History test
Presidents: 19) Ruth ford B. Hayes, 20) James Garfield, 21)Chester Arthur, 22) Grover Cleveland, 23) Benjamin Harrison, 24) Grover Cleveland AGAIN, 25) William McKinley, 26) Teddy Roosevelt
Lesson one: second Industrial Revolution-ford and automobiles and assembly lines, Edison and the phonograph and the lightbulb, the Wright brothers and the aero plane, Stronger steel buildings because of the steel manufacturing.
Lesson two: corporations with stockholders, Sherman antitrust act- tried to control monopolies but did not favor the big businesses.
Lesson three: conditions in the factory with safety, long work days, machines replacing skills workers, child labor. And strikes for better working conditions.
Module 21
Lesson one: old immigrants from the north and west European Protestants and Catholics, new immigrants (Eastern Europe, Asia, and many religious backgrounds). tenement apartment building conditions, Chinese exclusion act (banned Chinese people from coming in for ten years).
lesson two: moving to the big cities grows
Lesson three: settlement houses attempt to improve city conditions, Chicago fire.
Module 22
Lesson one: political machines(corrupt powerful politicians), muckrakers reporting and taking pics of bad conditions, improving education (starting kindergarten and making school a requirement).
Lesson two: the triangle shirtwaist fire, child labor laws (federal could not restrict the interstates commerce of work), AFL- American federation of labor (only allowing skilled workers to join).
Lesson three: 18 Amendment (banned alcohol), 19 amendment (suffrage women get the right to vote), women reform movement to get better college and jobs usually given to men, African American rights, Booker T. Washington not wanting to challenge segregation
Lesson four: McKinleys assassination, Teddy Roosevelt, the square deal pure food and drug act, conservation of national parks, and regulating big business.