- 1. What are the main historic events(hit five) that took place in 8th Grade US History that helped shape the United States up to 1877?(10 points)-Chapters 1-4
- Colonization
i. This is where the people who were being persecuted travel great lengths to get to the Colonies of North America were people didn’t care and they were all equal . Down side to this is there was still taxes from the English King.
- Declaration of Independents
i. This is where we got tired of always paying Taxes for no reason and we sent this saying that we wanted Independents but the English King didn’t want this to happen so he sent the Red Coats to the Colonies to keep the people in line
- Revolution and Making of the Constitution
i. We revolted against the English because we got tired of them and their taxes because we didn’t feel free. We went to war with them and they used a military tactic called gentlemen’s warfare and basically it is where you stood in lines and you fire when you were at the front. We hid in the forest and fought from there and we did it from all around. That is why they lost. This is when we made the constitution after signing a treaty with England
- Civil war
i. This war was over slavery and they country itself because the south had pulled out of the constitution and made their own government and this is where they fighting started. The Confederate (the south) wanted to be a nation and to be able to keep slavery. The Union (north) wanted to revive the old country and save it from doom. This war cost us more American lives than any other war because we were fighting our own people
- Reconstruction
i. There is always reconstruction after a war that was waged in your home land and we had to reconstruct the south, not just buildings but economy as well
- 2. How did the US change during the late 1800's and early 1900's?(10 points)-Chapters 5-8
- At first all of the Native Americans were supposed to get the Great Plains. There was also a lot more rail road’s making it easier to settle in the Great Plains. The Homestead act gave you family 160 acres times how many people are in your family. This land was mostly farm but if you lived in Texas it was pastern lands because they raise cow in Texas and that is where cowboys come in. But because we moved the Native Americans out of the Great Plains they started to attack cowboys. There was some new inventions in the 1800’s that were important like the cotton gin and the first Incandescent light bulb. There was also a lot of immigration causing the cities to become to crowded
- 3. What impact did the Progressives have on the United States?(10 points)-Ch. 9
- This area gave us Labor Unions and it also got rid of the kids working because they would get pay so little and the person that was at the top rolling in money because he didn’t pay his employees enough. It also gave us the 17 amendment that was the banning of alcohol
- 4. Describe US Foreign Policy in the late 1800's and early 1900's and be able to give examples.(10 points)-Ch. 10
- "Speak softly and carry a big stick" –basically said that we use military power to get what we want. And it was to stay neutral so we didn’t get involved in a lot of things like small civil wars and spend a lot of money making us go into debt and the have to pay it off (unlike today)
- 5. What impact did World War I have on the United States?(10 points)-Ch. 11
- We had to make propaganda signs because we were going to fight the war in 1917 because the Germany U-Boats kept sinking our ship that carried goods for them to trade with us. This caused people to have to buy stuff that was made in the USA
- 6. What positive and negative impact did the 1920's have on the United States?(20 points)-Ch. 12-13
- Positive
- Amelia Earhart
- Charles limperg
- after the war they made cheap cars
- buying on credit
- President Harding Coolidge and Hoover
- focus on Normality
- Coolidge was the only president to be born on July 4
- RDC stands for Reconstrustion finance Corporation
- Music
- jazz
- blues were a quieter
- ragtime was up beat
- Broadway
- it was a place for plays and musicals
- Dances- mostly made by black people
- The Charleston was one of the most Dances every use and it was set to a dance
- The Black Bottom was used by mostly black people
- The Foxtrot was brought over by African Americans and was change for jazz
- The Tango was made in the ghetto but then brought to the ball room floor
- The waltz is an old dance that they modernize
- the cake walk was an african dance but they brought it over and made it there own
- Radio shows- after super they would go to the radio and listen to the radio and it brought families together
- games
- Football- it became big in the 20s and they didn't throw the ball as much as we do today
- golf got bigger in the 20s
- Tennis and Hellen wills was the first woman to wear shorts and t-shirts
- Baseball- in the 20s baseball became big and in the 1924 there was the first negro world series
- Boxing was still big
- Basketball was a secondary sport and in 1925 the ABL or American basketball league
- games
- Mahjong cards and crossword poker was a big card game
- slang
- Bee's knees means something is cool big cheese is the head honcho
- clothing
- me wore alot of suits and hats and sweater vests
- women had short haie and men parted there had
- women wore loose dresses and they called them flappers and this was because they left the buckles on there shoes
- boys had somthing like sailer suit and girls had little dresses
- Food
- Hotdogs were becoming a bigger thing in the 20s
- Pasta was also
- Butter finger came out
- Gum because big
- Restaurants
- Texas pig stand
- A&W it was a big hit was during the prohibition
- founded in the late 20
- advertising
- Commercial
- Radio
- Poster
- Parties
- women would were alot of frilly stuff and jewlery
- And the guys wore what they would normally wear
- Negative
- the palmer raid
- Ku Klux Klan
- Buying on credit
- gangs
- Al Capone made 16,000,000 on bootlegging and got caught for tax evasion
- mafia
- Hoover didn't help with the great depression
- Prohibition 1920-1933
- they did this because they thought that it was corrupting the youth
- they made speakeasies bars that were made by criminals
- they had great decor
- Buying on credit
- Nobody paid when supposed to
- Lots of people were in debt
- caused the great depression
- Negative
- jazz
- 7. What were the causes and effects of the stock market crash of 1929?(20 points)-Ch.14-15
- It caused us to spiral down into the Great Depression because on that a lot of people decided to sell and because there was a lot of money lost it cause the entire US to plummet and the people that were rich on paper were now poor and people lost their jobs
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