New technology & the 1920's

1. How did the automobile affect America?
   - it changed in significant ways. They started building roads, homes with garages, motels, and gasoline stations. This provided more businesses

2.What's urban spraw, and hwat caused it?
   - Urban sprawl allowed workers to live far away from their jobs. Automobiles caused sprawl.

3.What was the first use of airplanes NOT during war?
   - The first use of airplanes was for mail carrying.

4. Predict what's goin to happen to the American economy.
   - I think the economy is going to go bad because of higher gasoline prices.


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The U.S. After WWI

1. What was the quota system? (e.i. The quota system was a law that...)
    - The quota system was a law that established the maximum number of people who could enter the United States from each foreign country.

2. Was the quota system discriminatory? If yes, to whom?
    - Yes, the quota system was discriminatory to people from the Eastern and Southern Europe, but mostly the Catholics and Jews.

3. How was Mexico affected by the quota system?
    - Mexico was affected by the quota system because about 500,000 of them crossed the Nation's border.

4. How was Japan affected by the quota system?
    - Japan was affected by the quota system because the law prohibited Japanese immigration which had caused anger over these the two nations.


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The U.S. After WWI

Essential Questions:
1. Describe the feeling many Americans had after WWI
  - They felt horrible, it was harder to live because they had more work, others lost their jobs, and they were also exhausted with war.

2. What were some reactions by Americans to their past-WWI feelings?
  - They became fearful of outsiders and became nativist and isolationists.

3. What did Palmer raids accomplish?
  - Palmer did the raids because he wanted to go after the poilitical radicals which were suspected communists, socialists, and anarchies. & The Palmer raids accomplished trampling peoples civil rights.

4. What did the KKK fear? Did their membership grow in the 1920's
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Progressive Exam Reflection

What was correct answer; reason(s) for why you responded incorrectly
 1.Southern states sometimes used a grandfather clause to allow them to
    -C. Keep African Americans from voting while allowing whites to do so
* I got this one wrong because I got stuck between two answers

2. Cities in the late 19th century expanded with the development of all of the following except
    -C. Airplanes
*I got this one wrong because i did not pay close attention to the answer nor the question

3. Skyscrapers were made possible by the invention of
    -C. the elevator and a steel framework
* I got this one wrong because i did not read the answers carefully

6. All of the following were trends in the education around 1900s except
    -D. most African-americans attending high school
* I did not know this answer

11. Muckrakers were
    -D. Journalists
* i did not know this answer

19. Based on the map, you could infer that Ohio was___than Pennsylvania in the early 1900s.
    -B. less progressive
* I was being too quick

What did you learn about yourself as a test taker, and what's one strategy you can begin using to improve your test results?
One strategy I need to use more often is to be more careful, and slow down maybe if I do that my test scores will improve an little more than the usual.

Treatment of Peoples of Color

How did Mexicans earn a living in the late 1800's, and where did they do this work?
-Mexicans were hired to construct rail lines and needed for mining and the agriculture in the Southwest.
Describe African-American life in the 1800's (where did they move to, what was their experience, etc?)
-Mexicans and African- Americans in the Southwest, where forced into debt peonage which was a system that bound laborers into slavery in order to work off a debt to the employer.


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Recreation in the United States

When and why did Americans begin to recreate?
where the reasons Americans began to recreate the same or different compared to Americans today?

Teddy's Roosevelt's Presidency

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1. Describe T.R.'s life before he became president (where he was from, date he was born, something interesting about his life)
- T.R. was born on October 27, 1858, New York City, hes had asthma since he was a child.

2. How did he become president?
   - He became president because he was elected Vice President in the 1900 election. Then the president McKinley was shot so they had another presidential election in 1904 and T.R. won the presidency

3. What was T.R.'s "Bully Pulpit?"
   - "bully" ment good. It provided him an outstanding way of saying his ideas.

4. Summarize T.R.'s opinion on civil rights
   - T.R.'s opinion on civil rights was based on the idea of being seperate but equal

5. Explain if you would like T.R.if he were president today.
   - I would hate it if T.R. was our president because every white person would have better chances in life and racism would still be a big part of today.