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1 Name Date Per. Social Studies 8 1/3 Review Packet Mrs. Myles McAnally 8 TH GRADE UNITS OF INSTRUCTION Reconstruction: Economic Expansion: a. Immigration b. Industrialization c. US Expansion and Imperialism Progressive Era

2 Reconstruction: rebuilding of the south after the Civil War( ) South under Radical Reconstruction: Economic Political Social Life after: Economic: Political: Social: **Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896): Legacies: 13 th Amendment: 14 th Amendment: 15 th Amendment: New South: Hate Groups:

3 Immigration: Push factors: Pull factors: Purpose of Ellis and Angel Islands: Culture shock: Ethnic communities: Melting Pot Theory: Salad Bowl Theory: Immigrants primarily moved to cities for **others went west for farm land, mine for gold, and build railroads Urbanization: Impact of laissez faire on the immigrants: Social Darwinism: **justifies laissez faire

4 Life in America for immigrants: (immigrants were exploited) Working Conditions: Living conditions (tenements): Political Machines (Boss Tweed): Gilded Age : Old immigrants: New immigrants: Why did Old immigrants dislike New immigrants? Nativist/sm: Immigration Laws: Immigration today:

5 Industrialization: Economic ideologies: Capitalism: free enterprise system Laissez faire: (justified by social Darwinism) Entrepreneur: Rockefeller: Vanderbilt: Carnegie: Morgan: Inventions: Bessemer Steel Process: Assembly Line (Henry Ford): Impact on price: Impact on workers: **started with cars but soon most products were mass produced other inventions: Role of immigrants:

6 Impact of industrialization: Economic: monopolies **ruins Political: Laissez faire: Big business controls government: (8H) Political machines: Social: unequal distribution of income Working/living conditions *social Darwinism Robber Barons : Captain of Industry : Formation of unions: Why? Collective Bargaining: Leaders: Why weren t unions successful at the turn of the century?

7 US Expansion and Imperialism: Plains Indians: Plains Indians were because they followed the herds of. Why did they follow these herds? *Don t believe in land ownership Why Americans moved west: Clash between Indians and settlers/ Government: Methods used by the US government to solve these problems: Reservations: Assimilation: Indian Wars: **Treatment today: Previously isolated why? Why did the US become an imperialist nation? sea power : & (Alfred Mahan) Why? -

8 Japan: isolated increase through Treaty of Kanagawa Gunboat diplomacy: China Spheres of influence exploited China: Open Door Policy: Boxer Rebellion: Place Why How Now Alaska Midway Island Hawaii Spanish American War: Causes: Cuba(colony of Spain): *US sends the USS Maine to Cuba Yellow Journalism: * Remember the Maine Results: Treaty of Paris: *US becomes a world power Cuba gains independence: Platt Amendment: ** becomes US world power Guam today: Puerto Rico today: Cuba today: Philippines today:

9 A Man, A Plan, A Canal. Why does the US want to build a canal through Latin America? Panama today: _ Presidential Policies towards Latin America: Control the area to protect investments Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine: Big Stick Policy:

10 Progressive Era: GOALS: 1. Economic: 2. Political: 3. Social: Muckrakers: (can t be ignored) Ex. Thomas Nast: Jacob Riis: Ida Tarbell: Upton Sinclair: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire Economic Problems: Solution Limit big business List laws: Political Problems: Solution Restore democracy list laws: Solution End Spoils System Social Problems: Poverty Jane Adams Hull House (settlement house) 16 th Amendment

11 Unsanitary food Meat Inspection Act Incorrect Labeling Pure Food and Drug Act Discrimination Booker T. Washington WEB DuBois Decline of Morals 18 th Amendment Destruction of Wildlife conservation Teddy Roosevelt Square Deal: Rise and Fall of Populist Party (The People s Party): Who was in the Populist Party? Goals (platform): decrease immigration income tax 8 hr. work day Free Silver RR Regulation Secret Ballot direct election of Senators Fall: Election of 1912: Republicans Taft Democrats Wilson Progressive Bull Moose Party Roosevelt ** Republican votes are = wins Progressive Era ends when

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