1. Students will understand the impact the Industrial Revolution had on the United States.
- See Friday; 9-24-10 and 9-27-10
- Began due to rapidly growing population and readily available resources.
- lots of inventions were made and imporroved (ex; lightbulb)
- obviously, revolutioniszed pretty much everything. lots of inventions. Steel and Oil were big products. machines took over lots of people work. mass production. factories. highly dangerous conditions in factories with machines.
- Railroads increased trade and new cities resulted.....etc.
2. Students will understand the impact immigration and urbanization had on the United States.
- 9-27-10, i believe.
- immigrants came to escape religious prosecution or to start their lives anew, etc.
- made cities even more crowded and unsanitary. mixed lots of cultures and languages. flood of workers, so strikers couldnt get better working conditions.
- urbanization resulted from immigration...see right above.
- transportation problems, unclean water and living conditions, high crime rates...lots of poverty.
- people tried to help the poor by starting organizations and such....Settlement House Movement. Charity organizations gave food and spread the Gospel.
- Political Machines had lots of power.
3. Students will understand the impact of the Progressive Era on the United States.
- See 10-15-10 to 10-27-10
- Reform reform reform!
- Reformers wanted to improve worker safety. wanted working conditions to be better for women and children especially. because conditions were highly unsanitary and dangerous, and the employers didnt care about the workers at all. eventually resulted in minimun wage and maximun working hours...unions.
- Secret ballot (first in oregon) took power away from the political machines, who did things for people so they'd vote for them, this caused them to not know who voted for who. :)....initiative = petitioning to start a bill; referendum = getting it passed; recall = holding a vote to get someone out of office... Direct Primary took power away from the white rich men in government because it let the people choose who their candidates.
- NAACP. but blacks didnt get a lot of support, progressivism was focused on whites.
- The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair. told about the terrible conditions of factories and how gross they were. Roosevelt passed the Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act.
- Conservation- Roosevelt set aside lots of land for national parks.
- Roosevelt the Trust-Buster. Sherman Anit-Truest Act.
- Underwood Act lowered Tarriffs. helped the economy a lot because the goverment raised taxes. so trade increased with other countries and the goverment still had lots of money. also started banks.
- Settlement Houses to help the poor.
- muckrakers exposed corruption.
- Mass porduction and assembly lines.
- Major Prohibition stuff going on. Women like Susan B Anthony fought for prohibition. WCTU. Carry Nation.
- stopping monopolies helped stop government corruption. stopping political machines did the same...thus, government reform started locally.
- So----the Progressive Era was meant mostly to help the common white person and to stop corruption in businesses and governmet. Results: Min Wage, Working Hours, Secret Ballot, Initiative-referendum-recall, those 4 amendments, lower tarrifs/higher taxes, national parks, Sherman Anti-Trust act broke monopolies, etc!
4. Students will understand the impact imperialism had on the United States and world.
- November. 11-8-10?
- imperialism- when powerful countries took over smaller countries either economically, politically, or physically.
- League of Anti-Imperialists said Imperialism was against American heritage because it went against previous traditions of isolationism, would go against american morals, would cost a lot of money and would maku USA be at odds with other coutnries, causing more war.
- old diplomacy vs. new diplomacy, isolationalism vs. imperialism.
- Dollar Diplomacy (we loaned out money to countries so we'd be in economical control of the countries we lent to) & Missionary Diplomacy (the USA would not recognize governments that were corrupt or undemocratic. basically the countries we didnt like didnt get formal recognition from us.)
- Other countries---went out and had lots of colonies. fought over land, resources, etc. wanted more power and more money.
5. Students will understand the causes for US involvement in World War I and the effects it had on the United States.
- US Neutrality until 1917 (assigned blog), etc.
- Lusitania and the Sussex (sunk a year or two before we entered), Zimmerman Telegram (germany asked mexico to attack USA, and asked them to ask japan to do the same, in return for the return of california, arizona, texas, and new mexico to mexico....they declined, but message was intercepted by brits and passed on to US)
- Major Propoganda against the Germans (song Over There) germans were portrayed and EVIL!
- We were on better terms with Brittain after Germany's subs sank our trading ships without warning...we pretty much stopped trading with Germany and had $3 billion dollars in trade with Brittain.
- Whole nation got behind the idea. Factories switched their products, etc. This was after the ships were sunk. Zimmerman Telegram.
- Lots of people wanted the US to stay neutral, which is why Wilson got re-elected. "He kept us out of War" platform. vs the War Hawks, including Teddy Roosevelt. they got what they wanted eventually, when everyone was all for it. Zimmerman Telegram plus propoganda...
- Victory Gardens: grow your own food so we can send other stuff to our soldiers! Uncle Sam: I want You in the Navy TODAY! Support our sons....Support our girls....support support support...Eat cottage Cheese: it gives you protein, so we can send more meat to our soldiers! Buy Government Grants: give the government financial support for the war and they'll pay you back after we've won!.....support propoganda made everyone feel like they were diong their part.
- this is apparently all unnecessary for the semester test, but I don't feel like deleting it.
6. Students will understand the political, social and economic changes that occurred in the 1920’s in the United States.
- The Raoring 20s - Entertainment : intro to buying things on credit. allowed the common person to be able to afford expensive things. pay so much a month over a period of time. people over used credit tho, so everybody was in debt by the late 1920s, so they stopped buying things, causing a huge economy crash...ended up with the great depression. electricity became available in the common home. "magic hole in the wall"...let there be light! in the cities, anyway. the radio. you could plug it in at home now. and you could tune in to sports, news, soap opras and kids programs. so, lots of sports became really popular. and things were better advertised, so people knew more about what was available for consuming, so they could go out and buy it....etc
- The Red Scare: total paranoia of americans towards immigrants. fear of communists, anarchists, radicals, etc. after the bulshivik revolution, russia became communists. so we americans were afraid something similar might happen to america. we got really paranoid that we might become communists. because there was an international communist group that trained people to infiltrate countries and their governments and start revolutions there. so we got really afraid that all the immigrants that were coming were communists or radicals or something, so we passed lots of anti-immigration laws, mostly concerning immigrantws from europe and asia, not so much against latin america.Karl Marx abnd Frederick Engels came up with the idea of communism, wrote a book about it, marx gets more recognition for it than engels. anyways, they said it was unfair that the rich have so much power. 90% of people were common or poor or struggling to get by every day. so they said that 90% should rise up against the rich and the government and create a classless society where all people are equal and happy.the theory is quite nice, but in reality....it just doesnt work.So, Russia becomes the Soviet Union. the first communist country. led by Vladimir Lenin, the first communist leader. he died a few years later, so we cant ever know what he may have accomplished.period of time called the red scare because red was the color of russia's/the soviet union's flag.
The Palmer Raids.
attacked radicalists and such, arrested who they suspected to be radicalist immigrants and deported them back to their countries.
- Republican Domination :
Pres Warren G. Harding.....the first of the republican trio of the 1920s (harding, coolidge, and hoover) the entire 20s decade had republican presidencies. Republicans philosophy of the 1920s brought about the roaring 20s, but also the stock market crash. had laissez fairve policies (let alone). during the progressive era the government was really hands-on, so in the 1920s they backed off and let the people be. said it wasnt the government's place to interfere with businesses. they were a "Do Nothing" type...didnt really do nothing, but cetainly didnt do as much....as little as possible. people really liked it at the time.
old people say the government should get smaller and stay out of peoples lives.
Trickle Down Theory. government was gonna give tax breaks to the rich. because the rich owned businesses, and if they got help, they would do better, and so would the middle class and lower classes, eventually.
- War Prevention : Washington Naval Conference - 4 power pack (USA, GB, France, Spain), made 3 powerpack treaties. first tried to eliminate imperialism, to a degree. said they'd respect each others; possessions in the Pacific. so basically they would not try to take over each other's colonies/islands, etc. Things took a 180 for japan after trhe depression.....later....5 power treaty included same four countries, plus italy - froze naives where they were in 1921, so that each country would no longer build up their navies -loopholes were found. 9 Power Treaty included those five countries and the netherlands, portugal, belgium, and china -kept open door policy in china, promised the chinese people independence. Kellogg-Briand Pact: inculded 60-some countries, signed a pact to pretty much outlaw war.
- Automobiles and Airplanes : Henry Ford made automobiles available. He was an efficient guy, so he did the assembly line thing, which got the cars ready quick, which made them more common, which made them cheaper. also, credit was the big thing in the 20s, so people payed certain amounts over certain amounts of time. the famous Model T. you cuold get it in any color, as long as it was black. impact? its pretty much the only invention wher you go almost anywhere and life revolves around it. hello? roads. transportation. gotta get places. gotta park somewhere. sped things up soooo much and created tons of jobs (not just making the cars, but also the roads, parking lots, garages, repair mechanics, etc) Airplanes: obviously, the plane has come a long way since 1903, kitty hawk, the wright brothers. by the 1920s, it wasnt quite where we are now with them (obviously) but it was definitely still imporved greatly. "Lucky Lindy" Charles Lindbergh was the first person to fly nonstop across the atlantic ocean. became a huge celebrity because of it. Amelia Earheart was the first woman to fly nonstop across the atlantic, but is more famous for dissapearing on her journey across the world - she made form california all the way to australia (heading east) and was gonna land somewhere in the pacific but never made it there. lots of speculation as to what happened to her.
- Science Vs. Religion :
Rural vs Urban....previously, people were guided mostly by religion. inthe 1920s, cities had lots of loosely immoral people, while country places held on to the religious values more so.
because for the first time, scientists and religious people really started butting heads.
1920 census, half the people lived in cities. throught the decade, 2 million people moved from farms to cities.
Prohibition: 19th amendment recap, made the transportation/making/selling of alcohol illegal (but not the drinknig of it, specifically), supporters believed alcohol caused most of the social issues, supporters were mostly from south and west areas, led by anitsaloon league and WTCU....at first saloons closed and drinking and drunkeness went down. but then...
Why did it fail? 1) brought about massive organized crime. gangs really came about, the mafia, speakeasies, bootlegging, also started prostituion and gambling rings. brought about tons of illegal stuff. because people who didnt support the prohibition became lawbreakers even if they just wanted a drink after work and they were good people. so crime rate. 2)there werent enough people to enforce it. 3) people hated it. a lot.
So, prohibition really backfired. so the government officials realized this and repealed it. speakeasy: illegal bars where people went to drink. called so because people had to be quiet about it. knock on the door, say a password or show a card, and youre in. Flappers: flapper girls had short bob hair, short dresses (showing off arms and legs) without corsettes, smoked and drank in public, had a job. Bootlegging: the process of illegally brewing alcohol.
haha....so for the 1920s i sort of just copied and pasted from my daily blogs on them.
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