What is a labor union?
Groups of workers that bargain with
employers for better working
conditions
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Why did people immigrate to
America?
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Hope for a better opportunity
Escape oppressive governments
Adventure
Religious freedom
People of the 1920’s
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Georgia O’ Keefe-Painter-Southwest scenes
F. Scott Fitzgerald-Author-Wealthy Americans
John Steinbeck-Author-Migrant workers
George Gershwin-Composer-Broadway/Hollywood
Aaron Copland-Composer-
People of the 1920’s
Harlem Renaissance
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Jacob Lawrence-Painter-Great Migration series
Langston Hughes-Author/Poet-Wrote novels
Bessie Smith-Jazz/Blues singer-Famous singer
John Steinbeck-Author-Migrant workers
Great Migration North
• Movement of African Americans from the
South to the North in search of better jobs
Temperance Movement
• The campaign to outlaw the making and
consumption of alcoholic beverages
Review Geography Regions
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Southeast
Southwest
Midwest
Northeast
Rocky Mountain
Pacific
Noncontiguous
Reconstruction Policies
Southern military leaders could
NOT hold office
Northern soldiers supervised the
South
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Amendments
13th
• Bans slavery
14th
15th
• Grants citizenship • Gives all male
and equal
citizens the right to
protection under
vote
the law to all born
in the US
Because of new technologies how
did the view of the great plains
change?
Not as a treeless waste land, but a vast
area to be settled
How did technological
advancements of the Great Plains
help new settlers?
New inventions
Settlers were able to build houses without trees
Barbed wire protected their crops
Captains of Industry
Leaders of big business and industries
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Henry Ford
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
railroad
automobile
steel
oil
What is the
th
19
Amendment?
Granted women the right to vote
What is the
th
18
Amendment?
Banning the transporting, selling,
manufacturing of alcohol
Who founded the Hull House?
Jane Addams
What are the causes of the
Spanish American war?
CAUSES
• Yellow journalism
• Protection of American business interest in
Cuba
• American support of Cuban independence
• Sinking of the U.S.S. Maine
Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy
Roosevelt Corollary is an addition to what?
Monroe Doctrine
Who created the idea of the
League of Nations?
President Woodrow Wilson
1 reason the United States
become involved in WWI?
• German submarine warfare
– Sinking of the Lusitania
Which country was not invited to
the Paris Peace Conference?
Germany
Who fought for the adoption of
the 19th Amendment?
Elizabeth C. Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Why did the Soviet Union join
the allies?
• Because they were invaded by Germany
What is fascism
total power is given to a dictator and
individual freedoms are denied.
Dictator:
Benito
Mussolini
Dictator:
Adolf Hitler
Military Dictator:
Hideki Tojo
What are the major turning
points in Europe during WWII?
Battle of Stalingrad
• Turning point of
the West
Operation Overlord
• D-Day
• Began liberating
Western Europe
What is the major turning point
of the Pacific during WWII?
Battle of Midway
What ended WWII in 1945?
Victory in Japan Day (V-J Day)
• Atomic Bombs were dropped on Japan
• August 6th- Hiroshima
• August 9th- Nagasaki
Propaganda of WWII
Conserving/Rationing
What is the lend/lease Act?
The U.S. began supply aid to the allies
Aryan Supremacy
Hitler’s belief that white
(Caucasian) is the superior race
World War II allowed for better
opportunities for what groups of
people?
• Allowed for less discrimination (African Americans)
• Women worked in factories
• Ended the Great Depression