GREAT DEPRESSION
Effects
Widespread unemployment
Government Economic Intervention
The Deportation and Repatriation of People of Mexican Heritage
Causes
Tariffs
Stock Market Speculation
Bank Failures
What are the 3 causes and 3 effects of the Great Depression?
From 1890 to 1920, many believed that the solution to the problems in society across the nation lay in the more active role of the government.
What is The Progressive Era?
Declaration of Independence in 1776
Articles of Confederation in 1781
U.S. Constitution in 1787
Bill of Rights is added to the USC in 1791
What were the Major U.S. Documents and Dates?
It ws the time of US history were their was a lot of cropution in the goverment but the government sugarcoated it to not make them look bad.
What was the Gilded Age?
Food was cheaper and people stared to put there monye into stocks to get richer.
Why was the roaring 20s a booming time for the US?
The stock market crash happened, and billions of dollars were lost in the New York Stock Exchange.
The industrialized world spiralled into the longest-lasting and worst downturn everywhere.
What happened on Black Tuesday?
They are Journalists who shine a spotlight on corruption in society.
What was the Muckrakers (investigative journalism)?
Partriot belived in independence from UK
Neutral didnt have an inpion on the matter
Loyalist belived that they didnt need independence and stay with the UK
What is a Partriot, Neutral, and Loyalist in US terms?
It was an act to encourage US citiens to move and live in the Great Plains. You would get 160 acres of land as lobg as you impove the land and established an homestead.
What was the Homestead Act?
it was the fear of communism coming to the US and changing the US.
What was the red scare?
it was a time when farmers over-planted so not rotating crops made the topsoil deplete and the land dry up, making millions of farmland useless and food prices increasing.
What was the Dust Bowl?
The Jungle highlighted the fear of what was in their meat. This led to the Meat Inspection Act (the standards in meatpacking plants to keep clean), and the Pure Food and Drug Act (the ban of impure or false labeled food or drugs)
how did the book The Jungle impact the U.S.?
circumstances of the time in where an event has occured or in autor that lived in that event had infuluenced their POV (point of view).
What is Historical Context?
The distretion of so many Native tribes and cultures.
The near extinction of the American Buffalo
The cattle industry skyrocketing, this leading to refrigerated railroad, cars, barbed wire, and the meat-packing industry
What were some of the effects of moving West (aka Westward Expansion)?
The US returned into Naormalcy, The Return of Laissez-Faire, and Reduced taxes. But Harding’s Cabinet took payments or bribes from private companies in order to lease lands containing oil reserves at Teapot Dome (Teapot Dome Scandal).
What Happen in The Harding Administration and what was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
It was created by Roosevelt to promote economic recovery and aimed to put Americans back into what they were before the Great Depression.
What's the 'New Deal'?
The women fought for right to vote that began in the mid-1800s at the Seneca Falls Convention.
what is the women's fight for Suffrage?
The Founding of Jamestown
Mayflower Compact
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
The French and Indian War
The American Revolution
The Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
U.S. Constitution
Washington’s Farewell Address
The Louisiana Purchase
The Monroe Doctrine
The Era of Good Feelings
The Trail of Tears
The Nullification Crisis
The Mexican-American War
The Dred Scott Decision
The Civil War
The Emancipation Proclamation
What events happened bettween 1607-1877 in the US?
Cornelius Vanderbilt (Railroads), Andrew Carnegie (Steel), John D. Rockefeller (Oil), and J.P. Morgan (Banking). The Growth of Big Bisiness and Philanthropy (the want of promoting the welfare of others or generous donation of money to good causes).
who were the Entreprenurs and how did the inpact the US?
Low Taxes, Balanced Budgets, Robust economy, Americanization, and American Indian Citizenship Act of 1924.
what Hapoened in the The Coolidge Administration?
The Hoover Dam was created
The Creation of Reconstruction Finance Corporation
What 3 things that happened in the Hoover Administration?
They are a person who actively works to improve the goverment/soiety. unlike Muckrakers who expose the corrupte, the reforms take it a step forward and trys to uses the info to make the goverment or socirty better not just exposes but trys to remove the corrupt.
what are Reformers and how are the different from Muckraker?
Thomas Jefferson annouces the freedom form Britsh rule from the 13 colonies at the age of 33.
Who Aurthoerd the The Declaration of Independence
This Act was formed out of fear the the Chineses will take there jobs and belived that Chineses were lower then them.
What was the The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
Booms were thrown in wall Street killing 38 peoplr. a bomb as targeting the house of U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. this action made thousands of immigrants to get arrested and 500 to get deported.
What were the Palmer Raids?