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Chapter 25
America Moves to the City (1865 ? 1900)
The Growth of Cities
1st sky-scraper built in Chicago in 1885
Aspects of cities
Electric trolleys
Residential neighborhoods segregated by race
Industrial jobs drew people from the country
Cities gave women economic opportunity and independence
Social workers, secretaries, stenographers, etc.
Chapter 23 Review Video
?Bloody Shirt?
Using Civil War memories to receive votes
Administration Scandals:
Credit Mobilier:
Railroad insiders hired themselves at inflated prices
VP of US accepted payments
Whiskey Ring:
Stole excise-tax revenues from Treasury department
Grant?s private secretary was involved
Boss Tweed:
Tammany Hall, stole over $200 million
Thomas Nast helped contribute to his capture
2012 DBQ Exercise
In the post-Civil War United States, corporations grew significantly in number, size and influence. Analyze the impact of big business on the economy and politics and the responses of Americans to these changes. Confine your answer to the period 1870 to 1900.
2012 DBQ Exercise
The impact of big business on
the economy
and politics
and the responses of Americans to these changes
Confine your answer to the period 1870 to 1900.
APPHY6.T7practicetest
Try the following practice test questions. Then, compare your work to the key on the last page
1. Which of the following quantities are units of momentum? (There could be more than one correct choice.)
A) N ? m
B) kg ? s/m
C) kg ? m/s
D) N ? s
E) kg ? m2/s2
2. The momentum of an isolated system is conserved
A) only in inelastic collisions.
B) only in elastic collisions.
C) in both elastic and inelastic collisions.
Who is the Modern-Day Hester Prynne?
Project Rubric
Project Due Date: Monday, March 7, 2016
Assignment: Compare/Contrast Hester Prynne to someone in contemporary society. Choose your subject carefully.
APPHY6.T7practicetest
Try the following practice test questions. Then, compare your work to the key on the last page
1. Which of the following quantities are units of momentum? (There could be more than one correct choice.)
A) N ? m
B) kg ? s/m
C) kg ? m/s
D) N ? s
E) kg ? m2/s2
2. The momentum of an isolated system is conserved
A) only in inelastic collisions.
B) only in elastic collisions.
C) in both elastic and inelastic collisions.
APUSH Exam Info
Multiple Choice
The majority of multiple-choice questions are on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Approximately 20 percent of the questions deal with the period from the first European explorations through 1789
45 percent with the period 1790 through 1914
35 percent with the period 1915 to the present.
There may be a few multiple-choice questions on the period since 1980.
Chapter 30
The War to End War
Buildup to US Entrance
Sussex Pledge
Germany damaged a merchant ship killing 80
Wilson told Germany if they didn?t give notice, he would break off diplomatic relations
Germany agreed to give warning for merchant and passenger ships
Zimmermann Note:
Germany proposed German-Mexican alliance and encouraged Mexico to attack US
March 1917, Germany sinks 4 unarmed merchant ships
April 2, 1917 Wilson asks Congress to declare war
Chapter 29: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad
Wilson ran on a progressive platform, ?New Freedom?
Stronger antitrust legislation
Banking reform (Increase supply of $)
Tariff reductions
Roosevelt, hates Taft, runs for the Progressive or ?Bull Moose? Party
Supported by Jane Addams and many women
Sadly, women couldn?t vote at the time
New Nationalism:
Believed a powerful government should regulate economy and guarantee social justice
Increase in the power of the federal government
Chapter 28
Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt (And Taft from Cincinnati!!!)
What is it?
Individuals that ?waged war on many evils, notably monopoly, corruption, inefficiency, and social injustice.?
Reform movements went back to the Greenbacks of 1870s and Populists of 1890s
Popular writers
Henry Demarest Lloyd: Wealth Against Commonwealth (against Standard Oil Company)
Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives (slum houses in NYC)
Crusaders against social injustice: Jane Addams
Chapter 25
America Moves to the City (1865 ? 1900)
The Growth of Cities
1st sky-scraper built in Chicago in 1885
Aspects of cities
Electric trolleys
Residential neighborhoods segregated by race
Industrial jobs drew people from the country
Cities gave women economic opportunity and independence
Social workers, secretaries, stenographers, etc.
Chapter 23 Review Video
?Bloody Shirt?
Using Civil War memories to receive votes
Administration Scandals:
Credit Mobilier:
Railroad insiders hired themselves at inflated prices
VP of US accepted payments
Whiskey Ring:
Stole excise-tax revenues from Treasury department
Grant?s private secretary was involved
Boss Tweed:
Tammany Hall, stole over $200 million
Thomas Nast helped contribute to his capture
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