U.S. History 1865-2003

Objective 1: Summarize major events in U.S. History.Objective 2:To discuss how geography impacted major events in U.S. History.

The Reconstruction • 1865-1877• Reconstruction Acts

(including the 13th amendment) – Military occupation of the

ex-confederate states• Attempts to

disenfranchise African Americans

• Ends with the Hayes-Tilden deal in 1877– Hayes gets the presidency – Military reconstruction

ends

Thomas Nast. "The Union as it was / The Lost Cause, worse than slavery." Harper's Weekly, v. 18, no. 930 (24 Oct 1874), p. 878. The Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-128619.

The Industrial Revolution

• What allowed the United States to undergo a “revolution” in industry?

• Erie Canal: 1825• Ford Motor Company – 1913 Assembly Line

Photograph, Ford Assembly Line, 1913

Era of Imperialism

• Alfred Mahan The Influence of Sea Power Upon History (Great White Fleet 1907)

• Hawaii (Lili’uokalani) Territory 1898-1959• Spanish American War (April 1898-August 1898)– Yellow Journalism – “Remember the Maine!”– The Rough Riders– Cuba, Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam

New York World, Feb. 17, 1898

New York Journal, Feb. 17, 1898

• “Colonel Roosevelt and his Rough Riders at the top of the hill which they captured, Battle of San Juan” Photograph, July 1898

Panama Canal

• France, 1881• USA, 1904-1914– Taken from

Columbia, created “Panama Canal Zone”

– Why would the United States do this?

WW1“The Great War”

• 28 July 1914-11 November 1918

• European rivalries/Balkan Problems lead to trench warfare.

• Triple Entente: France, Great Britain, Russia

• Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire

• U.S. joins 6 April 1917Photograph, 1 July 1916

WW1 Cont. • U.S. joins – Lusitania, Zimmerman Note– General Pershing

• New types of warfare (tanks, airplanes, gas) to break the stalemate. • Treaty of Versailles– Blames Germany

The Roaring 20’s (Jazz Age)

• Prohibition (1920-1933) 18th Amendment • Economic prosperity around the world• Jazz music became popular, meshing African-

American culture with white culture. – The Radio helped spread popular music – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48jUyAK_4Uo

The Great Depression

• Stock Market crash (Black Tuesday) October 29,1929.

• Massive unemployment and large-scale closures of banks.

• President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the “New Deal” program to help create jobs and institute rules for the stock market and banks.

World War IISept. 1, 1939 – Sept. 2, 1945

• German appeasement to blitzkrieg on Poland– Axis (Germany, Japan,

Italy)– Allies (Great Britain,

France, Soviet Union) • France surrendered on

June 22,1940• Battle of Britain

American Involvement

• U.S. joins the Allies after Pearl Harbor– Dec. 7,1941, ends American isolationism

• D-Day Allied invasion of Europe, June 6, 1944• V-E Day May 8, 1945• Island Hopping• Hiroshima (Aug. 6, 1945) Nagasaki (Aug. 9, 1945)• V-J Day (Aug 15,1945)

Gen. MacArthur – Army Forces (Overall Commander of Armed Forces) Adm. Nimitz - Naval ForcesImportant Battles: Coral Sea – Halted Japanese expansion (first carrier to carrier battle in history) Midway – Fought entirely from the air