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• Western
expansion
• Homestead Act
• Klondike Gold
rush
• Railroads (TCRR)
Assimilation
Indian Wars
Dawes Act
American Indian
Citizenship Act
Immigration
Push/Pull
Factors
Urbanization
(living conditions)
Quotas
Free Enterprise
Industrialization
Labor Unions
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•
Chinese Exclusion
Act 1882
Nativism
Americanization
Populism
Andrew Carnegie/
John D. Rockefeller
Cattle Boom
Entrepreneurship
Shipping Cost
American Imperialism
Pros
• Military protection &
increased naval strength
– Alfred Thayer Mahan- argued
need for powerful navy
• Economic support
– Increased need for raw
materials & markets to sell
manufactured goods
• Open Door Policy
• Dollar Diplomacy
• Example: Panama Canal
cons
• Need for
dominance/superiority
– Sanford B. Dole (Hawaii)
• Missionaries
• Social Darwinism
Who
Pulitzer & Hurst
War – USA vs. Spain
When
1898
-USS Maine is sent to
Cuba to protect US
economic interests
-explosion of Main is
seen as a direct attack
on US
Where
Cuba
-Havana
-San Juan Hill
Philippines
-Manila Bay
(Colonies of Spain)
Spanish American
War
(SPAM)
Why
USS Maine sinking
-US blames Spanish for
mysterious explosion
DeLome Letter
-called President
McKinley “weak”
outraged Americans
How
Land- US Volunteer force
led by TR & “Rough
Riders”
Sea- US defeats Spanish
navy in a few hours
Media- uses of yellow
journalism
Significance
US won Puerto Rico,
Guam, & bought
Philippines for $20
million
Result – US is
recognized as a world
power
Problem
Progressive Era Reforms
Muckraker
Reform
Economic
1. Monopolies & trusts
2. Tariffs
3. Banks
4. Lost Revenue
Ida Tarbell
Theodore Roosevelt
“Trust Buster”
Woodrow Wilson
Panic of 1907
1.
Social
1. Lynching
2. Equality for AA
3. Suffrage
4. Working conditions
5. Living conditions
6. Consumer protections
1.
2.
2. NAACP
3. 19th amendment –
women’s suffrage
4. Safety legislation
5. Tenement House
Commission – Hull
house
6. Meat Inspection Act
– Pure Food & Drug
Act
3.
4.
5.
6.
Ida Tarbell
Book T. Washington
WEB DuBois
Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, Susan B
Anthony
Triangle Shirt waist
Factory
Jacob Riis- Jan
Addams
Upton Sinclair
2.
3.
4.
National, State, or
Local
Interstate
commerce act,
Clayton anti-trust
Act, Fed Trade
Commission Act
Underwood Tariff
Federal Reserve
16th Amendmentgraduated income
tax
NATIONAL
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
NATIONAL
NATIONAL
NATIONAL
LOCAL/STATE
LOCAL/STATE
NATIONAL
Progressive Era Reforms
Problem
Muckraker
Reform
Political
1. Government
corruption
-political
machines/bosses
-spoils system
Lincoln Steffens
Robert Lafollette
City-manager/
commission initiative –
voters introduce bill
Referendum- refer bill to
vote
Recall- removal from
office
Direct primary
Secret ballot
17th amendment- direct
election of senators
Pendleton Act/Civil
Service Commission
environment
Abuse of natural
resources
Teddy Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
National Park Service Act
(1916) Created national
park system
National, State, or Local
Local
State
National
National
Who
 Central Powers vs. Allied
Powers
 American Expeditionary
Forces (AEF) led by Gen.
Pershing
 Alvin York – medal of
Honor winner
Technological Innovations
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Machine Gun
Tanks & Airplanes
Poison Gas
Submarines (UBoats)
Effects of Technological
Innovations
 Western Front
 Trench Warfare
 Battle of Argonne
Forest turning
point of the war
 Stalemate
 Massive death toll
1914-1918
World War I
Causes
Militarism
Alliance system
Imperialism
N ationalism
Assassination of Archduke
Franz Ferdinand
How
Sinking of the Lusitania
(Unrestricted
submarine warfare)
Zimmerman
Telegram
Significance
 Treaty of Versailles Germany
had to pay reparations and
accept war guilt clause
 Woodrow Wilson’s 14
Points- created League of
Nations (peace keeping
organization)
The Roaring Twenties
(The Great American Mullet)
“Business in the front”
• Political
– Harding & Teapot Dome Scandal
– “Return to Normalcy”
• Social
– Race Relations
•
•
•
•
•
•
Eugenics
Marcus Garvey
KKK
Great Migration
Nativism/Red Scare
Immigration Quota/Citizenship
Act 1924
• Economic
– Economic boom
•
•
•
•
Mass production/assembly line
Henry Ford
Laissez-faire
Buying on Credit
“Party in the Back”
• Social
– Adventure
• Charles Lindbergh
• Glenn Curtiss
– Changing role of women
• Flappers
– Cultural values
• Prohibition
• Organized crime
• Scopes “monkey” trial
– Clarence Darrow (Evolution)
William Jennings Bryan
(Creation)
– Art & Literature
• Harlem Renaissance
• Ten Pan Alley
1920’s
Great Depression to New Deal
1929
Warning Signs…
America’s Road to Recovery
*Overproduction *Speculation & buying on the margin (stock market)
*Buying on credit *Shaky banking practices
October 29, 1929 “Black Tuesday” Stock market Crash
People who invested in market couldn’t repay loans -> bank failures ->”run on the
Immediate reactions…
bank” Demand for goods decreased ->factories close ->unemployment
1930’s
• Laissez-faire attitude & “rugged individualism *believed gov’t shouldn’t intervene in eco aid
Hoover…
• Reconstruction finance corp -> small loans would “trickle down” avg American (failure)
• Hoovervilles (shack and shanty towns) sprung up around towns/cities
Dust Bowl… In the great plains region *series of droughts +1million must move west
+overuse of water resources + depleting nutrients from top soil = dried up crops + topsoil = dust
*Hoover passes act to send Mexican-American immigrants back to Mexico
Mexican repatriation…
*Forcibly he moved (even if already US Citizen) * reason: need for any employment
FDR is elected… 1932 *Promises a NEW DEAL for Americans
* Brian Trust & fireside chats *Eleanor Roosevelt (Wife)-political activist
*new view on gov’t responsibility to its citizens
New Deal…
Relief- short term measures – “quick aid” Recovery – eco stimulus – create demand & production
Reform-change gov’t system- “complete overhaul”
Opposition…
• Some thought 3R’s went too far –conservatives felt FDR had too much control
• Some thought 3R’s didn’t go far enough- Huey P Long’s “Share our Wealth”
FDR‘s Court-packing…
*Some New Deal programs were deemed unconstitutional
*FDR fears more rejection by Supreme Court & attempts to pass law to appoint new SC Justices (fails)
FDR’S New Deal
Is like:
Relief
Recovery
Reform
(Short-term)
(Stimulus)
(Systematic)
Is like:
Band-Aid
Bank Holiday- closed all
banks until they were
financially stable
Emergency mortgage Loans
Work Relief
Civilian Conservation Corps
(CCC)
Public Works Admin (PWA)
Works Progress Admin
(WPA)
Decreased
spending/
demand
Decreased
hours/wages
Unemployment
Is like:
Cast
National Recovery Admin
(NRA)- set price & production
controls & minimum wage
Agricultural Adjustment
Administration (AAA) – paid
farmers to plant less; gov’t
bought farm surplus (in effort
to control prices)
Increased
demand/
spending
Increased
employment
Increased
wages/hours
New Limb
Social Security Admin (SSA)provides unemployment
insurance retirement pensionsworkers pay in contributions
Securities & Exchange
Commission (SEC)- watches
stock market activity &
prevents fraud
Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation (FDIC)- Insures
bank deposits up to $250,000
*All of these programs are still
in effect today
August 1945
Atomic Bombs
dropped
1942
Battle of
Midway
Hideki Tojo
Flying Tigers
Bataan Death March
Island Hopping
Navajo Code Talkers
Chester Nimitz
Douglas McArthur
George Marshall
June 6, 1944
D-Day
Invasion
Dec. 7,
1941
Attack on
Pearl
Harbor
Isolationism  War
Appeasement
Cash & Carry
Lend-Lease
Pearl Harbor
9066 + Interment camps
War information/ propaganda
War bonds +rationing+
victory gardens = patriotism
Volunteer/enlist/mobilization
Vernon J. Baker
Adolf Hitler
dictator
Benito Mussolini aggression
Joseph Stalin
George Patton
Dwight Eisenhower
Omar Bradley
D-Day Invasions
Liberation of Camps
Tuskegee Airmen
Holocaust
Free Market Economy
Capitalism
• Economic freedoms
• Private ownership
of business &
property
• Supply & demand
USA/Europe
determine prices
• Multi-party system Truman, Marshall
• Freedom of the
Churchill,
press, expression &Thatcher
Regan
religion
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•
Soviet
Union/USSR
Stalin
Khrushchev
Gorbachev
Yelstin
Iron Curtain
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Containment
Domino Theory
NATO/ Collective Security
Command Economy
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•
•
Warsaw Pact
Satellite Nation
Iron Curtain
Berlin Wall
no economic freedoms
state-owned industries
(education,
transportation, etc)
gov’t controlled radio, TV,
news
State ownership of
business production
Communist party control
(one party/leader)
Space Race
Moon-landing
Arms race
Berlin Airlift
Germany/Berlin
Berlin Wall
Dissolution of SU
HUAC
Red Scare
Joseph McCarthy
Rosenberg Trials
Verona Papers
Presidents
Truman – start CW
Korea
Eisenhower- KoreaVietnam
Kennedy- Cuban
MC, Vietnam
Nixon-Vietnam,
China, USSR
Ford (X)
Carter (X)
Reagan- USSR
Bush – Fall of Wall
end of CW
Soviet Union
Détente
Star Wars
Space Race
Sputnik
Arms Race
Mao Zedong
Korea
Korean War
Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs
Invasion
Cuban Missile
Crisis
Vietnam War
Domino Theory
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Escalation
Tet Offensive
Vietnamization
Fall of Saigon
War Powers Resolution
Fear of Communism
Baby Boom
Interstate
Highway Act
Little
GI Bill
Increased $ in math
& science education
Housing Boom
American Dream
Polio Vaccine
Blue  white collar
jobs
Levittown - Suburbs
Increased
Consumption &
Spending
Free Time
Prosperity
Beat Generation
Beatniks
Pop Culture
Rock & Roll
Civil Rights Acts
1957
1964
Voting Rights Act
1963
24th Amendment
13- Free
14- Citizens
15-Vote
Plessey v
Ferguson
Brown v
Board of Ed
Thurgood
Marshall
Montgomery
Bus Boycott
Sit-ins
Rosa Parks
Freedom
Rides
Little Rock 9
MLK jr
Nonviolent
Letter from
Birmingha
m Jail
Selma
March
March on
Washington
“I have a
dream”
Affirmative
Action
Non-violent
Civil
disobedience
Passive
resistance
SNCC/SCLC
Integration
Montgomery
Bus Boycott
March on
Washington
Selma March
Equal Rights
*1968
assassinated
Non-violent
(transitional)
Muslim
Segregation
Nation of Islam
Mecca
Pilgrimage
*1965
assassinated
Militant
Communitybased political
organization
Segregation
Black power
Feminist
movement
Stokely
Carmichael
Huey Newton
Bobby Seale
Roe v Wade
Cesar Chaves
Dolores Huerta
Betty Friedan
Title IX
NOW
Equal Pay Act
Hector P.
Garcia
Chicano Mural
Movement
AIM –
American
Indian
Movement
Red Power
JFK
LBJ
Hippy
Nixon
Nixon
Nixon
Nixon
Nixon
Nixon
Nixon
Nixon
Ford
Ford
Carter
Carter
Carter
Carter
Regonomics
Peace Through
Strength
-Star Wars
Iran-Contra Affair
End of the Cold War
(1991)
Persian Gulf War
War on Terror
Sandra Day O’Connor
Sun Belt
Use the Jarrett
Book page 341 to
summarize these
Rust Belt
NAFT
2008 Financial Crisis
-Emergency Economic
Stabilization Act
2009 American
Recovery &
Reinvestment Act
GATT
Balkan Crisis
Third Parties &
Ross Perot
Contract w/America &
Newt Gingrich
Scandal &
Impeachment
2000 Election
-Al Gore
2001 Terrorist Attack
Patriot Act
-TSA
-Homeland Security
War on Terror
-al-Qaeda
-Iraq
-Bin Laden
2008 Election
NCLB
Hillary Clinton
Illegal Immigration
Oprah Winfrey
Hurricane Katrina
Sona Soto Mayor
Communication, Tech,& Computer movement
Science
-Satellite
JIT
Free Enterprise/ capitalism
(free market economy)
-Cell Phone
Time-Study Analysis
Small business v Big
business
-PC
E-Commerce
Business cycle
Bill Gates/ PC
-Robotics
Out-Sourcing
Sam Walton/ Wal-Mart
-GPS
Global Marketplace
Estee Lauder
-Genetic engineering
Robert Johnson
-IT
Lionel Sosa
Gilded Age
Boss Tweed
Industrialization
Child Labor
Am. Imperialism Progressive Era
Panama Canal TR Muckraker
& TR
Meat inspection
WWII
1939-1945
Civil Rights
Caesar Chavez
Chicano mvmt
Cold War
Red Scare
1960s
Anti- War
movement
Urbanization
How the other
½ lives
WWI
1914-1918
Baby boom
Housing Boom
1970s
Watergate
crisis
Immigration
Nativism
Roaring 20’s
Flappers
Civil Rights
Rosa Parks
1980s
Era of
Conservatism
Assimilation
West. expansion Americanization
Manifest Destiny
G. Depression
S M Crash 1929
SPAM 1898
USS Maine
New Deal
G. Depression Social Security
Migrant mother Administration
Space Race
Sputnik 1957
Space Race
Moon landing
1991- Fall of
Communism
2001
Terrorist
Attacks
Civil Rights
1968 MLK
assassination
2008 Obama
1st black
President
Benjamin Rush- Father of
American Medicine
John Jay- wrote some of
the Federalist Papers
John Peter MuhlenbergMinister who recruited soldiers
Jonathan Trumbull Sr- only
colonial governor to side with
colonists
George Washingtoncommander of Continental
Army
John Hancock- signer of
DOI
John WitherspoonPresident of Princeton
University
Charles Carroll- helped
financed the Revolution
John Locke- Unalienable
rights
Thomas Jefferson- writer
of the DOI
Creates a balance of
power among 3 branches
Approve judges L Overrides veto
Appoints judges
Declares executive actions
unconstitutional
E
Veto legislation
J
Declares legislation
unconstitutional
Division of power based on
location
Federal  State  Local
Divides Gov’t
powers into 3 branches
1.Legislavtive (H.R/Sen)
-law making body
2. Executive (President)
-executes the law
3. Judicial (S. Court)
-judges the law
The gov’t only has
the powers granted in the Constitution
(9th & 10th amendments)
A democratic gov’t
chose by the people
Representative form of gov’t
Ex. Elect reps.
People hold supreme power
Rights of the people
found in the Bill of Rights
Religion
Assembly
Press
Petition
Speech
Right to bear arms
No quartering of troops
No unreasonable search & seizure
*just cause
*warrant
-no self incrimination
-no double jeopardy
-grad jury (must show cause for fed.
Trial)
-just compensation (for gov’t to take
property
-trail by jury
Criminal cases
-right to a lawyer
-right to confront your accusers
-speedy trial
-trial by jury
Civil cases
-no cruel & unusual
punishment
-no excessive bail
Rights of the people are no
limited to those in the Constitution
All powers not specified in the
Constitution are given to the
states
-all have the same right
to participate in
government
-free to choose
-private association
-no gov’t control
“hands-off”
-no government control
or influence on the
economy
-a society of equals
-ability to own land
allowed people to be
viewed as equals
Alexis de Tocqueville
Discusses how democracy in
America is a unique case and
unlike democracy in Europe
-freedom
-protections against a
tyrannical gov’t
-rule of law
(gov’t is not above the law)