Mass Society and Democracy (Timeline Activity)
You can work solo or with a partner
Use a regular sheet of computer paper
The years should go from 1847-1916
Make sure to use color and be creative
Choose 20 of the 25 events to place on a chronologically ordered timeline
Include one image per event (five printed and five hand drawn per side) - 20 total images
In addition to the info already provided below write one additional sentence to explain
each event on the timeline
Using Chapter 5 (all sections) find the following events and place them in chronological order on
a horizontal or vertical timeline:
22 - The National Insurance Act is passed providing benefits for workers 1911
21 - Abstract painting--emphasizing form, color, line, and surface--emerges 1910
12 - George Eastman creates the first Kodak camera 1888
3 - The English Football Association begins to regulate pro soccer 1863
5 - The Second Empire collapses when the Prussians defeat France 1871
4 - In America, the 13th Amendment is passed, abolishing slavery 1865
8 - Greece, Serbia, Romania, and Montenegro had claimed independence 1878
25 - Fords factories were producing 735,000 cars a year 1916
20 - Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina outright 1908
24 - Igor Stravinskys Rite of Spring ballet debuts--nearly causing riots 1913
10 - Europes first birth control clinic is established in Amsterdam 1882
13 - Socialist party, the Second International, is founded 1889
23 - In Italy, universal male suffrage (the right to vote) is granted 1912
18 - The Womens Social and Political Union is founded 1903
19 - Bloody Sunday causes workers throughout Russia to call strikes 1905
1 - Lord Tennysons The Princess is published 1847
6 - The German Social Democratic Party (SPD) is founded 1875
9 - The Evening News is printed in mass quantities in London 1881
7 - Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone 1876
14 - Emperor William II fires Bismarck and takes control of foreign policy 1890
16 - The United States defeats Spain in the Spanish-American War 1898
2 - Karl Marxs Communist Manifesto is published 1848
15 - Theodor Herzl, a Zionist, publishes his book The Jewish State 1896
11 - American settlers gain control of the sugar industry in Hawaii 1887
17 - Freuds major theories were published in The Interpretation of Dreams 1900