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Map of the United States
Locate Appalachian Mountains, Mississippi River, Great Plains region, and Rocky Mountains
Westward Expansion
Disappearance of the Frontier:o Manifest Destinyo Homestead Act o Transcontinental Railroad
Native Americans of the Great Plains v. the White Settlerso Methods of Indian Removal:
Killing buffalo Wars Reservations
o Native American view of the White Settlerso Assimilation
Farmers Revolto Populist Party [3rd party in late 1890s] o Populist Party Platform
Industrialization
Key People o John Rockefellero Andrew Carnegieo Henry Ford
Laissez-faire Urbanization Capitalism Mass Production Assembly Line
Big Businesso Social Darwinism o Monopolieso Trusts
Effects the lack of competition has on consumer Relationship between big business and government
American factory workerso Working conditionso Formation of labor unions
Immigration
Push & Pull Factors
New vs Old Immigrants
Nativismo Chinese Exclusion Acto Quota Actso Job competition
Tenement housing
Jane Addams – settlement house movement
Progressive Movement
Muckrakers Jacob Riis – How the Other Half Lives Ida Tarbell- History of Standard Oil Company Upton Sinclair – The Jungle
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food & Drug Act
President Theodore Roosevelto Trustbustero Conservationist
Economic Reform o Interstate Commerce Acto Sherman Antitrust Acto Clayton Antitrust Act
Political Reformo 17th Amendment: Senatorso 18th Amendment: Alcoholo 19th Amendment: Women
Imperialism Key Terms
o Domestic Policyo Foreign Policyo Manifest Destinyo Imperialism
Reasons for Imperialism:
o Sea power and naval baseso Christian missionaries (Social Darwinism)o White Man’s Burdeno World Markets o Raw Materials
Spanish-American Waro Yellow journalismo Maineo America becomes a world power
Monroe Doctrine Roosevelt Corollary (Big Stick Policy)
President Theodore Roosevelt and building of the Panama Canalo Economic reasons for building the canalo Application of Roosevelt Corollary to build the canalo Results of the Panama Canal
World War I
Propaganda M A N I A
President Woodrow Wilson’s decision to enter World War Io Unrestricted submarine warfareo Lusitaniao Zimmerman Noteo Opportunity to participate in war’s peace talks
Wilson’s 14 Points and League of Nations Treaty of Versailles
Roaring Twenties
Economic growtho Production of new consumer goodso “Buy Now, Pay Later”o Consumerism
Harlem Renaissanceo Growth of jazz music and other forms of African American culture
Modernist v. Traditionalist debate [disagreement over changing lifestyles]o Scopes trialo Prohibitiono “Flappers”
Popularity of spectator sportso Baseball – Babe Rutho Aviation – Charles Lindbergh
Growth of Radioo Development of Mass Culture
Great Depression
1929 Stock Market Crasho Speculationo Buying stock on margino Bank Runs
Business cycle
Problems of the Great Depressiono Social problemso Economic problems
• Bank failures• Decrease availability of jobs
Responses to the Great Depressiono Hoovervilleso Breadlines
Dust Bowlo Great Plains regiono Effect on Farmerso Results of Dust Bowl
President Franklin Delano Roosevelto Fireside chatso New Deal – offers welfare to the people and ignites government responsibility to
protect the people FDIC CCC WPA SSA TVA Bank Holiday
o Court-packing plano Impact of the New Deal
Hollywood: Escapism
World War II
Totalitarian dictators:o Adolf Hitler [Nazi Party in Germany]o Benito Mussolini [Fascist Party in Italy]o Joseph Stalin [Communist Party in Soviet Union]
Axis Powers v. Allied Powers
Axis Powerso Germany, Italy, Japan
Allied Powerso United States, Great Britain, Soviet Union
Appeasement by Britain and France American neutrality – ignoring aggression in Europe and Asia
Immediate cause: 1939 Immediate cause of U.S. entry: 1941
American mobilizationo Women at work [“Rosie the Riveter”]o Conservation/rationing of food and natural resources
Military Turning Pointso Europe: D-Day Invasiono Asia: Battle of Midway; Battle at Guadalcanal, Battle of Iwo Jima & Battle of
Okinawa
President Harry S. Truman’s Decision to Drop Atom Bomb on Hiroshimao Reasons for dropping the bomb and results
Internment of Japanese Americans
The Holocaust
Cold War
United States v. Soviet Union [USSR}
“Iron Curtain”
United Nations
Containment
Arms race
McCarthyism
Bomb Shelters
Sputnik Space Race
Cuban Missile Crisiso Reasons Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev put nuclear missiles in Cubao Panic of nuclear war in the United States and around the worldo Reasons for President John F. Kennedy’s decision to blockade Cubao Results of the Cuban Missile Crisis being resolved
Vietnam Waro Reasons the United States participated in the Vietnam conflict
Similarities with the Korean conflicto Reasons for the antiwar movement and protest
Watergate scandal
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Jim Crow Segregation and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Segregation/Jim Crow laws
Jackie Robinson
President Harry S. Truman de-segregates the U.S. Armed Forces [troops]
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954)
Civil Disobedience
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Martin Luther King, Jr.o SCLC
Little Rock crisis Sit-ins
March on Washington
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Middle East
Israel is recognized as democratic country in 1948o Conflict with Palestinians
Conflict between the United States and Palestinians
Persian Gulf War
September 11, 2001 Al-Qaeda terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon
o President George W. Bush decides to invade Afghanistan War on Terror
o Patriot Acto Creation of Homeland Security
Issues of the 20 th /21 st Century
Baby Boom of the 1950so Increase of home construction and school population in late 1950s and 1960so Increase demand on the Social Security System in 2011
Affirmative Action
Illegal immigration
Important Supreme Court Decisions
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Korematsu v. U.S. (1944)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954)
Impact of Technology on American Society[based on historical importance and what you have learned in social studies –
NOT your personal experiences]
Henry Ford’s assembly line [mass production]
The automobile
Radio
Nuclear power
Television
Internet