US History

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 14 Points: January 8, 1918 Wilson?s plan for dealing with postwar world Major ideas: Abolish secret treaties Freedom of the seas Remove economic barriers Reduce arms Give up colonies Other major idea: self-determination Countries should govern themselves and decide their own form of government US Entrance into War Reasons

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 Progressivism Shame on you slumlords! Who were muckrakers? Journalists who attempted to expose evils of society (government, food, trusts, etc.) Popular Muckrakers: (KNOW THESE!!!) Lincoln Steffens: The Shame of the Cities Ida M. Tarbell: published devastating expose about Standard Oil Company

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 President Grant?s Administration Causes: Overproduction of RR?s, mines, factories, etc. Bankers made too many risky loans Effects: Debate over hard currency vs. greenbacks Debtors wanted greenbacks. Why? Paper $, inflation decreased value Lenders wanted hard currency. Why? Hard $, not affected by inflation, increased value Panic of 1873 VS ?Solid South?:

The Roaring Twenties by Joshua Zeitz Where there?s smoke there?s fire, by Russell Patterson, ca. 1925. (Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division) The 1920s heralded a dramatic break between America?s past and future. Before World War I the country remained culturally and psychologically rooted in the nineteenth century, but in the 1920s America seemed to break its wistful attachments to the recent past and usher in a more modern era. The most vivid impressions of that era are flappers and dance halls, movie palaces and radio empires, and Prohibition and speakeasies. Scientists shattered the boundaries of space and time, aviators made men fly, and women went to work. The country was confident?and rich. But the 1920s were an age of