• Sit where you think you will be
successful in U.S. History II
• Read the syllabus and ask yourself the
following:
• (1) What is the most important information?
• (2) What is surprising?
• Points to Emphasize:
• (1) Completing homework
• (2) Taking ownership and responsibility for one’s
learning
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Taking notes
Assigned reading & “pop” quizzes
“Problem-based” learning
One-page, “historical analysis” papers, using in-text
citations and references
– “Exit slips”
*** A spirit of contributing to the class!!!
• (3) Rules …
– Bathroom policy
Historical Argumentation
• Argument: Our national government has promoted
expanding free trade and economic prosperity even at the
expense of sacrificing human lives.
• Events:
– Transcontinental Railroad (1863 – 1869)
– Goals of U.S. Imperialism: Spanish-American War (1898) & PhilippineAmerican War (1899 – 1902)
– U.S. Ambassador to Mexico assists in the overthrow of Mexican
President
– U.S. got involved in WWI to secure Allied war debts (1917-18)
• Remember President Wilson’s response to the sinking of the Lusitania?
– Bretton Woods Conference & Establishment of International
Monetary Fund (Post-WWII; this specifically didn’t cost lives)
– Marshall Plan (Post-WWII; this specifically didn’t cost lives)
– U.S. support of dictators in Latin America (Post-WWII)
Goals of U.S. Imperialism in late 1800’s
- 1 - U.S. established ports and naval bases – Puerto
Rico, Guam, and the Philippines
Guam
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
American Samoa
1. A popular, mass American culture
began developing at the beginning of the
1900’s because _________________.
Why A Popular, Mass Culture?
G
- (1) reater Urban culture
- Greater concentration of people
L
- (2) ess work-time
- (3)
- The average work week declines:
Mandatory Public Education
- 69.7 hours per week in 1860 (includes farming)
- 61.7 hours in 1890
- 54.9 hours in 1910
Rise of Marketing
- (5) More Discretionary Income
- (6)
Greater Publishing
- (4)
* GNP per capita
- 1870 - $531
- 1890 - $836
- 1910 - $1,299
* Percentage of Income on Food
- 1870 - 32%
- 1890 - 29%
- 1910 - 25%
Urban Planning
A
- s cities grew, development of
new career = the urban planner /
civil engineer
- Creating “havens” in the middle
of busy cities
Daniel Burnham
created Chicago’s
Navy Pier
Frederick Law Olmsted
created New York’s
Central Park
Rise of Popular Entertainment
• People divide their time between “work and going
home” and “going out.”
• Amusement Parks
• Vaudeville and ragtime
• “Saloon Culture”
New York’s Coney Island
Expanding Public Education (continued)
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Making school mandatory …
B
- etween 1865 and 1895,
states passed laws requiring 12
to 16 weeks of school attendance
between the ages of 8 and 14.
K
- indergartens increase in number from 200 in 1880 to 3,000 in
1900.
More Leisure and Snacks
- Susan B. Anthony once said, …
“I think bicycling has done more to
emancipate the woman than anything
else in the world … it gives women a
feeling of freedom and self-reliance.”
Bicycle becomes safer …
- Tennis arrives to America in 1874 …
- Hershey’s Chocolate Bar …
- Coca-Cola …
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Swift Safety Bicycle
Why A Popular, Mass Culture?
G
- (1) reater Urban culture
- Greater concentration of people
L
- (2) ess work-time
- (3)
- The average work week declines:
Mandatory Public Education
- 69.7 hours per week in 1860 (includes farming)
- 61.7 hours in 1890
- 54.9 hours in 1910
Rise of Marketing
- (5) More Discretionary Income
- (6)
Greater Publishing
- (4)
* GNP per capita
- 1870 - $531
- 1890 - $836
- 1910 - $1,299
* Percentage of Income on Food
- 1870 - 32%
- 1890 - 29%
- 1910 - 25%
2. Progressive Era Reforms were a
response to what economic system or
practice _________________.
“Progressive Era Reforms”
Are these
reforms
socialism?
Socialism vs.
Progressivism
• Regulation regarding child labor, workers’
compensation, limiting hours, zoning and
building codes
• Meat Inspection Act (1906)
• Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
• Environmental Conservation
• Federal Reserve Act
• Clayton Antitrust Act
• 16th Amendment – income tax
• 18th Amendment – Alcohol prohibition
• 19th Amendment – Female Suffrage
K‐12.C.1 Students will explain, compare and contrast, and analyze the
historical principles and philosophical purposes and various forms of
governments.
3. The popular name for a system of laws
established throughout the country, though
more pronounced in the American South
were referred to as _________________.
Jim Crow Laws and Segregation
• Supreme Court Decision Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
• “Equal but separate
accommodations”
- Why this decision?
• 1883 – (Domestic) Supreme Court
Decision states that state governments
cannot treat unequally but private
businesses can.
African-American Civil Rights
Movement, 1954-68
The movement
was based
upon largely
non-violent
actions geared
towards
desegregation
of public
facilities and
schools, equal
voting rights,
and economic
justice.
Important Events of the Civil Rights Era
Social Justice: 1954-1963
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1954: Brown v. Board of Education
1955: Montgomery Bus Boycott
1957: Little Rock High School Case
1963: The March on Washington
Biggest Victory: Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights: 1964-1965
1964: Freedom Summer and founding of Mississippi Freedom
Democratic Party
1965: The Selma Campaign
Biggest Victory: The Voting Rights Act of 1965
4. What is one historical example of
women, covered in U.S. History I, what we
would call today not being treated
“equally” compared to men?
Women in the workforce:
- 18% of the total labor force
- What women did in workforce:
- 1/3 as domestic servants
- 1/3 as teachers, nurses, and
sales clerks
- Many were garment workers
and food-processing plants
- It was assumed women had a
man supporting them at home, so
women were paid ½ compared to men.
** Most unions excluded women.
• 19th Amendment
– Female Suffrage
5. The discontentment felt by Germany
after the Treaty of Versailles, ending WWI,
was caused by _________________.
Consequences of Treaty
• (1) Germany loses areas of Europe that are
predominantly German-speaking.
Consequences of Treaty
Consequences of Treaty
• (2) Severe punishment of Germany: including,
war guilt clause & war reparations ($33 Billion)
"The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and Germany
accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for
causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and
Associated Governments …”
• (3) Allied Powers take over German colonies
6. United States foreign policy begins to
change as a result of the SpanishAmerican War due to the U.S. seeing itself
as the _________________.
Consequences of the Spanish-American War
- 1 - U.S. adopts more “active” role in the affairs of the
world, as the “defender of democracy” in the world.
• Isolationism – dominant U.S.
policy throughout its history
7. United States government mobilizes
support for WWI, which was an unpopular
war through propaganda and specifically
through the actions of the
_________________.
UNITED STATES AT WAR
• War Industries Board
• Food Administration
• Committee on
Public Information
• Selective Service Act
8. Newspapers influenced popular
American opinion about the Spanish
Empire during the late 1800’s through a
publishing style known as
_________________.
Causes of Spanish-American
War
• Yellow Journalism
– Sensational news stories
• Impact of the media
throughout U.S. History
– Great Britain cut the
Transatlantic telegraph cable
– WWI propaganda influenced
public opinion
– Flawed news reports impacted
American opinion about the
Vietnam War
Textbooks:
• For Homework: Chapter 10, Section One
• While reading, consider …
– What economic policies of the 1920’s
encouraged economic growth?