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	Mrs. Ruland's United States History Class
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			Economic and Geographic Expansion and the Social and Political Response, 1877-1920 Effect of Reconstruction Presidential vs. Congressional Reconstruction Civil War amendments Sharecropping Jim Crow laws 1876 presidential election Westward Expansion Economic factors Railroads Homestead Act Mining industry Cattle industry Cultural and economic interaction Boarding schools Dawes Act Plains Wars Little Bighorn Geronimo campaigns Wounded Knee Legacy of westward expansion Technological innovations Environmental effects Turner thesis Industrialization, Immigration and Urbanization Government policies Land grants Laissez-faire Tariffs Sherman Anti-Trust Act Big business Philosophy of capitalism Monopolies and trusts Social Darwinism Gospel of Wealth Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Morgan Iron law of wages Consumer goods Immigration Push and pull factors Old and new immigrants Assimilation Ethnic stereotypes Urban life Ethnic neighborhoods Standard of living Tenements Public sanitation & health issues Labor movement Working conditions Iron law of wages Major strikes Knights of Labor American Federation of Labor Populism and Progressivism The Populist movement Agrarian discontent Omaha Platform reforms Gold v. silver 1896 presidential election Local and state progressivism Machine politics Electoral reforms Social Gospel Regulation of business National progressivism Washington and DuBois Women's suffrage Muckrakers Moral reform Progressive amendments Role of the Supreme Court Progressive presidents Trust-busting Consumer protection 16^th, 17^th, 18^th, 19^th, and 20^th amendments Conservation Federal Reserve Imperialism Manifest destiny Industrial growth and consumer demand European colonialism The new Navy Hawaii Spanish-American War Panama The Great War and a New Economic Order, 1912-1932 World War I Causes of the war Alliances and balance of power Neutrality Freedom of the seas/submarine warfare Zimmerman telegram The wartime experience Trench warfare Mobilization Restrictions on Constitutional rights Expanded roles for African-Americans Changing roles for women Gains for workers The Treaty of Versailles Fourteen Points League of Nations debate Cultural trends of the 1920s Red scare Changes in immigration policy Nativism Status of women The urban African-American experience Harlem Renaissance Garvey Prohibition Popular culture Sports Movies Radio Jazz Literature Scopes trial Rising expectations and market failure Economic changes "Normalcy" and laissez-faire Mass production and the impact of the automobile Elctricity and consumer products Advertising Market Stock Market Role Buying on margin Crash Immediate effects Depression Causes European depression Manufacturing, banking and unemployment Hoover's philosophy and actions 1932 presidential election The Expanding Power of the United States Government at Home and Abroad, 1932-1953 The New Deal 100 Days Relief, recovery and reform Changing role of the president Social Effects Workers Farmers Women Other social and ethnic groups Criticism Institutional effects economy Federal government Political parties From Versailles to Pearl Harbor Legacy of Versailles Treaty Isolationism International diplomacy Rise of dictators Aggression and invasions Response Neutrality Embargoes Lend-lease Pearl Harbor World War II Mobilization Economic Military Military aspects European theater Pacific theater GI experiences Home front Role of women Japanese-Americans African-Americans Other social and ethnic groups Demographic patters Legacy of the war Economic and social effects Atomic bomb Holocaust United Nations Post-WWII foreign politics WWII conferences Containment Marshall Plan CIA NATO Arms Race China Korean War Post-WWII domestic politics GI Bill of Rights Fair Deal Early desegregation Cold War mentality McCarthyism The Transformation of Modern America, 1950s-Present The continuing Cold War Eisenhower Administration Nuclear diplomacy Hungary Sputnik Cuban revolution Kennedy Administration Bay of Pigs Cuban Missile Crisis Berlin Wall Vietnam Eisenhower's response Kennedy's response Johnson's response Gulf of Tonkin Tet Offensive 1968 presidential election Nixon Cambodia Vietnamization Peace negotiations Soldier's experiences Social effects Draft Demonstrations 26^th Amendment Role of the media Middle East Conflicts Oil embargo Iranian revolution Gulf War Western Hemisphere Economic relationships Political interventions Military interventions Détente to dissolution of the USSR Nixon China Arms control Carter Reagan Evil Empire Military buildup Gorbachev Bush Fall of Berlin Wall Breakup of USSR Domestic Trends, 1952-1968 Civil rights organizations SCLC SNCC NOW United Farm Workers Civil rights strategies Civil disobedience Boycotts Sit-ins Marches Political participation Militancy Rhetoric Local, state and federal response to civil rights movement Executive Legislative Judicial Grassroots opposition Economic developments Rise of middle class Corporations Military spending New technologies Poverty Political developments 1960 presidential election New Frontier Great Society 1968 presidential election Cultural developments Baby boom Suburbanization Role of women Conformity Beat Generation Youth movement Domestic trends, 1969-present The continuing civil rights movement American Indian Movement (AIM) La Raza Asian-Americans School busing Affirmative action White backlash Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Stonewall Economic developments Technology Medicine Service economy Stagflation Black middle class Expanding roles for women Poverty Environmental issues Political developments New Federalism Watergate 1980 presidential election Reagan revolution Deficit spending Expanding roles for women Cultural developments Immigration Environmental concerns Rising conservatism mruland@comcast.net Report any Broken Links Last updated August 6, 2003 © Marcella Ruland 1998-2009, All rights reserved