1. Chapter V Imperialism and WWI Outline: 1.Reconstruction of the South(1865-1877): black – enfranchised. 2.Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow system of legal separation:4-5million,attackon blacks,progressives,communists,colored people. 3.1877 overseas expansion, 1844-invasion of China.1846-Mexica.,1866-Korea,1897- purchase of Alaska,1874Japan,1899-East Samoa, 1893-Hawaii. 4 1898 Spanish War- first imperialist war.

2. 5 Monopolist capitalists: The remainder of the 19th cent. was marked by railroad building (assisted by generous federal land grants) and the disappearance of the American frontier. Great mineral wealth was discovered and exploited. steel and electricity skyscrapers 6. The Gilded Age: the years between the Civil War and the start of the 20 th century.:industry development. 7.socialreforms:women ’ s right,pacifism,working class.between 1830 and 1850: 80 religious colleges,1837:first women ’ s college Mount Holyke.

3. By the 1860 ’ s — more than 300 public schools are free.6.1901---1909 Theodore Roosevelt(president) --aggression, Open Door Policy. -Big Stick- plus- dollar policy. Idealist: Christianity to the backward peoples of the world.

4. 7. Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1913 – 21) August4,1914 Wilson: neutral. 1916, German submarine April 6 th,1917 war on Germany. 1918,Wilson's Fourteen Points : ensure peace and democracy. ---imperialist nature. 1919 April 28 - League of Nations founded. June 28 –Versailles Treaty 1921: Washington Conference

5. The Red Scare:1919—1920:aggressive and intolerant nationalism.over 4000 suspected Communists and radicals were arrested and many were forced to leave the U.S.

6. The Muckrakers 搜集并揭发丑事的人 ( 尤指新闻 记者 ): a group of reform-minded journalists who made investigations and expose the abuses of business and the corruption in politics in the first decade of the 20th cent. used by President Theodore Roosevelt in a speech in 1906.

7. The Progressive Movement: at the turn of the 20 th century which demanded government regulation of the economy and social conditions.