The semester test will be worth 14% of your semester grade.
You will be asked two questions from 1-4, two questions from WWI and two questions from the 1920's. You need to do answer all of them for the semester test blog.
Essentials for US History--Semester One
1. Students will understand the impact the Industrial Revolution had on the United States.(Ch. 6)
There was a wealth of natural resources, govt. support of business, a growing urban population which supplied cheap labor and markets for new products, Oil and the production of steel.
railroads-railroads made transportation so much easier for americans. The railroads went across the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. The spread out all across the country. The government made big land grants to railroad companies. The railroad impacted the us greatly, it was an easier way to the west brought avaliable land adventure and a new start and it helped develop the country we have today, the bad thing is death and died from working on the railroad. Most upset people about the railroad were the farmers, the farmers were upset because of the land grants.
inventions-Typewriters, fans, printing presses, electric street cars, meatpacking plants, telephone, Light bulb, plow, typewriter. They improved people's lives by making work easier. Power of electricity, electricity was invented in1876, and Thomas Alva Edison invented it. It made production easier, cause when the sun went down they could really see so they couldnt really work. Thomas made electricity safer and less expansive.
2. Students will understand the impact immigration and urbanization had on the United States.(Ch. 7)
Jane Adams- she would join a settlement house because workers would know how to help the problems in the city. adams was a spokesperson for racial justice, and in 1931 when she was the co-winner of the nobel pease prize, the social gospel movement and organizaton that preached salvation to the people, this group tried to reach out to the people that were living in poverty.
some problems- housing- airshafts, garbage pickup and plumbing
transportation- street cars, electric subways
water- filtration introduced in 1870 and chlorination in 1908
sanitation- sewage, manure, smoke, garbage
crime- police force in 1844
fire, no water, wood housing, candles proposed fire
3. Students will understand the impact of the Progressive Era on the United States.(Ch. 9)-protecting social welfare, promoting moral inprovment, creating economic reform, fostering efficiency
-protecting social welfare, promoting moral inprovment, creating economic reform, fostering efficiency
-natural disaster
-hurricane
-city councils
-huge relief
-5members took charge
helped to end and reduce child labor
-prohibited child labor and to limeit womens working hours
-they banned child labor
4. Students will understand the impact imperialism had on the United States and world.(Ch. 10)
-Imperialism: when bigger countries take over weaker countries
-US looked to imperialize because: it brings military power, naval bases, refueling stations, money and natural resources, and belief in cultural superiority
-Negative: slavery involved with imperialism, controlling of people
-Positive: Some smaller countries benefited from government stability from other big countries
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
Central powers and Allied forces
-imperialism
-militarism
-nationalism
-assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
-Causes for US involvement
Great Britain and Germany were sinking US ships *
-Trench Warfare and weapons
-Trench Warfare: Battling between two opposing armies that are both entrenched
-Examples of weapons used:
-bayonet
-flamethrower
-poison gas
-submarines or u boats
-US Homefront
Women worked in factories and made "war gardens"
-Wilson's 14 Points and the Treaty of Versailles
-Wanted to end the war and create peace postwar
-Treaty of Versailles:
-440 articles
-It forced Germany to give up land
-Germany had to pay $33 billion which hurt their economy
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
-jazz age
-automobile
-flappers..fun dressing
-people made more money
-stock market got high
-Red Scare
-1919-1920
-fear that we'd become communist
-stopped immigration
-Palmer raids...Hoover and Palmer took communists out of country
-Republican philosophy and Prohibition
-Republicans overrule
-trickle down theory (help rich..will help everyone else)
-laissez-faire
-rugged individualism (let people do as they please)
Do not study the topics below this line-Those are 2nd Semester topics.
Essentials for US History--Semester 2
7. Students will understand the causes and effects of the Great Depression.
1. Students will understand the impact the Great Depression and New Deal had on the US.
2. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of WWII.
3. Students will understand how/why the Allies won WWII.
4. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Cold War.
5. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Korean Conflict.
6. Students will understand the causes, effects and major events of the Vietnam Conflict.
7. Students will understand the causes and effects of the Persian Gulf Wars as well as the War on Terror.
8.Students will understand the major economic, political, and social changes made during the 1950's, 1960's, 1970's, 1980's, 1990's and 2000's.
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