- 1. What are the main historic events that took place in 8th Grade US History that helped shape the United States up to 1877?(10 points)-Chapters 1-4
- · Native Americans coming over land bridge
- Spanish discovery of Americas
- French and Indian war
- Colonization
- Revolutionary war
- Louisiana purchase
- Westward expansion
- Civil war
- Reconstruction
- Mexican/American war
- 2. How did the US change during the late 1800's and early 1900's?(10 points)-Chapters 5-8
- Everything was being mass produced (Industrial Revolution)
- Railroads was main transportation of goods
- New inventions- Bessemer steel, light bulb, etc.
- Huge cities were being made with apartment buildings and close housing. Fires and crime were a huge problem everything was volunteered work. After several years things got better with building codes and full time fireman and police officers.
- Laissez-faire (let them be) the government let companies do whatever they wanted with their employees and products.
- Monopolies. Companies was getting bigger and bigger and they were getting ride of the smaller businesses.
- Political machines
- Jim Crow laws/segregation
- Labor Unions
- Immigrants from other countries started pouring in (WASP)
- 3. What impact did the Progressives have on the United States?(10 points)-Ch. 9
- · Progressive era
- Muckrakers
- · Monopoly busters
- Goals:
Protect social welfare
Create economic reform
Promoting moral improvement
Fostering efficiency
- Amendments
16th amendment- Allows congress to put tax on peoples income, creating the ever so famous income tax.
17th amendment- direct election of senators: It allowed the people to elect the senators that represent them.
18th amendment- Prohibition- banned the sale of alcohol in the US; believed it would improve moral of citizens, and workers
19th amendment- Women’s suffrage (voting) took about 40 years of women pushing the idea for it to take notice
- 4. Describe US Foreign Policy in the late 1800's and early 1900's and be able to give examples.(10 points)-Ch. 10
Old Diplomacy vs. New Diplomacy
- New Diplomacy- More involved in foreign affairs, Sphere of influence, Militarism, Imperialism, etc.
- Old Diplomacy- was hardly involved in foreign affairs, Isolationism, passive and reactive, noninterventionist
- Spanish American war
- Monroe doctrine
- Dollar diplomacy
- 5. What impact did World War I have on the United States?(10 points)-Ch. 11
- Drove us into going back to isolationism
- Casualties and costs
- Made America an even bigger power house
- 6. What impact did the United States have on World War I?(20)
- · The U.S. getting involved brought a quicker end to the war
- Wilson’s 14 points
- The League of Nations
- 7. What positive and negative impact did the 1920's have on the United States?(20 points)-Ch. 12-13
Positive:
- Prohibition- lowered domestic violence
- Stock market was going up
- New music, fashion, FADS, movies and movie stars
- Women were getting more rights and so were blacks
- Increase in technology
Negative:
- Prohibition- law abiding citizens were committing crimes by drinking and selling alcohol
- Organized crime
- KKK organization
- Red Scare
- Buying on credit
- Stock market crash (1929)
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