1. Visual Timeline example

2. 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….

3. And a “deal is made with the devil” – slavery is written into the Constitution as the three – fifths compromise

4. 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

5. AFRICAN AMERICANS MOVE FORWARD 1865 – 1877 (RECONSTRUCTION) THEN BACKWARDS 1880’S -1940’S THEN FORWARD AFTER WW II 1945 - PRESENT TUSKEGEE AIRMEN WW II

6. Reconstruction and Jim Crow 1865- 1877 1880-1960’S SEGREGATION FIRST BLACK REPRESENTATIVES

7. INDUSTRIALIZATION: process of mechanizing the economy and society ; mass production FORD FACTORY

8. EUROPEAN AND ASIAN IMMIGRATION EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS CAME TO ELLIS ISLAND IN NEW YORK

9. Asian immigrants came through Angel Island in San Francisco and worked building railroads

10. 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

11. What were Progressives up against? THIS:

12. ……AND THIS: CHILD LABOR SOME PEOPLE DIDN’T WANT WOMEN TO VOTE

13. PROGRESSIVES: SUFFRAGETTES AGITATED FOR THE VOTE

14. 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

15. AMERICAN IMPERIALISM: SPANISH AMERICAN WAR TEDDY ROOSEVELT AND HIS ROUGH RIDERS

16. 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

17. THE “ROARING” TWENTIES: EXUBERANCE AND DESPAIR Great Depression begins in 1929

18. THE GREAT DEPRESSION: 1929- 1942 DOROTHEA LANGE’S PHOTO BECOMES ICONIC FOR THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1932: AMERICA GETS A NEW PRESIDENT …….

19. ……..and A NEW DEAL SOCIAL SECURITY

21. WORLD WAR II: AMERICA TAKES ON GERMANY AND JAPAN DEC. 7 TH 1941: A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY THE THIRD REICH

22. WW II ON THE HOME FRONT WOMEN WORK IN WAR FACTORIES

23. THE FIFTIES: SUBURBIA, COLD WAR, CIVIL RIGHTS, YOUTH CULTURE

24. FIFTIES

25. Sixties

26. Sixties

27. Seventies