1. Students will understand the impact the Industrial Revolution had on the United States:
-took place in the 19th and 20th centuries
-lots of new inventions: telegraph, telephone, light bulb, radio, ect
-railroads were invented, made it easier to travel, made trade easier, let people branch out across the country
-monopolies: when a larger business tries to take over smaller businesses
-unions: helped people get better hours, working conditions and pay
2. Students will understand the impact immigration and urbanization had on the United States.
-immigrants started coming here in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
-came for better life, religious reasons, better education, job opportunities
-struggled alot with: finding jobs, learning the American language, culture clashes, introduced to new diseases which made them die off because they werent immune, couldnt find decent living quarters, couldnt find decent farming land, many immigrants were farmers
-Americans were very racist, had a hard time sharing america with immigrants
-Cities: grew, were very unsanitary, smelled, no security, crimes increased greatly
3. Students will understand the impact of the Progressive Era on the United states
-progressives worked to create safter work places: workers compensation, earmuffs were given to workers to protect hearing, OSHA-1970
-worked to end child labor
-1916: Keating-Owen Act: prohibited the distribution of good made by child labor across state lines
-by the 20's child labor was banned in most states
-worked to create better working hours
-Muller v. Oregon: Curt Muller forced one of his female workers to work over 10 hour days. Result: Supreme Court ruled that there was a maximum 10 hour work day.
-Bunting v. Oregan: many males were forced to work over 10 hours a day. Result: Supreme Court ruled that people could work more than a 10 hour work day
NOTE: the Supreme Court is totally being unfair. First no can work OVER ten hours but then they can? Thats dumb.
-Progressives wanted country to be democratic
-secret ballot
-Referendum: people voting on a bill
-Recall: direct primaries became more common
-Initiative:people STARTING a bill
-Womens Sufferage: 3 part strategy: give women the right to vote, 14th amendment, pushed for a national constitutional ammendment to give women the right to vote
-progressives worked for better wages
-henry ford started the 8 hour day for 5 dollors (minimum wage)
-progressives tried to make food and drugs safer: passed the Food and Drug act: made it so there had to be a label of what was in the food/ drug, had to have meat inspections before meat could go out to the public,
-regulated businesses
-wanted to stop segregation
-Plessy v. Fergueson: ruled for things to be seperate but equal, things were seperate and unequal, realized that if things werent seperated then things would be more equal
-Roosevelt: sided with the common people instead of the monopolies, "trust-buster", formed the ICC (interstate commerce commision), ICC Act: forced railroads to set a rate for people to travel which would make it more fair for travel, Wilson and Clayton Anti-Trust Act- allowed government to break up monopolies, Federal Trade Commision: stopped big businesses from being unfair, would break up unfair companies
4. Students will understand the impact Imperialism had on the United States and the world.
-imperialism: when a larger country takes over a smaller country
-imperialism allowed a country to: expand, gain more land, gain more resources
-we took over alaska and hawaii
-got puerto rico, philippines and guam from spanish american war
6. Students will understand the political, social and economic changes that occured 1920s in the United States
-automobiles
-music became popular
-women were rebelious
-dating
-religious rules loosened
-could afford more expensive things
-electricity in houses (:O oh my god! ELECTRICITY IN HOUSES!!!)
-new cooking equipment
-Red Scare: red scare was when people thought america would become communist because of all the immigrants comming here from the communist countries, immigrants soon werent allowed in america, Klu Klux Klan- anti communist group, we tried to deport radicals, socialists and communists
-War Prevention
-Republican Domination
-Prohibition: when alcohol was outlawed, people smuggled it into homes, speakeasies were hidden bars, wanted to ban alcohol because of abuse, cheating, ect, basically it failed because everyone wanted beer and there was no one to control who had beer so eventually they raised the ban on alcohol
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