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U.S HISTORY

This review covers the impact of government policies, transcontinental railroads, economic growth factors, rise of entrepreneurs and big business, and the effects of industrial growth on various groups in society. It also explores the causes and effects of urbanization, immigration patterns, and the women's suffrage and Progressive Movements in America.

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U.S HISTORY

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  1. U.S HISTORY Standard 4 review

  2. The student will demonstrate an understanding of the industrial development and the consequences of that development on society and politics during the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. USHC-4

  3. Summarize the impact that government policy and the construction of the transcontinental railroads had on the development of the national market and on the culture of Native American peoples. USHC 4.1

  4. Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad

  5. Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad

  6. Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad

  7. Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad

  8. Analyze the factors that influenced the economic growth of the United States and its emergence as an industrial power, including the abundance of natural resources; government support and protection in the form of railroad subsidies, tariffs, and labor policies; and the expansion of international markets. USHC-4.2

  9. Factors that Influenced U.S. Economic Growth

  10. Factors that Influenced U.S. Economic Growth

  11. Evaluate the role of capitalism and its impact on democracy, including the ascent of new industries, the increasing availability of consumer goods and the rising standard of living, the role of entrepreneurs, the rise of business through monopoly and the influence of business ideologies. USHC-4.3

  12. Entrepreneurs used new TECHNOLOGY and business TACTICS to create corporations that controlled their industry. Rise of Entrepreneurs and Big Business

  13. Coke fields purchased by Carnegie Iron ore deposits purchased by Carnegie Steel mills purchased by Carnegie Ships purchased by Carnegie Railroads purchased by Carnegie How They Made Their Money

  14. How They Made Their Money

  15. Coke fields purchased by Carnegie Iron ore deposits purchased by Carnegie Steel mills purchased by Carnegie Ships purchased by Carnegie Railroads purchased by Carnegie Monopolies Vertical Integration You control all phases of production from the raw material to the finished product Horizontal IntegrationBuy out your competition until you have control of a single area of industry

  16. Justified by : • SOCIAL DARWINISM survival of the fittest in the business world • LAISSEZ FAIRE “hands off” the economy by the government How They Made Their Money

  17. How They Made Their Money Impact: • INCREASE in the availability of consumer goods • Increase in the U.S. STANDARD of living • Creation of business MONOPOLIES • New INDUSTRIES

  18. Explain the impact of industrial growth and business cycles on farmers, workers, immigrants, labor unions, and the Populist movement and the ways that thesegroups and the government responded to the economic problems caused by industry and business USHC-4.4

  19. Impact of Industrial Growth

  20. Graduated INCOME tax • Secret BALLOT • Popular Election of SENATORS • 8-hour work day • Regulation of RAILROADS Goals of the Populists

  21. William Jennings Bryan’s CROSS of Gold speech….. Protect the FARMERS • REPUBLICANS WIN PIVITOL POINT Election of 1896

  22. Great Strikes

  23. Great Strikes

  24. Great Strikes

  25. Explain the causes and effects of urbanization in late nineteenth-century America, including the movement from farm to city, the changing immigration patterns, the rise of ethnic neighborhoods, the role of political machines, and the migrationof African Americans to the North, Midwest, and West. USHC-4.5

  26. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the United States was flooded with millions of “New Immigrants” from SOUTHERN and EASTERN EUROPE • Cites in the north were also flooded with FREED men from the South that moved North looking for economic opportunities Immigration and Urbanization

  27. They didn’t understand ENGLISH. • Their home countries lacked traditions of DEMOCRATIC government. • Their religions (CATHOLIC, JEW, BUDDHIST) were largely alien to native born Americans • They provided a steady supply of CHEAP LABOR, which undermined efforts by labor unions to get better wages. Resentment of New Immigrants

  28. In most cases, immigrants were too POOR to move beyond coastal cities, leading to the rise of densely populated ETHNIC neighborhoods. Immigrants relied on POLITICAL machines, led by party bosses, to help them find jobs. Resentment of New Immigrants

  29. Compare the accomplishments and limitations of the women’s suffrage movement and the Progressive Movement in affecting social and political reforms in America, including the roles of the media and of reformers such as Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Paul, Jane Addams, and presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. USHC-4.6

  30. Progressive Movement

  31. Progressive Movement

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