Transcript SSUSH 13-14 Pt I

My Notes
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SSUSH 13
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Questions
Notes
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Muckrakers
• Upton Sinclair
• The Jungle
• Immigration and
Meat industry
• Ida Tarbell
• Standard Oil
• Exposed Corruption in
Govt and Businesses
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Women’s Reform
• Suffrage
• Susan B. Anthony
• Elizabeth Cady
Stanton
• Settlement Houses
• Jane Addams
• Hull House - Chicago
Progressive
Movements
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Progressive
Movements
Notes
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Jim Crow Laws (1865-1965)
• Laws designed to keep
African Americans inferior
• Segregation Laws
• Poll Taxes / Poll Tests
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Plessy v Ferguson
• Challenged Jim Crow
Segregation Laws
• Supreme Court
upheld
• “Separate but Equal”
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NAACP
• 1909 – WEB DuBois
• Education & Reform
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Progressive
Movements
Initiative / Referendum:
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Allowed voters to suggest
and approve laws directly
w/ out going through state
legislature
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Direct Election of Senators:
• 17th Amendment
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Labor Laws
• Child Labor prohibited
state-by-state
• Minimum wage state-bystate
• Protected women
• Work site and health
inspections
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Progressive
Movements
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Conservation
• Laissez-faire
• Businesses should be
allowed to do as they
please
• Environmentalists
• John Muir
• Nature = sacred
• It should be
preserved from
humans
• Combination
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Govt should set aside
land
• people can be
allowed to visit nature
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SSUSH 13
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Questions
Progressive
Movements
Notes
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Conservation
• Laissez-faire
• Businesses should be
allowed to do as they
please
• Environmentalists
• John Muir
• Nature = sacred
• It should be
preserved from
humans
• Combination
• Govt should set aside
land
• people can be
allowed to visit nature
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SSUSH 14
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Questions
Anti-Asian
Attitude
Notes
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Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
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Chinese = 1st group of
people to be excluded
from immigrating to the US
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Chinese brought to US by
Railway Co. for cheap
labor
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Port of San Francisco
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American
Imperialism
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Roots of Expansion
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Manifest Destiny drove US
govt and citizens to seek
new territory
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Alaska was acquired from
Russia in 1867
Spanish-American War (1898)
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Cubans lead revolution
against Spanish colonial
rule
US citizens are outraged at
Spanish brutality
USS Maine – sent to Cuba
in response
Sank by Spanish
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SSUSH 14
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American
Imperialism
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Spanish-American War cont
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US navy positioned near
Philippines
• Spanish colony as
well
• First battles of War
took place in
Philippines
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Theodore Roosevelt leads
volunteer cavalry brigade
called “Rough Riders” in
Cuba
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Spanish = overwhelmed by
American determinism
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US army captures Puerto
Rico as well
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American
Imperialism
Spanish-American War cont
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Treaty of Paris, 1898
• Ends War
• Cuba = independent
• Puerto Rico + Guam
= US territories
• Philippines = US for
$20 mil.
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Philippine-American War
• Filipino freedom fighters
lead rebellion on US
• Slowly US relinquishes
control (1946)
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Panama Canal
• Roosevelt Corollary to the
Monroe Doctrine
• US will intervene in
Latin America
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American
Imperialism
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Panama Canal cont.
• US aids Columbian fringegroup seeking
independence from
Columbia
• Panama is born
• US uses Panama to build a
canal
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Provides easy
transportation of goods
from Asia to US
Provides quicker response
by US Navy to Pacific
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