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 Central and Latin America  Europe  South America  50 States  Oceans and Continents.

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2  Central and Latin America  Europe  South America  50 States  Oceans and Continents

3  Germany  Cuba  Brazil  Great Britain

4  Mediterranean Sea  Indian Ocean  Arctic Ocean  Panama Canal

5  Emancipation Proclamation  North and South (Yankees and Confederates)  Abraham Lincoln President  600, 000 lives lost  54 th regiment  War was over state’s rights

6  *Jim Crow laws  *Why was this era called Reconstruction?  Amendments 13, 14, 15 th  *13 th – abolished slavery  *14 th – granted citizenship for all people born in the U.S.  *15 th - A.A. right to vote

7  Boom towns vs ghost towns  The expansion of mining led to what? ---more states added  Homestead Act- gave 160 acres to settlers who wanted to work on it  Native American struggles  Farming struggles  Transcontinental Railroad  Union Pacific: Omaha, NE to Promontory Summit, UT  Central Pacific: Sacramento, CA to Promontory, UT  Supplies to the West, ranch/farm products to East  Communications needed- telegraph along tracks  Increased lumber and steel demand

8  Robber baron vs captains of industry  Inventions…list  Rockefeller, Carnegie, Chase, Pullman, Westinghouse, Edison,  Assembly line  Worker’s rights- why labor unions?

9  Two processing centers in the U.S  Millions of people came here from where?  Yellow Journalism- Muckrakers  Population shift----rural to urban  Caused city problems…what were they?  Skyscrapers/street cars…transportation  "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Who wrote it?

10  Libraries were built- reading was predominant  Entertainment  Corruption in government  Elected officials not serving ALL public’s needs  Ex: William “Boss” Tweed  Spoils System- Pendelton Civil Service Act  Revealing corruption- forcing change  Muckrakers  Environmental destruction/Teddy Roosevelt  Federal Reserve Act

11  Purchase of Alaska  “Seward’s Folly”  Purchase of Hawaii  Isolationism/Expansionism  Yellow Journalism  Spanish American War- Cuba-Philippines-USS Maine  Roosevelt Corollary

12  First show to start the war- Franz Ferdinand  M.A.I.N  Propaganda  Zimmerman telegram  Allied/Central powers  Red Scare- Bolshevik revolution  Trench warfare- weapons  Woodrow Wilson  League of Nations  Germany had to pay reparations

13  Roaring  Installment buying  18 th amendment- prohibition  19 th - women right to vote  Red Scare #2  Changes for women


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