1. Students will understand the impact the Industrial Revolution had on the United States.(Ch. 6)
The industrial resolutution have a big impact on america because it made technology skyrocket it made things easy and cheaper so america became a super power
2. Students will understand the impact immigration and urbanization had on the United States.(Ch. 7)
America was a place everybody wanted to go it was a place all immigrants dreamed of this started cities because different races were seperated into different cities because thats were their family was.
3. Students will understand the impact of the Progressive Era on the United States.(Ch. 9)
Progressive Era was from the 1890s-1920 where people worked to reform the government and correct social problems by taking power away from the rich and giving it to the common people. Goals: Protecting Social Welfare-YMCA and Salvation Army, Promoting Moral Improvement, Fostering Efficiency
4. Students will understand the impact imperialism had on the United States and world.(Ch. 10)
Imperialism was the policy of extending the rule or authority of an emperor or nation over foreign nations.
Ex. A strong country taking over a weak country.
Imperialism started many wars with the united states
5. Students will understand the causes for US involvement in World War I and the effects it had on the United States.(Ch. 11)
Militarism, Imperialism, Nationalism, System of Alliances, and Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.
It had an effect on the united states because unrestricted Submarine Warfare-type of naval warefare in which submarines sink non naval boats without warning. Germans sank the Lusitania which caused the US to join WW1
6. Students will understand the political, social and economic changes that occurred in the 1920’s in the United States.(Ch. 12/13)
-Roaring 20's:
Known as the jazz age or Golden age of sports or Advertising age. A lot of people had radios for the first time. Automobiles common in America.
-Prohibition:
18th Amendment-The manufacture, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages was illegal. It failed because people did not like it they thought of it as government messing with people's lives.
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