1. Students will know how the Industrial Revolution effected the United States. Inventions like.
-electric vote recorder,phonograph, light bulb, telegraph systems, power station, electric companies, Kineto scope, typewriter, telephone, photo phone, wax phonograph records, radar, National Geo. Society, electric lights and telephones. Railroads were a big thing in the industrial revolution.
2. Students will understand the impact immigration and urbanization had on the United States. Immigration was a big thing to escape religious problems. The immigrants wanted to own land. They wanted better opportunities, to seek fortune, find work, plant and manage farms, work in the mines, to escape poverty, and finally to educate their kids
3. Students will understand the impact of the Progressive Era on the United States. Worker Safety/conditions, Reforming elections, Segregation, Regulating food & drugs, Conservation, Monopolies, Taxation/Banking, Bully pulpit, Aid Organizations/helping poor, Muckrakers, Efficiency in the workplace, Women social changes, and Reforming Government.
4. Students will understand the impact imperialism had on the United States and world. Imperialism- When a country takes control of another country, for their own wants. This gains more land and people for that country. Great Britain, Germany, Japan, the United States, and Russia were the 5 biggest imperialistic countries.
5. Students will understand the causes for US involvement in World War I and the effects it had on the United States. M.I.N.E.S.
-M-militarism
-I-imperialism
-N-nationalism
-E-economic competition
-S-system of alliances
6. Students will understand the political, social and economic changes that occurred in the 1920’s in the United States.
-Roaring 20's
-Red Scare
-Republican Domination
-War Prevention
-Automobile/Airplane
-Prohibition
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