PRE-UNIT
The tendency to seek out information that confirms our beliefs.
What is confirmation bias?
According to the Declaration of Independence, this enlightenment ideal is the source of governmental power.
What is the people?
The name of the monopoly started by J.D. Rockefeller
What is Standard Oil Company?
Location for European Immigrants to face inspections before entering the United States
What is Ellis Island?
This "Deal" targeted Election Reform, Trustbusting, and Conservation Reform
What was Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal?
The four steps to evaluating sources AND their purposes.
What are Sourcing (to find where a source comes from/identify bias and trustworthiness), Contextualization (to find what influenced a source), Corroborate (to compare sources and determine trustworthiness), Close Reading (to evaluate claims and determine trustowrthiness).
This term describes an agreement between the people and their government establishing the consent to be governed
What is the Social Contract/Social Contract Theory
Increase in crop production and decrease in agricultural workers
This push factor was one of the top reasons for leaving Russia for Jewish immigrants trying to survive the Pogroms.
what is religious persecution?
This president was responsible for Progressive legislation such as the Clayton Anti-Trust Act, The Federal Income Tax, and the Federal Reserve Banking System.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
ORIGINAL RECORDS USED OR CREATED BY SOMEONE WITH FIRSTHAND EXPERIENCE OF THE EVENT; PRODUCED BY PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATED IN AND WITNESSED THE PAST
EX: DIARY, PHOTOGRAPHY, AUTOBIOGRAPHY
What is a Primary Source
States being given too much power due to experiences of the colonists under British rule, and in turn, creating a fear of a strong national government is the reason why this founding document FAILED
This technological innovation increased the amount of tall and sturdy buildings in cities. Led to the creation of the city skyline as the designing and constructing of skyscrapers and bridges increased.
What is Steel/Bessemer Process?
Improvements in transportation, tenement housing, sewage systems, americanization, clean water, crime & fire.
What are effects/challenges of urbanization?
Two specific ways that the U.S. Government's Reservation Policy affected Native Americans.
What are:
Killing Bison
(Identify the Evaluating Sources step detailed in the following example:)
A student is researching popular culture in the United States during the 2000's. She has found a book on the subject and will need to determine what events may have influenced 2000's culture. She does this by identifying the publication date of the book and how it fits into a timeline of the 2000's.
What is contextualization?
This group was originally opposed to The Constitution because they thought it had TOO STRONG of powers for the National Government
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
Increased transportation & time zones, growth of urban populations, expansion of the wealth gap, more job opportunities, labor unions
What are the effects of Industrialization?
Three ways mass immigration affected city life and infrastructure.
What are: Needed more Housing, needed clean water, and crime grew as a result (or transportation)
We learned about 3 Progressive Era constitutional amendments that were passed to address Political, Social, and economic issues. Name them AND their descriptions.
What were:
16th Amendment - Federal Income Tax
17th Amendment - Citizens vote directly for senators
19th Amendment - Women Vote
Three steps of Evaluating Sources that all specialize in identifying whether a source is trustworthy or not
What are Sourcing, Corroborating, and Close Reading
The terms for each of the definitions of the Enlightenment Principles IN ORDER:
1. POWER OF THE GOVERNMENT DERIVES FROM THE PEOPLE
2. NO GOVERNMENT CAN HAVE TOO MUCH POWER
3. 3 BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT
4. HOW THE DIFFERENT BRANCHES HOLD EACH OTHER ACCOUNTABLE
What are:
1. Popular Sovereignty
2. Limited Government
3. Separation of Powers
4. Checks and Balances
While Andrew Carnegie practiced ________________ and _______________ integration, J.D. Rockefeller took the following steps IN ORDER to monopolize his Standard Oil Company.
What is Vertical and Horizontal?
What is:
1. LOWER WAGES
2. LOWER COSTS OF OIL
3. BUY OUT COMPETITORS (HORIZONTAL)
4. RAISE PRICES AGAIN
Before Roosevelt's election reform, ________________ ______________ operated within ______________ ______________ to bribe immigrants and voting citizens for votes and support.
What are political bosses and political machines?
Jacob Riis wrote about factory conditions being unsanitary including cut-off _____________ and rat ______________ and _________________. Name the two federal solutions to these problems AND what each Act did.
What were: fingers, poison and droppings?
What were the Pure Food and Drug Act (no contamination of meat and drugs) and the Meat Inspection Act (required cleanliness of factories & inspection of meat)?