1. What are the main historic events that took place in 8th Grade US History that helped shape the United States up to 1877?
Christopher Columbus; Sailed the ocean blue in 1492. His big goal was to go to Asia. He thought he would go around, the other way and instead he came across America. He discovered and without him discovering it, we wouldn’t know it like we do today!
Revolutionary War; It was the war that is known as the war of Independence. The war to end all wars! It happened between the 13 British colonies and Great Britain. It really ended up affecting us. We, the US got independence which is really what we needed.
Gold Rush; The American Dream. People loved the idea! It was basically to live without the fear of money. No debts, no worry’s!
Signing The Constitution; It was basically this book of laws. Rules pretty much. These “rules” are the strongest rules we have. I am thankful we have them though. Without them I think things would get way out of hand. The constitution now days has helped our country as we know, out by creating the congress, the presidency, and how the government works in general.
Taxing; The started taxing the colonies. That is what happened to stir up a lot of problems. No one wanted to pay extra for a product that they needed, and people were already having some problems with money. Now-a-days were all used to it, and so it’s not like we could do anything, but it did influence us a lot.
2. How did the US change during the late 1800's and early 1900's?
The Industrial Revolution was a booming time for technology in the US. A lot of people wanted better resources and better land so many people tried to migrate west for those reasons simply. There were also many big businesses and monopolies that were taking over other smaller businesses in the same field. Which our president didn’t like one bit! (Woodrow Wilson) The gold Rush had also taken place in 1799 when a 17 pound gold nugget had been found. Everyone began to travel to California in order to become rich. The Gold Rush was the American Dream! New towns were created in California for the miners and their families. Closer to the gold mines and so on. New land was also discovered during this time.
3. What impact did the Progressives have on the United States?
16th - Income Tax
17th – Banning of Alcohol (Probation)
and 18th- Manufacturing of Alcohol
Woodrow Wilson tried braking up all of the monopolies so smaller businesses actually had a chance. Teddy Roosevelt had worked for conservation, also child labor laws were introduced at that point in time, and work safety laws were also introduced to create safer work places.
4. How did the US deal with the world in the late 1800's and early 1900's?
Strong Nationalism- Was having strong pride and having confidence in one's country.
Monroe doctrine- This had made it so European countries could not settle in the western hemispheres, and the US would put fight if anyone did.
Roosevelt corollary- It had strengthened the Monroe doctrine, (Which is above) said that the US would be the police officer between Latin American and Europe, the US would use force to protect interests in Latin America. Meaning that America will help solve disputes between Latin America and Europe without Europe invading Latin America.
Big Stick Diplomacy--"Speak softly and carry a big stick" - means to have a big army and navy and have people respect that. Don’t necessarily need to fight, just have a strong military and be intimidating.
Taft's Dollar Diplomacy -Used the US government to guarantee loans made to foreign countries by US banks and businessmen took control of them because they owe us a lot of money. "Substitution dollars for bullets"- instead of war and military control, we controlled their businesses and economy instead. And then kept Europeans out of the Latin American countries.
Wilson's Missionary Diplomacy - when the US ignored Latin American gov't, this policy did not work. The US wouldn’t recognize any government that was hostile toward the US. Mexican gov't was overthrown.
5. What impact did World War I have on the United States?
Woman, it pushed Woman to go get men’s jobs. It caused the US to be into major trading place. The Treaty of Versailles came about and it was a peace settlement which was signed after WWI had ended in 1918, and the war known as the war of guilt, because Germany had to take full blame for the war. When Germany lost the land, they lost mostly all of their economic businesses. This punished Germany severely. We didn't pass the treaty, because Congress thought that if we signed it then we would be in war all the time.
League-of Nations- the League of Nations was to ensure that war would never be broke out again. After the mess with the Treaty of Versailles many people looked at the League of Nations to bring stability to the world.
Also during World War I women started taking over the men’s jobs and this really made the men mad.
6. What positive and negative impact did the 1920's have on the United States?
Positive; Woman started taking men’s jobs while they went off to the war, so more income was coming in. They also proved that they can do anything men can do. ßImportant! J And also a lot of movies came out, which was a big step for our time. Jazz came to an all-time high! Which is really neat! Sports were also a major jump! The Red Scare came about in 1924 and that was when the U.S. feared communism. Prohibition also came in the 20’s and that was the banning of alcohol. Some say this was good and it has also been said that this led to gangs.
Negative; Woman were still discriminated against for the most part. Harlem KKK came about to try to keep them down. Everyone was buying cars and so everyone was going into dept. Which is what then made the Great Depression come. Farmers were not doing well in the 20’s. Agriculture in general was not doing well.
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