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Constitutional Convention Philadelphia 1787 Info found on page 69 of The Americans Key Terms/ ideas: Checks and balances – to prevent the domination by any one branch of government Separation of Powers – to limit authority Why it matters: The US needed rules for it’s government that would make the country more stable CONSTITUTION/ A NEW NATION….
And a “deal is made with the devil” – slavery is written into the Constitution as the three – fifths compromise
Civil War Terms: Emancipation = freeing slaves Confederacy = southern states that broke away from the union Why it matters: Slavery was now illegal Shows the south and north during the Civil War
AFRICAN AMERICANS MOVE FORWARD 1865 – 1877 (RECONSTRUCTION) THEN BACKWARDS 1880’S -1940’S THEN FORWARD AFTER WW II PRESENT TUSKEGEE AIRMEN WW II
Reconstruction and Jim Crow ’S SEGREGATION FIRST BLACK REPRESENTATIVES
INDUSTRIALIZATION: process of mechanizing the economy and society ; mass production FORD FACTORY
EUROPEAN AND ASIAN IMMIGRATION EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS CAME TO ELLIS ISLAND IN NEW YORK
Asian immigrants came through Angel Island in San Francisco and worked building railroads
PROGRESSIVISM: a belief in human progress. Progressives cleaned up cities, worked to end child labor, passed laws for workers and got women the vote Urban: relating to the cities suburban: outside the urban core Rural: relating to farm areas
What were Progressives up against? THIS:
……AND THIS: CHILD LABOR SOME PEOPLE DIDN’T WANT WOMEN TO VOTE
PROGRESSIVES: SUFFRAGETTES AGITATED FOR THE VOTE
TEDDY ROOSEVELT: ONE OF THREE PROGRESSIVE PRESIDENTS PURE FOOD AND DRUG ACT MEAT INSPECTION ACT NATIONAL PARKS ENDED COAL STRIKE REGULATED BIG BUSINESS “TRUSTBUSTER” FIRST MODERN PRESIDENT
AMERICAN IMPERIALISM: SPANISH AMERICAN WAR TEDDY ROOSEVELT AND HIS ROUGH RIDERS
WW I WILL LEAD TO WW II THE HORRORS OF WW I WILL MAKE AMERICANS HESITANT TO GO AFTER HITLER UNTIL IT IS ALMOST TOO LATE THE TRENCHES, THE RATS, THE CONSTANT DEATH
THE “ROARING” TWENTIES: EXUBERANCE AND DESPAIR Great Depression begins in 1929
THE GREAT DEPRESSION: DOROTHEA LANGE’S PHOTO BECOMES ICONIC FOR THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1932: AMERICA GETS A NEW PRESIDENT …….
……..and A NEW DEAL SOCIAL SECURITY
WORLD WAR II: AMERICA TAKES ON GERMANY AND JAPAN DEC. 7 TH 1941: A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY THE THIRD REICH
WW II ON THE HOME FRONT WOMEN WORK IN WAR FACTORIES
THE FIFTIES: SUBURBIA, COLD WAR, CIVIL RIGHTS, YOUTH CULTURE
FIFTIES
Sixties
Sixties
Seventies