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1/28:  Fall Semester Wrap

1/28: Fall Semester Wrap

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11th Grade

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Kelsey Bullington-Hodge

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13 Slides • 14 Questions

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Today, we'll do a final review.

Your Fall Semester Final now only has 19 questions to be completed TODAY.

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ALL missing work due tomorrow.

Including the 1/25 Quizlet Screenshot & the 19 question final.

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Open Ended

Share 2 things that took place during the Gilded Age that you saw in the video.

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Open Ended

What happened to Native Americans as pioneers settled on the Great Plains & construction of the Transcontinental Railroad cut across native lands?

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1887 Dawes Act

Broke up Native American reservations into individual land pieces.

If Native Americans accepted land allotments & adopted "American" ways, they would be granted US citizenship.

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Irish immigrants constructed the eastern portions of the railroad & Chinese immigrants constructed the western portion of the railroad.

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Multiple Choice

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What was the most significant impact of the railroad on American's standard of living?

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It empowered average Americans to travel across the country for vacations.

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The treatment of immigrant railroad workers set a new high standard for safety in construction work.

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It made it cheaper to ship products & made goods more readily available.

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It encouraged Americans & immigrants to move out of cities to rural areas.

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Multiple Choice

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During the Gilded Age, many business owners used vertical and horizontal integration to destroy their competition so that they'd be the SOLE owners of a company that supplied that 1 product to the world. We call these types of companies --

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monopolies.

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laissez faire.

3

communists.

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Railroads were THE businesses of the Gilded Age.

Often, railroad companies would meet & arrange special EXTRA HIGH rates among themselves to rake in $$.

Interstate Commerce Act was the 1st attempt to regulate a monopoly & prevent price manipulation.

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Multiple Choice

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What is the name of the robber baron that encouraged other wealthy people to engage in philanthropy and give $$ to their communities in his book The Gospel of Wealth?

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Franklin Roosevelt

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Woodrow Wilson

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Andrew Carnegie

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John D Rockefeller

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Open Ended

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WHY were immigrants coming to the US during the Gilded Age & WHERE did they live once they arrived?

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NATIVISM rises in the early 1900s due to cultural differences AND economic competition.

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In 1882, Chinese Exclusion Act was passed and barred ALL immigration or travel from China until 1947.

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World War I only INTENSIFIES nativism.

US passes immigration quotas limiting the number of immigrants from Europe based on racist beliefs.

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Multiple Choice

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When WWI broke out in Europe in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, what was America's position on the war?

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isolationism

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imperialism

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aggression

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While the US officially remained neutral until 1917, our trade relations tell a different story.

  • Trade with Allied power Great Britain actually increased

  • Trade with Allied power France also increased

  • Trade with Central Power Germany decreased

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Open Ended

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Soldiers faced ___ while fighting in WWI.

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Medical Advances During WWI

Makeshift ambulances

Blood transfusions

Thomas Splint

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Open Ended

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Share 2 things that took place during the Roaring 20s. Think about pop culture, migrations, Amendments, social changes, music.

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Tin Pan Alley

where America wrote music. Most popular location in the 1920s for publishing music.

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In 1924, the Indian Citizenship Act

granted citizenship - and VOTING RIGHTS - to Native Americans born in the US.

**Technically, the 14th Amendment passed in 1868 should have done this.

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Multiple Choice

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What happened in 1929 because of risky banking practices, over speculation on the stock market, and increased consumer debt?

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World War I

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the Great Depression

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the Gilded Age

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the Progressive Era

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Multiple Choice

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The high unemployment of the Great Depression led President Hoover to endorse _____ instead of resorting to financial aid or creating new jobs.

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an end to immigration quotas

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Mexican repatriation

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increased trade with Europe

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Multiple Choice

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What is the name of the environmental catastrophe that impacted farms across the Great Plains during the 1930s and caused an increased demand for agricultural products?

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the New Deal

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the Dust Bowl

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the Great Depression

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Multiple Choice

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Why did the Supreme Court (the Judicial Branch) oppose so many of FDR's (Executive Branch) New Deal policies?

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FDR greatly increased the power of the federal government through his economic policies.

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FDR gave too much power to the states in terms of labor laws, weakening the federal government.

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FDR maintained the balance of power between federal and state governments.

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Open Ended

Of everything you learned in US History this past semester, what has stuck with you the most? What did you learn for the first time this year or learn more about that you think is significant?

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Complete the 19 question final now!

Follow link in the chat to All in Learning.

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Today, we'll do a final review.

Your Fall Semester Final now only has 19 questions to be completed TODAY.

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