1. Students will understand the impact the Industrial Revolution had on the United States.The one reason the Industrial Revolution took off because the U.S. now had oil, railroads, and the Bessemer Steel Process. Some inventions that had on effect on our lives were the inventions of the light bulb, typewriter, and the telephone. The typewriter was invented by Christopher Scholes and his invention helped businesses because they could now keep records and take notes. Another invention was the telephone. The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell and it made the world flat and made it easier to communicate. The final invention was light bulb by Thomas Edison. It worked during the day and night and made the working days a lot longer.2. Students will understand the impact immigration and urbanization had on the United States.The people came over to america for better life and to make more money. They came to escape difficult conditions such as famine, land shortages, or political or religious discrimination. Some of the people wanted to put a restriction on immigration because the native people feared there jobs were in trouble. Chinese Exclusion Act banned entry of all Chinese except for students, teachers, merchants, tourist, and government officials. The Gentlemen’s Agreement was the Japanese Government would limit immigration if the San Francisco segregation order would be stopped.The reason so many cities were becoming so big was because immigrants moved there to get jobs in factories. Farmers started moving to cities because the farmers were expensive to start. Cities now were becoming over populated which cause a problem. The had to build houses out of wood and close together which caused many fires. Also the cities didnt have a big police or firefighter crews. Also people threw there garbage onto there streets making the water contaminated. It was really hard to get around the city because there was not that much public transportation.3. Students will understand the impact of the Progressive Era on the United States.The four goals of Progressivism protecting social welfare, promoting moral improvement, creating economic reform, and fostering efficiency. They also were out to help the common people. Women started to get a higher education by attending college. The women started working outside of there homes to make more money for there families. They were treated worse then the men were and got less pay. They also pushed so that they could get the right to vote, which eventually did happen. They also pushed for prohibition and got many laws passed. The Title Nine passed which let women play sports in school.They got the work to go from 12 to 14 hours to 10 hours. The OSHA goes to business and makes sure they are 100 percent perfect. If not they would be shut down. If you got hurt on the job they would just get fired now you can get a paid leave and if they fire you, you can get legal help. Its called Workmen's Compensation. They would hire children because they would work for little to nothing. And the could work for long hours. The Equity Pay Act was an act that was passed to have men and women paid equally.They helped consumers by passing laws that said that the food had to have labels and expiration dates on them. It was started by the USDA so people would not get sick from bad meat. When people ate meat they were not eating only the beef but also things like rats, feces and rat poisons. The Meat Inspection Act made meat safer to eat. The Pure Food & Drugs Act made it so food and drugs were safer to consume.The Keating-Owen Law stated that if children made something in a state, it couldn’t be taken to another state by anyone. The max hours that children could work now was 15 hours. They wanted to hire children because they would fight back or create labor unions.Banks now had the Federal Reserve System to help them out.There are 12 federal banks and 25 branches of these banks. The FRS could basically control inflation and deflation.4. Students will understand the impact imperialism had on the United States and world.Imperialism is when strong powerful countries go and take control of smaller weaker countries. They took countries for resources and land to become bigger. Alaska was thought to be a waste of money but when it we found oil there it was worth the money we paid for it. Hawaii was good because we got sugar cane without tax.We got a lot of land from wars. We got Guam, Philippines, and Puerto Rice from the Spanish-American War. We created Open Door Policy with China which meant that there was free trade and it kind of saved China from other countries from taking it over so they could have some of their wealth.5. Students will understand the causes for US involvement in World War I and the effects it had on the United States. A reason we got involed into WWI because Great Britain and Germany stopping our ships. Also Germany was sinking British ships, killing US citizens that were on board. The main ships sunk were the Lusitania, Arabic, and the Sussex. When Wilson called for peace, the Germans used “unrestricted submarine warfare”, meaning they would sink all ships in British waters where they were hostile or not. The Zimmerman Note, which was telegram from the German foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico, was another reason the United States entered. It proposed an alliance between Mexico and Germany. The telegram promised that if war with the United States broke out, Germany would support Mexico in recovering Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. All of this business helped push the United States into the war. They had been shipping war supplies to the Allies and were making lots of money because of the war.The Allies won and Germany had to pay 33 billion dollars. Germany lost territory and colonies. Germany had to disarm. They could have no air force and an army of only 100,000. They also couldn’t have tanks and subs, limited to ships, and couldn't have alliances. Germany also had to take the total blame for the war.6. Students will understand the political, social and economic changes that occurred in the 1920’s in the United States.Political Changes-Kellogg Briand Pact tried to outlaw war and people believed this would actually happen. The Red Scare mainly scared people into become communists. The color red has represented communist for a long time. During this time, immigration was reduced a large amount. Only a certain number of immigrants were allowed into our country.Economic Changes-The Fordney-McCumber Tariff raised taxes on U.S. imports up to 60 percent. This is the highest level ever. This helped American businesses, but hurt the common people. They made it impossible for some countries to repay their debts. Britian and France turned to Germany, but they were dealing with inflation. They offered Germany 2.5 million to pay back Britain. The Daws Act basically said that we were going to loan money to Germany so they can pay back Great Britian and France. With that money, Great Britian and France would use that money to pay us that back. Basic industries werent making money and mining companies were getting taken over by oil companies. The car made changes to houses by adding on the garage and aloud parents to take more vacations. THe oil industries were helped out by the making of the car. The construction industries also boomed.Herber Hoover was the 35th president and was in office during the wall street crash. He was trying to save natural resources and they were hands off to business let them do what they want to. Airplanes were first made to do mail services. Superfical prassperity was were they made tons of food and the prices went way down.Social Changes-The car was becoming the backbone of Americas economy. 80 percent of registered car owners in amercia, 1 in 5 people had one. Airplanes started out as newpaper delivers. In 1927 the Pan America Airways had the first transatlantic passenger flights.7. Students will understand the causes and effects of the Great Depression.Causes-Bussiness that were use to pumping out tons of materials didnt need to any more and there was no more demand. Same way with farmers there crops went down and they had to much left over food. a lot of people were just going off dept. They were buying on credit and paying over time.People were in dept and quit buying stuff. Some people got there money out of banks and make the banks close down. The stock market crashed was a huge reason why.Effects-Banks closed and people losses a lot of money. Peolpe lost jobs businesses closed and they became homeless. They also lossest a lot of money of out of the stock market. The had shaty towns they used any materials they could fine. Suisde rose a ton in this time. Alot of people became hobos that they went from town to town. Farmers started going to the west for jobs and they losts there farms.
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