SSUSH 13-14 Pt I
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My Notes Fill – In the Gaps with My Notes SSUSH 13 Cues/ Questions Notes • Muckrakers • Upton Sinclair • The Jungle • Immigration and Meat industry • Ida Tarbell • Standard Oil • Exposed Corruption in Govt and Businesses • Women’s Reform • Suffrage • Susan B. Anthony • Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Settlement Houses • Jane Addams • Hull House - Chicago Progressive Movements Summarize @ Each Page Ending SSUSH 13 Cues/ Questions Progressive Movements Notes • Jim Crow Laws (1865-1965) • Laws designed to keep African Americans inferior • Segregation Laws • Poll Taxes / Poll Tests • Plessy v Ferguson • Challenged Jim Crow Segregation Laws • Supreme Court upheld • “Separate but Equal” • NAACP • 1909 – WEB DuBois • Education & Reform Summarize @ Each Page Ending SSUSH 13 Cues/ Questions Notes • Progressive Movements Initiative / Referendum: • Allowed voters to suggest and approve laws directly w/ out going through state legislature • Direct Election of Senators: • 17th Amendment • Labor Laws • Child Labor prohibited state-by-state • Minimum wage state-bystate • Protected women • Work site and health inspections Summarize @ Each Page Ending SSUSH 13 Cues/ Questions Progressive Movements Notes • Conservation • Laissez-faire • Businesses should be allowed to do as they please • Environmentalists • John Muir • Nature = sacred • It should be preserved from humans • Combination • Theodore Roosevelt • Govt should set aside land • people can be allowed to visit nature Summarize @ Each Page Ending SSUSH 13 Cues/ Questions Progressive Movements Notes • Conservation • Laissez-faire • Businesses should be allowed to do as they please • Environmentalists • John Muir • Nature = sacred • It should be preserved from humans • Combination • Govt should set aside land • people can be allowed to visit nature Summarize @ Each Page Ending SSUSH 14 Cues/ Questions Anti-Asian Attitude Notes • Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 • Chinese = 1st group of people to be excluded from immigrating to the US • Chinese brought to US by Railway Co. for cheap labor • Port of San Francisco Summarize @ Each Page Ending SSUSH 14 Cues/ Questions Notes • American Imperialism • Roots of Expansion • Manifest Destiny drove US govt and citizens to seek new territory • Alaska was acquired from Russia in 1867 Spanish-American War (1898) • • • • Cubans lead revolution against Spanish colonial rule US citizens are outraged at Spanish brutality USS Maine – sent to Cuba in response Sank by Spanish Summarize @ Each Page Ending SSUSH 14 Cues/ Questions American Imperialism Notes • Spanish-American War cont • US navy positioned near Philippines • Spanish colony as well • First battles of War took place in Philippines • Theodore Roosevelt leads volunteer cavalry brigade called “Rough Riders” in Cuba • Spanish = overwhelmed by American determinism • US army captures Puerto Rico as well Summarize @ Each Page Ending SSUSH 14 Cues/ Questions Notes • American Imperialism Spanish-American War cont • Treaty of Paris, 1898 • Ends War • Cuba = independent • Puerto Rico + Guam = US territories • Philippines = US for $20 mil. • Philippine-American War • Filipino freedom fighters lead rebellion on US • Slowly US relinquishes control (1946) • Panama Canal • Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine • US will intervene in Latin America Summarize @ Each Page Ending SSUSH 14 Cues/ Questions American Imperialism Notes • Panama Canal cont. • US aids Columbian fringegroup seeking independence from Columbia • Panama is born • US uses Panama to build a canal • • Provides easy transportation of goods from Asia to US Provides quicker response by US Navy to Pacific Summarize @ Each Page Ending
