Topic A: The Nature of History the primary purposes of studying history the forces of history the processes historians use to produce history HCC 1302 Unit I Study Guide Spring 2017 primary source multiple causation present mindedness frame of reference secondary source climate of opinion multiple causation selectivity cause and effect The Rising Eagle as The 19 th Century Turns to the 20th Part I: Industrial Supremacy and the Business Culture Ch. 17-19 origins of American industrial development characteristics and major beliefs of the American business culture business practices used to develop major corporations the effects of the industrial revolution on the American standard of living major beliefs supporting the business culture corporations and trusts J.P. Morgan capitalism vertical and horizontal integration John D. Rockefeller monopoly mass production/consumption Andrew Carnegie materialism standardization Horatio Alger entrepreneur Social Darwinism Charles Darwin corporation Gospel of Wealth Thomas Edison infrastructure finance capitalists William Graham Sumner laissez faire Standard Oil Company U.S. Steel Corporation natural selection the Robber Barons/ Captains of Industry Self-made Man chain stores mail order business national brands and marketing On the Origin of the Species, 1859 God gave me my money. survival of the fittest the upper ten The problem of our age is the administration of money. The Gilded Age, Urban and Rural Life and the Politics of Protest Ch. 17-19 important factors contributing to urban growth major problems in American cities during the Gilded Age the goals of the Populist movement the effects of industrialization and urbanization on leisure problems faced by industrial workers and their response through unionization problems faced by farmers and their response through alliances characteristics of party politics during the Gilded Age the appearance of socialism in America American nativism and attitudes toward immigration socialism tariff mutualism anarchism deflation inflation proletariat nativism de jure segregation the Panic of 1893 Thomas Nast How the Other Half Lives, 1890 political machines and city bosses Thorstein Veblen Tammany Hall and the Tweed ring Mark Twain The Gilded Age, 1874 the fellow servant rule Eugene V. Debs the American Socialist Party William Jennings Bryan The Theory of the Leisure Class, 1899
conspicuous consumption Jacob Riis no Irish need apply Haymarket Square Riot William McKinley Homestead and Pullman strikes separate but equal American Federation of Labor (AFL) the Grange and Farmers Alliances Plessy vs. Ferguson, 1896 the Sherman Anti-trust Act, 1890 the Victorians anti-semitism Jim Crow laws the Interstate Commerce Act, 1887 the Populist Party Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882 the American Protective Association (APA) The Rising Eagle and the World: American Imperialism Ch. 20 reasons for involvement in the Spanish American War new territories acquired as a result of the Spanish American War consequences of America s commitment to imperialism American policies toward Latin America the development of the Panama Canal the growing influence of newspapers and public opinion racism paternalism imperialism the Spanish-American War Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan The Influence of Sea Power Upon Big Stick Diplomacy William Randolph Hearst History, 1890 acquisitions of Alaska and Hawaii William McKinley the De Lome letter Theodore Roosevelt (Teddy) the Monroe Doctrine Emilio Aguinaldo the battle of Manila Bay William Howard Taft American Protective Association (APA) Joseph Pulitizer yellow journalism the Panama Canal the Gentlemen s Agreement the Rough Riders the Roosevelt Corollary the battle of San Juan Hill the White Fleet the Filipino insurrection Dollar Diplomacy speak softly but carry a big stick a splendid little war Remember the Maine The 20 th Century Begins: Part I, The Progressives Ch. 21 the major characteristics of the Progressives the accomplishments and failures of the Progressivism voices of protest among African Americans purposes of the major legislation of the Progressive period changing identity and roles of American women bureaucracy utopianism moralism pragmatism assimilation settlement house movement Frederick Winslow Taylor Hull House W. E. B. Du Bois The Atlanta Compromise, 1895 interest group Teddy Roosevelt Social Gospel William James The Jungle, 1906 eugenics Jane Addams the professions Upton Sinclair The History of the Standard Oil Company environmentalism Ida Tarbell nature v. nurture Carrrie Chapman Catt The Souls of Black Folks, 1903 the social sciences Booker T. Washington the birth control movement Margaret Sanger The Principle of Scientific the Galveston hurricane Gifford Pinchot Management, 1911 the women s suffrage movement ` Woodrow Wilson the Anti-Saloon League the Pure Food & Drug Act, 1906 the Ku Klux Klan U.S. v. Northern Securities, 1904
scientific management muckrakers the Hepburn Act, 1906 the Meat Inspection Act, 1906 the graduated income tax prohibition lobbyists initiative, recall, referendum and primary the 16 th, 17 th, 18 th, & 19 th Amendments the Triangle Shirtwaist fire the Progressive Party Women s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) the city commission plan the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People the Square Deal compulsory education the Federal Reserve Act, 1913 the National Forest Service New Freedom Americanization lynching There is little race prejudice in the American dollar. malefactors of great wealth the talented tenth The 20 th Century Begins: Part II, The End of Innocence: World War I-- the Great War Ch. 22 long term causes and immediate events leading to World War I American efforts to maintain neutrality and reasons for its declaration of war conflict with Mexico new technologies of warfare used during WWI the suppression of civil rights during the war the federal government s mobilization strategies Wilson s foreign policy goals during the war and their fate at the Paris Peace Conference the political controversy over the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations the major provisions of the Treaty of Versailles effects of the war on the role of government and on America s world position balance of power communism neutrality protectorate mobilization propaganda neutrality rights Archduke Franz Ferdinand The Communist Manifesto, 1848 unrestricted submarine warfare Woodrow Wilson the Zimmerman telegram John J. Pershing Allies and Central powers George Creel Schenck v. U.S., 1919 Selective Service Act, 1917 Herbert Hoover the Black Hand King George V the Bolshevik Revolution Karl Marx American Expeditionary Force (AEF) V. I. Lenin Sarajevo Henry Cabot Lodge the Food Administration Kaiser Wilhelm II Committee on Public Information Czar Nicholas II Article 10 the U-boat trench warfare the Fourteen Points Treaty of Versailles the Spanish flu pandemic the guilt clause reparations the Comintern the 1 st Amendment the League of Nations the Lusitania the Espionage Act, 1917 and the Sedition Act, 1918 November 11, 1918 Armistice Day the Big Three the Ottoman Empire November 11, 1918 Armistice Day the Schlieffen Plan the battle of the Somme the Ottoman Turks the Balkans Federal Revenue Act, 1916 the Committee on Public Information (CPI) He kept us out of war. make the world safe for democracy peace without victory
civilization is all gone and barbarism comes no man s land over the top over a scrap of paper We are all making more money out of this war than the average human being ought to. the single most influential statement of an American ideology in the twentieth century The Flowering of the Business Culture in the 1920 s: The Jazz Age 1919-1929 Chapter 23 & 24 economic dislocation after the war consumerism` the wave of nativism after the war and the Red Scare, 1919-1920 radicalism the economic and foreign policies of the Republican administrations materialism characteristics and trends in the New Era economy and in the business culture shares the consumer culture and the growth of advertising and the mass media the presidential election of 1920 changes in social values and the reactions of Americans who opposed the new cultural trends of the era the effects of prohibition the significance of the auto industry in the American economy and society the rise & fall of the stock market the Lost Generation the National Origins Quota Act, 1924 Calvin Coolidge Sinclair Lewis the Great Migration the assembly line Warren G. Harding Ernest Hemingway movies & movie stars the Tea Pot Dome scandal Herbert Hoover F. Scott Fitzgerald the Harlem Renaissance the Ku Klux Klan Albert B. Fall Marcus Garvey jazz and flappers the 18 th Amendment Al Capone J. Edgar Hoover the youth culture welfare capitalism Babe Ruth Aimee Simple McPherson buying on the margin the Federal Highway Act, 1916 Charles Lindbergh A. Mitchell Palmer the New Negro the Scopes trial Henry Ford H.L.Mencken the New Era the Palmer raids Bruce Barton KDKA fundamentalism Black Tuesday Nicola Sacco Bartolomeo Vanzetti the Red Scare the melting pot the assembly line the five dollar day Schenck v. U.S., 1919 modernism American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) installment buying the Volstead Act cultural pluralism celebrity the bull market call loan the Spirit of St. Louis The Great Gatsby, 1925 The Sun Also Rises, 1926 Babbitt, 1922 the American Mercury The Man Nobody Knows, 1925 The Jazz Singer, 1927 the worship of jackals by jackasses The business of America is business. All I do is supply a public demand. There is no right to strike against the public safety, by anybody, anywhere, or any time. return to normalcy "It was not known whether he enjoyed his sleeping-porch because of the fresh air or because it was the standard thing to have a sleeping-porch." Having gathered together his organization, there remained for Jesus the tremendous task of training it. Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. shearing the sheep Having gathered together his organization, there remained for Jesus the tremendous task of training it.