Adapted From Ms. Caine’s AP List Waters 11th grade Due Feb 28th
You must focus on the following general areas: not all inclusive but should help with your research
About 50% of this list should appear in your journals
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Immigration
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Urbanization
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Labor Issues
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Economics
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Progressivism & Reform (inc. Women’s Suffrage)
Racial Issues
Family Life
U.S. Imperialism World War I
Arts & Architecture
Politics
Recreation (sports, fads,stars..)
WWII
Technology/inventions
1.
Immigration
*motivations, incentives, background
*why settle in your location?
*Statue of Liberty
*padrones
*Labor Contract Law
*”melting pot” -- or not
*New York, Chicago, Milwaukee, San Francisco, Detroit
*assimilation
*Reform Judaism
*Henry Bowers & American Protective Association (1887)
*Immigration Restriction League
*Chinese Exclusion Act (1882), Dennis Kearney & Workingmen’s Party
*Immigration Act of 1917
*Ellis Island or Angel Island experience, literacy tests, physical examinations
*Emergency Quota Act (1921)
*Broadway play Abie’s Irish Rose (1922)
*Albert Johnson & Johnson-Reed Act (1924) // national origin quotas
*Nationality Act (1907) - female U.S. citizens lose citizenship if they marry non-citizens //
Married women’s Nationality Act (1922)
*1922, 1923 - Supreme Court naturalization cases (Ozawa, Thind)
*Mary Antin, The Promised Land
*E.A. Ross, anti-immigrant sociologist
*gangs, political corruption, nativism
*Saco & Vanzetti
*Madison Grant’s - The Passing of the Great Race
*”Gentleman’s Agreement”
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Urbanization
*migration into cities from domestic sources…why?
*San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle
*St. Louis, Cincinnati, Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, Houston
*New York, Memphis, Miami
*streetcars, Otis elevators, cars, subways
*Louis Sullivan, architect…steel-frame “skyscraper”, Frederick Law Olmsted, city parks
*Brooklyn Bridge
*”city-beautiful” movement & Chicago’s World Fair (Columbian Exposition)
*city planning commissions, Washington DC’s centennial
*sanitation, fire protection problems, drinking water, epidemics
*tenement housing, dumbbell tenements…Jacob Riis’ How the Other Half Lives
*boss politics and graft…Tammany Hall, Boss Tweed, Riordan’s Plunkitt of Tammany Hall
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*lure of the city…Horatio Alger tales and books, like Hamlin Garland’s A Son of the Middle
Border, or Dreiser’s Sister Carrie
*crime Five Points area (Chicago’s West Side) (gangs), prostitution…Tenderloin (NY),
Stormville (New Orleans) in French Quarter
*social gospel reform
*Macy’s, Marshall Field’s department store concept
*”Lung Block,” :Flophouses, “ vs. suburbs
*urban revivalism; Dwight Lyman Moody, Cardinal Gibbons, Mary Baker Eddy
*social Darwinism
*Frank Lloyd Wright, architect
3.
Labor Issues
*unequal pay for women
*child labor
*Molly Maguires
*1877 RR strike
*Terrence Powderly’s Knights of Labor
*Samuel Gompers & AF of L
*Haymarket Affair
*anarchism, socialism, communism
*Homestead Strike
*Pinkerton Agents
*Government role…national guard
*Pullman Strike
*Interstate Commerce Act
*Sherman Antitrust Act
*Wabash case, Munn v. Illinois
*Women’s Trade Union League
*Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (1911)
*Worker in WWI
*New Era
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Economics
*steel production, oil, coal
*Marconi radio, Wright Brothers flight, other technological advances (e.g. automobile)
*Scientific American magazine
*Henry Ford’s Model T
*Frederick Winslow Taylor & scientific management
*Menlo Park (Edison), Bell Telephone, DuPont, General Electric, Eastman Kodak, etc.
*Railroad growth…Vanderbilt, Westinghouse, gov’t. help, Jay Gould, James Fisk
*The Corporation…Carnegie, Frick, J. Peirpont Morgan…Standard Oil, U.S. Steel
*”trusts,” “vertical Integration”
*the idea of the “self-made man”…Gospel of Wealth, Russell Conwell’s “Acres of
Diamonds”…Horatio Alger
*Sumner, Spencer & Social Darwinism, Lester Frank Ward
*Henry George, Progress and Poverty, Edward Bellamy Looking Backward
*monopolies
*lives of the rich…Newport, Rhode Island
*The Columbian Exposition (Chicago’s World’s Fair)
*Florida Land Speculation
*undiversified funds
*Stock Market Crash 1929
*Buying on Margin
*Lend-Lease Program
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5.
Progressivism & Reform (including Women’s Suffrage)
*Mosher Survey on Women’s Sexuality (1892-1913)
*Suffrage Arguments: Charlotte Perkins Stetson (later Gilman), Rev. Anna Garlin Spencer,
*Jane Addams, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie C. Catt, Alice Stone Blackwell
*Mary Church Terrell & efforts of black women reformers
*Settlement House Movement
*the New England Model Kitchen
*The Ladies Home Journal
*Frances Willard & WCTU
*Florence Kelley
*Clara Barton & Red Cross
*Woman’s Building at the 1893 World Columbian Exposition
*Muckrakers…Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, Lincoln Steffens and McClure’s Magazine, Jacob
Riis
*Social Gospel…Salvation Army, Charles Sheldon, Walter Rauschenbusch
*Jane Addams, Hull House & Settlement House Movement
*Children’s Aid Societies
*professional organizations & women’s clubs
*Political progressivism:
*splitting tickets in municipal, state, national elections, (Hiram Johnson - CA, Chas.
Evans Hughes - NY, Lafollette - WIS)
*Temperance crusade (WCTU, Anti-Saloon League, 18th Amendment)
*Teddy Roosevelt as Progressive…Taft, Wilson
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Racial Issues
*NAACP activity
*Harlem Renaissance
*Red Summer 1919
* treatment after the war
*Jackie Robinson- as player and vet
*Tuskegee Airmen
*Japanese Internment camps
*Korematsu v. US
*KKK rally at Madison Square Garden
*Booker T. Washington
*WEB Du Bois
*Mary McLeod Bethune
7.
Family Life
*population shifts
*interruption of traditions, traditional structure
*impact of foreign relations decisions- WWI, WWII
*Economic issues- Great Depression
*impact of industrialization
*Role of women
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U.S. Imperialism and World War I
*Key battles, campaigns
*Panama Canal
*new territories
*Homefront
*soldier’s experience
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*Zimmerman Telegram
*Sinking of the Lusitania
*Sussex Pledge
*Yellow Journalism
*Trench Warfare
*Doughboys
9.
Arts and Architecture
*plays: realism…James Herne (Shore Acres), David Belasco, Charles Hoyt comedies
*music: Symphony orchestras…NY, Boston, Chicago, Metropolitan Opera House
*Tin Pan Alley…sheet music around the family piano (“After the Ball,” (1892), “The
Sidewalks of New York “ (1894), etc.
*Ragtime, Scott Joplin
*Vaudeville…Ziegfeld
*movies: Edison’s Kinetoscope…”The Great Train Robbery” (1903),
“nickelodeon” stars..Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Tom Mix, Lillian Gish.
*dime novels
*DW Griffith’s Birth of a Nation
*High Victorian style middle-class homes
*Stick & Shingle style architecture …the Craftsman Home
*Mark Twain, Huck Finn
*Kate Chopin, The Awakening
*William Dean Howells, The Atlantic Monthly, The Rise of Silas Lapham
*Stephen Crane, Maggie, Red Badge of Courage
*Henry James, The Bostonians, Portrait of a Lady
*Jack London, The Call of the Wild
*Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
*Frank Norris, The Octopus
*Louisa May Alcott’s, Little Women
*John Sloan, James M. Whistler, JS Sargent, Eastman Johnson, George Bellows…”The
Armory Show” (1913)
*Harlem Renaissance- writers, musicians, poets, artists, singers (Duke Ellington, Billie Holliday,
Count Basie, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes…….)
*Propaganda posters
10.
Politics
*graft, corruption
*political scandals
* political parties, conventions
*Presidents and key congressmen during each era
*Tammany Hall- Boss Tweed
*anarchists
*communists
*Red scare
*Socialists
*United Nations
*League of Nations
*Treaty of Versailles I and II
*Bonus Marchers- 1930s
*Public Resistance to policies
* GI Bill
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11.
Recreation
*Bicycling…Frances Willard’s - A Wheel within a Wheel…
*games vs. blue laws
*Baseball…professional leagues
*Boxing…the Irish heavyweights (John L. Sullivan)…Jack Johnston, first African-American to
win heavyweight champ //Marquis of Queensbury rules
*College football, NCAA…White House conference (TR)
*Women in sports
*Naismith & basketball
*croquet
*movies
*radio
*newspapers & magazines…Ladies’ Home Journal, Hearst, Pulitzer
*public museums - wild west shows (Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley…)
* new fads, dances, toys
* new fashions
*Olympics
*Titanic
12.
WWII
*key battles
*key people
*soldier experience
*homefront efforts
* advancement of women/African-Americans- factories- backlash
*USO
*Propaganda
* anti-German and anti-Japanese sentiment
*African-American northern migration
*segregated military
*WACS, WASPS-… women in the military
*Hollywood/Baseball stars goes to war
*Pearl Harbor
13.
Technology/Inventions
* new inventions
*Ford
*Edison
*modern day explorers
*TV/radio
*Slinky and Silly Putty- accidents from WWII
*home appliances
*RADAR
*SONAR
*Aviation
Useful jumping off points: search by event, President, decade…..
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/timeline.htm American History Timeline
www.ellisisland.org www.ellisisland.com Immigration
http://www.whitehouse.gov/ -Presidents….
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http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
posters, songs, various mementos …..
http://www.loc.gov/vets/
American Memory- Library of Congress- Primary source,
Veterans History Project -interviews, artifacts, ….
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/speeches.htm Famous Speeches
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/
-FDR
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/index.php Truman
http://www.africanamericans.com/HistoricalEventsTimeline.htm African- Americans
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmfirsts.html African-Americans
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/desegregation/large/index.php?action=docs
http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-state.html Women
http://www.nwhp.org/ Women
http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/troosevelt.html T. Roosevelt
http://net.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/ WWI
http://www.woodrowwilson.org/ -Pres. Wilson