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Essentials for US History:Semester One
1. Students will understand the impact the Industrial Revolution had on the United States.
- Railroads made it easier to trade
- abundance of natural resourses
- inventions:typewriter, telephone
2. Students will understand the impact immigration and urbanization had on the United States.
- people thought they would loose their jobs to them
- cities became overpopulated
- immagrants would work for less pay
- dirty cites
- imagrants came for the gold rush and for other jobs
- Fires would start in the houses
- no indoor plumbing
3. Students will understand the impact of the Progressive Era on the United States.
- between 1890 and the early 1900's
- helped women a lot
- they could vote
- started working outside of the home
- Helped workers
- safer workplace
- shorter working hours
- Workmans Compensation laws
- progressives limited the time kids could work
4. Students will understand the impact imperialism had on the United States and world.
5. Students will understand the causes for US involvement in World War I and the effects it had on the United States.
Focus on these topics for the test:
-Causes of WWI
-Causes for US involvement
-Trench Warfare and weapons
-US Homefront
-Wilson's 14 Points and the Treaty of Versailles
6. Students will understand the political, social and economic changes that occurred in the 1920’s in the United States.
Focus on these topics for the test:
-Roaring 20's and the return to normalcy
-Red Scare
-Republican philosophy
-Prohibition
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