1. Students will understand the impact the Industrial Revolution had on the United States.
* The Industrial Revolution started in 1760 through 1850. It was when most the businesses started coming into production, such as: factories, railroads, transportation, and farming agriculture. New inventions were devloped during this period which also helped mold the America we have now. The cotton gin, telephone, and typewriter were just some of the new inventions.
2. Students will understand the impact immigration and urbanization had on the United States.
*The new inventions that came out made farmers and workers move into the cities to find jobs and work since the machines did all the work on the farms. The cities/towns became very crowded and over populated which made the cities very trashy. There was trash piled on the streets, 3-4 familes living in one house. The cities started having problems such as fire, crime, sanitation, water, transportation, and housing.
3. Students will understand the impact of the Progressive Era on the United States.
*The Progressive Era was in the time period of 1890 and the early 1900's. It was the time period where women got the right to vote...Women started working in factories and earning money instead of staying at home with the children. Children started working in factories for long hours for short pay, since they were small and could fit in small places to fix things. The older workers worked short hours and had bigger pay.
4. Students will understand the impact imperialism had on the United States and world.
-Causes of WWI
*Imperialism: a strong country taking over a weaker country
*Militerism: building and maintaining a strong military
*Nationalism: very patriotic towards your country
*Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
*Mutual Defence Alliances (central powers and allied forces)
-Causes for US involvement
*Unrestricted submarine warfare
*American Propaganda
*German dictatorship
*US business interests
*Zimmerman note
-Trench Warfare and weapons
*Machine Guns: weapons that were fired at a faster rate and for a longer time, worked better on an open front in trench warfare, problems were jamming
*Tanks: armored cars that have firing mechanisms attached to them used in WWI
*Submarines: most commonly used by Germans in the first world war, used for sneak attacks, help target merchant ships of the allies to stop them from disturbing supplies
*Bayonet: simple blade attached to the barrel of a rifle used in close combat situations
*Flamethrower: fire spreading mechanism first used by the Germans in the war
*Poision Gas: first used by the French and they were chloride filled which caused cough attacks for the opposing war
*Gas Mask: used to overcome gas inhalation
*Battling between two opposing armies that are both entrenched
*One third of deaths occur in the trenchs
*Died from surprise attack
*Trench fever happened alot in the war and spread quickly
*Rat were horrible in trenches
*Two sided would truce for breakfast
*Smell was terrible in trenches
*Soldiers started shaving heads because the lice problem was horrible
*At dusk some soldiers stayed up to watch for surprise attacks
*Some soldiers had to go in and repair fences in the mans land
-US Homefront
* Woodrow Wilson depended on the Allied financial dependene as a weapon, so it could help him achieve the goals of his postwar diplomacy
* The Lever Act persuaded Americans to save food for the shipment over seas
* Woman and their children mad "war gardens" so they could contribute to the war
* Americans sent weapons, food and bullets and other materials to the French and Russia
* Woman started doing mens' jobs and working in factories
* Most devastating war that anyone has ever seen
* Known as the war to end all wars
* Men sacrificed their lifes for freedom and democracy in the war
* African Americans mananged war efforts, nurses, provided for families, supported war with boycotts/bonds, production left to them, immigrated from rural south to north
* Women stayed home to take care of family, worked in factories, production of ammunition and military products, gained respect from politicians
-Wilson's 14 Points and the Treaty of Versailles
* A proposition to end World War 1 and create peace postwar
* 1. No more secrets (open covenants openly arrived at) prohibit treaties (some treaties non understandable understandings)
* 2. Can navigate freely on all seas, but three conditions: general peace, no fighting with other nations, and League of Nations remains neutral
* 3. Eliminate trade barriers, like high tariffs
* 4. You can not have to many weapons/lesson weapon numbers and "domestic safety" is protecting against invasion
* 5. "Impartial" which means you cant pick sides between the colonies, and listening to both sides on the colonials opinions
* 6. Evactuate Germans troops out of Russian territory and Russia can decide what form of government they want without any interference (determine their own political)
* 7. German troops need to evacuate Belgium and Belgium deserves to be independent like they were before war
* 8. France has taken Germany's control of French territory and Francce is allowed to recover Alsace-Lorraine (region in NE France)
* 9. All Italians are allowed to live in Italy and re-adjust Russias boundries
* 10. People that live in Austria-Hungary should have self-determination
* 11. People in the Balkon states should be independent and must evacuate the Central Powers of Serbia, Montenegro, and Romania
* 12. Turkish people should be governed by Turkish government; non Turkish people should govern themselves
* 13. Poland should be independent and Poland should have access to the sea
* 14. League of Nations is created to make independence to all states
* 400 articles
* Many annexes
* Forced Germany to give up land
* 13.5% of Germany territory
* 7 million people
* Army- 100,000 men-ban
* Navy- under 10,000 tons-ban
* Germany had to pay $33 billion
* Germany also had to have the war guilt clause thrown in their face
* Germany lost land and colonies
6. Students will understand the political, social and economic changes that occurred in the 1920’s in the United States
-Roaring 20's and the return to normalcy
*First decade people started buying automobiles
*Buying on credit
*Golden age of sports
*Advertising age
*Nascar came around during the 20s because they wanted to out run the cops
*Radio and entertainment was huge It allowed then to listen to their favorite sports team
*They started using washing machine, refrigerator, and dryer
* Harding started- returning to normalcy
-Red Scare
* 1919-1920
* United States stopped immigration
* Karl Marx started communisim
-Republican philosophy
* Republications overruled and dominated
* Harding- returning to normalcy
* Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover
* Republican Philosophy- Trickledown theory, Iaissez faire: government stay out of businesses, Rugged individualism: its your life
-Prohibition
* Noble Experiment
* Rural vs. Urban
* 1920 Census- 51.2 people lived in cities of 2,500 or more
* 1922-1929- more than 2 million people moved from farms to the cities each year
* Rural areas tried to hold on to moral values and close social relationships
* At first saloons closed and drunkeness went down
* The Volstead Act created the Prohibition Bureau to enforce the law
* Prohibition failed for three reasons:
1. People despised it, saw it as government meddling in peoples lives
2. The Prohibition Bureau was underfunded, had 1500 people to supervise the country
3. Organized crime became commonplace
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