Contextualization period 4
Market Revolution
a. advances in technology
b. 19th amendments
c. Great depression
a. advances in technology becuase technology with farming equipment was improving leading to more profit from commercial farming.
manifest destiny
a.war of 1812
b.Expand U.S. territory
c.Remove Native Americans from their homes
a. War of 1812 (Nationalism began to spread throughout the United States since the nation was able to fend off the British)
westward expansion
a.eastward expansion
b.population growth
c. God wanted it
b. population growth leads to a need for more space for people to settle down in a rural setting
the spanish american war
a. America's support the ongoing struggle by Cubans and Filipinos against Spanish rule
b. The Spanish support the ongoing struggle by Cubans and Filipinos against American rule
c. they didn't like them
a. America's support the ongoing struggle by Cubans and Filipinos against Spanish rule was one of the immediate causes for this war to happen.
Second great awakening
a. reconstruction
b. religous decline and wanting a revival
c. religious incline and not needing a revival
b. religious decline and wanting a revival was pushed by many protestant religions.
The compromise of 1850
a. California was admitted to the Union as a free state
b. New Mexico and Utah and organized without mention of slavery
c. Mexican American War
c. Mexican American War (disputes over slavery in new territories added to the United States in the wake of the Mexican-American War)
the “New South”
a. world war I
b. compromise of 1850
c. civil war
c. civil war caused a realization for the south that their reliance on cotton had made them vulnerable to the union.
WWI
a. The Treaty of Versailles
b. Gilded age
c. wwII
b. gilded age (economic growth in America making them a superpower which brought them a lot of strength when having to enter WWI)
Age of reform
a. reconstruction
b. age of pre reform
c. progressivism
c. progressivism supported the idea of progress in which advancements in science, technology, economic development and social organization
the mexican american war
a. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
b. slavery debate
c. U.S. annexation of Texas
c. U.S. annexation of Texas (The annexation of Texas contributed to the coming of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). The conflict started, in part, over a disagreement about which river was Mexico's true northern border: the Nueces or the Rio Grande)
the rise of industrial capitalism
a. cropping season
b. industrial reform
c. technology advances
c. Technology advances were one of the biggest factors to industrial capitalism because nearly half a million patents were used during this era.
the great depression
a. market crash
b. therapy
c. homework
a. Market crash caused everyone to lose basically everything they own and had in the bank leaving them with nothing.
Society of the south in the early republic
a. pilgrims
b. cotton economy
c. industrial workers
b. cotton economy rocketed during this time and everyone was growing it and for this mass making of it there was a need for more workers.
reconstruction
a. abolishment of slavery
b. The civil war
c. transportation success (railroad)
The civil war (the Civil War was fought over the moral issue of slavery.)
development of the middle class
a. gilded age
b.great depression
c.westward expansion
a. gilded age male and female office workers expanded the ranks of the middle class
the new deal
a. relief for the unemployed and poor
b. recovery of the economy back to normal levels
c. The great depression
c. the great depression led to many Americans losing their jobs and all of their money which caused Americans to barely make a living.
Creation of political parties
a. era of washington
b. era of jefferson
c. era of taft
a. era of Jefferson is the start of major political parties
failure of reconstruction
A.Lack of unity in government
B. Southern whites did not want to give so much freedom to blacks
C.reconstruction
c. reconstruction (happened before the failure of reconstruction therefore can be used to contextualize)
controversies over the role of government in the Gilded Age
a.sherman antitrust act
b. social Darwinism
c. the new south
b. Social Darwinism justified the economic developments that led to this boom in production but these developments also sparked debates on the ethics behind the economy.
WWII mobilization
a. needed for vietnam war
b. more weapons at use
c. bombing of pearl harbor
c. bombing of pearl harbor ultimately was a trigger for this mobilization.