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 move west, adventure, a new start, and avaliable land
- Inventions- some were the typewriter, electric motor, telephone, and fans
- Monompolys- the standard oil took over gas and had to be shut down so there would be competition to make the prices lower
- we moved from an agricultural country to an industrialized country
2. Students will understand the impact immigration and urbanization had on the United States.
Immigration
- People hated the immigrants coming over because we thought they would take all of our jobs.
- They came from all over Europe, China, Mexico, and Japan
- They had to pass a physical exam
- Had to have at least 25 dollars
- Harsh questioninglong detention waiting to answer the questions (Angel Island)
- people didn't like them for being immigrants
Urbanization
- Cities offered
- cheap houses
- unskilled labors steady jobs
- schools
- religion, culture, tradition, language
- problems
- their wasn't alot of housing
- 1879 government passed a law saying houses had to have airshafts, garbage pickup, and plumbing
- transportation- 1873 street cars came, 1897 electric subways
- water- 1870's filtering and chlorination was introduced
- sanitation- sewage, manure, smoke, garbage
- crime- police forse started in 1844 because of all the crime that was happening
fire- no water, wood hosing, candles, peoposed fire, 1900 full time fire department, 1874 automatic fire sprinkler, replace wood housing
3. Students will understand the impact of the Progressive Era on the United States.
Progressive Era- Period of time from the late 1890 to 1920 when our country made a lot of progress helping the common person out.
Goals- Protecting social welfare- soften harsh conditions of industrialization, the social gospel,christian movement to help people out, and settlement movement
promoting moral improvement- improving the lives of the poor people, immigrants and poor city dwelers
creating economic reform
fostering efficiency (assembly lines)
16th, 17th, 18th, 19th amendments
16th Imcome tax
17th Direct election of US senators (we vote for the senators)
18th prohibition
19th womens right to vote
Teddy Roosevelt
square deal (making everything equal making the poor rich and the rich poorer)
conservation (set aside forest for national parks)
Trust buster (breaking up small monoplys)
Taft
broke up the standard oil monoply
Wilson
bankers bank
4. Students will understand the impact imperialism had on the United States and world.
- Cause of WW1
- strong country goes out and takes colonies around the world
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
mutual defense alliances (central powers and allied forces)
- Imperialism
Militarism
Nationalism
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
-Causes for US involvement
- The sinking of the Luisitainia by Germanys U-Boats
- The Zimmerman note between Germany and Mexico
- We traded wtih one side more than the other side benifiting them more
-Trench Warfare and weapons
- Battling between to popposing armies that are both entrenched. Jush laying in a trench shooting back at eachother
- used machine guns
- bombs
- planes weren't big then otherwise the trechs woulnt have worked
- tanks
- gas
- flamethrowers
-US Homefront
- Women took over mens jobs
- Factories changed to war time factories and made things for the soldiers
- Victory Gardens- people grew gardens to send food the soldiers
- They limited down to not eating certain foods on certain days
-Wilson's 14 Points and the Treaty of Versailles
Wilsons 14 points
- Wilsons proposition to end WW1 and create peace post war
- elimination trade barriors
- open covenents (no more secrets)
- navigate freely on the seas
- lessen weapon numbers
Treaty of Versailles
- signed June 28th 1919,
- 440 articles
- many annexes
- forced germany to give up land 13.5%
- germany had to pay 33 billion dollars that put them into a depression
- germany had to have the war guilt clause saying that germany had to take responsibility of the war which was a insult or slap in the face for them
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
- Rural areas tried to hold on to moral values and close social relationships
- Many people moved to the cities
- Electricity in homes
- Largest cities
- New York
- Chicago
- fashion
- oxford pants
- natural waist line
- fur coats and hats
- short pants
- golden age of holywood
- charlie chaplin
- walt disney started 1928
- sports
- Babe Ruth (baseball)
- Gene Tunney (boxing)
- Bill Tilden (tennis)
- African American jazz music and art
-Red Scare
- Communist scare- period of time after ww1 when the US was scared of becoming communist
- we limited to immigrations because the immigrants came from a communist countries and wanted it in our country
- palmer raids - went after mojor communist wanting people in our country and deported the
- Karl Marx created communist which today is a controlling government
-Republican philosophy
- republicans overruled
- republican philosophy
- trickle down theory
- by helping the righ in turn are helping the poor
- help business owners creates jobs for the poor
- laisse- faire
- government stays out of business affairs
- let business handle their own problems
- rugged individualism
- people need to help themselves and step up, stop being lazy
The republicans dominated in the 1920's
-Prohibition
- 18th amendment
- banning of manufacture, sale and transportation of alcohol
- supporters were mostly from the south and the west, Catholics
- nonsupporters were from the northeast
- Alcohol was allowed for medicinal and religious purposes
- Prescriptions and sacremental wine orders sky rocketed
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