1. Students will understand the impact the Industrial Revolution had on the United States.Good--Created more jobs to fill in at assembly lines.-Made a lot of products fast and easily.-Products were cheaper, people would buy more, economy went up.-Standard of living for the standard American went up because they could afford products that use to be to expensive to get with the little money they had.Bad--Long hard working hours including women and children working.-14 hour working days.-Unsafe working conditions, no gaurd rails ect.General--Brought many good things and other things that were dangerous to people. Most kids wouldn't go to work because they'd just grouw up working in the factory.-Farmers left their fields because they figured that working in a factory being trained to do one certain thing would be easier than tending a whole farm with little to no help. This contributed to urbanization.-Immigrants came from all over Europe and Asia mainly, but they did come from all places in the world. They wanted to have a better life and would work very cheap, they also contributed big time to urbanization.2. Students will understand the impact immigration and urbanization had on the United States.Immigration--Immigrants wanted a better life, worked cheap, came from Europe and Asia mainly. This made Americans made because they wanted to have to jobs, but they wanted better wages too. Well an employer would hire the immigrant for cheaper than an American who would complain the whole time.Urbanizatioin--Farmers and Immigrants contributed to urbanization the most.-Living conditions were terrible, sanitation was beyond gross, over crowding was insane.-Immigrants came in such a rush and they would move right into cities for jobs, the cities got really crowed.-They came for a better life, adventure, money, to get out of problems with the law.-Couldn't speak english, but would work for cheap so they would be hired over a white person.3. Students will understand the impact of the Progressive Era on the United States.-People worked toward benifiting the common person.-Rail road rates were made constant for everybody.-Women made great strides towards being able to vote.-Workers got better hours, safer working conditions, and better pay thanks to Union that made sure workers were being treated fairly.-The meat production got better because it was found out that the factories put anything into meat and it was gross.4. Students will understand the impact imperialism had on the United States and world.-U.S. wanted to obtain more countries to have power over them.-Land, money, and power were the big things.-Us getting Alaska and Hawaii are examples.-imperialism was a country taking over and controlling the land, having full power, and controlling the economy to benifit them more than the peopl of that country.5. Students will understand the causes for US involvement in World War I and the effects it had on the United States.-Ships were being sunk with American passengers on board without warning by Germany, the Lusitania is the most memorable.-We had more tade with England so we wanted to make sure that they won so that our trade wouldn't suffer.-War Hawks, republicans that wanted war against the British.-American buisnesses that helped produce war goods wanted us to go into war to that they would benifit.-By the end of the War the League of Nations was made and the U.S. didn't join, the effect of the war was that we didn't gain anything at all from it and we isolated ourselves from the world.6. Students will understand the political, social and economic changes that occurred in the 1920’s in the United States.Political--nativism- not wanting immigrants-isolationism- keeping to ourselves-no foreign affairs-communism- everything controlled by dictator, economy, jobs, what you had, everything.-the red scare was America fearing we would become communist because of the growing amount of communists.-limiting immigration- stopped immigration. Americans thought immigrants would be communists.-KKK- white men who didn't like African Americans, killed blacks, lynching.-Quota System- limited number of foreigners that could enter the U.S. because natives didn't want immigrants, they felt that there was no need for them with the scare of communists and they didn't have any jobs for new immigrants anyways.-strikes- people stopped working to get something for themselves bettered.-Republicans dominated the 1920's.Social--cars became more poular, couples could do more on dates.-radio became huge!-jazz came out big during this time.-advertisment thanks to radio made products to be more noticed.Economic--products were beign mass produced, meaning stuff was cheaper, meaning more people were buying it.-better machines were coming out, and more were coming so farmers had better equipment. so there was a surplus of food.-taxes were raised so that schools could improve and immigrant children could learn english.-planes went from carrying mail to carrying radios and other machines.7. Students will understand the causes and effects of the Great Depression.Causes--Bussinesses and farmers had so much extra products and no need for them after the war was over so they were losing money/ going out of bussiness.-Buying on credit, people were in debt so they stopped buying stuff, since the bussinesses had surpluses that was really bad because they couldn't get money for what they already made since nobody needed it.-Banks were closing down, people started losing money, other people got affraid so they took out their money from the bank, but banks didn't have enough money in them for everybody so the banks went bankrupt leaving some people without their money.-Stock Market Crashed- Black Tuesday.Effects--people lost jobs.-living conditions got worse.-people couldn't afford food for kids.-schools closed-homeless numbers went up-more people became suicidal-Shanty towns, crappy "homes"-people were dirt poor.Looking back there was A LOT of stuff I learned this year, and this isn't even all of it! Thanks Mr. Bruns, can't wait till next semester(: I vote for less blogs though.-Breann Lehr
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