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Constitutional Convention Philadelphia 1787

Info found on page 69 of The Americans

Key Terms/ ideas:

Checks and balances – to prevent the domination by any one branch of government

Separation of Powers – to limit authority

Why it matters: The US needed rules for it’s government that would make the country more stable

CONSTITUTION/ A NEW NATION….

And a “deal is made with the devil” And a “deal is made with the devil” – slavery is written into the – slavery is written into the

Constitution as the Constitution as the three – fifths three – fifths compromisecompromise

Civil WarCivil War

Terms:

Emancipation = freeing slaves

Confederacy = southern states that broke away from the union

Why it matters:

Slavery was now illegal

Shows the south and north during the Civil War

AFRICAN AMERICANS MOVE FORWARD 1865 – 1877 (RECONSTRUCTION)

THEN

BACKWARDS 1880’S -1940’S

THEN

FORWARD AFTER WW II 1945 - PRESENT

TUSKEGEE AIRMEN WW II

ReconstructionReconstruction and and Jim CrowJim Crow 1865- 1877 1880-1960’S 1865- 1877 1880-1960’S

SEGREGATION

FIRST BLACK REPRESENTATIVES

INDUSTRIALIZATION:INDUSTRIALIZATION:process of mechanizing the process of mechanizing the economy and society ; mass economy and society ; mass

productionproduction

FORD FACTORY

EUROPEAN EUROPEAN ANDAND ASIAN ASIAN IMMIGRATIONIMMIGRATION

EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS CAME TO ELLIS ISLAND IN NEW YORK

Asian immigrantsAsian immigrants came through came through Angel Island in San Francisco Angel Island in San Francisco and worked building railroadsand worked building railroads

PROGRESSIVISMPROGRESSIVISM: : a belief in a belief in human progress. Progressives human progress. Progressives cleaned up cities, worked to end cleaned up cities, worked to end child labor, passed laws for workers child labor, passed laws for workers and got women the voteand got women the voteUrbanUrban: relating to the cities: relating to the citiessuburbansuburban: outside the urban core: outside the urban coreRuralRural: relating to farm areas: relating to farm areas

What were Progressives up What were Progressives up against?against? THISTHIS: :

…………AND THIS:AND THIS:

CHILD LABOR SOME PEOPLE DIDN’T WANT WOMEN TO VOTE

PROGRESSIVESPROGRESSIVES: : SUFFRAGETTES AGITATED FOR SUFFRAGETTES AGITATED FOR

THE VOTETHE VOTE

TEDDY ROOSEVELTTEDDY ROOSEVELT: ONE OF : ONE OF THREE PROGRESSIVE THREE PROGRESSIVE

PRESIDENTSPRESIDENTSPURE FOOD AND DRUG ACT

MEAT INSPECTION ACT

NATIONAL PARKS

ENDED COAL STRIKE

REGULATED BIG BUSINESS

“TRUSTBUSTER”FIRST MODERN PRESIDENT

AMERICAN IMPERIALISMAMERICAN IMPERIALISM: : SPANISH AMERICAN WARSPANISH AMERICAN WAR

TEDDY ROOSEVELT AND HIS ROUGH RIDERS

WW IWW I WILL LEAD TOWILL LEAD TO WW IIWW II

THE HORRORS OF WW I WILL MAKE AMERICANS HESITANT TO GO AFTER HITLER UNTIL IT IS ALMOST TOO LATE

THE TRENCHES, THE RATS, THE CONSTANT DEATH

THE “ROARING” TWENTIESTHE “ROARING” TWENTIES: : EXUBERANCE AND DESPAIREXUBERANCE AND DESPAIR

Great Depression begins in 1929

THE GREAT DEPRESSIONTHE GREAT DEPRESSION: : 1929- 19421929- 1942

DOROTHEA LANGE’S PHOTO BECOMES ICONIC

FOR THE GREAT DEPRESSION

1932: AMERICA GETS A NEW

PRESIDENT…….

…………....and A NEW DEALand A NEW DEAL

SOCIAL SECURITY

WORLD WAR IIWORLD WAR II:: AMERICA AMERICA TAKES ON GERMANY AND TAKES ON GERMANY AND

JAPANJAPAN

DEC. 7TH 1941: A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY

THE THIRD REICH

WW IIWW II ON THE HOME FRONTON THE HOME FRONT

WOMEN WORK IN WAR FACTORIES

THE FIFTIESTHE FIFTIES: SUBURBIA, : SUBURBIA, COLD WAR, CIVIL RIGHTS, COLD WAR, CIVIL RIGHTS,

YOUTH CULTUREYOUTH CULTURE

FIFTIESFIFTIES

SixtiesSixties

SixtiesSixties

SeventiesSeventies