identify five people or events that are important to American history. Your completed assignment will, therefore, include a total of 15 people or events. Provide a picture to illustrate each person or event that you are identifying. Provide the sources that you used in completing this assignment.
• Part #1: Read Chapter 19; Identify 5 items (people, events, or a mixture of both) by answering the questions posed above (“Writing about events” or “Writing about people”).
• Part #2: Read Chapter 20; Identify 5 items (people, events, or a mixture of both) by answering the questions posed above (“Writing about events” or “Writing about people”).
• Part #3: Read Chapter 21; Identify 5 items (people, events, or a mixture of both) by answering the questions posed above (“Writing about events” or “Writing about people”).
Below is the template for the answer
Writing about events/things:
What happened?
Who did it?
When did it occur?
What was it like?
What does it mean relative to the history of the United States?
Why did you identify this event?
Writing about people:
Who was it (What is the person’s background)?
When did she or he live?
What did the person do?
What are the person’s important acts, ideas, and relationships with other figures?
What are the person’s contributions to her or his times relative to the history of the United States?
Chapter 19: Society and Culture in the Progressive Era
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Learning Objectives
Explain the factors leading to the growth of cities in the Progressive Era.
Discuss the rise of mass culture and explain how popular culture influenced people’s lives during the Progressive Era.
Explain how muckraking journalism attacked political and social problems of the era.
Evaluate the influence of women’s suffrage on American politics and society in the Progressive Era.
Describe how the birth control movement challenged traditional values and how conservatives reacted to it.
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Learning Objectives (Continued)
Evaluate the Prohibition Movement and explain its effects on society in the United States.
Describe the emergence of the new social sciences on American education.
Evaluate the effect of progressive education on schooling in the United States.
Differentiate between the old style and new style of religious beliefs emerging during the Progressive era.
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19.1 Progressivism
Popular response to the excesses of the Gilded Age included the following ideas:
Order is essential to progress.
Growth should not be allowed to occur randomly.
Government is a tool for providing more orderly growth and justice.
Natural laws of the marketplace are insufficient for justice and the good of the whole.
Government policies should seek the good of the whole.
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19.2a Flight from the Farm
City population grew seven times larger between 1860 and 1910.
Rural areas declined.
Births exceeded deaths.
Farmer output increased, but there was a surplus of agricultural workers.
Quality of rural life declined.
Tenancy increased to 37 percent.
In the South 500,000 whites were infected with hookworm.
Malaria killed many.
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19.2b The New Immigrants: Problems and Achievements
Wave of “new immigrants” continued to rise until World War I.
Italians, J
Chapter 20: The Forging of Modern Government
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Learning Objectives
Describe the background, ascendancy, and succession to the Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt.
Describe the major social problems facing the United States.
Discuss the progressive agenda for reform.
Evaluate the successes and failures of the reform agenda.
Describe the influence of Theodore Roosevelt on the presidency.
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Learning Objectives (Continued)
Understand Theodore Roosevelt’s program of New Nationalism.
Discuss the problems of the labor movement.
Explain the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and its impact.
Discuss the background and characteristics of Woodrow Wilson.
Evaluate Woodrow Wilson’s influence on the presidency.
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20.1a Enter Theodore Roosevelt
Republicans had not planned on a Roosevelt presidency.
William McKinley was assassinated September 1901.
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt became president.
Mark Hanna, Republican Party strategist, opposed Roosevelt.
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20.1b Presidential Initiative
Presidential initiative
President Roosevelt invoked the Sherman Antitrust Act.
It went against the Northern Securities Company, a railroad holding company.
In 1903, Supreme Court ordered the company dissolved.
Roosevelt invited coal miner’s union and owners to White House to settle a strike.
He was ready to send out the army to seize the mines.
His actions showed Roosevelt’s independence from big business.
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20.2a The New Consensus
Roosevelt reelected on the “square deal.”
Many Progressive reforms came from the Populist program
Populism failed because it was a rural protest.
It was “progressive” because it brought in a civic-minded middle class.
Progressives divided between a business/farmer wing and the social reformers interested in helping the poor.
Progressive “Bull Moose” Party formed around Presiden
Chapter 21: The Rise of America as a World Power
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Learning Objectives
Discuss the causes and consequences of American imperialism.
Discuss the annexation of Hawaii.
Explain the Venezuela Crisis and Roosevelt’s Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
Discuss the causes and consequences of the Spanish-American war.
Discuss the debates over the annexation of the Philippines.
Explain the Filipino Rebellion and discuss American policies during the War in the Philippines.
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Learning Objectives (Continued)
Explain the Open Door Policy, the Boxer Rebellion, and how the Boxer Rebellion helped the U.S. achieve more of an “Open Door” in China.
Evaluate Roosevelt’s policies in the Pacific, including the Treaty of Portsmouth and the Japanese response.
Discuss the creation of the State of Panama and the construction of the Panama Canal.
Discuss Woodrow Wilson’s involvement in Mexico, including his opposition to Huerta, his support for Carranza, and his expedition to apprehend Pancho Villa.
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21.1 Another Frontier
Secretary of State William H. Seward
1867: Acquired Midway Islands
1867: Purchased Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000
The Senate rejected annexation of Dominican Republic in Grant’s presidency.
Support for expansion came from navy, congressmen, businessmen, and intellectuals.
Exports exceeded imports in 1870s.
Captain Alfred T. Mahan’s The Influence of Sea Power Upon History (1890): Large navy to protect trade
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21.1a Samoa
The United States arranged a treaty for a naval station and commercial coaling rights in Samoa following the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.
In 1869 it was a naval station, but rivalry with Germany ensued.
In 1899, it was divided between Germany and the United States.
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21.1b Hawaii
The American-owned sugar industry was prosperous in Hawaii.
In 1875, the Reciprocity Treaty created free trade betwe
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