1. Students will understand the impact the Industrial Revolution had on the United States.(Ch. 6)
Several new inventions came out. To name a few, the train, the telephone, phonograph, early motion picture cameras, amongst others. This all started with an oil boom in the 1800's. Perhaps the greatest thing about the industrial revolution was the discovering of uses of many natural resources. Now we could use iron, copper, coal, and of course oil to do many useful things with new inventions.
2. Students will understand the impact immigration and urbanization had on the United States.(Ch. 7)
With immigration, in the early 1900's, many families from foreign nations in Europe and Asia, were coming to America for better lives, more pay in their jobs, or to escape the unlawfulness of their former country. They came through Ellis Island on the east coast and also a few on the west coast. Urbanization was the idea of gathering in cities, saying that city life was much better than country/rural life. Cities boomed in population, and thus other problems they didn't experience in the country were now experienced.
3. Students will understand the impact of the Progressive Era on the United States.(Ch. 9)
The Progressive Era was all about getting things done in America, so to speak. The president of the time was Theodore Roosevelt, a profound figure in history. He was such a large figure, what with being a historian, fighting in the Spanish-American war as a rough rider, he was all about making America a big player in the world, and this would one day bring us to several wars, including WWI, the Spanish-American war, and even the American-Phillipino war.
4. Students will understand the impact imperialism had on the United States and world.(Ch. 10)
Imperialism is an idea about bringing up an empire. The impact was trying to gain land in the Caribbean Sea, and in doing that we landed ourselves in the Spanish-American war. More of the same stuff from above, but not with Roosevelt was president.
5. Students will understand the causes for US involvement in World War I and the effects it had on the United States.(Ch. 11)
WWI started with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As a result, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. The Allied Powers fought against the Central Powers for about two years before the United States entered the war. We entered the war when British code-breakers intercepted a message from Germany to Spain convincing them to declare war on us to get their land back. We were so outraged that we were forced into war against them, fighting on the side of the Allies. The common fighting was trench warfare, which is a fight between two sides in trenches, dug out ditches in zig-zagging lines. The weapons used included machine guns, grenades, gases and chemicals in the first big chemical warfare ordeal, and knives. Back in the United States, the civillians wanted to presever food to send to the troops, Victory Gardens started appearing, and war bonds were encouraged. President Woodrow Wilson had a plan to end the war, his fourteen points. The first five were aimed at Germany, but they never did mention them. But the last one was his biggest thing: A League of Nations, which we never joined but he wanted formed so that another war would not happen.
6. Students will understand the political, social and economic changes that occurred in the 1920’s in the United States.(Ch. 12/13)
When the war ended in 1918, soldiers returned home to a different home than they had left. Things were different with media, for example. Now radios were in their infancy, and the red scare, a fear of Marxists and such came into the fearing hearts of Americans. The automobiles and airplanes increased drastically in number and in popularity. But the biggest one was pretty much making it illegal to drink alcohol, aka Prohibition. The banning of manufacturing, selling, and trasnporting beer, wine, and more. The only way to get their stuff was to go to church or for medical purposes. It was repealed in 1933.
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