Major Movements and Events in US History before World War II
Industrial Revolution
(Late 1800s)
Invention
Oil Drill
Inventor
Impact
Light Bulb
Alternating Currents
Telephone
Transcontinental Railroad
Bessemer Process
Industrialists
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Industry
Technique
Explanation
Example
Factory Problems
Child Labor
Sweatshops
Workplace Problems
Division of Labor
JP Morgan
Union
National Trades Union
Purpose
Knights of Labor
American Federation of Labor
American Railway Union
Labor Union Strikes
Pullman Strike
(1894)
Haymarket Riot (1886)
Great Railroad Strike (1877)
Cause:
Strike:
Solution:
Cause:
Cause:
Strike:
Strike:
Solution:
Solution:
Labor Union Techniques
Techniques
Strikes:
Boycotts:
Collective Bargaining:
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The Populist Movement
(Late 1800s)
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Who
Demands
Candidate
Political Party
Immigration to the United States
Time Period
Immigrant Groups
Northwestern Europe
(Irish, French, Germans)
Central Europe
(Austria-Hungary, Yugoslavia,
Poland)
Southern and Eastern Europe
(Russia, Italy, Greece, Romania,
and Turkey)
Problems Arising
Voting Restriction for African Americans
Voting Restrictions
Booker T. Washington v. WEB Dubois
Booker T. Washington
Similarities
Progressive Movement
(Early 1900s)
Who
Demands
Solutions
Candidates
Political Party
WEB Dubois
Foreign Policies
(Early 1900s)
Theodore Roosevelt
William Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Foreign Policy
Explanation
Historical Usage
Usage Today
Path of Imperialism to 1917
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The Square Deal
(Teddy Roosevelt)
Election of 1912
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World War I
Overall Causes
US Entry
US Leaders
Warfare
Sides
Theatres
Winners
Dates
Treaty
Characteristics of Life in the 1920s
Term
Isolation
Prohibition
Airplanes
Lost Generation
Fundamentalism
Easy Credit
Radio
Harlem Renaissance
Jazz Age
Automobiles
Film
Meaning
Warning Signs of the Great Depression
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Ripple Effect of the Stock Market Crash
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7 Principles to the Constitution
Principle
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Definition
The Bill of Rights and Amendments
Amendment
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
10th
13th
14th
15th
16th
Significance
17th
18th
19th
21st
Significant Individuals
Individual
Jonathan Trumbull Sr.
John Peter Muhlenberg
John Locke
John Hancock
Benjamin Rush
Charles Carroll
John Witherspoon
John Jay
Thomas Jefferson
Alexis de Toqueville
Significance
Significant Events: Background to American History
French and Indian War
American Revolution
Second Continental Congress
July 4, 1776
Unalienable Rights
Articles of Confederation
Constitutional Convention 1787
What year was the Bill of Rights added to the
Constitution
Why was the Bill of Rights added to the
Constitution
Marbury vs. Madison
Klondike Gold Rush
Great Plains
Westward Expansion
Toqueville’s Five Values
Value
Definition
Egalitarianism
Populism
Liberty
Individualism
Laissez Faire
Identify the passages and the document it pertains to
What is the name of this document and who is the author? ______________________________
“We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and their endowed by their
creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
What is the name of this document and who is the author? _______________________________
“We the People of the United States of America in order to form a more perfect union establish justice ,
insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare…..”