American Exceptionalism Alexis de Tocqueville’s five values crucial to America’s success as a constitutional republic: liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism, and laissez-faire.

According to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, where does a government get it’s authority? From the people Homestead Act moved people westward with promise of land. Dealing with the Native Americans – Reservations, then the Dawes Act which was an attempt to assimilate Native Americans into the American societies What were problems of urbanization?, women and child labor? Philanthropy of men like Andrew Carnegie The dislike of immigration is called nativism

Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, literacy test and Grandfather clauses were set up to limit African American rights and their ability to vote. Spanish American War 1898 is the first step toward imperialism (control over the Philippines, Puerto Rico) Open Door policy was to open up trade with China for the United States who had been shut out by others spheres of influence

Progressive amendments Initiative, referendum, and recall helped involve the people more into the govt. (popular sovereignty) Progressive amendments 16th amendment – graduated income tax 17th amendment – direct election of the Senate 18th amendment – Prohibition 19th amendment – Women's suffrage Influence of Muckrakers Ida Tarbell (the History of Standard Oil), Lincoln Steffens (The Shame of the Cities), Upton Sinclair (The Jungle), Jacob Riis (How the Other Half Lives)

Ida B Wells, W. E. B. DuBois, and Booker T Ida B Wells, W.E.B. DuBois, and Booker T. Washington – African American leaders Why people moved from the rural areas to the city?” Jobs, technology changed the number of farmers needed The Transcontinental Railroad Andrew Carnegie and the Gospel of Wealth John D. Rockefeller and horizontal integration, trust, monopolies Know what laissez faire means What technological changes developed during this time period

Hawaii – Sanford Dole Alfred T. Mahan and the importance of seapower to trade Henry Cabot Lodge – supported seapower and against the League of Nations The acquisition of Guam , the Philippines and Puerto Rico MAIN SLUGZ AEF and John Pershing – Americans in WW I victory at the Argonne Forest

Red Scare; Nativism; eugenics; Prohibition Causes of the Great Depression; The New Deal; FDR; Court Packing, deportation of people. World War II stuff : Omar Bradley, Dwight Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, Chester A. Nimitz, George Marshall, and George Patton; The Homefront Assimilation : Dawes Act- Native Americans; Settlement House – immigrants