1. American Exceptionalism
Alexis de Tocqueville’s five values crucial to America’s success as a constitutional republic: liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism, and laissez-faire.

2. According to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, where does a government get it’s authority? From the people
Homestead Act moved people westward with promise of land.
Dealing with the Native Americans – Reservations, then the Dawes Act which was an attempt to assimilate Native Americans into the American societies
What were problems of urbanization?, women and child labor?
Philanthropy of men like Andrew Carnegie
The dislike of immigration is called nativism

3. Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, literacy test and Grandfather clauses were set up to limit African American rights and their ability to vote.
Spanish American War 1898 is the first step toward imperialism (control over the Philippines, Puerto Rico)
Open Door policy was to open up trade with China for the United States who had been shut out by others spheres of influence

4. Progressive amendments
Initiative, referendum, and recall helped involve the people more into the govt. (popular sovereignty)
Progressive amendments
16th amendment – graduated income tax
17th amendment – direct election of the Senate
18th amendment – Prohibition
19th amendment – Women's suffrage
Influence of Muckrakers Ida Tarbell (the History of Standard Oil), Lincoln Steffens (The Shame of the Cities), Upton Sinclair (The Jungle), Jacob Riis (How the Other Half Lives)

5. Ida B Wells, W. E. B. DuBois, and Booker T
Ida B Wells, W.E.B. DuBois, and Booker T. Washington – African American leaders
Why people moved from the rural areas to the city?” Jobs, technology changed the number of farmers needed
The Transcontinental Railroad
Andrew Carnegie and the Gospel of Wealth
John D. Rockefeller and horizontal integration, trust, monopolies
Know what laissez faire means
What technological changes developed during this time period

6. Hawaii – Sanford Dole
Alfred T. Mahan and the importance of seapower to trade
Henry Cabot Lodge – supported seapower and against the League of Nations
The acquisition of Guam , the Philippines and Puerto Rico
MAIN SLUGZ
AEF and John Pershing – Americans in WW I victory at the Argonne Forest

7. Red Scare; Nativism; eugenics; Prohibition
Causes of the Great Depression; The New Deal; FDR; Court Packing, deportation of people.
World War II stuff : Omar Bradley, Dwight Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, Chester A. Nimitz, George Marshall, and George Patton;
The Homefront
Assimilation : Dawes Act- Native Americans; Settlement House – immigrants