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STARR Review I want you to Pass the STARR Test

Gilded Age: Go through the packet I handed out in class and look over the information below. Indian Affairs Immigration Big Business Farmers Issues Assimilation Dawes Act Battle of Wounded Knee Genocide Land Redistribution Rail Road Impact on Indian lands Sitting Bull Effect of the slaughter of the Buffalo on Indians Ethnic Cities Racial Discrimination Political Machines Party Bosses Boss Tweed Tenements Nativism Steerage Cheap Labor Monopolies Sherman Anti- Trust Act Rise of Labor Unions Trusts Trust Busting Robber Barons Andrew Carnegie John Rockefeller Bessemer Steel Process Homesteading Dry Farming Difference in geographical climates of southern vs midwest states Wheat Over production Economies of Scale Wabash v. Illinois Interstate commerce commission William Jennings Bryan / Populist Coinage of Silver

American Imperialism Pros Military protection & increased naval strength Alfred Thayer Mahan- argued need for powerful navy Economic support Increased need for raw materials & markets to sell manufactured goods Open Door Policy (forced trade with China) Dollar Diplomacy ($ in exchange for following US foreign policy) Example: Panama Canal cons Need for dominance/ superiority Sanford B. Dole (Hawaii) Social Darwinism Opposed American democratic principles

Who When Where 1898 Cuba Pulitzer & Hurst - USS Maine is sent to - Havana Cuba to protect US - San Juan Hill economic interests Philippines - explosion of Main is USA vs. Spain - Manila Bay seen as a direct a?ack (Colonies of Spain) on US Spanish American War (SPAM) Why USS Maine sinking How Land- US Volunteer Significance US won Puerto Rico, - US blames Spanish for force led by TR & Guam, & bought mysterious explosion Rough Riders Philippines for $20 DeLome LeAer Sea- US defeats million - called President Spanish navy in a few McKinley weak hours Result US is recognized as a world outraged Americans Media- uses of yellow power journalism

SPAM War Sort 1898 -USS Maine is sent to Cuba to protect US economic interests -explosion of Main is seen as a direct attack on US US won Puerto Rico, Guam, & bought Philippines for $20 million Sea- US defeats Spanish navy in a few hours DeLome Letter -called President McKinley weak outraged Americans USA vs. Spain Result US is recognized as a world power Land- US Volunteer force led by TR & Rough Riders Media- uses of yellow journalism USS Maine sinking -US blames Spanish for mysterious explosion Pulitzer & Hurst Cuba -Havana -San Juan Hill Philippines -Manila Bay (Colonies of Spain)

Progressive Era Reforms Problem Muckraker Reform National, State, or Local Political 1. Government corruption -political machines/ bosses -spoils system Lincoln Steffens Robert Lafollette City-manager/ commission initiative voters introduce bill Referendum- refer bill to vote Recall- removal from office Direct primary Secret ballot 17 th amendment- direct election of senators Pendleton Act/Civil Service Commission Local State National environment Abuse of natural resources Teddy Roosevelt Woodrow Wilson National Park Service Act (1916) Created national park system National

Progressive Era Reforms Problem Muckraker Reform National, State, or Local Economic 1. Monopolies & trusts 2. Tariffs 3. Banks 4. Lost Revenue Theodore Roosevelt Trust Buster Woodrow Wilson 1. Interstate commerce act, Clayton anti-trust Act, Fed Trade Commission Act 2. Underwood Tariff 3. Federal Reserve 4. 16 th Amendmentgraduated income tax NATIONAL Social 1. Lynching 2. Equality for AA 3. Suffrage 4. Working conditions 5. Living conditions 6. Consumer protections 1. Ida Tarbell 2. Book T. Washington WEB DuBois 3. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B Anthony 4. Triangle Shirt waist Factory 5. Jacob Riis- Jan Addams 6. Upton Sinclair 2. NAACP 3. 19 th amendment women s suffrage 4. Safety legislation 5. Tenement House Commission Hull house 6. Meat Inspection Act Pure Food & Drug Act 1. NATIONAL 2. NATIONAL 3. NATIONAL 4. LOCAL/STATE 5. LOCAL/STATE 6. NATIONAL

Progressive Era Reforms Complete the cut & paste Issues are divided into Economic, Social, Political, and Environmental categories You will need to identify the issue, the muckraker who exposed that issue, what reforms were created, and the level of government that was impacted.

Who Technological InnovaGons Effects of Technological InnovaGons M Machine Gun M Tanks & Airplanes M Poison Gas M Submarines (U- Boats) «Central Powers vs. Allied Powers «American ExpediWonary Forces (AEF) led by Gen. Pershing «Alvin York medal of Honor winner M Western Front M Trench Warfare ï Battle of Argonne Forest turning point of the war M Stalemate M Massive death toll 1914-1918 World War I Causes How Significance Militarism lliance system A mperialism I awonalism N AssassinaWon of Archduke Franz Ferdinand M Sinking of the Lusitania (Unrestricted submarine warfare) Zimmerman Telegram «Treaty of Versailles Germany had to pay reparawons and accept war guilt clause «Woodrow Wilson s 14 Points- created League of NaWons (peace keeping organizawon)

Sort the following WWI terms on Pg. 6 Central Powers vs. Allied Powers Alvin York medal of Honor winner Machine Gun Militarism Treaty of Versailles Germany had to pay reparations and accept war guilt clause Poison Gas Submarines (U-Boats) Western Front Trench Warfare Battle of Argonne Forest turning point of the war Stalemate Woodrow Wilson s 14 Pointscreated League of Nations (peace keeping organization) Sinking of the Lusitania (Unrestricted submarine warfare) Zimmerman Telegram Alliance system Nationalism Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Tanks & Airplanes American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) led by Gen. Pershing Massive death toll

The Roaring Twenties (The Great American Mullet) Business in the front Political Harding & Teapot Dome Scandal Return to Normalcy Social Race Relations Eugenics Marcus Garvey KKK Great Migration Nativism/Red Scare Immigration Quota/Citizenship Act 1924 Economic Economic boom Mass production/assembly line Henry Ford Laissez-faire Buying on Credit Party in the Back Social Adventure Charles Lindbergh Glenn Curtiss Changing role of women Flappers Cultural values Prohibition Organized crime Scopes monkey trial Clarence Darrow (Evolution) William Jennings Bryan (Creation) Art & Literature Harlem Renaissance Tin Pan Alley

Who Technological InnovaGons Effects of Technological InnovaGons M Machine Gun M Tanks & Airplanes M Poison Gas M Submarines (U- Boats) «Central Powers vs. Allied Powers «American ExpediWonary Forces (AEF) led by Gen. Pershing «Alvin York medal of Honor winner M Western Front M Trench Warfare ï Battle of Argonne Forest turning point of the war M Stalemate M Massive death toll 1914-1918 World War I Causes How Significance Militarism lliance system A mperialism I awonalism N AssassinaWon of Archduke Franz Ferdinand M Sinking of the Lusitania (Unrestricted submarine warfare) Zimmerman Telegram «Treaty of Versailles Germany had to pay reparawons and accept war guilt clause «Woodrow Wilson s 14 Points- created League of NaWons (peace keeping organizawon)

Sort the following WWI terms on Pg. 6 Central Powers vs. Allied Powers Alvin York medal of Honor winner Machine Gun Militarism Treaty of Versailles Germany had to pay reparations and accept war guilt clause Poison Gas Submarines (U-Boats) Western Front Trench Warfare Battle of Argonne Forest turning point of the war Stalemate Woodrow Wilson s 14 Pointscreated League of Nations (peace keeping organization) Sinking of the Lusitania (Unrestricted submarine warfare) Zimmerman Telegram Alliance system Nationalism Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Tanks & Airplanes American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) led by Gen. Pershing Massive death toll

The Roaring Twenties (The Great American Mullet) Business in the front Political Harding & Teapot Dome Scandal Return to Normalcy Social Race Relations Eugenics Marcus Garvey KKK Great Migration Nativism/Red Scare Immigration Quota/Citizenship Act 1924 Economic Economic boom Mass production/assembly line Henry Ford Laissez-faire Buying on Credit Party in the Back Social Adventure Charles Lindbergh Glenn Curtiss Changing role of women Flappers Cultural values Prohibition Organized crime Scopes monkey trial Clarence Darrow (Evolution) William Jennings Bryan (Creation) Art & Literature Harlem Renaissance Tin Pan Alley

1920 s 1929 Great Depression to New Deal Warning Signs America s Road to Recovery *OverproducWon *SpeculaWon & buying on the margin (stock market) *Buying on credit *Shaky banking pracwces October 29, 1929 Black Tuesday Stock market Crash Immediate reactions People who invested in market couldn t repay loans - > bank failures - > run on the bank Demand for goods decreased - >factories close - >unemployment 1930 s Hoover Laissez- faire agtude & rugged individualism *believed gov t shouldn t intervene in eco aid ReconstrucWon finance corp - > small loans would trickle down avg American (failure) Hoovervilles (shack and shanty towns) sprung up around towns/ciwes Dust Bowl In the great plains region *series of droughts +1million must move west +overuse of water resources + deplewng nutrients from top soil = dried up crops + topsoil = dust Mexican repatriation *Hoover passes act to send Mexican- American immigrants back to Mexico *Forcibly he moved (even if already US CiWzen) * reason: need for any employment FDR is elected 1932 *Promises a NEW DEAL for Americans * Brian Trust & fireside chats *Eleanor Roosevelt (Wife)- poliwcal acwvist New Deal *new view on gov t responsibility to its ciwzens Relief- short term measures quick aid Recovery eco swmulus create demand & producwon Reform- change gov t system- complete overhaul Opposition Some thought 3R s went too far conservawves felt FDR had too much control Some thought 3R s didn t go far enough- Huey P Long s Share our Wealth FDR s Court-packing *Some New Deal programs were deemed unconswtuwonal *FDR fears more rejecwon by Supreme Court & a?empts to pass law to appoint new SC JusWces (fails)

New Deal Cut & Paste Use the sheet provided to find the description/explanation of the beginnings of the Great Depression and the road to recovery We will check our answers on the next slide

FDR S New Deal Relief Recovery Reform (Short-term) (Stimulus) (Systematic) Is like: Band- Aid Is like: Cast Is like: New Limb Bank Holiday- closed all banks unwl they were financially stable Emergency mortgage Loans Work Relief Civilian ConservaWon Corps (CCC) Public Works Admin (PWA) Works Progress Admin (WPA) Decreased spending/ demand Unemployment Decreased hours/wages NaWonal Recovery Admin (NRA)- set price & producwon controls & minimum wage Agricultural Adjustment AdministraWon (AAA) paid farmers to plant less; gov t bought farm surplus (in effort to control prices) Increased demand/ spending Increased employment Increased wages/ hours Social Security Admin (SSA)- provides unemployment insurance rewrement pensions- workers pay in contribuwons SecuriWes & Exchange Commission (SEC)- watches stock market acwvity & prevents fraud Federal Deposit Insurance CorporaWon (FDIC)- Insures bank deposits up to $250,000 *All of these programs are sgll in effect today

August 1945 Atomic Bombs dropped 1942 Battle of Midway Dec. 7, 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor June 6, 1944 D-Day Invasion Hideki Tojo Flying Tigers Bataan Death March Island Hopping Navajo Code Talkers Chester Nimitz Douglas McArthur Isolationism à War Appeasement Cash & Carry Lend-Lease Pearl Harbor 9066 + Interment camps War information/ propaganda War bonds +rationing+ victory gardens = patriotism Volunteer/enlist/mobilization Vernon J. Baker George Marshall Adolf Hitler dictator Benito Mussolini aggression Joseph Stalin George Patton Dwight Eisenhower Omar Bradley D-Day Invasions Liberation of Camps Tuskegee Airmen Holocaust

Sort the following terms into the correct theater of war! Vernon J. Baker Tuskegee Airmen Chester Nimitz Cash & Carry D-Day Invasions Holocaust George Patton Island Hopping Liberation of Camps Navajo Code Talkers Pearl Harbor Appeasement Lend-Lease George Marshall 9066 + Interment camps Benito Mussolini Dwight Eisenhower Adolf Hitler dictator War information/ propaganda Hideki Tojo Isolationism à War aggression Joseph Stalin Douglas MacArthur Omar Bradley Volunteer/enlist/mobilization Bataan Death March -War bonds +rationing+ victory gardens=patriotism Flying Tigers

Space Race Moon-landing Arms race HUAC Red Scare Joseph McCarthy Rosenberg Trials Verona Papers Presidents Truman start CW Korea Eisenhower- Korea- Vietnam Kennedy- Cuban MC, Vietnam Nixon-Vietnam, China, USSR Ford (X) Carter (X) Reagan- USSR Bush Fall of Wall end of CW Berlin Airlift Germany/Berlin Berlin Wall Dissolution of SU Fidel Castro Bay of Pigs Invasion Cuban Missile Crisis Soviet Union Détente Star Wars Vietnam War Domino Theory Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Escalation Tet Offensive Vietnamization Fall of Saigon War Powers Resolution Space Race Sputnik Arms Race Mao Zedong Korea Korean War

Free Market Economy Capitalism Economic freedoms Private ownership of business & property Supply & demand determine prices Multi-party system Freedom of the press, speech & religion USA &Europe United Nations Soviet Union/ USSR & Soviet Satellites Command Economy no economic freedoms state-owned industries (education, transportation, etc) Gov t controlled radio, TV, news State ownership of business production Communist party control (one party/leader) Pros Cons Pros Cons Iron Curtain

Increased Consumption & Spending Free Time Prosperity Pop Culture Rock & Roll Beat Generation Beatniks

Baby Boom Interstate Highway Act Housing Boom Fear of Communism Little American Dream GI Bill Increased $ in math & science education Polio Vaccine Blue à white collar jobs Levittown - Suburbs

Civil Rights Acts 1957 1964 Voting Rights Act 1963 1965 13- Free 14- Citizens 15-Vote -Plessey v Ferguson (separate but equal) -Brown v Board of Ed (overturns P v F) Montgomery Bus Boycott Rosa Parks Little Rock 9 Sit-ins Freedom Rides MLK Non-violent Letter from Birmingham Jail Selma March March on Washington I have a dream Affirmative Action (employers actively seek to employ minorities) Thurgood Marshall

-Non-violent -Civil disobedience -Passive resistance -NAACP -Integration -Montgomery Bus Boycott -March on Washington - I have a dream *1968 assassinated -Violence should be met with violence --Muslim -Segregation -Nation of Islam -Mecca Pilgrimage -Became Nonviolent (transitional) *1965 assassinated -Militant -Community based political organization -Segregation -Black power Founders: Huey Newton Bobby Seale Feminist movement Betty Friedan Title IX Roe v Wade NOW Equal Pay Act Cesar Chaves Dolores Huerta United Farm Workers Chicano Mural Movement AIM American Indian Movement Red Power Occupation of Alcatraz Island

-Civil Rights Acts -Voting Rights Acts -Medicare/Medicaid -War on Poverty -Job Corps Doves Hawks -26 th Amendment/ Draft -Role of media -Credibility gap -Silent majority ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country -Peace Corps -Space Race -moon landing -$ math & Science education -Rebellion -Rock n Roll -Divergent Thinking Break from traditional lifestyle -hippies -commune living -recreational drugs JFK LBJ Hippy

Use the Jarrett book and provided page numbers to write a definition or description of each event Nixon Nixon Nixon Nixon Nixon Nixon Nixon Nixon Ford Ford Carter Carter Carter Carter Pg.332 Pg.332 recall Pg.331 Pg.331 Pg.315 Pg.314 Pg.333 Pg.335 Pg.335 Pg.337 Pg.337 Pg.337 Pg.338

Reagonomics Peace Through Strength -Star Wars Iran-Contra Affair = distrust of gov t Sandra Day O Connor End of the Cold War (1991) Recession of the early 90 s = New taxes Persian Gulf War Stop Saddam invasion of Kuwait; Foreign policy success Use the Jarrett Book page 341 to summarize these

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) World Trade Organization (WTO) Balkan Crisis stop ethnic cleansing Third Parties & Ross Perot Contract w/america & Newt Gingrich Scandal & Impeachment 2008 Financial Crisis -Emergency Economic Stabilization Act 2000 Election -Al Gore 2001 Terrorist Attack Patriot Act -TSA -Homeland Security War on Terror -al-qaeda -Iraq -Bin Laden No Child Left Behind Illegal Immigration Hurricane Katrina 2009 American Recovery & Reinvestment Act 2008 Election Sona Soto Mayor Hillary Clinton Oprah Winfrey

Communication, Tech,& Science -Satellite -Cell Phone -Personal Computers (PC) -Robotics -Global Positioning System (GPS) -Genetic engineering Computer movement Time-Study Analysis E-Commerce Out-Sourcing Global Marketplace Free Enterprise/ capitalism (free market economy) Business cycle supply & demand Small business v Big business Bill Gates/ PC Sam Walton/ Wal-Mart Estee Lauder Robert Johnson Lionel Sosa

Gilded Age Boss Tweed Industrialization Child Labor Urbanization How the other ½ lives Immigration Nativism West. expansion Manifest Destiny Assimilation Americanization SPAM 1898 USS Maine Am. Imperialism Panama Canal & TR Progressive Era TR Muckraker Meat inspection WWI 1914-1918 Roaring 20 s Flappers G. Depression S M Crash 1929 G. Depression Migrant mother New Deal Social Security Administration WWII 1939-1945 Cold War Red Scare Baby boom Housing Boom Civil Rights Rosa Parks Space Race Sputnik 1957 Space Race Moon landing Civil Rights 1968 MLK assassination Civil Rights Caesar Chavez Chicano mvmt 1960s Anti- War movement 1970s Watergate crisis 1980s Era of Conservatism 1991- Fall of Communism 2001 Terrorist Attacks 2008 Obama 1 st black President