1. Students will understand the impact the Industrial Revolution had on the United States.(Ch. 6)-
*the populations were growing. provided cheaper labor
* government supported businesses
*huge wealth of natural resources to help and industrial revolution boom
-examples- oil, coal, iron, ect.
* railroads were invented (helped which trading and made thing move much faster)
*monopolies were being made.
*new technologies:
-cottan gin, type writer, light bulb, telephone
2. Students will understand the impact immigration and urbanization had on the United States.(Ch. 7)
-Urbanization
*the cities had a lot of oppurtunites like jobs, schooling, churchs, ect.. cities also became very dirty and polluted. they became very over populated and crowded. many people had no where to stay and were homeless. fires were started too.
-Immigration
*many americans thought they were losing their jobs because of the immigrants coming in. Immigrants had dieses and had to get past ellis island. a lot of americans thought immigrants were ruining the way of life. all of the chinese or germans would all settle in one area. they would work for less the colonists.
3. Students will understand the impact of the Progressive Era on the United States.(Ch. 9)
*the ammendments were being brought in
*was meant to bring change to the world.
*took place between the 1890s and early 1900s.
*woman gained lots of rights like to vote and work outside the home
*people got better wages and thanks to labor unions a safer place to work
*goals of the progressive era
-protect social welfare, promote moral improvement ,creative economic reform and fostering efficiency.
4. Students will understand the impact imperialism had on the United States and world.(Ch. 10)
Imperialism is when a bigger country takes over little countries.
*The United States wanted to imperialize because it brings military power, naval bases, refueling stations, money and natural resources, and belief in cultural superiority
*the negative is the bigger countries became very controlling and would force the smaller countries to do things they did not necesarrily want to do.
*the positive is a lot of smaller countries benifited from joining with a bigger country
5. Students will understand the causes for US involvement in World War I and the effects it had on the United States.(Ch. 11)
Causes of World War 1
- Central powers and allied powers. imperialism, nationlism and militarism. Another big reason was the shooting of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Causes of US involvment
- Germany was sinking US naval ships, Zimmerman note (was a code telegram Germany tried to get Mexico to attack us, American businesses wanted us to go to war to help their business
Trench warfare and weapons
- trench warfare is fighting between to armies that are entrenched.. (under ground) weapons used: boyonet, flame thrower, poison gas, submarines, and machine guns
US homefront
- which is what was done and home to help us win the war. woman would work in factories and help make weapons. they would send weapons, food, bullets.
Wilson's 14 Points
- wanted to end the war and create peace after the war.
Treaty of Versailles
- 440 articles which forced germany to give up land. germany had to pay $33 billion and that hurt their economy very very badly, the league of nations was also set of up
6. Students will understand the political, social and economic changes that occurred in the 1920’s in the United States.
-Roaring 20's and the return to normalcy
*The 20s were very roaring because it was the jazz age and jazz was played all the time. The Ford Model T was made by Henry Ford. and it could take a lot less time to go places. Flappers. People made money and the stock market went up
*During the returin to normalcy we stayed out of european conflicts and remained to ourselves, the idea of that came from harding
-Red Scare
*It was the time period from 1919- 1920, and there was a fear that we would become communist, stopped immigration, and palmer raids occured.. hoover and palmer took communists out of the country
-Republican philosophy
*Trick down theory-they helped the rich the rich would help everybody else. laissez- fair which meant government stays out of businesses. R
*Rugged individulism- people can do as they please.
-Prohibition
*Named the noble experiment, made alchohal illegal, 18th amendment. Alchohol caused men to abuse their children and wifes. It was only allowed for medical reason. It failed because it took away peoples rights, it was underfunded, it actually increased crime because so many people would do anything for alochol and many many people broke that law.
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