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Posted by 1 Caleb on December 16, 2014 at 11:50pm

  1. What are the main historic events that took place in 8th Grade US History that helped shape the United States up to 1877?

    1. Native Americans

      1. first people in our country

      2. believed that they used the land bridge to cross over into North America through Alaska.

        1. Europeans were pushing them off their land

        2. following the migration of animals

        3. happened about 10,000 years ago

    2. 13 Orginial Colonies

      1. europeans settled on the east coast of what is now America

      2. first colony was jamestown

      3. Colonists came for different reasons

        1. freedom from religious persecution

        2. more opporutunity

    3. Louisiana Purchase

      1. americans purchased land from france

        1. ranged from louisiana up to montana

      2. doubled the size of America at the time

      3. added on to the US almost completing the current US map

    4. Womens Rights Movement

      1. Started in 1848

      2. gave women a lot of the rights that they have today

      3. gave equal power to men and women(not completely but better than it was)

      4. gave women the right to vote

    5. Revolutionary War

      1. US fighting against Britain for freedom

      2. July 1776

      3. supposed to be the reason we celebrate July 4th

  2. How did the US change during the late 1800's and early 1900's?

    1. People started going to the great plains

      1. for mining, farming, and to start new businesses when there wasn’t room in the city

      2. Forced native americans off of their homeland

    2. industrial revolution

      1. population grew very fast

      2. new technology with medicine, steam engine allowed machines to work faster

      3. cheap labor

      4. people crowded the cities, overpopulation became an issue

        1. led to diseases because of sanitation problems

      5. increased jobs

      6. education for children

    3. people moved to the cities

      1. for jobs

      2. cheap housing

      3. very convenient, could buy food instead of having to grow/hunt everything

    4. Monopolies

      1. A Company would have complete control over their prices because they had no competition

        1. made illegal by the government

    5. railroads

      1. increased how fast people could travel

      2. also how fast goods could be transported out to other cities

    6. increased immigration

      1. people came from all over the world

      2. people immigrating had to pass a medical test, pass an inspection for past crimes, and pass a test over their ability to work

  3. What impact did the Progressives have on the United States?

    1. Protecting social welfare

      1. Set up settlement houses for the poor

      2. Opened libraries

      3. Sponsored education classes

      4. Opened swimming pools

      5. Set up soup kitchens

      6. Slum brigades - teach immigrants

    2. Moral Improvement

      1. Women’s Suffrage- women’s right to vote

      2. Prohibition

        1. women led the push to ban alcohol

          1. wives were getting beat by drunk husbands, and they would go to work drunk and accomplish nothing

    3. 16th Amendment

      1. Taxes

    1. 17th amendment

      1. direct election of US senators

      2. Allowed the people to elect who they wanted to represent them

    2. 18th amendment

      1. prohibited the manufacture, transport, import, and selling of alcohol

    3. 19th amendment

      1. women given the right to vote

      2. 1920

    4. FTC(Federal trade commision)

      1. anti trust act

      2. 1914

      3. had the power to investigate monopolies and shut them down

    5. Economic Reform

      1. major imbalance of income and how people lived

      2. child labor laws

      3. working hours reduced

      4. Muckrakers - investigative journalists - exposed problems in society

      5. many people turned to socialism,

      6. american socialist party started in 1901

  2. Describe US Foreign Policy in the late 1800's and early 1900's and be able to give examples.

    1. old diplomacy

      1. isolationism

        1. acted on our own, kept to ourselves

      2. non-interventionist

        1. did NOT want to get involved in foreign affairs

      3. passive

        1. waited for events to occur then acted as needed

      4. military was weak

    2. new diplomacy

      1. imperialistic

        1. conquering territory, creating and empire like status

      2. Strong nationalism

        1. a lot of Pride and confidence in our country

      3. interventionist

        1. became more involved in foreign affairs(way to involved)

      4. stronger military

    3. War with spain

      1. spain was “dwindling empire”

      2. US wanted cuba, guam phillipines

      3. USS maine getting sunk was the main cause

    4. Big stick diplomacy

      1. “speak softly, but carry a big stick”

        1. dont talk about what we can do show it with action

    5. Roosevelt corollary

      1. Added to Monroe doctrine

      2. The US would be the police officer between Europe and Latin America

      3. US would use force to protect interests in Latin America

  1. Monroe doctrine

    1. Warned Europe to stay out of Western hemisphere, especially Latin America

    1. Dollar diplomacy

      1. Invest in countries

      2. Take over banks and businesses

  2. What impact did World War I have on the United States?

    1. Brought us out of isolation

      1. Went back to isolation once war was over

    2. Cost us over $22 billion

    3. Over 300,000 casualties

    4. 115, 000 were dead

    5. Made us stronger

    6. Made us a respected power in the world

  3. What impact did the United States have on World War I?

    1. we supported the allies,

    2. cut off german supplies

    3. were very powerful in the war

    4. zimmerman telegram from germany telling mexico to attackt the us to keep US occupied with mexico instead of on Germany

  4. What positive and negative impact did the 1920's have on the United States?

    1. Stock market was great

    2. New technological advances

      1. Things to plug in

    3. Sports came of age

    4. Prosperity

    5. New era of music and dance

    6. Jazz

    7. Ragtime

    8. The Charleston

    9. Cars were popular

    10. Charles Lindbergh

      1. lucky lindy

    11. Negative imapacts

      1. fear of communism

      2. stock market crash

      3. KKK

      4. Immigration

        1. reduced

      5. teapot dome scandal

      6. prohibition

      7. organzied crime

      8. buying everything on credit

        1. caused the stock market crashs

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