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.
- bigger country would take over a smaller country
- in the US it brought along white mans burden
- it brings countries militay power
- WWI
- war with spain, and in the philipeans
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
- Militarism-having a strong army
- imperialism-taking over smaller countrys
- nationalism-having pride in there country;better than other countrys
- Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand-he was sposed to take over some country
- Alliances
-Causes for US involvement
- unrestricted submarine warfarre
- propaganda
- sinking of the luistana
- dictatorship
- zimmerman note
-Trench Warfare and weapons
- trenches where soldiers fired from
- nomans land
- Weapons
- tanks
- gas
- u-boats
- machine guns
-US Homefront
- Propagand
- Victory Gardens
- women took alot of mens jobs
-Wilson's 14 Points and the Treaty of Versailles
- the pointes were made by president wilson about what he hoped would happen after the war
- mostley about restoring countries
- set up the leage of nations
- disarm wepons
- treaty of versailles
- made up by france and other allies
- made germany apy for the war
- america never nighed it
- lleage of nations
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
- monjohn
- cities grew
- cars
- return
- focuse on making the nation better
- focus on the US
- Harding is elected president
- returns to "normalcy"
- jazz
- good economy
- better entertainment
-Red Scare
- communism-redustribute wealth,everything is equal,
- Karl Marx first came up with the comunism idea
- Vladimir Lenin-thought the Russian government needed to totally take controll
- A. Michell Palmer-Attorney General
- america thought communists were taking over
- eliminated or
-Republican philosophy
- Harding, Hoover, Choolidge
- Laissez-fair
- let business do as they please
- governmnet will stay out of the way
- Trickle down theory
- idea that we would give tax cuts to the wealthy
- it would trickle down to help the middle classes
- Rugged individualism
- about your responsibility
- welfare(didnt believe in it)
-Prohibition
- make the selling and distrubuting of alcohol illegal.
- started a lot of bootlegging
- mostley woman pushed for it.
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