1. Students will understand the impact the Industrial Revolution had on the United States.(Ch. 6)Factories came up providing new jobs fro everyone, Farmers moved to the cities, Invention were invented that provided jobs for women, and children. The rail road gave people alot easier to expand west without having to do that huge traveling on horse and wagon. Bad thing about the railroad is that they overcharge farmers to transport their crops which was bad because the farmers were already in debt because of all the really expenseve machinery they had to buy for their farms.
Also it it's disavantages when manopolies were formend Which is were people try to buy out small bussines and try to control the whole aspect of the bussines which wasnt good for the common person. There was unfair worked conditions, and low pay which s why some labor Unions started to make things better for the workers.
2. Students will understand the impact immigration and urbanization had on the United States.(Ch. 7) Immigrants cam from all over the world for a better lilfe,and before coming into the U.S they had to get throgh Elis Island, and Angel Island before being able to come in. They made the cities really crowded which was bad because there was barely and room, and all the unsanatary things. For example garbage all over the streets, horse poop ect.
Alot of people disliked immigrants because they would take over the jobs, because they wouuld work for lower wages, and when poeple went on strike they would fire the peole and hire the new imigrants. Also Boss tweed and the the Tweed Ring would helped out all the new immigrants in exchange to get their votes for office.
3. Students will understand the impact of the Progressive Era on the United States.(Ch. 9)
This was were Women were really pushing for votin rights, and were reform started. People wanted better hours and better working conditions. Henry Ford was a good example because he thought if you treated and pay your workers good they would do better work. Child labor was banned by the showing of how bad working conditions actually were. Macrakers the investigative journalist the people that showed how bad our society really was. The fact the presidents started thinknik more of the common person instead of just the rich. Teddy roosevelt the trust buster breaking up trust and monopolies. Land reserves
4. Students will understand the impact imperialism had on the United States and world.(Ch. 10)
The white mans burden the fact that it was our job to teach and educate our little brown brothers. Imperialsim is were a big country goes and takes over a small country. The united states was an isoloationist at first but due to the spanish american war were we helped cuba get its independence from spain, and from that war we got the virgin islands, guam, and the philipines. We also took over hawwii and took over them, and got bougght alaka in hope that we could take over canada. Bad because we damaged the lives of the people of the new land we were taking over.
5. Students will understand the causes for US involvement in World War I and the effects it had on the United States.(Ch. 11)
The zimmerman note-were the germans attempted to talk mexico inot attack the U.S, and that in return they would gain all the land that they had lost in the mexican american war.
Also the sinking of many u.s submerines by the Germans The lusitania and a year later the sussex.
Also the u.s enconomy wasn't so good so bussines encouraged war that way they would proudce prouducts and become rich of the war.
Focus on these topics for the test:
-Causes of WWI- milliratims, imperialism, and secrete alliances. Allied powers_Allied Powers (japan, us, Great Britain, ,France, Russia, Czecholoslovakia legians, romania, Greece, Montenegro, Belgium, Serbia, Italy
The central powers-Central Powers( Germany , Austria-Hungary, Italy, Ottoman Empire/Turkey, Kingdom of Bulgaria.
Nationalism was also a cuase for the war.
one of the bigges was causes was the Assasination of Archaduke Franz Fernandad, prince of Austria, and next king.-Major push for War in Europe, he wasn't very popular with the people- 6 people attemped to kill him.
-Causes for US involvement- The zimerman note, sinking of subs, and bussines wanting money.
-Trench Warfare and weapons-rilfe, machine guns, gas,torpedoes, grenades, tanks. Was a defensive strategy were peoople would hide in trenches to better protec them selves. The bad thing is that bodies layed every were, desease spread quickly, rats, and all the humidity because sometimes water was in the trenches.
-US Homefront- The spianog act if you critizied the war you were punished, the economy thrived on the war, womens took over the mens jobs, wheatles mondays, and meatles tuesday tuaght americans how to manage their food because food will win the war!
-Wilson's 14 Points and the Treaty of Versailles-
2) Absolute freedon of navigation upon the seas outsides terretorial waters-1.-
so really no secret treates
- WW endend in 1918-Germay lost 10 percen of land, and army was dramaticallly reduced, made germany guilty for the war.
-the u.s never accepted the treaty because the senate was divided into groups and niether would give in, some say wer were to easy on the germans.
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- The roaring twenties was when the cars were really big, electrical sockets, jazz music, people would buy in debt.
Return to normalcy was when the U.S wanted to go back to being and isolationis country that way we wojldnt go to war as much.
-Red Scare- It was when the U.S was scared that it would become communist, so We reduced immigration that way people who were comminist could stay out of the U.S. WE also put people in Jail if we thought they were communist.
-Republican philosophy- This was that we should not join the league of nations, because if we did we would always be drag into European Wars at all time.
-Prohibition- This was the banninf of alcohol. Women pushed for this because the men would spend all their money on ocohol, and would beat their children and wives when they were drunk. Bussniess also thought this was a good idea becasue workers were better sover.
It didn't work out because alcohol was like water to people. Crime became very big, people did it anyways.
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