10th American History

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10th American History

• Unit II- Becoming a World Power
• Political, Foreign, Economics and Cultural
  Highlights.

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William McKinley (Republican)

• 1897-1901 25nd President
• Election of 1896
• Free Silver- Major issue
• Democratic-Populist Candidate- William Jennings
  Bryant v. McKinley (Republican)
• William Jennings Bryant
• Single issue- Free Silver
• Excellent orator- Cross of Gold Speech
• Appealed to Westerns but not labor or city people
• Would run for President twice more- never wins.
• McKinley
• Very few Speeches- in favor of Sound Money
• Carried the Urban-Industrial states
• Would be assassinated.

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Leon Czolgosz - Assassin

• Leon Czolgosz, (pronounced SHOLGUS),the son of
  Polish-Russian immigrants, was born in Detroit,
  Michigan, in 1873
• In 1901, Czolgosz moved to Buffalo, New York,
  site of the Pan American Exposition. There, in a
  receiving line on September 6, he shot President
  McKinley two times. Although surrounded by fifty
  bodyguards, Czolgosz was able to walk up to
  McKinley and fire two shots at him. Hit in the
  chest and abdomen, McKinley shouted out "Be easy
  with him, boys" as secret service agents beat
  Czolgosz with fists and pistol butts.
• Czolgosz--who gave his name to police as Fred
  Nieman, or Fred Nobody--later stated in reference
  to his decision to assassinate McKinley, "I
  didn't believe one man should have so much
  service, and another man have none." After a
  brief trial, Czolgosz was convicted. He was
  executed on October 29, 1901. Before being
  executed on 20th October, 1901, Czolgosz remarked
  that "I killed the President because he was the
  enemy of the good people - the good working
  people. I am not sorry for my crime."

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Theodore Roosevelt

• 1901-1909- 26th President (Republican)
• McKinleys Death
• Rough Riders and San Juan Hill
• Square Deal
• Food and Drug Act 1906
• Newlands Reclamation Act 1902

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Theodore Roosevelt
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William Howard Taft

• 1909-1913- 27th President (Republican)
• Election of 1912
• Taft- 45 indictments against trusts civil
  service jobs million acres to national reserves
  protected mineral rights postal saving banks, 2
  new states, 16th amendment (income tax) Dept. of
  Commerce and Dept. of Labor.
• Roosevelt- Good and bad trusts, Issues,
  Progressives (Bull Moose) and New Nationalism
• Wilson- Issues and New Freedom
• Debs- Socialist
• Outcome of Election

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Woodrow Wilson

• 1913-1921- 28th President (Democrat)
• Leadership
• Federal Reserve Act 1913
• Clayton Anti-Trust Act 1914
• Federal Trade Commission Act 1914
• World War I

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President Warren G. Harding

• 29th President 1921-1923 - Republican
• Post WW I Fears and Headaches- bombs, Bolsheviks
  (Red Scare), riots and labor strikes.
• Foreign Affairs
• No League of Nations
• Washington Conference- Five Power Treaty,
  Nine-Power Treaty, and Four Power Treaty-
  Disarmament
• Domestic Affairs- Return to Normalcy
• Harding Scandals - The Ohio Gang
• Charles Forbes- Head of Veterans Bureau
• Jesse Smith- Aide in Justice Department
• Thomas Miller- Alien Property Custodian
• Albert Fall- Sec. of the Interior and Teapot
  Dome
• Death of Harding- sudden death while still
  president

Return to Normalcy
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President Calvin Coolidge

• 30th President - 1923-1929 Republican
• Government and Business- Freedom of business from
  governmental rules and regulations.
  Laissez-faire. Large businesses were allowed
  to be created. Country prospered and the Supreme
  Court favored business over labor.
• The man who builds a factory, builds a temple
  and the man who works there, worships there.
• Farm Problem- Farmers have never made money, he
  said,I dont believe we can do much about it.

Silent Cal The business of America is
business
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Imperialism

• Economic reasons- international trade and need
  for raw materials from Asia, Africa and Latin
  America
• Military reasons- to defend their shores and
  protect their trade interests
• Ideology
• 1- Nationalism- enhancing a nations power and
  prestige.
• 2- Cultural superiority- Social Darwinists
  believed in this. Social responsibility to
  civilize less developed countries.

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Imperialism

• Manifest Destiny- expand westward to the Pacific,
  and beyond the shoreline
• Hawaii- trade, sugar, bayonet constitution and
  annexation
• China- trade, Treaty of Wanghia 1844- gave U.S.
  most favored nation status, Spheres of
  Influence, Open-Door Policy and Boxer Rebellion
• Japan- trade, Commodore Matthew Perry, and the
  Treaty of Kanagawa.

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Spanish American War

• Cuban Unrest
• Yellow Journalism
• Reasons-
• Maine Explosion- Remember the Maine
• De Lome Letter
• U.S. Sugar interests
• U.S. sympathy to the rebel cause and the evil
  Spanish
• Jingoes (Hawks) and the pressure on President
  McKinley
• Outcome
• Teller Amendment on Cuban Independence and Rough
  Riders and San Juan Hill
• U.S. receives Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and
  Philippines in exchange it gives Spain 20
  million.
• U.S. now has over seas territories, bases for
  trade and navy.
• Annexation of Philippines and three years of
  revolution. (Independence in 1946)
• Anti-Imperialist League 1898- imperialism is a
  violation of the foundation of American self
  government.
• Platt Amendment- Cuba (Guantanamo, Protectorate)
  Foraker Act 1900- Puerto Rico.

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T.R. Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson

• Roosevelt and Latin America
• Walk softly and carry a big stick
• Great White fleet
• Helping Panama to get independence
• Building the Panama Canal
• Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
• Tafts Dollar Diplomacy
• Promoting American interests in other countries
• Using economic power to achieve American policy
  goals.
• Wilsons Moral Diplomacy
• Rejection of dollar diplomacy
• Use of persuasion and American ideals to advance
  the nations interest abroad.
• Wilson and the Mexican Revolution
• President Wilson would not recognize the de facto
  government of Gen. Huerta
• Wilson used armed force against Mexico in
  Veracruz and against Poncho Villa
• Rise of tariffs

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U.S. and the Panama Canal

• U.S. interest in the Canal
• Offering Columbia 10 million and 250,000
  annually. Rejected
• Panamas revolution against Columbia
• Building the Canal

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World War I

• M.A.I.N.E.- European causes for the war.
• U.S. neutrality
• Reasons for the U.S. entrance into the war.
• America in World War I
• America in Post World War I
• Wilsons fourteen points
• Treaty of Versailles
• League of Nations
• Impact of World War I

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1st Red Scare

• Communist revolution in Russia- 1917 and the rise
  of the Bolsheviks
• Fear of the Reds- communists who promoted the
  violent overthrow of the U.S. government.
• U.S. Communist parties formed
• Bombings- through the mail.
• Palmer raids deportation and incarceration.

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Lingering Effects of World War I

• War Debts owed to the U.S.
• 10 Billion owed by Allies to U.S.
• Fordney-McCumber Tariff made repayment hard.
• Reparation payments by Germany
• Washington Naval Conference- 4 Power, 5 Power and
  9 Power treaties.
• Agreement to cut back on size of navies
• Avoid competition for China
• Ending the Arms Race and establishing Peace?
• Kellogg-Briand Pact- high ideals- Peace signed
  by 60 nations. But no system of enforcement,
  just a promise.

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Progressivism

• Square Deal and Theodore Roosevelt
• Regulating Big Business- Sherman Anti-Trust and
  Trust Busting
• 16th Amendment - 1913
• Taft and the Payne-Aldrich Tariff- supposed to
  lower tariffs actually raised them
• Wilsons New Freedom
• Tariff reform
• Banking reform- Federal Reserve System
• Anti-Trust Laws- Clayton Anti-Trust Act

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What is the Federal Reserve? It manages the
countries money system regulates the banking
system is a bankers bank and is the
governments bank.
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Imperialism

• Why? Economic, Military and Ideology
• Manifest Destiny
• Hawaii- trade, sugar, bayonet constitution and
  annexation
• China- trade, Treaty of Wanghia 1844- gave U.S.
  most favored nation status, Spheres of
  Influence, Open-Door Policy and Boxer Rebellion
• Japan- trade, Commodore Matthew Perry, and the
  Treaty of Kanagawa.
• Spanish American War- Cuba, Philippines, Guam and
  Puerto Rico.
• Panama Canal
• Tafts Dollar Diplomacy

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World War I

• Financial ties to the Allies
• Unrestricted submarine warfare
• Homefront
• Mobilizing the economy- industry, food, fuel and
  supplies
• Mobilizing workers- National War Labor Board,
  Women,
• Paying for the War- Taxes and Liberty Bonds (war
  bonds)
• Economic Impact on US and the World

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Post World War I

• Labor Strife- difficulties, labor losses and
  major strikes.
• New Economic Era
• Henry Ford, the Assembly line and worker pay.
• The effect on industry competition,
  productivity, and welfare capitalism.
• The New Consume new products, advertising and
  demand, installment paying and credit.
• Weaknesses many Americans were suffering after
  WWI- farmers, overproduction, low prices, farm
  failures, insects, floods, hurricane, etc,
  brought economic depression to many parts of the
  nation.

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Harding and Coolidge

• Harding
• Cut federal budget and reduced taxes on wealthy
  (trickle down).
• Fordney-McCumber Tariff- high tariff, foreign
  products went up, American prices went up- hurt
  farmers and Europeans.
• Teapot Dome Scandal- Bribes from Oil companies to
  drill for oil in federal oil reserve.
• Coolidge
• Business of America is business
• Business would help America grow, promote the
  arts and sciences and fund the charities.
• Limited role of government in business.
• Lowered taxes and reduced the budget.
• Weakened federal regulations on business.
• War Debt- Europe owed the U.S. over 10 billion,
  but too war torn and tariffs to high, force
  Germany to pay more reparations. U.S. become
  worlds banker.

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1920s

• The role of women- work outside the home during
  WWI. Economic boom of the 20s provided jobs for
  women.
• Urbanization
• Hard times in agriculture saw people move to
  cities to get work.
• Rise of the automobile
• Increase in eduation
• Industrial growth means rise in earnings
• Gross Domestic Product- between 1922-1928 grew
  30
• Growth of the automobile industry
• Corporate profits up, unemployment down, welfare
  capitalism, and the ability to purchase new
  products and services
• Stock Market expansion-
• False Sense of Security

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1920s

• Weaknesses
• Wealth Distribution
• Credit on the Stock Market- buying on margin
• Federal Reserve System
• Stock Market Crash
• Black Thursday, Black Monday, Black Tuesday
• GDP dropped almost in 1/2
• Effects of the crash- Individuals, Banks (over
  5,000 closed), Business and World Economy.

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Immigration History 1800-1910

• New Immigrants
• Old Immigrants- 1800-1880- Northern and Western
  Europe
• New Immigrants- 1880-1910- Southern and Eastern
  Europe as well as Japanese and Chinese.
• Why did they come?- Economic, Political and
  Religious.
• Ellis Island and Angel Island.
• Prejudice against immigrants

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Urban American Life

• Different Classes- Wealthy, middle class and
  working class.
• Tenements and Settlement Houses

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Political Scandal and Reform

• City Government- Scandal and Reform
• Political Machines and Machine Bosses
• Tammany Hall in New York- Boss Tweed
• Credit Mobilier Scandal and President Grant
• President Arthur and Civil Service Reform

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Farmers Reform Movement

• Late 1800s crop prices falling, farm debt
  rising, costs rising a need for farmers to
  organize.
• Order of the Patrons of Husbandry- National
  Grange
• 1887- Interstate Commerce Act.
• Populist Party- coalition of farmers, labor
  leaders and reformers.
• Silver v. Gold issue

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Segregation and Discrimination

• Jim Crow Laws and Lynching
• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) separate but equal.
• Booker T. Washington
• W.E.B. Du Bois and the N.A.A.C.P.
• Other groups who face discrimination-
• 1) Hispanic Americans
• 2) Asian Americans
• 3) Native Americans

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Progressivism

• Reforming Society
• Progressives- reform movement
• Muckrakers
• Housing reforms
• Civil rights
• Workplace
• National Child Labor
• Limiting womens workday
• Minimum Wage laws.
• Courts and Labor Laws-
• 1905 - Lochner v. New York- supreme court did
  not allow 10 hour workday for bakers
• 1908 - Muller v. Oregon- Supreme Court upheld
  law guaranting 10 hour workday for women.
• Bunting v. Oregon- 10 hour workday for men in
  mills and factories.
• The Triangle Shirtwaist fire
• Unions- Industrial Workers of the World-
  unskilled
• Reforming Government
• City government- Commision system,
  Council-Manager system.
• State Government- Electoral reforms, commissions
  on railroads, utilities, transportation, civil
  service and taxation
• 17th Amendment- direct election of Senators.

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Opportunities for Women

• Education
• Employment
• Childrens Health and Welfare
• Prohibition
• WCTU- Womens Christian Temperance Union.
• Carrie Nation
• 18th Amendment
• 18th Amendment- Prohibition
• Civil Rights- campaigning against poverty,
  segregation, lynchings and Jim Crowe Laws
• Womens Suffrage and Anti-Suffrage arguments

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Reform- Late 1800s and early 1900s

• Childrens health and welfare
• Prohibition
• Civil Rights and black women
• Womens Suffrage
• Trust Busting and regulating big business
• Consumer Protection
• Environmental conservation
• 19th Amendment- 1920
• Civil Rights under Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson-
  Brownsville Incident.

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Imperialism

• Cultural superiority over the under-developed
  (backward) nations.
• Social Darwinism- brothers keeper, social
  responsibility to civilize the less developed.
• Desire to bring Christianity, western style
  culture and democracy to other (backward) peoples.

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T.R. Roosevelts Square Deal

• Coal Strike of 1902 and TR threatens to send in
  the troops
• Each person to get a square deal no more, no
  less.
• Limiting power of trusts, promote public health
  and safety and improve working conditions.
• Trust Busting and Regulating the Railroads.
• Protecting Consumers- Muckrakers, Meat Inspection
  Act, and Pure Food and Drug Act.
• Environmental Conservation

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Presidents Taft and Wilson

• William H. Taft
• Created Dept. of Labor
• 16th Amendment- Income Tax
• Wilson- New Freedom
• Tariff, Banking, and Anti-Trust Reform
• Women Gain the right to vote- 19th Amendment

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Imperialism

• Hawaii
• Sugar interests- Sanford B. Dole
• Bayonet constitution
• King Kalakaua and Queen Liliuokalani
• Annexation
• Spanish-American War
• Yellow Journalism
• Jingoism
• Philippines, annexation and rebellion
• Roosevelt and Rough Riders
• Anti-Imperialists
• Spanish-American War

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Homefront in World War I

• Mobilizing the Economy
• Regulating Industry
• Regulating Food
• Regulating Fuel
• Supplying the troops
• Mobilizing Workers
• National War Labor Board
• Womens war efforts
• African American movement and employment
• Influenza Epidemic (Pandemic)
• Winning American support
• Committee on Public Information
• Propaganda
• Anti-German Feeling and American Patriotism
• Limiting Antiwar Speech
• Schenck v. United States (1919)- Supreme court
  limits freedom of speech.

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Post War Havoc

• 1918-1919 Pandemic- world wide influenza
  epidemic- killed 10 times more Americans than did
  WWI.
• 1st Red Scare- rise of Bolsheviks, communism,
  fear, bombs, Palmer raids and deportation.
• Labor Problems- Workers unhappy after WWI, Unions
  lost members and political power, and there were
  major strikes.

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Limiting Immigration

• Competition for jobs after WWI, and the Red scare
  caused anti-immigration feelings.
• Nativists- mostly Protestant Christians and Labor
  leaders targeted new immigrants and asked for
  immigration restrictions.
• Immigration control- National Origins Act,
  Nativism, KKK revival (native white supremacy)
• Sacco and Vanzetti- Italian immigrants,
  anarchists, tried for murder or political ideas?

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New Economic Era- 1920s

• Henry Ford- revolutionizes industry
• Assembly line
• Effect on Industry
• competition helped the automobile industry grow.
• Other industries learned- assembly line,
  productivity went up.
• Welfare Capitalism- companies provide benefits to
  employees to promote worker satisfaction and
  loyalty.
• Effect on Society
• Demand is up for all types of products.
• Boom in midwestern cities
• Cities grew and so did suburbs- transportation
• Tourist industry grew.

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New Economic Era- 1920s

• New Consumer-
• New Products for the home
• Electricity
• Radio connected the world
• Public transportation, and passenger airlines.
• Advertising created a deman
• New ways of paying- credit and installment
  buying.
• Weakness of Economy
• Many American suffered during the 20s
• Farmers- demand was low, competition from Europe
  high, farm failures, debt, tariff, and nature-
  weather and insects.
• The Nation desires to return to Normalcy

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American Life Changes- 1920s

• New Roles for Women
• Opportunities
• New Family Roles
• The Flapper
• Effects of Urbanization
• Conflicts over Values
• Fundamentalism
• Scopes Trial- Teaching of Evolution and Creation
  Science- Bryan and Darrow
• Prohibition- 18th Amendment
• Organized crime- like Al Capone
• Bootleggers
• Speakeasies
• Harlem Renaissance
• African Americans during and after WWI
• W.E.B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey
• Renaissance of art in Harlem- writer, poets,
  artists, musicians and performers.

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A New Popular Culture is born- 1920s

• Mass Entertainment
• Radio
• Movies
• Era of Heroes
• Film Stars- Charlie Chaplin, Rudolph Valentino,
  Clara Bow, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks.
• Charles A. Lindbergh- transatlantic flight.
• Amelia Earhart- 1st women across the Atlantic,
  was lost trying to fly around the world.
• Sports Heroes- Ruth, Grange, Wills, Jones, etc.
• Arts of the 1920s- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair
  Lewis, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Hemmingway,
  George Gershwin (music)