Urban Boomtime (1872-1910)

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Urban Boomtime (1872-1910)

• Gilded Age, political machines
• Industrial Growth
• Monopolies, pools trusts
• New inventions
• Problems with crime, disease, overcrowding,
  working conditions
• Early labor unions

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Massive Immigration

• Old immigrants
• New immigrants
• Making the crossing Ellis Island
• Racism, xenophobia, and anti-immigrant legislation

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Progressives

• attack political corruption, poor working
  conditions, child labor, purity of food drugs
• Muckrakers and the yellow press
• Roosevelt trust busting, natl parks, some
  support for labor
• Direct primary, referendum, initiative
• Temperance Movement 18th Amend
• Womens suffrage (started in 1840s) 19th
  Amendment
• Racism BT Washington, WEB DuBois

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U.S. Imperialism (1890-1920)

• Hawaii the Open Door Policy
• Spanish American War (Cuba the Philippines)
• Panama Canal Roosevelt Corollary in Latin
  America
• Intervention in Mexico vs. Pancho Villa

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World War I

• Outbreak of war and isolationism
• New weapons and trench warfare
• Lusitania Zimmerman Telegram
• Mobilizing for war
• propaganda and silencing opposition
• U.S. Swings the tide
• The 14 Points the League of Nations

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The Twenties Roar

• Racial tension, the Red Scare, Sacco Vanzetti
• Clash between rural urban
• Boom for Business, Bust for the farmers
• The Jazz Age prohibition and the liberation of
  America
• New Marketing and consumerism

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More Roar

• New celebrities, athletes entertainers
• The car, radio, movies bring America closer
  together
• Speculation in the stock real estate markets -
  Gatsby, get rich quick

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Depression sets in

• Market crash bank failure
• GNP plummets, unemployment skyrockets
• Hoover stays hands off
• Bonus Army, Hoovervilles, Dust Bowl
• FDR the First New Deal
• Long, Coughlin, Townsend Fascism Communism
• Second New Deal

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World War II

• German Japanese Aggression
• U.S. Neutrality Lend/Lease
• Pearl Harbor enter the war
• Pacific Theater (carriers, island hopping, subs,
  etc.)
• European Theater (Africa, D-Day, Bulge, etc.)
• Homefront rationing, women to work, propaganda,
  etc.

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More WWII Start of Cold War

• Atomic Bomb
• Peace Settlement at Yalta
• Division of Germany, Berlin Airlift, Marshall
  Plan
• China goes Comm., Russia gets Bomb
• Korean War (support south vs. north China)

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Nifty Fifties

• GI Bill education, loans, etc.
• Suburbs affordable housing, white flight,
  conformity, malls
• Television, birth of Rock Roll
• McCarthyism fear of communism, conformity
• postwar spending boom?economic prosperity

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Civil Rights Movement

• Abolition DuBois, Washington
• WWII segregated army, Randolph
• Jackie Robinson, Emmett Till
• Brown vs. Board?Little Rock
• 1955- Montgomery Bus Boycott
• Early 1960s Sit Ins, Freedom Riders, March on
  Wash, Birmingham, Miss Summer
• Riots increased militancy in late 1960s

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Cold War into the 1960s

• 1957 Sputnik, 1960 U2, 1961 Bay of Pigs, 1962
  Cuban Missile Crisis
• Kennedys New Frontier Johnsons Great Society
  United States Empire?
• escalation in Vietnam, pacification, Tet
• New Left SDS, Chicago 7, etc.
• extensions of CRM women, American Indians, etc.)
• Counterculture

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Late 1960s-Early 1970s

• Nixon, New Federalism the Silent Majority
• Burger Court Busing, Roe, Miranda
• Vietnamization, Cambodia, Escalated protest
  against the war
• Visits to China the USSR
• Agencies OSHA, EPA, EEOC
• Watergate break in, cover up, investigation,
  hearings, resignation

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The 1970s

• Energy Crisis, oil embargo
• Ford Pardon, Inflation, lack of confidence
• Carter stagflation, peace in ME, hostage crisis,
  malaise
• Rust Belt
• Culture Disco, self awareness
• environmental issues
• Afghanistan, grain, Olympics

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The 1980s

• Reagan cold warrior, arms buildup, tax relief,
  faith in America
• Reaganomics supply side, good for the wealthy,
  bad for the inner city
• corporate raiding
• Savings Loan crisis, Iran Contra scandal
• Conservative ideology (guns, abortion, ERA,
  school prayer, etc.)

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Possible Essays

• Discuss the connections between changing
  technology, war, and the American economy between
  1914 and 1995.
• Trace the path of the United States from
  isolationist nation in the late 1800s to the
  most powerful nation on the world in 2003. Be
  sure to outline the key events people who made
  this happen.
• Discuss the process by which the United States
  has come closer to living out its mission
  statement of all men are created equal.