APUSH Unit 7 Part I

National parks- muir, preservationist 

National parks about conservation now

Dirty room and people- dumbbell tenements 

Issues with native americans (1800s)- pushed out of native lands, forced to assimilate, Dawes Severalty Act 1887, reservation act

Battles- battle of little bighorn 1876 (natives won), battle of wounded knee 1890 (natives lost)

Immigration between 1820s-1920s- lots of it, Old (Irish and German) and New (Italian and Russian)

Yellow Journalism vs. Muckraking- exaggerated events for money and excitement versus exposing issues of the Progressive Era

Journalists- Pulitzer, Hearst 

Muckrakers- Upton Sinclair, Jacob Riis, Ida Tarbell, Jane Addams

Upton Sinclair- exposing meat packing, leading to Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act 1906

Corporations getting big and bad regulation → Sherman Antitrust Act (1890, Benjamin Harrison), Clayton Antitrust Act (Woodrow Wilson, 1914) (who was president and what year did it happen)

1890s- Gilded Age

Image from SAQ on MCQ

President during ww1- woodrow wilson, fourteen points

Most important point, league of nations

Wilson wants U.S. to be a part of it, Senate says no

Area constitutes Mexican cession- california, nevada, arizona and new mexico, part of texas

Deal with Cuba- Platt Amendment (U.S. ends military occupation in Cuba) and the Teller Amendment (U.S. is involved in Cuba)

Alfred T. Mahan- big boats, strong navy 

Guy spreading American ideals to other nations- Josiah Strong

Teddy Roosevelt- Big Stick Policy 

Speak softly, carry a big stick- pressure other countries in nice way, but we still carry the power 

Teddy Roosevelt across waters- Panama Canal 

What started ww1- assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand, imperialism, etc.

What brought us to war- Lusitania, Zimmerman telegram (last thing that happens before we joined war)

Progressives and fixing issues- 19th amendment (women’s suffrage), prohibition of alcohol (18th amendment), settlement houses (Hull house, jane addams)

Schenck v. United States- limiting free speech in times of war (Espionage and Sedition Acts)

Schenck- radical socialist, didn’t support the war (U.S. shouldn’t be enlisting people into army) 

Populists Party- became democrats, started as Grangers

They want bigger government, stronger governmental role, regulate business 

Populists were farmers 

Lots of people relating to people of past

Whigs (what they stand for) 1830s pro government

George Washington’s Farewell Address- neutrality, not big on foreign policy