Semester Test Blog

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Semester Test Blog

 

1. What are the main historic events that took place in 8th Grade US History that helped shape the United States up to 1877?

 

Native Americans

• Coming and going into our country
• First to actually discover America
• Believed to use land bridge because…
  • Europeans were forcing them off of their land
  • They were following animals
• Around 10,000 years ago

 

Jamestown and Colonization

• Europeans came and settled
• Colonists came to America for…
  • Freedom of Religion
  • Opportunities
  • Pull and push factors
• 1600’s to the 1700’s

 

Bringing slavery to America

• First slaves brought in 1619
• Led to many other things

 

Louisiana Purchase

• From the French
• Thomas Jefferson
• Nearly doubled the size at that time
• Helped to make America what it is today

 

Women’s Rights Movement

• 1848
• Helped work towards the rights women have now
• Worked towards equality
• Helped shape the way things are

 

2. How did the US change during the late 1800's and early 1900's?

 

• People moved to the Great Plains
  • Reasons…
    • Mining
    • Farming
    • Business
  • Forced Native Americans off their land and onto reservations

 

• Industrial Revolution
  • Growing population
  • Wealth of natural resources
  • Technological improvement
  • Roads and railroads
  • Cheap labor

 

• Monopolies
  • Government eventually made them illegal

 

• Railroads

 

• Labor Unions

 

• Immigration increased
  • All over the world
  • Required to...
    • Pass a medical exam
    • Be inspected for felonies
    • Be inspected for their ability to work
  • White, Anglo Saxon, Protestant
    • More excepted into the country

 

• People started moving to cities
  • Opportunity
  • Cheap
  • Convenient

 

• Better education

 

• Better technology

 

 

 

 

3. What impact did the Progressives have on the United States?

 

• Protecting social welfare
  • Set up settlement houses for the poor
  • Opened libraries
  • Sponsored education classes
  • Opened swimming pools
  • Set up soup kitchens
  • Slum brigades - teach immigrants

 

• Promoting moral improvement
  • Women's suffrage - Right to vote
  • Prohibition
    • Carrie Nation - Leading woman pushing for prohibition
    • Why ban alcohol? Wives were beat by drunk husbands, people would show up to work drunk and not get anything done.

 

• Creating economic reform
  • There was a major unbalance in income and how people lived
  • Regulation of railroads
  • Child labor laws
  • Women and men working hours reduced
  • Workmen's compensation
  • Muckrakers - investigative journalists - exposed problems in society
  • Many turned to "socialism"
    • American Socialist Party - formed in 1901

 

• Fostering efficiency
  • Scientific management to increase efficiency was used in factories
  • Frederick Taylor - Time management studies
  • Assembly line
  • Henry Ford paid workers $5 a day
  • Getting rid of alcohol - believed to cause laziness, accidents, missing work, etc.
  • Progressives also worked for better efficiency in all levels of government
  • Limiting working hours
    • Many states enforced a 10 hour work day - turned into 8 hour
    • Progressives succeeded in winning workers' compensation for family members of hurt or killed workers

 

• Reforming Elections
  • States adopt secret ballot
  • Direct primary
  • Initiative - a bill originated by the people rather than lawmakers
  • Referendum - When voters accept or reject the initiative – bill
  • Recall - enabled voters to remove public officials from elected positions
  • 17th and 19th Amendments - 17th Direct Election of US Senators - 1913 and 19th Women's right to vote

• 16^th Amendment
  • Taxes

 

• 17^th Amendment
  • Direct election of US senators
  • Allowed the people to elect who they wanted to represent them

 

• 18^th Amendment
  • Prohibited the manufacture, transport, import or selling of alcohol

 

• 19^th Amendment
  • Women given the right to vote
  • 1920

 

• Federal Trade Commission
  • Anti-trust act
  • 1914
  • Had power to investigate companies for monopolistic practices

 

• Federal Reserve Bank
  • Banker’s bank
  • America needed stronger banks
  • Federal Reserve Act of 1913
  • Divided nation into 12 districts
    • Regional central bank in each district
  • Federal Reserve banks could issue new paper money in emergency situations
  • Helped out with giving loan money
  • Banks within the system helped others from closing due to lack of money

 

4. Describe US Foreign Policy in the late 1800's and early 1900's and be able to give examples.

 

• Old diplomacy
  • Isolationism
    • Acted alone
  • Non-interventionist
    • Didn’t want to intervene in foreign affairs
  • Passive
    • Waited for events to occur then acted accordingly
  • Weak military
• New diplomacy
  • Imperialistic
    • Conquering territories and forming an empire
  • Strong nationalism
    • Pride and confidence
  • Interventionist
    • Became more involved in other country’s foreign affairs
  • Strong military

 

• War with Spain
  • Spain was a dwindling empire
  • US wanted Cuba, Guam, the Philippines and other colonies
  • Supported Cubans
  • USS Maine sinking was main cause

 

• Big stick diplomacy
  • Teddy Roosevelt
  • Speak softly and carry a big stick
  • Don’t brag about our strength, show it in our actions

 

• Roosevelt corollary
  • Added to Monroe doctrine
  • The US would be the police officer between Europe and Latin America
  • US would use force to protect interests in Latin America

 

• Monroe doctrine
  • Warned Europe to stay out of Western hemisphere, especially Latin America

 

• Dollar diplomacy
  • Invest in countries
  • Take over banks and businesses
• Missionary diplomacy
  •  Woodrow Wilson
  •  Don’t recognize unfriendly countries

 

5. What impact did World War I have on the United States?

 

• Brought us out of isolation
  • Went back to isolation once war was over
• Cost us over $22 billion
• Over 300,000 casualties
• 115, 000 were dead
• Made us stronger
• Made us a respected power in the world

 

6. What impact did the United States have on World War I?

 

• League of Nations
  • Formed by Woodrow Wilson
  • A peace keeping organization
• Home front impact
  • Bought war bonds
    • Money went to the war
  • Planted victory gardens
    • Saved food
  • Women worked in factories
• Supported the Allies
  • Gave money
• Factory manufacturing
  • Mass produced weapons
• Strong military
  • Gave the war a breath of fresh air
  • Speedy
  • Strong
  • Cut of German supplies
  • No definite plan

 

7. What positive and negative impact did the 1920's have on the United States?

 

Positive Impacts

• Stock market was great
• New technological advances
  • Things to plug in
• Sports came of age
• Prosperity
• New era of music and dance
  • Jazz
  • Ragtime
  • The Charleston
• Cars were popular
• Charles Lindbergh
  • Lucky Lindy

Negative Impacts

• The Red Scare
  • Fear of communism being brought to the US
• Stock Market Crash
• Ku Klux Klan
• Immigration
  • Reduced
• Republican decade
• Albert Fall
  • Teapot Dome Scandal
• The Prohibition
• Organized crime
  • Due to prohibition
  • Al Capone
• Buying on credit
  • Everyone went into debt
  • Caused stock market crash and the Great Depression