Unit 1:
Thinking like a historian
Thinking like a historian
Individuals are free to pursue their own work
they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life,______,and the pursuit of happiness.
Protection against tyrannical government....
#1 in the book Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about American democracy
What is Liberty?
What does "Gilded" mean ?
Gilded simply means to be coated thinly in gold
A person who actively works to change/improve society or the government
What is a Reformer ?
-U.S Naval Captain
-Wrote:The influence of sea power upon history
-Led to expansion of modern Navy
Who is Alfred Thayer mahan ?
-Cutting their hair short
-wearing shorts skirts
-putting on makeup
-Drinking and smoking in public
-Rejecting the constructing styles of the Victorian era
What is a Flapper?
Allowing all individuals to voice an opinion
Participations of the common people in political life
#4 in the book Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about American democracy
What is Populism?
The desire to promote the welfare of others,expressed especially by the generous donation of money to good causes.
What is philanthropy?
An early 20th century journalist who worked to expose corruption and abuses in politics and society
Muckraker
-Allowed all nations to have equal opportunity to trade with china
-1899
What is the Open Door policy?
-An intellectual and cultural revival of African American music,Dance,art fashion,literature,theater,politics, and scholarship
-Langston Hughes,poet and leader of the __________
-Led to the creation of Jazz music
What is the Harlem Renaissance ?
Freedom of religion,Assembly,Press,petition and speech
The 1st amendment
-Banned Chinese women from entering the U.S
-The first major law restricting immigration into the United states
-Enacted in response to economic fears, especially on the west Coast,Where native-born Americans attributed unemployment and declining wages to Chinese worker whom they believed were racially inferior
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
What movement is this?
movement led by protestant clergymen that called for many reforms including
-The abolition of child labor
-A ban on alcoholic beverages (temperance/prohibition)
-Safer working conditions
-Regulations on big business
-An increased focus on charity and helping those who were less fortunate
The Social Gospel Movement
-Most decorated soldier in WW1 and a medal of honor recipient
-Fought in the meuse-Argonne offensive
-Armed with only a rifle and a revolver, He killed 25 Germans,Captured 132 prisoners, and took out 32 machine guns
Who is Alvin York ?
-Study of human improvement by genetic means
-Higher reproduction of those with strong, favorable traits vs. undesirable traits
-Way to get rid of racials and biological "mistakes"
-Including the forced sterilization of "undesirables"
-would inspire similar movements during the holocaust
Eugenics
U.S document came out 1781?
After the failure that was the _______________,a group of leaders gathered in philadelphia to create a new plan of government.
What is the Articles of confederation?
The first railroad that linked the east to the west,connecting Sacramento,California to Omaho,Nebraska
Transcontinental Railroad
-Led by women and Christian ministers who saw alcoholism as the root of society's problems
-eventually lead to the amendment which banned alcohol sales and consumption in this United States.
What is the Temperance movement?
-Originally stated that Europe was not to intervene with South America,president theodore Roosevelt will add the roosevelt corollary to it which increased the U.S involvement in Latin America
what is Monroe Doctrine
-Also referred to as the scopes monkey trial
-John scopes,substitute teacher put on trial for teaching evolution
-scopes found guilty and fined $100 but the sentence was overturned
What is the scopes trial?
What are the four major U.S documents?
Declaration of independence 1776
Articles of confederation 1781
U.S constitution 1787
Bill of rights 1791
What Act is this
-This law granted settlers 160 acres of free land on the condition that they live on the property for a minimum of 5 years,construct a dwelling, and cultivate crops on the land
-This act, along with the transcontinental railroad brought an accelerated end to the American frontier
The Homestead Act
This program focused on 3 key areas:
-Tariff reform
-banking reform
-Trust-busting
Wilson wanted to create an economy that world be fair and equitable for all americans
What is Wilsons New Freedom program?
-An organization founded after WW1 during the Paris peace conference in 1919
-Primary mission was to maintain world peace and prevent future conflicts
What is the League of nations
Reflected the cultural modernism of the 1920s
Symbolized:
-sleekness (Sharp and clean)
-Wealth and sophistication
-Anti-traditionalism
What is the Art-Deco movement?