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Effective Study Techniques for Final Exam Success

Prepare effectively with essential tips for acing your final exam. Learn key historical events of the Industrial Age, Progressive Movement, Imperialism, World Wars, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, and the Cold War. Maximize your understanding to excel in your exams.

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Effective Study Techniques for Final Exam Success

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  1. Aim: How can we best prepare for our final exam on Wednesday and Thursday? Take out a pencil; get ready for the quiz Take out paper for notes Bring in your textbooks next week

  2. The Industrial Age • Assembly line; conveyer belt • factories; steam engine • Mechanization- machines • Bad working conditions • Lack of pride in work • Immigration come to work in factories • Immigrants were paid very little • No safety regulations • Child labor • Triangle shirtwaist fire – 1911 ; led to safety regulations or laws • Monopolies; trusts; policy of laissez faire (govt does not control business or economy; govt not involved )

  3. The INDUSTRIAL AGE • Assembly line • Mass production • Steam engine • Big business- monopolies- unfair business practices • Laissez faire • Trusts • Conveyer belt; machines • Monopolists – philanthropist; • Unions form to help workers • Sweatshops • Child labor • IMMIGRATION- needed for the factory jobs

  4. PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT • Try to fix problems of industrial era (monopolies, bad business practices • Suffrage – women vote 19th amendment • Labor unions want to help workers- improve working conditions; better wages • Stop corruption

  5. Progressive Movement • Fix problems of industrial age • Muckrakers are reformers • Teddy Roosevelt- trustbuster • Workers rights; Unions • Eliminate unfair practices; improve safety; safer meat; restrictions on monopolies

  6. muckrakers • Jacob Riis- Tenement life-How the Other Half Lives; led to improvement in living conditions due to laws • Upton Sinclair – The Jungle – bad conditions in meat packing; led to passage of Meat Inspections act and Food and Drug Act • Ida Tarbell • Jane Addams- created settlement houses to help immigrants. • Thomas Nast - cartoons

  7. Muckrakers • Ida Tarbell – Standard Oil • Jacob Riis – How the Other Half Lives – tenement life • Upton Sinclair – The Jungle – unsafe meat (leads to Meat Inspections Act) • Jane Addams – Settlement houses help immigrants • Thomas Nast- cartoonist – Boss Tweed

  8. IMPERIALISM Annexed Philippines, guam and Puerto Rico after Spanish American War Spanish American war – yellow journalism, sinking of USS Maine. Gained territory Expansion of territory – military bases; need for markets and resources/ raw materials during industrial age.

  9. IMPERIALISM • Taking over other nations • We needed raw materials and markets due to the industrial age • Expansionism • Spanish American War- DeLome Letter; yellow journalism; sinking of the USS Maine • Gains: Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico, Philippines; now we are a world power

  10. WORLD WAR I • MANIA- CAUSES of war • US was initially neutral • Entire nation involved in war • Return to isolationism after war

  11. WORLD WAR I • MANIA • USA neutral at first • IMPERIALISM; alliances; militarism, nationalism, ASSASINATION • Entire nation involved in war effort; Women at work • Senate refuses to ratify Treaty of Versailles due to League of Nations; they believe it will INCREASE chances of war. Wilson prefers diplomacy – League (later- United Nations)

  12. ROARING TWENTIES • CHANGES • WOMEN- flappers, vote-suffrage – 19th amendment • Temperance (ban alcohol, 18th amendment, carry nation, Prohibition) • Isolationist policy • Jazz age; harlem renaissance • Nativism; quotas/restrictions on immigrants; RED SCARE • Scopes Trial- evolution issue

  13. GREAT DEPRESSION • Loss of jobs; unemployment is high • Banks fail; stock market crashed • Hoovervilles; shantytowns • New Deal – create jobs; restore faith in banking: Increased the size and role of government- FDR • Great Dep ends with our entering WWII

  14. WORLD WAR II • Entire nation involved • Japanese Americans interned- camps • Loss of rights • End of War –US bombs Japan – atom bomb • Truman ends war with dropping of atom bombs • Now we begin the Cold War

  15. COLD WAR • NATO- collective security – we work with allies to help each other if there is a threat • Warsaw Pact (Soviets and its allies) • Marshall Plan – help/aid Europe • Truman Doctrine – help/aid Europe

  16. Cold War USA and Soviets – superpowers; rivals Post WWII era- 1945-1990 (approx) Nuclear Age Domino Theory ; Containment of communism Berlin Wall divides Berlin (until 11/9/89) Iron Curtain- Eastern Europe vs. Western Europe McCarthyism – targeted suspected communists; denial of civil liberties during this new RED SCARE

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