1. Students will understand the impact the Industrial Revolution had on the United States.(Ch. 6)
A discovery in wealth and resources, government support for businesses, growing urban population that provided cheap labor and market for new products helped the Industrial Revolution take off.
Inventions like the light bulb, the typewriter, the telephone, the McCormick Reaper
Positives things it did- made things cheaper because it doesn't take as long, cities popped up along railroads, transforms the west since it can carry people to the west transporting goods and people more quickly
Negative things it did- put farmers father in debt, destroyed Native American lands, and overcharged people and gave businesses a break
Interstate commerce act makes sure railroads were fair to everyone
2. Students will understand the impact immigration and urbanization had on the United States.(Ch. 7)
Immigrants were lured to America in the hopes of a better life.
The immigrants were cheaper labor.
Nativists didn’t like immigrants because of their religious views or just because of the country they were from
The technology boom in the 19th century contributed to city development.
Immigrants lived in the cities because it was cheaper and convenient.
Cities offered jobs for people that were unskilled.
People moved off of farms and into cities because of the advancements in farming capabilities. –The McCormick reaper, the steal plow
Urban life had many problems like lack of sanitation, housing, transportation, water, crime, and fire.
3. Students will understand the impact of the Progressive Era on the United States.(Ch. 9)
They tried to promote moral improvement with Prohibition.
They worked hard to clean up local and state governments
They ended child labor
They worked to limit the hours people could work
Progressives also succeeded in winning workers’ compensation to aid the families of workers who were hurt or killed on the job
The 17th Amendment- They got the direct election of Senators.
Women got suffrage and prohibition and started to work outside of the home more. They even started to go to college.
They pushed for suffrage by going state to state.
Acts- Elkins Act and Hepburn Act which required railroads to be fair and just in their prices and practices, the Meat Inspection Act 1906, passed the Pure Food and Drug Act 1906 that required labeling. All passed by Teddy Roosevelt.
Many of the presidents were trust busters.
The Clayton Anti-Trust Act; it also gave labor unions the right to exist
Federal Trade Commission was established. Investigated companies for monopolistic practices
16th amendment- Income Tax
Federal Reserve System loaned money to banks so they wouldn’t go under.
4. Students will understand the impact imperialism had on the United States and world.(Ch. 10)
It did things like bringing military power and prestige, naval bases and refueling stations, money for opening new markets to sell your goods, befiefs in cultural superiority-white man on top (white man's burden)
caused tension between countries over land.
5. Students will understand the causes for US involvement in World War I and the effects it had on the United States.(Ch. 11)
Focus on these topics for the test:
-Causes of WWI
Militarism, imperialism, and nationalism, assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Alliances,
-Causes for US involvement
Unrestricted submarine warfare-Germans sank the Lusitania which is a main reason why the US joined WWI
America Propaganda-increased support for the war, it urged people to plant victory gardens, join the war, greater war production andminimize the amount they ate and not to be wasteful.
Zimmerman note-German Minister wrote the telegram, sent to Minister in Mexico, German empire wanted Mexico to declare war against the US, the British deciphered the telegram, the American press published it in newspapers, another big reason for the US entering the war
-Trench Warfare and weapons
guns-rifles, machine guns
tanks-1st one make was Little Willie-could only go 3mph (end of war-10 men, 4 mph, revolving turret)
gas-chlorine, Mustard
Submarines and Aircrafts also
-US Homefront
Women workers were more common in factories, also becoming independent
Department of Labor was created to help increase the production of warfare materials. Food and Drug Administration which helps preserve food sources and monitors food and drugs
many men joined war, liberty bonds, farming and food
Wilson's 14 Points and the Treaty of Versailles
End all secret treaties, Freedom of the Seas, Free Trade for all countries, Disarmament, end to colonial claims, Self-determination for all countries-russia, Restoration of Belgium, Restoration of France, Readjustment of Italy's Boundaries, Austria-Hungary Would be Given Opportunity for Autonomous Development, Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro Should be Evacuated and Restored, Turkey Should be Sovereign, Poland Would be Given Their Independence, League of Nations Would be Developed (Wislon's baby, the thing he wanted more than anything else)
1918
The treaty that ended the war. It was in paris. They hoped that it would bring stability to Europe. Poland and Czechoslovakia were some of the new nations. It helped bring peace. Germany didn't like the treaty because they thought that they would get the 14 points
6. Students will understand the political, social and economic changes that occurred in the 1920’s in the United States.(Ch. 12/13)
Focus on these topics for the test:
-Roaring 20's and the return to normalcy
Good life, jazz age, big in sports, advertising booming. Radio and entertainment was big, electricity in homes
Harding returned things to normal when in the 1920 election. He isolationism where we would just upgrade the US instead of worrying about other countries
-Red Scare
Scared that US was going to be communist. US reduced immigration to keep communism out.
J. Edgar Hoover and A. Mitchell Palmer deported people
-Republican philosophy
Do as little as possible. Hoover was the only Iowa president. After 6 months of Hoover became president, people stopped buying items which hurt companies and families
Rugged individualism-it is your responsibility
Laissez-faire-government will stay out of businesses
Trikle-down theory-gave tax cuts to rich and would "trickle" down and help the lower class, more jobs with better pay but it didn't happen very fast
-Prohibition
It was the banning of alcohol. Women pushed it adn thought it would help. 21st amendment repealed it. Alcohol was then only allowed for medicine and religious purposes. Failed because people thought it dumb so crimes were often. Al Capone was big and made millions.
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