US HISTORY MIDTERM REVIEW

RANDOM WORDS(does history look like this to you?)

What if the random words were arranged to tell as story??

However, History IS a StoryWhat are the big ideas of the

story?

What if???

• The Industrial revolution in America never happened??– No new inventions– No new corporate structures– No new urban societies. – No muckrakers/reformers

Let’s continue to look at the African American story in the 1920s

What are the BIG IDEAs??

Individuals play a role in creating a nation.

I, Too, sing America – Langston Hughes

I, too, sing America.I am the darker brother.They send me to eat in the kitchenWhen company comes,But I laugh,And eat well,And grow strong.

Tomorrow,I'll be at the tableWhen company comes.Nobody'll dareSay to me,"Eat in the kitchen,"Then.

Besides, They'll see how beautiful I amAnd be ashamed—

I, too, am America

Strange Fruit

Within our Gates

What is the story behind the big idea?

What facts prove this story?Do you know the facts?

How do I review for the final

Big Idea Review• What is the Big Idea?• What is the story behind

the Big Idea?– What is the historical story?

• How do the historical facts prove the big idea?

• Do I know the Facts?– Complete the review

Big Idea Review(please do not write on my materials)

1. Read the Big Ideas.2. Look at the pictures.

3. How do the big idea and pictures tell the story of the historical era?4. Read the information.

5. Answer the questions in your INB.6. What are the historical facts that prove

the big idea? Write these in your INB.DO YOU KNOW THE FACTS?

Post-Civil War AmericaThe South

1. Nations build on compromise and conflict.

2. For a democracy to be strong and sustaining, all of its citizens should have

equal political, social and economic rights.

Post-Civil War AmericaThe West

1. The movement of people, ideas and goods has a profound

influence on a society.2. Territorial and economic growth

causes change in politics and society

Gilded AgeRise of Industrial America

1. The movement of people, ideas and goods has a profound influence

on a society.2. Individuals play a role in crating a

nation

Industrial Inventions

1. Changes in the economy bring about social and political change.

2. Individuals play a role in crating a nation

Workers in Industrial America

1. Democracies build on the ideas of individuals and reform.

2. Changes in the economy bring about social and political change.

Living Conditions in Urban Industrial America

1. Conflicts have a wide-ranging and long-term effects.

2. The movement of people, ideas and goods has a profound

influence on a society.

Populist

1. Economic depressions have many causes and multiple effects.

2. Democracies are built on the idea of individualism and reform.

Progressives1. Government plays a role in

mandating political and social change.

2. Nations build upon compromise and conflict.

Political Progressivism

1. For a democracy to be strong and sustaining, all of its citizens should have

equal political, social and economic rights.

Economic Progressivism

1. Changes in the economy bring about social and political change.2. Government plays a role in

mandating political and social change.

Social Progressivism

1. For a democracy to be strong and sustaining, all of it s citizens should

have equal political, social and economic rights.

2. Democracies build upon the ideas of individualism and reform.

Imperialism

1. Territorial and economic growth causes change in politics and

societies.2. Conflicts impact domestic and

international policies.

World War I

1. Conflicts have a wide-ranging and long-term effects.

2. Fighting a war comes at a great cost.3. In times of conflict someone will lose

rights.

1920s in America

1. Changes in the economy bring about social and political change.

2. Individuals play a role in creating a nation

• What was the s