What is a labor union?

Groups of workers that bargain with employers for better working conditions

American Federation of Labor (AFL)

Why did people immigrate to America?

• Hope for a better opportunity• Escape oppressive governments• Adventure• Religious freedom

People of the 1920’s

• Georgia O’ Keefe-Painter-Southwest scenes• F. Scott Fitzgerald-Author-Wealthy Americans• John Steinbeck-Author-Migrant workers• George Gershwin-Composer-Broadway/Hollywood• Aaron Copland-Composer-

People of the 1920’s

Harlem Renaissance

• Jacob Lawrence-Painter-Great Migration series• Langston Hughes-Author/Poet-Wrote novels• Bessie Smith-Jazz/Blues singer-Famous singer• John Steinbeck-Author-Migrant workers

Great Migration North

• Movement of African Americans from the South to the North in search of better jobs

Temperance Movement

• The campaign to outlaw the making and consumption of alcoholic beverages

Review Geography Regions

• Southeast• Southwest• Midwest• Northeast• Rocky Mountain• Pacific• Noncontiguous

Reconstruction Policies

Southern military leaders could NOT hold office Northern soldiers supervised the South

13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

13th • Bans slavery

14th • Grants citizenship

and equal protection under the law to all born in the US

15th • Gives all male

citizens the right to vote

Because of new technologies how did the view of the great plains change?

Not as a treeless waste land, but a vast area to be settled

How did technological advancements of the Great Plains help new settlers?

New inventionsSettlers were able to build houses without treesBarbed wire protected their crops

Captains of Industry

Leaders of big business and industries

Henry FordAndrew Carnegie

Cornelius Vanderbilt

John D. Rockefeller

automobilerailroad

steel oil

What is the 19th Amendment?

Granted women the right to vote

What is the 18th Amendment?

Banning the transporting, selling, manufacturing of alcohol

Who founded the Hull House?

Jane Addams

What are the causes of the Spanish American war?

CAUSES

• Yellow journalism• Protection of American business interest in

Cuba• American support of Cuban independence• Sinking of the U.S.S. Maine

Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy

Roosevelt Corollary is an addition to what?

Monroe Doctrine

Who created the idea of the League of Nations?

President Woodrow Wilson

1 reason the United States become involved in WWI?

• German submarine warfare– Sinking of the Lusitania

Which country was not invited to the Paris Peace Conference?

Germany

Who fought for the adoption of the 19th Amendment?

Elizabeth C. Stanton Susan B. Anthony

Why did the Soviet Union join the allies?

• Because they were invaded by Germany

What is fascism

total power is given to a dictator and individual freedoms are denied.

Dictator:Benito

Mussolini

Dictator:Adolf Hitler

Military Dictator:Hideki Tojo

What are the major turning points in Europe during WWII?

Battle of Stalingrad

• Turning point of the West

Operation Overlord

• D-Day• Began liberating

Western Europe

What is the major turning point of the Pacific during WWII?

Battle of Midway

What ended WWII in 1945?

Victory in Japan Day (V-J Day)

• Atomic Bombs were dropped on Japan• August 6th- Hiroshima• August 9th- Nagasaki

Propaganda of WWII

Conserving/Rationing

What is the lend/lease Act?

The U.S. began supply aid to the allies

Aryan Supremacy

Hitler’s belief that white (Caucasian) is the superior race

World War II allowed for better opportunities for what groups of people?

• Allowed for less discrimination (African Americans)• Women worked in factories• Ended the Great Depression