Powerpoints of American History

Reconstruction: 1863-1877
227 slides
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Rise of Industrial America, 1865-1900
236 slides Powerpoint

Response to Industrialism: Protest Movements, Unions, and the Agrarian Revolt
202 slides Powerpoint
America Becomes a World Power
108 Powerpoint slides
Starting with Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, the program compares and contrasts plans for Reconstruction and reports on notable failures and successes of the post-Civil War period.

Investigates the development of the U.S. into a world economic power. Topics include inventions and innovations, demand for new products, industrial combinations and financiers (Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Morgan), competition, and government regulation. Covers issues of American workers and what fueled the rise of organized labor during the late 19th century. Topics include early labor unions and their tactics, management's policies and resistance, farm policy and the role of the farmer, and government actions toward Native Americans. Topics include the Age of Imperialism, Spanish American War and expansion in the South Pacific, Open Door, acquisition of the Panama Canal, presidential foreign policy plans including Theodore RooseveltÕs Big Stick Diplomacy, William TaftÕs Dollar Diplomacy, and Woodrow WilsonÕs Moral Diplomacy.
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1. The Civil War ended
2. Reconstruction during the Civil War
3. Slavery ended
4. The FreedmenÕs Bureau
5. Presidential Reconstruction
6. Battle over Reconstruction
7. Congressional elections of 1866
8. Presidential election of 1868
9. Counter Reconstruction
10. Black Americans during Reconstruction
11. Carpetbaggers and scalawags
12. End of Reconstruction
13. Constitutional amendments and Supreme Court cases
14. Effects of Reconstruction

1. Age of Steam and Iron
2. Railroad Expansion
3. Mechanization of Agriculture
4. Second Industrial Revolution
5. Philosophies
6. Major Inventions and Innovations
7. Steel Industry
8. Captains of Industry
9. Business structures
10. Presidents
1. Factors that led to worker exploitation
2. Major labor organizations
3. Major strikes
4. Immigration
5. Radicalism in the labor movement
6. Trust-busting
7. Agricultural discontent
8. Election of 1896
1. Maps
2. Definition and themes
3. First attempts
4. Spanish American War
5. Open Door & Japanese Imperialism
6. Panama Canal
7. Big Stick Diplomacy, Dollar Diplomacy, Moral Diplomacy