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Title:	us history
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- Side 3

- Bill of Rights
- the first ten ammendments to the constitution
  added in 1791
  formal lists citizens rights and freedoms
- 3 branches of government
- executive branch
  legislative branch
  judigicial branch
- the Constitution is
  
  when written
- oldest written document meeting he changing needs of Americans
- Declaration of Independence
  What country did we break from?
  What year did we sign it?
- England
  
  1776
- Manifest Destiny
- 19th century belief that the US would inevitably expand westward to the Pacific O cean and into Mexican territory
- President
  Vice President
  today
- Obama
- Republicians
  
  Democrates
- anit slavery, conservative, believed ina wide arrange of things at this time 1800
  slavery,
- Industrializaton
  
  Robber Barrons
- Rockefeller's Oil Company
  paying employees low
  selling oil lower than his competitors
  he controlled market, hiked prices up
- monopoly is
- a firm that bought out all its competitors
- skyscrapers in the late 1800
- because of the steel, make the framework
- 3 factotrs contributing to the industrial boom in late 1800's
- railroads, cheap labor, technology
- Immigration and Urbanization
  
  Responsible for bulding the Central Pacific Railroad
- Chinese immigrants
- Steamships in the early 1800's
- this is how most immigrants traveled to the US
- Urban Dwellers face these problems living in the city
- housing, transportation, water, sanatation, crime and fire
- Chinese workers were a threat to American workers
- they would work for lower wages
- Immigrants were drawn to the US
- they thought there was a better life here
  to escape difficult conditions in their own country
- Immigrants were drawn to the US
- they thought there was a better life here
  to escape difficult conditions in their own country
- in the early 1900's the immigrants were coming from
- Germany or Europe
- in the early 1900's the immigrants were coming from
- Germany or Europe
- Immigrants were drawn to the US
- they thought there was a better life here
  to escape difficult conditions in their own country
- PROGRESSIVISM
  
  happening in public education around the 1900
- children between the ages of 8-14 had to attend school 12-16 weeks, reading, writing, arthimetic,
  more children began attending school so kindergarten was added
  more high schools, more courses in vocational area,
  then expanded to universities
- in the early 1900's the immigrants were coming from
- Germany or Europe
- Chinese workers were a threat to American workers
- they would work for lower wages
- election of 1912
- Deomcract Wilson
  Bull Moose Roosevelt
  Republician Taft
  Socialist Debs
  Taft wins- supporting small business;free market competition, all monopolies as evil.
- election of 1912
- Deomcract Wilson
  Bull Moose Roosevelt
  Republician Taft
  Socialist Debs
  Taft wins- supporting small business;free market competition, all monopolies as evil.
- PROGRESSIVISM
  
  happening in public education around the 1900
- children between the ages of 8-14 had to attend school 12-16 weeks, reading, writing, arthimetic,
  more children began attending school so kindergarten was added
  more high schools, more courses in vocational area,
  then expanded to universities
- Immigrants were drawn to the US
- they thought there was a better life here
  to escape difficult conditions in their own country
- election of 1912
- Deomcract Wilson
  Bull Moose Roosevelt
  Republician Taft
  Socialist Debs
  Taft wins- supporting small business;free market competition, all monopolies as evil.
- Chinese workers were a threat to American workers
- they would work for lower wages
- in the early 1900's the immigrants were coming from
- Germany or Europe
- Immigrants were drawn to the US
- they thought there was a better life here
  to escape difficult conditions in their own country
- PROGRESSIVISM
  
  happening in public education around the 1900
- children between the ages of 8-14 had to attend school 12-16 weeks, reading, writing, arthimetic,
  more children began attending school so kindergarten was added
  more high schools, more courses in vocational area,
  then expanded to universities
- in the early 1900's the immigrants were coming from
- Germany or Europe
- election of 1912
- Deomcract Wilson
  Bull Moose Roosevelt
  Republician Taft
  Socialist Debs
  Taft wins- supporting small business;free market competition, all monopolies as evil.
- PROGRESSIVISM
  
  happening in public education around the 1900
- children between the ages of 8-14 had to attend school 12-16 weeks, reading, writing, arthimetic,
  more children began attending school so kindergarten was added
  more high schools, more courses in vocational area,
  then expanded to universities
- election of 1912
- Deomcract Wilson
  Bull Moose Roosevelt
  Republician Taft
  Socialist Debs
  Taft wins- supporting small business;free market competition, all monopolies as evil.
- Henry Ford
  biggest benefit of assembly lines
- it opened up for more jobs
  it made production faster
  it could be adapted to other products
- PLESSY VS FERGUSON
  
  what case over turned it
- Plessy seated in the all whites car of a train in 1892
  he was convicted for breaking the law in Louisanna
  the Supreme Court over ruled it in 1896
- Pure Food and Drug Act
- in 1906 which halted the sale of contaminated foods and mredicines and called truth for labeling
- Significance of the Jungle/Author
  
  Muckracker
- Upton Sinclair
  shocking conditions of the immigrant workers, unsanitary conditions in a meat packing industry
- Unionization
  Positive aspects
- Women got better working conditions,child labor was recognizned,use of many strrikes got better working conditions
- Jim Crow Laws were
- laws enacted by southern state and local governments to seperate white and black people in public
- Imperialism and World War I
  Significance of the USS Maine
- US warship that mysteriously exploded and sank in the harbor of Havana,Cuba 1898
- Open Door Policy
- no single nation would have a monopoly of trade with any part of China
- Buffalo Soldiers
  Doughboys
- native americians
- Panama Canal
- reduce travel time between Atlantic and Pacific Ocean
  get permission from Columbia
  United States paid Panama 10mill plus annual rent
  work beagn in 1904 canal open in 1914
  5,600 workers died
  $380 billion
- Communism vs Democracy
- communism- government rule
  democracy- people rule or have a say
- 4 main causes of WWI
- nationalism
  imperalism
  militarism
  formation of the system of alliances
- Espionage and Sedition Act
- a person could be fined up to $10,000 and sentenced to 20years in prison for interferring with the war effort
  or saying anything disloyal, profane, abusive about the government
- event that sparked WWI
- Germany announced they would sink all ships in British harbor
- Imperialism
- the policy of extending a nation's authority over another country
- importance of Peral Harbor
  
  Location
- refueling base for American ships
  ships stopped there from China
- Isolationism
- a policy of pulling away from invovlement in world affairs
- League of Nations
- established in 1920
  aoosication of nations gathered to promote international peace
- importance of Peral Harbor
  
  Location
- refueling base for American ships
  ships stopped there from China
- warfare in WWI
- tanks, airplanes, machine guns, observation ballons, poision gas,
- Isolationism
- a policy of pulling away from invovlement in world affairs
- Lusitania was important in WWI
- British passenger ship that was sunk by a German u-boat, this what got Americans first angry then everything else led them to declare war
- League of Nations
- established in 1920
  aoosication of nations gathered to promote international peace
- warfare in WWI
- tanks, airplanes, machine guns, observation ballons, poision gas,
- Lusitania was important in WWI
- British passenger ship that was sunk by a German u-boat, this what got Americans first angry then everything else led them to declare war
- Neutrality
- to stay out of wars
- Red Scare
- communists took over Russia
  waved the red flag
- Selective Service Act
- a law enacted in 1917 that required men to register for military service
- Treaty of Versallies
- 1919 peace tredeaty at the end of WWI which established new nations, borders, and war reparations
- Zimmerman Note
- poroposing a German-American alliance and promising to help Mexico regain Texas , New Mexico, and Arizonia from US
- women gained by the end of WWI
- moved in to jobs of labor that men held, they did not get equal pay but it did help in the suffrage movement
- The US acquired
- Alaska from Russia
- In the Spanish-American War
- Mexico
- Allies in WWI
- France,Britian, and Russia
  Triple Alliance was Germany, austria-hungria, Italy
- Propaganda during WWI
- George Creel
  paintings, posters, cartoons, and sculptures to influence peoples thoughts and actions
  use these to promote the war
- Russia Post WWI
  
  Government Leaders
- Lenin and his followers formed a new communists state in Russia, they waved the red flag
- RAORING 20's
  Sacco and Vanzanetti
- they were itlian, said to have evaded the draft, anarchists
  said they killed a factory paymaster, guard, convicted on circumstanial evidence
- Most famous ganster of this era
- Al Capone
- Blue Collar
  
  White Collar
- factory worker per hour
  
  office worker salary