precipitate the tragedy, hurl him at once into the dim, gray unknown.“
“to sheathe a sword held by the left hand, at the middle of the blade, in a scabbard hung at the left hip,”
“hung his head, feeling, in this presence, that he did not know how to be correctly wounded”
Summary
Summary of outcast of poker flat
Quote and dates
Jan 17 1920,Prohibition of Alcoholic beverages in the U.S. "intoxicating liquors"
May 11, 1910 - The start of American domestic tourism occurs with the establishment of Glacier National Park in Montana. Spurred by the development of the Great Northern Railroad, this park helped begin the See America First campaign to encourage United States tourists before and during World War I to visit the western states and territories
Quote 1.“It was experiencing a spasm of virtuous reaction, quite as lawless and ungovernable as any of the acts that had provoked it.”
Aug 18 1920 19th Amendment,Prohibits U.S. Citizens denial of voting right based on gender.
Quote 2.“It is but due to the sex, however, to state that their impropriety was professional, and it was only in such easily established standards of evil that Poker Flat ventured to sit in judgment”
The great depression led to a much greater legalization of gambling. The antigambling mood changed as tremendous financial distress gripped the country, especially after the stock market crash of 1929
1919 26 June. Signing of the Versailles Treaty, which the Senate later refuses to ratify
Quote 3. “It had lately suffered the loss of several thousand dollars, two valuable horses, and a prominent citizen”
Worked citation
http://history1800s.about.com/od/timelines/a/1890-1900timeline.htm