Midterm Review

Movement of people from farms to the cities of America.

Result from Industrialization

Gave power back to the workers.

Wanted to regulate working hours, pay, and working conditions.

Europe

Immigrants that came to the United States were forced to understand the country and the culture of the United States.

Ex: Japanese learning American language

Political machines would provide immigrants with jobs and places to live.

Shorter hours Higher wages Safer working conditions

• They drive up prices • lower product quality

Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896

Jim Crow Laws and their enforcement of them.

Theodore Roosevelt

Known as the Trust buster because he broke up large business’s.

to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census.

established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote.

granted American women the right to vote—a right known as woman suffrage.

Vertical Consolidation He took over every aspect of the steel empire◦ Shipping◦ Creating◦ Exporting

He controlled every aspect of it

W.E.B. DuBois

A political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their effort

• The government left businesses alone to run themselves.

Travel: Due to the success of steel and the creation of mass products that needed steel, railroads were run through the whole country

Cities: With the creation of steel, cities could start building upwards and creating skyscrappers.

It was against the constitution Americans should just worry about themselves.

A journalist who works on social issues.◦ Meat packing industry

a rallying cry to stimulate support for the Spanish-American War.

Philippines Guam Puerto Rico

It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention.

Militarism Nationalism Alliances

Free Speech?

Unauthorized German submarine attacks on our cargo ships.

Fourteen points was a plan to solve the issues presented by World War I

League of Nation was the only point adopted by the Treaty of Versailles.

Heavy involvement

We were a world power now

Was the fear of communism

the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents. In the United States, the First Red Scare was about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism.

the rebirth and acceptance of art, literature, and music from African Americans

FBI

The $5 workday and the mechanized assembly line were new factory organizational strategies of Henry Ford.

• The government policy of prohibition.

Roaring 20’s People had more money so they spent more

money.

Hoover

He did nothing, he thought the economy would self stimulate.

High winds Several years of drought The growing of one crop for decades

• Most nations depended on one another for trade

Start of World War II

They all have the right to vote 1870 The Fifteenth Amendment ensures that the right to vote cannot be denied on the

basis of race 1920 The Nineteenth Amendment ensures that the right to vote cannot be denied on the

basis of gender 1962 The Twenty-Fourth Amendment forbids the use of poll taxes to discourage or

prevent groups from voting 1971 The Twenty-Sixth Amendment grants 18 year olds the right to vote

Women

A primary source is a document or physical object which was written or created during the time under study.

Ex: Journal Entry

Essay on three important actions by any of the presidents that we studied.