Time Line #2

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1850s

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The First Kindergarten in the U.S. established by Mrs. Karl Schurz in Wisconsin.

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1852

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The Studebaker company became the world's largest producer of wagons. It later produced automobiles.

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1860

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Carl Schurz won the German-American vte for Lincoln by going on a 21,000 mile speaking tour which took hime from the middle west to the Pennsylvania Germans.

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1860-1965

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516,000 German-Americans fight for the Union. 500 officers in the Union army were born in Germany;of the 2,213,363 soldiers in the Union army, over 23% were German-Americans.

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1871

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Thomas Nast, the first great American Caricaturist, was intrumental in the destructin of Boss Tweed ring in New York City.

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1874

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Alfalfa introduced to the U.S. by Wendelin Grimm.

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1877

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Carl Schurz named Secretary of the Interior by President Hayes; first German-American to belong to the Cabinet. Alsp, the "original conservationist" because of efforts to prevent destruction of forests.

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1884

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The Brooklym Bridge, desigend by Johann A. Roebling, was built.

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1886

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Ottmar Mergenthaler invents the linotype machine which revolutionized the printing industry.

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1892-1893

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German-American slected as governors of Kentucy and Illinios.

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1898

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Admiral Windfield Schley destroyed the Spanish fleet at Santiago, Cuba during the Spanish-American war.

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1917

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General John Persing, A German-American, commanded the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.

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1928

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Herbert Hoover becomes frst president of German descent.

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1929

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Some of the greatest stars of baseball history were German-Americans: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Honus Wagner, and Frank Frisch, to mention afew.

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1941-1945

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One-third of the eleven million soldiers in the U.S. armed forces in world War II were of German descent. Eisenhower was of Pennsylvania-German descent. Other German-Americans were General Carl Spaatz and Admiral Chester Nimitz, cammander-in-cheif of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. 700 admirals and generals were German-Americans

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1950

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Wernher von Braun became head of the U.S. Army Ordinance Guided Missile Center and paved the way for the U.S. space program.

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1958

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Formation of the German-american National Congress in Chicago.

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1968

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Society for German-american Studies established in Youngstown, Ohio.

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1974

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Association for German Language Authors in america formed to further German-american Literature.

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1980

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52 million Americans are of German descent, according to the to the 1980 U. S. census.

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1983

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The German-American Tricentenniel celebrates the 300th anniversary of the founding of Germantown, the first German-American settlement.

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1987

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German-American Day was proclaimed; has been celebrated nationally ever since.

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2008

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The German-American Quadricentennial will celebrate the 400th annniversary of the arrival of the first Germans in America at Jamestown, Virginia.