26. Yellow Journalism caused the Spanish-American WarYellow Journalism, and especially the sensational stories about Spanish atrocities in Cuba during the late 1890s, was a major cause of the Spanish-American War in 1898.

27. The Explosion of the USS Maine:

“Remember the Maine!”

The explosion of the USS Maine was blamed on Spanish enemies – despite no evidence to prove such a charge – by yellow journalists’ articles. The destruction of the Maine was a major cause of the Spanish American War, as well, so much so that the battle cry of Americans during the war was “Remember the Maine!”

28. William McKinley was the President of the United States during the Spanish American War.

29. The Results of the Spanish-American War.The United States of America

emerged as a world power.Cuba was granted independence

and became an American protectorate.

The Philippines was taken as a US colony.

Guam and Puerto Rico were taken as American colonies. as well.

30. At the start of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson encouraged Americans to remain neutral!

“He Kept

US Out of

War.”- 1916 Campaign Slogan of Woodrow Wilson.

31. Germany used U-Boats to engage in unrestricted submarine warfare against American vessels; by sinking the Lusitania, Germans killed over 1000 civilians, including 128 Americans. This was a major cause of the United States entry into World War I.

32. The Allied Powers: WW I Great BritainFranceRussiaSerbiaBelgium

Later, the United States of America would join the Allied Powers – but not until 1917.

33. The Central Powers: WW I

Our enemies during World War I were the Central Powers nations: GermanyAustria-HungaryThe Ottoman EmpireBulgaria

34. The United States is tied to England by history, politics, government, values, and economics.Because the United States was once an English colony, and because we share political systems (democracy), social values (individual rights), and economic systems (capitalism) the United States supported England during both the First World War and during World War II.

35. Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Point PlanPresident Woodrow Wilson suggested the Fourteen Point Plan for peace in Europe following World War I. Many part of his plan were included in the Treaty of Versailles. The most important part of the plan to Wilson was the creation of the League of Nations – an international peacekeeping organization to be created in Europe. The plan also encouraged free trade, an end to secret treaties, freedom of the seas, and the self-determination of nations’ governments, to end imperialism.

“Am I gonna be able to carry

this?”

36. The USA never signed the Treaty of Versailles and never joined the League of Nations.

37. The automobile changes life in America.The automobile changed the way Americans lived:

• People had greater and more reliable mobility.

• Jobs were created in road construction, parts stores, service stations, and tourism.

• People were able to live in the suburbs and drive to work in the city.

• In the 1950s, the Interstate Highway System was created by President Dwight David Eisenhower.

38. Guglielmo Marconi invented the radio.

39. David Sarnoff revolutionized the broadcasting industry – both in radio and television, with NBC: the National Broadcasting Company.

40. Electrification changed America by making work easier and life more entertaining.Labor saving products like

washing machines, stoves, and water pumps.

Electric lighting increased productivity and made homes safer and more comfortable.

Entertainment in radio and motion picture machines.

Communication improved due to telephones and telegraphs.

41. During the Great Migration in the 1910s and 1920s, African-Americans moved North to take jobs in industrialized cities.

42. Artist Jacob Lawrence was an African-American painter most famous for his portraits of blacks in urban settings. His most famous trilogy of paintings features “The Great Migration.”

43. Langston Hughes was the leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance.

Dream Deferred

by Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up

like a raisin in the sun?

Or fester like a sore—

And then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat?

Or crust and sugar over—

like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags

like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

44. Jazz is an African-American musical innovation, born in New Orleans and featuring improvisation.

Louis Armstrong

Duke Ellington

Bessie

Smith

New Orleans, LA

45. Georgia O’Keeffe was an artist whose work featured flowers, symmetry and Southwestern themes.

46. Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, was a description of life among the wealthy elite during the 1920s. He was a member of the so-called “Lost Generation.”

47. Author John Steinbeck wrote the Grapes of Wrath, a novel about a family which was forced to take work as migrants in California when the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression forced them off of their land.

48. Composers Aaron Copland and George Gershwin were musicians who wrote uniquely American songs.

Aaron Copland

George Gershwin

49. Buying stocks “on the margin” – or using borrowed money to purchase stocks – was one of the causes of the Great Depression.

50. The Great Depression’s impact on Americans.

Almost 10,000 banks failed – they had loaned money out to the stockbrokers who purchased shares “on the margin.”

Unemployment rates reached as high as 25% in 1933, the worst year of the Depression.

Millions were homeless and hungry during the Depression; under President Herbert Hoover, little was done to improve conditions, and shantytowns called “Hoovervilles” were established on the edges of towns.

Farm incomes dropped dramatically.