Westward Expansion and its Effect on Native Americans

1. Westward Expansion and its Effect on Native Americans • Native Americans died of starvation, exposure, and disease. • Their main source of food and clothing- the buffalo was over hunted

2. Industrialism • Business grow • Cities expand • Air pollution rises • New ways developed to organize business • Widespread child labor • Unsafe working conditions • Unsanitary living conditions

3. Monopolies • A company that completely dominates one industry • For example, Standard Oil controlled 90% of the oil industry in 1882 • Limits competition and raises prices

4. US Colonial Acquisitions • With the growth of American industry new markets to sell the goods and cheap resources to make the goods were needed • Cuba, Hawaii, China, Philippines, Dominican Republic

5. New Deal • FDR’s economic program to try and lift the US out of the Great Depression • Think of the programs like alphabet soup: • NRA • WPA • CCC • FEHC • CWA • AAA • FDIC • FERA

6. Progressive Era • A series of reforms made during the late 1800s and early 1900s: • Trustbusting • Child labor reform • Suffrage movement (women voting rights) • Meat Packing Act • Pure Food and Drug Act

7. NAACP • Felt African Americans needed to have equal voting rights and that segregation of public facilities needed to come to an end.

8. Causes of the Great Depression • Stock Speculation • Tariffs 3. Low Consumer Demand 4. Farm crisis • Easy credit • Unequal distribution of income

9. The Not So Roaring 20’s • A number of events in the 1920s demonstrated the nativist attitudes of Americans where the civil liberties of immigrants were violated: • Sacco and Vanzetti Trial • The Red Scare • Palmer Raids • Ku Klux Klan reemerges

10. Characteristics of the Great Depression • High unemployment • Businesses close • Banks run out of money • No consumer demand • Little money in circulation

11. Franklin D. Roosevelt • Believed that it was the government’s responsibility to create jobs to reduce unemployment and lift the economy out of a depression.

12. Domestic Front During WWII • America’s ability turn the economy into a war machine to provide materials for the army was a big part of the Allied victory in WWII.

13. Argument for dropping the Atomic Bomb on Japan • It would end the war immediately and save more American lives from being lost in a land invasion • The Japanese sneak attacked Pearl Harbor

14. Causes of the Industrial Revolution • Availability of natural resources • Innovation in business organization • Improved Technology • Large Supply of cheap labor • Improved Transportation

15. Containment • US policy to limit Soviet expansion during the Cold War to stop the spread of Communism • Truman Doctrine • Marshall Plan • Berlin Airlift

16. McCarthyism • People were denied their civil liberties and constitutional rights when the country was caught up in mass hysteria over the fear of communists in the United States

17. America in the 1950s • Economy grew • Increase in consumerism • Poverty declines • Increase in home ownership • Growth of the suburbs

18. Brown v Board of Education • Overturned the doctrine of “Separate but equal” • Required that all public schools be integrated

19. Women’s Movement of the 1960s and 1970s • Women gained greater access to jobs that were previously only available to men

20. Johnson’s Great Society • Domestic reform program that focused on social welfare improvements with the War on Poverty at its centerpiece

21. Watergate • President Nixon and his staff organized a burglary of the DNC headquarters and then attempted to cover up their illegal activities • Resulted in the public no longer trusting its elected officials

22. Election of Ronald Reagan • After years of protest and liberal presidents the election of Reagan showed the revitalization of the conservative movement in America.