The U.S. After WWI

1. Descrbe the feeling many americans had after WWI.
-Americans were exhausted, and had a difficult time adjusting to their lives back home, and to make matters worse, the living price had doubled.
2.What were some reactions by americans to their post-WWI feelings?
- The american soldiers were stressed. Their fear of outsiders helped prejudice build against foreign-born people all over the nation.

3.What did the palmer raids accomplish? Why did Palmer do the raids/
-The palmer raids violated peoples civil rights. The raids were to find out who was suspect of trying to overthrow U.S. government.
4. What did the KKK fear? Did their membership grow in the 1920's?
-The KKK membership reached 4.5 million in the 1920's

5.What was the quota system?
-The quota system was a law that limited immigration from certain countries in southern and eastern Europe.


6.Was the quota system discriminatory? If yes, to whom?
-Yes, the quota system was discriminatory against people from southern and eastern Europe, who were mostly catholic and jewish.

7.How was Mexico affected by the quota system?
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8.How was Japan affected by the quota system?
-The quota system angered the japanese by limiting their immigration

Progressives Exam Reflection

1. Southern states sometimes used a grandfather clause to allow them to. . .
   C. keep African Americans from voting while allowing whites to do so.

5. Jim Crow laws were laws that . . .

   A. Seperated races

6. All of the following were trends of education aroung 1900 except?

   A. more students atteding both elementry and high school.

7. In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that?

   D. Racial segregation in public facilities was legal.

10. The popularity of bicycling and amusment parks reflected which trend of the 1900s?

     B. an intrest in leisure activities

11. Muckrakers were . .
     D. Journalists

19. Based on the map, you could infer that Ohio was___than Pennsylvania in early 1900s.
     B. less progressive

22, Which of the following best states the primary goal of prohibitionists?
     B. to eliminate the use of alcohol in society


I have learned that I should read every question and answer carefully  before I choose my answer, and that I could improve my test scores more if I took my time to make sure Im correct.

Treatment of People of Color

How did mexicans earn a living in the late 1800's, and where did they do this work?

 Some mexicans as well as african-americans in the southwest were forced into debt by peonage, a system the bounds laborers in slavery in order to work of debts.

Describe African-American life in the 1900's where did they move to, what they experienced?

 In the decades following the civil war (1861-1865), southern state legislature passed laws that aimed to limit civil rights for african americans

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Essential Questions:

When and why did americans begin to recreate?
-Americans began to recreate in the late 1800's, because they realized life is very dull without some kind of enjoyment.

Were the reasons the americans began to recreate different or similer compared to americans today?

Booker T. Washington

1. What was the name of the school that Booker T. Washington started?  

                Tuskegee Institute.

2. To whom did Booker T. Washington recruit to head the agriculture department at Tuskegee Institute?
                George Washington Carver.

3. Booker T Washington  autobiography is entitled?
               " Up From Slavery"

4. What president did Booker T. Washington dine with?
                  Teddy Roosevelt.

5.With whom did Booker T. often come into conflict?
                W.E.B. Du Bois

Teddy Roosevelt's Presidency

Describe Teddy Roosevelts life before he became president (where he was from, date he was born, something interesting about his life).

How did he become president?

What was T.R.'s "Bully Pulpit"?

Summarize T.R.'s opinion on civil rights.

Explain if you would like T.R. if he were president today.

African-Americans after Reconstruction